''Nature Geoscience'' is a monthly

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published by the Nature Publishing Group. The

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is Tamara Goldin, who took over from Heike Langenberg in February 2020. It was established in January 2008.

Scope

The journal covers all aspects of the

Earth sciences Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres ...

, including theoretical research, modelling, and

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. Significant related work in other fields, such as atmospheric sciences,

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and Physical property, properties of Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Geophysicists conduct i ...

climatology Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , '' -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospher ...

oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of to ...

palaeontology Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geo ...

, and

space science Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless ...

, is also published.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by: * '' CAB Abstracts'' * ''

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/ CASSI'' * ''

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'' * ''

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/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences'' * '' GeoRef'' According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 16.908.

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Abstracting and indexing

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