JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 0926-9851 DESCRIPTION . The Journal of Applied Geophysics with its key objective of responding to pertinent and timely needs, places particular emphasis on methodological developments and innovative applications of geophysical techniques for addressing environmental, engineering, and hydrological problems. Related topical research in exploration geophysics and in soil and rock physics is also covered by the Journal of Applied Geophysics. Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services. Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center AUDIENCE . Environmental Geophysicists, Engineering Geophysicists, Hydro geophysicists, Exploration Geophysicists. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 2.121 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 25 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jappgeo 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . AGI's Bibliography and Index of Geology Bulletin Signalétique Current Contents Engineering Village - GEOBASE Pascal Francis INSPEC Geotechnical Abstracts Engineering Index Physics Abstracts Petroleum Abstracts Scopus Academic Search (EBSCO) Current Abstracts (EBSCO) TOC Premier Science and Technology Collection Compendex OCLC Contents Alert ProQuest Engineering Index Monthly Arts & Humanities Search Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science Referativnyi Zhurnal VINTI-RAN (Russian Academy of Sciences) EDITORIAL BOARD . Co-Editors in Chief Jyoti Behura, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States of America Exploration Seismics, including Theory and Modelling Jianghai Xia, Zhejiang University Library, Hangzhou, China Near-surface, Engineering Seismics, Ground-Penetrating Radar Maurizio Fedi, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia, Naples, Italy Potential Field Methods - Gravity and Magnetic Models Mark Everett, Texas A&M University Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, Texas, United States of America Geoelectrics and Electromagnetic Methods Associate Editors abhash kumar, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, United States of America Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, ExxonMobil Upstream, Houston, United States of America Ed Biegert, Shell Technology Center Houston, Houston, United States of America Liu Bin, Shandong University, Jinan, China Thomas Blum, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Andrew Brenders, BP America Inc, Houston, United States of America Ray Cakir, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Olympia, United States of America Jun Cao, ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, United States of America Federico Cella, University of Calabria Department of Biology Ecology and Earth Sciences, Rende, Italy Yangkang Chen, Zhejiang University School of Earth Science, Hangzhou, China John Deceuster, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium Alberto Godio, Polytechnic of Turin Department of Environmental Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Torino, Italy Thomas Günther, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany Andreas Güntner, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Felix Herrmann, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Ann Hirt, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Trevor P. Irons, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States of America Niklas Juhojuntti, Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden Vassilios Karastathis, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece Mason Kass, USGS Geology Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, Co.80225, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 25 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jappgeo 2 Léa Lévy, Aarhus University Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark Shuang Liu, China University of Geosciences Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, Wuhan, China Meng Loke, Geotomo Software Sdn Bhd, Gelugor, Malaysia Laurent Louis, New England Research Institutes, Watertown, United States of America Maciek Lubczynski, University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands Yong Ma, ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, United States of America Alireza Malehmir, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Binbin Mi, Zhejiang University School of Earth Science, Hangzhou, China Ehsan Naeini, Ikon Science Ltd, Surbiton, United Kingdom Jorge Parra, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States of America Philippe A Pezard, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France Ravi Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India Rita Streich, Shell Global Solutions International BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands Kazunori Takahashi, Oyo Corporation Technical Center, Saitama, Japan Mamoru Takanashi, Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation Library, Minato-Ku, Japan Gang Tian, Zhejiang University Library, Hangzhou, China Konstantin Titov, St Petersburg University, Sankt Peterburg, Russian Federation Fabio Caratori Tontini, GNS Science Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Jens Tronicke, Universität Potsdam, Inst. für Geowissenschaften, Golm, Germany Panagiotis Tsourlos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Giulio Vignoli, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Edward Woolery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States of America Xinming Wu, The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States of America Yixian Xu, Zhejiang University Library, Hangzhou, China Bo Zhang, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States of America Jingfeng Zhang, BP America Inc, Houston, United States of America Michael Zhdanov, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States of America Editorial Board members Founding Editors Dattatray S. 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