Radiocarbon
Last updated ISSN 0033-8222
Radiocarbon is published by Cambridge University Press in earth and planetary sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,487.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Radiocarbon concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Legal case studies and regulations
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0033-8222, 1945-5755 |
| Subject area | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,487 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,899 |
| Publishing since | 1959 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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