''Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology'' is a

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published by the

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. It publishes original research articles dealing with all aspects of understanding and reconstructing Earth's past climate and environments from the Precambrian to modern analogs. Until the first of January 2018 the name of the journal was ''Paleoceanography''. The founding

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was James P. Kennett and the journal is currently edited by Matthew Huber (

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) .

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by

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, and several CSA indexes. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 3.990.

Notable articles

As of January 2014, the three most highly cited articles are: * * *

References

External links

* {{American Geophysical Union Academic journals established in 1986 Oceanography journals Paleontology journals American Geophysical Union academic journals Wiley (publisher) academic journals English-language journals Monthly journals Paleoclimatology Paleoceanography