History of Geo- and Space Sciences

Aims & Scope

History of Geo- and Space Sciences (HGSS) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of high-quality research on some of the numerous aspects about the development over time, i.e. the history, of sub-disciplines within the geosciences and geophysical sciences, which in their entirety address the Earth system and its space environment. The scope of the journal includes the following: the acquisition of long-term geophysical observations; the individuals, the institutions, and the instruments for obtaining the relevant data; the role of dedicated field experiments as an extension of routine observations; the development of ideas and theoretical concepts as decisive backcloth for research processes and data acquisitions; international and interdisciplinary co-operations within the geosciences; historical developments of geopolitical aspects and their societal impacts. Geophysical subdisciplines such as aerology, geodesy, geomagnetism, glaciology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and volcanology form the core for papers published in HGSS. Geological topics are also of interest, in particular in combination with physical methods. Astronomy is beyond the journal’s scope. Ideally, contributors comprise historically minded geoscientists as well as historians of science addressing the Earth system.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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