The ''Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences'' is an

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published by

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on behalf of the

New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It is the fourth oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization wi ...

. It is one of the oldest science journals still being published, having been founded in 1823. The

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is Douglas Braaten. Each issue is of substantial length and explores a single topic with a

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. A review published on ''

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'' states the scope is enormous and describes the journal as highly respected and the articles as penetrating.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2019

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of 4.728, ranking it 13th out of 71 journals in the category "Multidisciplinary sciences".

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* * 1823 establishments in New York (state) English-language journals Multidisciplinary scientific journals Publications established in 1823 Science and technology in New York City Wiley-Blackwell academic journals {{science-journal-stub