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Tectonophysics (journal)

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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
  
Tectonophysics

Publisher
  
Elsevier

Language
  
English

Publication history
  
1964 present

Discipline
  
Geophysics, Earth-surface processes

Edited by
  
R.Govers, L.Jolivet, M.Liu, H.Thybo, A. Yin

Tectonophysics, The International Journal of Geotectonics and the Geology and Physics of the Interior of the Earth is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1964 and covers the field of tectonophysics, including kinematics, structure, composition, and dynamics of the solid Earth at all scales.

Contents

Organization

The editors-in-chief are R. Govers (Utrecht University), L. Jolivet (Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans), M. Liu (University of Missouri), H. Thybo (University of Copenhagen), and A. Yin (University of California, Los Angeles).

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed in over fifty databases, including Bibliography and Index of Geology, Current Contents, GEOBASE, Inspec, PASCAL, and Scopus.

Notable articles

According to the Journal Citation Reports, Tectonophysics has a 2011 impact factor of 2.433. The three most highly cited papers in Tectonophysics as of September 2011 are:

  • Sengör, A. M. Celâl; Yilmaz, Yücel (1981). "Tethyan evolution of Turkey: A plate tectonic approach". Tectonophysics. 75 (3–4): 181–190, 193–199, 203–241. Bibcode:1981Tectp..75..181S. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(81)90275-4. 
  • J. Dercourt, L.P. Zonenshain, L.-E. Ricou, V.G. Kazmin, X. Le Pichon, A.L. Knipper, C. Grandjacquet, I.M. Sbortshikov, J. Geyssant, C. Lepvrier, D.H. Pechersky, J. Boulin, J.-C. Sibuet, L.A. Savostin, O. Sorokhtin, M. Westphal, M.L. Bazhenov, J.P. Lauer, B. Biju-Duval, (1986). "Geological evolution of the Tethys belt from the Atlantic to the Pamirs since the LIAS". Tectonophysics. 123 (1–4): 241–315. Bibcode:1986Tectp.123..241D. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(86)90199-X.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
  • Lepichon, X.; Angelier, J. (1979). "Hellenic arc and trench system — Key to the neotectonic evolution of the eastern Mediterranean". Tectonophysics. 60 (1–2): 1–42. Bibcode:1979Tectp..60....1P. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(79)90131-8. 

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