American Mineralogist

Academic journal

American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary MaterialsDiscipline| Mineralogy, petrology, crystallography, geochemistry

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Language| English
Edited by| Don Baker, Hongwu Xu
Publication details
History| 1916–present
Publisher|

Mineralogical Society of America (United States)

Frequency| 8/year

Impact factor

| 3.003 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Am. Mineral.
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
CODEN| AMMIAY
ISSN| 0003-004X (print)
1945-3027 (web)

LCCN| 19012811
OCLC no.| 01480430
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the general fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology. It is an official journal of the Mineralogical Society of America, publishing both subscription and open access articles. The journal is a hybrid open-access journal. The editors-in-chief are Hongwu Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and Don Baker (McGill University).

## History[edit]

The journal was established in 1916, with the first issue appearing in July of that year, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society, the New York Mineralogical Club, and the Mineral Collectors' Association. On December 30, 1919, the Mineralogical Society of America was formed and American Mineralogist became the society's journal.[1]

## Abstracting and indexing[edit]

The American Mineralogist is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts, the Science Citation Index, GeoRef, and INSPEC. According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 2.100.[2]

## Crystallographic database[edit]

A database, the "American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database", of all crystal structures published in American Mineralogist, Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals[a] is maintained and hosted at the University of Arizona with the Mineralogical Society of America, and the Mineralogical Society of Canada.[3][4][5]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ The opening page of the database has updated information about data sources and affiliations.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Kraus 1921.
2. ^ 2011 Journal Citation Reports.
3. ^ Downs & Hall-Wallace 2003.
4. ^ Bruno et al. 2017, pp. 2, 3, 11.
5. ^ Rajan et al. 2006.

Independent sources:

* Bruno, Ian; Gražulis, Saulius; Helliwell, John R.; Kabekkodu, Soorya N.; McMahon, Brian; Westbrook, John (2017). "Crystallography and Databases". Data Science Journal. 16 (38): 1–17. doi:10.5334/dsj-2017-038. S2CID 64702172.
* "American Mineralogist". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
* Rajan, Hareesh; Uchida, Hinako; Bryan, Deborah L.; Swaminathan, Ranjini; Downs, Robert T.; Hall-Wallace, Michelle (2006). "Building the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database: A recipe for construction of a small Internet database". In Sinha, A. Krishna (ed.). Geoinformatics: Data to Knowledge. Geoinformatics: Data to Knowledge, Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/2006.2397(06). ISBN 9780813723976.

To American Mineralogist:

* Downs, Robert T.; Hall-Wallace, Michelle (2003). "The American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 88: 247–250. Retrieved August 15, 2023. See also the opening page of the database.
* Kraus, E. H. (1921). "The future of mineralogy in America" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 6 (1367): 23–34. Bibcode:1921Sci....53..219K. doi:10.1126/science.53.1367.219. PMID 17734016.

The database:

* American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database

## External links[edit]

* Volumes 1–present (via GeoScienceWorld)
* Volumes 1–79 (via Mineralogical Society of America)
* Volumes 80–present (via De Gruyter)