Polar Science

Journal Title

Polar Science

POLAR SCI

ISSN / eISSN

1873-9652

Aims and Scope

Polar Science is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly journal. It is dedicated to publishing original research articles for sciences relating to the polar regions of the Earth and other planets. Polar Science aims to cover 15 disciplines which are listed below; they cover most aspects of physical sciences, geosciences and life sciences, together with engineering and social sciences. Articles should attract the interest of broad polar science communities, and not be limited to the interests of those who work under specific research subjects. Polar Science also has an Open Archive whereby published articles are made freely available from ScienceDirect after an embargo period of 24 months from the date of publication.

- Space and upper atmosphere physics
- Atmospheric science/climatology
- Glaciology
- Oceanography/sea ice studies
- Geology/petrology
- Solid earth geophysics/seismology
- Marine Earth science
- Geomorphology/Cenozoic-Quaternary geology
- Meteoritics
- Terrestrial biology
- Marine biology
- Animal ecology
- Environment
- Polar Engineering
- Humanities and social sciences.

Subject Area

ECOLOGY

GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CiteScore

4.30 View Trend

CiteScore Ranking

Category	Quartile	Rank
Earth and Planetary Sciences - General Earth and Planetary Sciences	Q2	#49/192
Earth and Planetary Sciences - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics	Q2	#184/687
Earth and Planetary Sciences - Ecology	Q2	#121/437
Earth and Planetary Sciences - Aquatic Science	Q2	#77/228

Web of Science Core Collection

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)	Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed	-

Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023)	Quartile
ECOLOGY - SCIE	Q3
GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY - SCIE	Q3

H-index

20

Country/Area of Publication

NETHERLANDS

Publisher

Elsevier

Annual Article Volume

44

Open Access

NO

Contact

RADARWEG 29, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 1043 NX