''Oil Shale'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in petrology, especially concerning

oil shale Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced. In addition to kerogen, general composition of oil shales constitut ...

. The journal covers geology, mining, formation, composition, methods of processing, combustion, economics, and environmental protection related to oil shale. It is abstracted and indexed in the

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. The

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

is Andres Siirde and executive editor is Meelika Nõmme.

History

The plan for publishing an oil shale journal arose in 1983 in the

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

and the journal was established in 1984 as the journal of the

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and the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Publishing was financed by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and administered by the Institute of Chemistry of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. It was published by the publishing house Perioodika in Tallinn. At first, the journal was published in Russian under the name ''Горючие Сланцы'' ( translit. Goryutchie Slantsy). However, there was the permission from Soviet authorities to use the English-written subtitle ''Oil Shale'' and to add English summaries to Russian papers. The first editor-in-chief was Ilmar Öpik. The financing by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ended in the beginning of 1990s after Estonia regained independence. As a result, a new

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was selected, which decided to transform the journal into an international English-language journal. The publishing was mainly sponsored by oil shale companies and private persons. In 1994, the journal was indexed in ISI products and since then published by the Estonian Academy Publishers. Since 1998, the publishing is financed through Estonia's state budget.

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* {{Official website English-language journals Oil shale Geology journals Mining journals Energy and fuel journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1984 Science and technology in Estonia Academic journals of Estonia