Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, established in January 2005, is a bimonthly magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

, published by 16 scientific societies (see below). It publishes peer reviewed papers which are part of a theme based collection, along with other types of articles. The co-editors are David J. Vaughan (University of Manchester

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

), Harry Y. McSween (University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...

), James I. Drever (University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...

). The focus of this magazine is broad coverage of the mineral

Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring solid chemical substance formed through biogeochemical processes, having characteristic chemical composition, highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties. By comparison, a rock is an aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids and does not...

 sciences.

Scope

Coverage includes invited peer reviewed papers for thematic collections. The each different thematic collection is the focus of a particular published issue. Proposed topics of interest are submitted to editors for review. The magazine also covers conference reports, policy news, as well as news of the Societies.

Publishing societies

Elements is published by the Mineralogical Society of America

Mineralogical Society of America

The Mineralogical Society of America is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, and the arts...

, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society

Geochemical Society

The Geochemical Society is a nonprofit and international scientific society for the purpose of encouraging the application of chemistry to solve problems involving geology and cosmology...

, the Clay Minerals Society, the European Association of Geochemistry

European Association of Geochemistry

The European Association of Geochemistry is a pan-European organization founded to promotes geochemical research. The EAG organizes conferences, meetings and educational courses for geochemists in Europe, including the Goldschmidt conference which it co-sponsors with the North American Geochemical...

, the International Association of GeoChemistry

International Association of GeoChemistry

The IAGC is affiliated with the International Union of Geological Sciences and has been one of the pre-eminent international geochemical organizations for over thirty-five years...

, the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, the Association of Applied Geochemists

Association of Applied Geochemists

The Association of Applied Geochemists is an international society that seeks to advance the study and application of geochemistry and represents scientists working in that field.-Membership:...

, the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, the International Association of Geoanalysts, the Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne (Mineralogical Society of Poland), the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía (Spanish Mineralogical Society), the Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, and The Meteoritical Society

Meteoritical Society

The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote research and education in planetary science with emphasis on studies of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the solar system.The...

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Abstracting and indexing

This magazine is indexed in the following databases:

Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts is a periodical index that provides summaries and indexes of disclosures in recently published scientific documents. Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent...

 - CASSI

Cassi

The Cassi are one of five tribes encountered by Julius Caesar during his second expedition to Britain in 55 BC when he crossed the Thames at Kew, and who became his allies after the Trinovantes joined him...