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Journal of South American Earth Sciences

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ15716420 ↗
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The Journal of South American Earth Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers the earth sciences, primarily on issues that are relevant to South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Antarctica. The journal was established in 1988 and the editor-in-chief is James Kellogg (University of South Carolina). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.533.

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“Journal of South American Earth Sciences” enters the record as scientific journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journal, South and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journal, South and American.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of South American Earth Sciences” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.