Scientific Drilling
Last updated ISSN 1816-3459
Scientific Drilling is published by Copernicus Publications in earth and planetary sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Scientific Drilling concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Geological formations and processes
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Seismology and Earthquake Studies
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Copernicus Publications |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1816-3459, 1816-8957 |
| Subject area | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 616 |
| Publishing since | 1990 |
| Journal website | www.scientific-drilling.net/ |
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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