Frequency and deadlines

Elements is published bimonthly. Each issue explores a theme of broad and current interest in the mineral sciences, through peer-reviewed, invited articles. The magazine also presents regular features like a calendar of events, reviews, conference reports, and news from the participating societies.

Print run

16,500 copies

Elements is also available online at elementsmagazine.org. and www.elements.geoscienceworld.org

editorial and advertising Policy

Elements publishes invited peer-reviewed papers in its thematic collection of articles. Themes of interest can be proposed to the principal editors. Elements also publishes short articles describing new advances, as well as news of interest to the readership.

Elements accepts paid advertisements related to mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, or petrology, and to the use of these disciplines in other sciences, industry, technology, or the arts.

2018 thematic toPics (Volume 14, Numbers 1–6)

FEBRUARY Luminescence Dating: Reconstructing Earth’s Recent History GUEST EDITORS: RACHEL K. SMEDLEY AND ANN G. WINTLE

APRIL CometsGUEST EDITORS: MICHAEL E. ZOLENSKY AND MONICA M. GRADY

JUNE Deep-Ocean Mineral DepositsGUEST EDITORS: PAUL A.J. LUSTY AND BRAMLEY J. MURTON

AUGUST Magmatism in the Central Andes: Processes, Products and SettingGUEST EDITORS: GERHARD WÖRNER, TAYLOR SCHILDGEN, AND MARTIN REICH

OCTOBER Terroir – Science Related to Grape and Wine QualityGUEST EDITOR: LARRY MEINERT

DECEMBER Marine Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements and Their IsotopesGUEST EDITORS: CATHERINE JEANDEL (CNRS, FRANCE), VANESSA HATJE (FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA, BRAZIL), AND ZANNA CHASE (UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA)

target audience w Mineralogists, geochemists, and petrologists of participating societiesw Scientists in other disciplines (materials scientists, physicists, chemists,

environmental geoscientists, biologists)w Students in the geosciencesw Academic and industrial scientists w Popular-science writers w Funding agencies and policy makers

circulation

Print copies of Elements are shipped to all members of the seventeen participating societies. Members also have access to the online version at elementsmagazine.org.Mineralogical Society of America • Geochemical Society • Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland • German Mineralogical Society • The Meteoritical Society • Mineralogical Association of Canada • The Clay Minerals Society • Association of Applied Geochemistry • Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology • International Association of GeoChemistry • Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie • Spanish Mineralogical Society • Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology • European Association of Geochemistry • Mineralogical Society of Poland • International Association of Geoanalysts • Japan Association of Mineral Sciences Elements is also distributed to over 1800 libraries and institutions worldwide.

extra distribution

v14n3 Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, August 12-17, 4000+ attendeesv14n5 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Novmber 4-7,

5000+ attendeesv14n6 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.,

December 9-13, 20,000+ attendees

demograPhic inFormation (September 2016)

Membership Type Outside US US Total

Individuals 11452 3809 15441

Institutions 408 251 660

Combined membership 16,101

Copies sent by country

United States 3809 France 725

Germany 1920 Australia 628

United Kingdom 1423 Italy 453

Japan 1458 Switzerland 448

Canada 826 Spain 360

Elements is distributed in 110 countries (35 with more than 25 members).

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