''Polar Science'' is a quarterly

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covering research related to the polar regions of the Earth and other planets. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the National Institute of Polar Research (Japan). It covers a wide range of fields, including

atmospheric science Atmospheric science is the study of the Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather forecasting. Climat ...

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, glaciology and

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. The editor-in-chief is Takashi Yamanouchi (National Institute of Polar Research and Sōkendai). The journal is

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. By paying a fee, authors can choose to make their papers open access at the time of publication. All papers that are over 24 months old are freely available to the community via

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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, Scopus, EBSCOhost, GEOBASE, GeoRef, ProQuest and Referativnyi Zhurnal ( VINITI Database RAS). According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.927.

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