| Discipline | Planetary science |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Rosaly Lopes |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1962–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 3.508 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | ICARUS |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0019-1035 |
| OCLC no. | 1752499 |
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ICARUS is ascientific journal dedicated to the field ofplanetary science. It is officially endorsed by theAmerican Astronomical Society'sDivision for Planetary Sciences (DPS). The journal contains articles discussing the results of new research onastronomy,geology,meteorology,physics,chemistry,biology, and other scientific aspects of theSolar System orextrasolar systems.
The journal was founded in 1962, and became affiliated with the DPS in 1974. Its original owner and publisher wasAcademic Press, which was purchased byElsevier in 2000.
| Years | Editor(s) |
|---|---|
| 1962–1968 | Albert G. Wilson andZdeněk Kopal |
| 1968–1979 | Carl Sagan |
| 1980–1997 | Joseph A. Burns |
| 1998–2018 | Philip D. Nicholson |
| 2018-present | Rosaly Lopes |
The journal is named for the mythicalIcarus, and the frontispiece of every issue contains an extended quotation fromSir Arthur Eddington equating Icarus' adventurousness with the scientific investigator who "strains his theories to the breaking-point till the weak joints gape."[3]
This journal is indexed by the following services:[4][5]
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