''Tectonophysics, The International Journal of Geotectonics and the Geology and Physics of the Interior of the Earth'' is a weekly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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published by
Elsevier
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. It was established in 1964 and covers the field of
tectonophysics
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, including
kinematics
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Kinematics is concerned with s ...
, structure, composition, and
dynamics of the solid
Earth
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at all scales.
Organization
The
editors-in-chief
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are Samuel Angiboust (
ENS de Lyon), Jean-Philippe Avouac (
California Institute of Technology
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), Ramon Carbonell (
Spanish National Research Council
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), Rob Govers (
Utrecht University
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), Zheng Xiang Li (
Curtin University
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), and
Kelin Wang (
Geological Survey of Canada
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).
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Abstracting and indexing
This journal is abstracted and indexed in over fifty databases, including Current Contents
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History
''Current Contents ...
, GeoRef
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, Inspec
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, Scopus
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and Web of Science
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.
Notable articles
According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
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'', ''Tectonophysics'' has a 2011 impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 2.433. The three most highly cited papers in ''Tectonophysics'' as of September 2011 are:
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References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/tectonophysics/
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