ISSN: 1733-8387 (print version); ISSN: 1897-1695 (electronic version)

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Informacja

Informujemy, że Geochronometria znajduje się w wykazie czasopism punktowanych, dostępnym na stronie www Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, opublikowanej 5 maja 2009 r. Geochronometria znajduje się w części A wykazu - Czasopisma wyróżnione w Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - na pozycji 2945. Liczba punktów za publikację naukową w Geochronometrii wynosi 15.

New publication form of Geochronometria

Dear colleagues,

In order to increase the international accessibility of Geochronometria, starting from Volume 26 it will be published in electronic form by the publishing house Versita (www.versita.com) using the platform of MetaPress (www.metapress.com). Geochronometria remains available free of charge. The use of this platform of electronic publishing enables the following:

• Automatic forwarding of abstracts of published papers to abstracting services (e.g. Current Contents) and similar (e.g. Google Scholar),
• Life links, i.e. the ability to access papers cited in the published paper by a single click (if the reader has access to them), as well as life access to papers published in Geochronometria cited in other journals with life links. Each paper published in the future in Geochronometria will receive a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which will enable the accessibility of the papers in the future.
• Notification of readers that a paper of their interest has appeared in Geochronometria
• Ability to trace download record
• The possibility of placing papers online immediately after final acceptance.

In addition, from volume 26 the frequency increases to four volumes a year. This will significantly shorten the time from submission to publication.

Apart from the above form, Geochronometria is available online through the current site www.geochronometria.pl
Apart from this Geochronometria will be published in a small number of copies in printed form.

We hope that the new publication form will increase the number of readers and citations which should positively influence the Impact Factor. The first Impact Factor is officially due mid 2008 (according to the rules for new journals in the SCI).

The Impact Factor for Geochronometria calculated for year 2007 is 0.667.

We hope that you will continue publishing in Geochronometria and thus help to make Geochronometria a success for the benefit of the international community of researchers developing and using methods of absolute chronology.

Aim and scope

Geochronometria is aimed to integrate the scientists developing different methods of absolute chronology and using them in different fields of earth and other natural sciences and archaeology. The methods in use are physical (e.g. radiocarbon and other isotopic methods, luminescence etc.) as well as non-physical (e.g. dendrochronology or varve chronology), and they are used in so diverse fields of science as geology, palaeoclimatology, palaeobiology, palaeohydrology, archaeology, etc.. The clue is that each method can be applied in many fields, and vice versa, each field can benefit from application of many chronological methods. The journal enables an easy exchange of information about the potentials and limitations of various chronological methods to solve specific problems in various branches of science, and stimulates formulation of new ideas on their further development and application.

In the sense of classical division of sciences, Geochronometria appears extremely multidisciplinary. In fact, interdisciplinarity is quite common feature of most modern research dealing with methods of absolute chronology.

Geochronometria will publish papers that are concerned with all methods of absolute dating. Both papers focusing on techniques/methodology and on application of dating are equally encouraged. The papers combining and comparing results of various methods are especially desirable.

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Geochronometria,
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology,
Krzywoustego 2,
44-100 Gliwice, Poland