Icarus (journal)

This article is about the scientific journal. For other uses, see Icarus (disambiguation).

Icarus  

Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Icarus
Discipline	Planetary science
Language	English
Edited by	Philip D. Nicholson
Publication details
Publisher	Elsevier (United States)
Publication history	1962–present
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor (2012)	3.161
Indexing
ISSN	0019-1035
OCLC no.	1752499
Links
Journal homepage

Icarus is a premier scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science. Its longtime owner and publisher was Academic Press, which was then purchased by Elsevier. It is published under the auspices of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). The journal contains articles discussing the results of new research on astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, and other scientific aspects of the Solar System or extrasolar systems.

The journal was founded in 1962, and became affiliated with the DPS in 1974. The late Carl Sagan served as editor of the journal from 1968 to 1979. He was succeeded by Joseph A. Burns (1980–1997) and Philip D. Nicholson (1998–present).

The journal is named for the mythical Icarus, and the frontispiece of every issue contains an extended quotation from Sir Arthur Eddington equating Icarus' adventurousness with the scientific investigator who "strains his theories to the breaking-point till the weak joints gape."

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is indexed by the following services:

• Science Citation Index
• Current Contents /Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• Computer & control abstracts
• Electrical & electronics abstracts
• Physics abstracts. Science abstracts. Series A
• GeoRef
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• International aerospace abstracts
• Energy research abstracts

External links

• Official website