American Journal of Science
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| description | US monthly science magazine |
| Area of Expertise | earth sciences |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1818 |
| Frequency of publication | monthly (except summer months July & August) |
| Editor-in-chief | Danny M. Rye |
| editor | American Journal of Science |
| Web link | www.ajsonline.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0002-9599 |
| ISSN (online) | 1945-452X |
The American journal of Science ( AJS for short ) is the oldest of its kind in the United States . It was initiated by Benjamin Silliman in 1818 and has been published continuously since then. It was originally financed and edited by Silliman himself. Until 1880 it appeared under the name American Journal of Science and Arts , but its focus has always been on the natural sciences , especially geology and related branches of science.
AJS is an influential journal (English high-impact ) with an influencing factor of 3.607 and is therefore the highest-ranking journal in geosciences among journals with a cross-assessment system .
In the early years, AJS was often referred to as “Silliman's magazine”. Since Silliman held a very long teaching activity as a professor at Yale University (from 1804 to 1853), the magazine was consequently associated with Yale. The function of editor-in-chief remained within the Silliman family for a long time - as early as 1838 the son, Benjamin Silliman, Jr. assisted his father in this task. When Silliman the Elder died in 1864, he was succeeded as editor-in-chief by his son-in-law James Dwight Dana and, from 1895 to 1926, by Dana's son Edward Salisbury Dana . The editors at AJS include the botanist Asa Gray and the zoologist Louis Agassiz .
The current editors-in-chief are Jay J. Ague and Danny M.Rye, both professors of geology and geophysics at Yale University.
Footnotes
- ↑ Data from 2003, source: Thomson ISI