"Earth, Planets and Space"
An Open Access Journal:
Past, Present and and Future
小川康雄（東京工業大学理学院）
馬場聖至（東京大学地震研究所）

Vol 71

５学会の雑誌
地球電磁気・地球惑星圏学会
日本地震学会
日本火山学会
日本測地学会

日本惑星科学会

Journal Scope
５学会のスコープGeomagnetism
Aeronomy
Space ScienceSeismology
Volcanology
Geodesy
Planetary Sciences

EPSの歴史1998年に２誌が合流 冊子体の出版
JGG (Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity) 1949JPE (Journal of Physics of the Earth)1952日本惑星科学会が加わる

2014年からOpen Access出版
 SpringerOpen platform
Current volume number : 71
H-index: 63
articles: 3,386
Total cites: 39,621 (May 27,2019)

Editorial Board
迅速な編集のために2016年に大幅拡大＋国際化
編集長 Yasuo Ogawa Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
副編集長 (固体地球科学）Masato Furuya Hokkaido University, Japan
副編集長 (宇宙科学）Nozomu Nishitani Nagoya University, Japan
Editors(50)日本 (25) 50%
アジア(6) :中国(2),台湾(2), シンガポール(1) インド(1)オセアニア (3): オーストラリア(2) ニュージーランド(1)ヨーロッパ (9): イギリス（３）、ドイツ(２), スイス (1), フランス(1), イタリア(1), オーストリア(1)北米 (3): 米国（3）Article Types
1. Full paper
2. Express Letter(<5,000 words, max 5 (figs+tbls)) 2017~

3. Frontier Letter (invited letter)
4. Technical report
Instrument design
Software design

5. Comment特集号
Thematic collections as links イベント (火山噴火, 地震) 観測機器システム・惑星科学ミッッションの技術的側面
 研究プロジェクト成果とりまとめ

2014: 5 issues
2015: 8 issues
2016: 4 issues
2017: 6 issues
2018: 4 issues
2019: 4 issues

最近の特集号
Recent Advances in Geo-, Paleo- and RockMagnetism

地球電磁気

L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar: Current andfuture applications to Earth sciences

測地

Crustal Dynamics: Toward Integrated View ofIsland Arc Seismogenesis

地震

Towards forecasting phreatic eruptions: Examples 火山
from Hakone volcano and some global equivalents
Akatsuki at Venus: The First Year of ScientificOperation

惑星科学

Geospace Exploration by the ERG mission

宇宙科学EPSで出版するメリット
 オープンアクセス出版
 ５学会による確かな運営
 品質の高いレビュー 迅速なレビュー (特に Express Letters: 1st decision 43 days) インパクトファクターが上昇中 比較的安価なAPC€1,140(会員€1,200） 2018年9月から値上げ
 特集号提案
 表彰制度Journal IF

Impact Factor

3.056

5 year IF

2.773
Springer Open

1.834

1.791

2.243
1.871

2.288
2.080

2.038

1.328

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Q1

Q3

Q2

Q2

Q2

27/174

119/175

78/18472/18953/189Impact factor
1200

3.5

1062
1000

2.921

3.056
871

800

Springer Open

2.773

2.5803774

2.243600

2597

東北地方太平洋沖
地震特集号

1.5

400

381
264

200

3265

285

287

383

358

1319

0.5

210

0.795

1.328

1.871

2014

2015

00
2011

2012

2013

2016

2017

Successful special issue
Published 4 month after the Tohoku 2011 EQ
東北地方太平洋沖地震

As of May 29, 2019

Citations in 5 yrs
Fujii et al.

274

Lay at al.

186

Shao et al.

168

Ammon et al.

150

Ammon et al.

139

国別投稿数・受理数

Submissions by country

Acceptances by country
Japan
China
India

23%
36%

2%
2%

2%

3%
3%

2%

USA
RussianFed.
Rep. ofKorea
Australia

2%2%

Japan

3%

22%

15%2%

China
USA

3%2%

Czechia

Russian Fed.
Australia

4%
58%

5%9%

CanadaGermany
Italy

Other

Egypt

Acceptance 64%

投稿数• 日本からの投稿はやや減る傾向• 中国からの投稿が増える

査読プロセスに要する日数Decisions
200180160
140120
10080
60
40
200

Peer Review

投稿から受理投稿から受理（１回のrevision後）

投稿から1st decisionFirst reviewerの査読完了

50454035
30252015
1050

Handling editor

Submission to first decision for reviewed manuscripts

First reviewer agreed to Required reviews completed

Submission to acceptance for acceptances in any revision round

Required reviews completed to First decision recommended

Submission to acceptance for acceptances in 1st revision roundSub to pub - days

投稿から出版までの日数201720182019

140141162

EPSの被引用雑誌
2017-2018出版分
 EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SOLID EARTH
 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SPACE PHYSICS GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
 PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS Remote Sensing
 Earth and Planetary Science Letters Seismological Research Letters

Top 10 well cited papers
Article titleAuthor

Year

DOI

Number of citations

Recent progress of seismic observation networks in Japan - Hi-net, Okada, Y
F-net, K-NET and KiK-net

2004

10.1186/BF03353076

294

Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku
Earthquake

Fujii, Yushiro

2011

10.5047/eps.2011.06.010

268International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the 12thThebault, Erwan

2015

10.1186/s40623-015-0228-9

263

Plasmoid-induced-reconnection and fractal reconnection

Shibata, K

2001

10.1186/BF03353258

250

Swarm: A constellation to study the Earth's magnetic field

Friis-Christensen, E2006

10.1186/BF03351933

184

Possible large near-trench slip during the 2011 M-w 9.0 off thePacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Lay, Thorne

2011

10.5047/eps.2011.05.033

181

Focal mechanism and slip history of the 2011 M-w 9.1 off the Pacific Shao, Guangfu
coast of Tohoku Earthquake, constrained with teleseismic bodyand surface waves

2011

10.5047/eps.2011.06.028

162

Repeating short- and long-term slow slip events with deep tremor Hirose, H
activity around the Bungo channel region, southwest Japan

2005

10.1186/BF03351875

147Ionospheric disturbance magnetic field continuation from theground to the ionosphere using spherical elementary current
systemsAmm, O

1999

10.1186/BF03352247

145

A new technique for mapping of total electron content using GPS
network in Japan

Otsuka, Y

2002

10.1186/BF03352422

144

generation

Awards
1. EPS Excellent Paper Award (2016~)
 One paper in the previous 5 years

2. EPS Young Researcher Award (2003~)
 35 yrs old or younger at the submission

3. Excellent Reviewers (2013~)
4. Highlighted Papers (2007~)EPS Excellent Paper Award 2018
Kato et al.(2015)

EPS Young Researcher Award 2018
Dr. C. H. Chen

Excellent Reviewer Award 2018

Excellent reviewers
It is essential for an academic journal to havequalified reviewers to maintain its scientificstandard. To recognize the contributions ofimportant reviewers in Earth, Planets andSpace, we have granted the 'Excellent
Reviewer' award to selected reviewers eachyear since 2013. The awardees are determinedat the end of each year by the EPS editorial
board based on the recommendations of regularand guest editors.

Now linked to PUBLONS2018
Duncan Agnew
Hagay Amit
Colin Farquharson
Chris Meek
Michihiko Nakamura
Keiichi Ogasawara
Dmitri Rouwet
Aleksey Smirnov
Krzysztof SośnicaKazue Takahashi
Yoichi UsuiHighlighted papers 2018
Mean winds at the cloud top of Venus obtained from two-wavelength UV imaging by Akatsuki
Takeshi Horinouchi et al.
Medium-energy particle experiments—electron analyzer (MEP-e) for the exploration of energization
and radiation in geospace (ERG) mission Satoshi Kasahara et al.

Simultaneous observation of auroral substorm onset in Polar satellite global images and groundbased all-sky images Akimasa Ieda et al.
Understanding and forecasting phreatic eruptions driven by magmatic degassing John Stix and J.
Maarten de Moor
Temporal variation in the resistivity structure of the first Nakadake crater, Aso volcano, Japan,
during the magmatic eruptions from November 2014 to May 2015, as inferred by the ACTIVE
electromagnetic monitoring system Takuto Minami et al.
Shallow volcanic reservoirs and pathways beneath Aso caldera revealed using ambient seismic noise
tomography Yu-Chih Huang et al.
Paleomagnetic studies on single crystals separated from the middle Cretaceous Iritono granite
Chie Kato et al.
Turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rates estimated from concurrent UAV and MU radarmeasurements Hubert Luce et al.

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