Polar research (journal)
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| description | Scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Interdisciplinary (with reference to polar topics) |
| language | German, unknown language, English |
| publishing company | German Society for Polar Research , Bremerhaven (Germany) |
| Frequency of publication | 2 issues per year |
| Editor-in-chief | Dieter K. Fütterer and Bernhard Diekmann |
| editor | German Society for Polar Research and Alfred Wegener Institute |
| Web link | [1] |
| Article archive | from issue 1, 1931 |
| ISSN |
0032-2490 |
| CODEN | POLFA |
Polarforschung is the specialist journal of the German Society for Polar Research . It is published jointly with the Alfred Wegener Institute and has been published regularly since 1931.
Content
Articles on topics from the fields of polar and glacier research are accepted for publication . Contributions are only published after a review process by independent experts ( peer review ). In the early years, reports on polar expeditions and review articles on polar topics were published in German to the same extent. Since the founding of the Alfred Wegener Institute in 1980 and the resulting improved opportunity for German scientists to participate in polar expeditions, the focus has shifted to articles with scientific results (so-called " original papers "). Most of the articles have since been published in English.
history
The first edition appeared in 1931 on four printed pages with the subtitle Mitteilungen for the Association for the Promotion of the Archive for Polar Research Kiel . The front page reported on Alfred Wegener's death in Greenland. Until 1940 there were only two eight-page issues a year. After that, spending increased.
In 1959 a scientific advisory board was formed. In the 1970s, the separation of communications and peer-reviewed original articles resulted in the transition from a newsletter to a scientific journal. From 1986 to 2010 three issues were published annually. From the 81st year 2011, the number of issues was reduced to two again.
Honors
US scientists named a glacier discovered during Operation Highjump in East Antarctica in honor of the journal polar research Glacier .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the German Society for Polar Research
- ↑ 50 years of the German Society for Polar Research 1959–2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.7 MB) , German Society for Polar Research 2009
- ^ Gazetteer ID 473, Australian Antarctic Data Center
- ^ Karl-Heinz Tiedemann: 55 years of the "German Archive for Polar Research". 50 years of the “Polarforschung” magazine . In: Polarforschung 51, 1981, pp. 251-253
