Applied Earth Science Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy

Applied Earth Science is the journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for work that applies the earth sciences to mineral resources, and it is published on the institute's behalf by Sage.《应用地球科学》是材料、矿物与采矿学会的刊物，刊登把地球科学应用于矿产资源的论文，由 Sage 代表该学会出版。

The 2025 journal citation report gives it an impact factor of 2.2 and a five-year figure of 1.9, and the title sits in the third quartile of multidisciplinary geosciences in the emerging sources citation index.2025 年版期刊引证报告给出的影响因子为 2.2，五年影响因子为 1.9，该刊在新兴来源引文索引的多学科地球科学类目居第三区。

Scope

• The stated remit is the application of the earth sciences in the exploration, discovery, development and exploitation of mineral resources.该刊自述的范围是把地球科学应用于矿产资源的勘探、发现、开发与开采。

• Its readership runs from industry exploration and mining geologists to geoscience researchers whose common concern is knowledge and use of the Earth's mineral resources.其读者从产业勘探与矿业地质工作者延伸到地球科学研究人员，他们共同的关切是认识与利用地球的矿产资源。

• Genetic studies of mineralisation sit at the centre of what the journal publishes.矿化的成因研究居于该刊发表内容的中心。

• Descriptions and genetic studies of the ore deposits themselves are taken, so a single deposit can be reported in detail.矿床本身的描述与成因研究也在收载之列，单个矿床因而可得详细报道。

• Every form of exploration technology and methodology applied to a mineral deposit falls inside the scope.应用于矿床的各类勘查技术与方法都属于其范围。

• Geological input into the definition of reserves and resources is covered, joining the field evidence to the estimate that follows from it.地质工作对储量与资源定义所起的作用在覆盖之列，把野外证据同由其得出的估算接合起来。

• Sampling and grade control are named among the interests, and the journal follows how a working mine keeps its numbers honest.取样与品位控制列于关切之中，该刊追踪在产矿山如何让自身的数据保持可靠。

• Geostatistics is treated as a subject in its own right, and a paper may turn on the way a deposit is interpolated from sparse samples.地质统计学被当作独立的题材，论文可以围绕由稀疏样品对矿床所作的插值展开。

• Mineralogy supports the whole, so a paper may rest on the mineral that carries an element of value.矿物学为整体提供支撑，论文可以立足于承载某种有价元素的矿物。

• Geometallurgy is named as an interest, joining the texture and mineralogy of an ore to the plant that will treat it.地质冶金学被点为方向，把矿石的结构与矿物学同将要处理它的选冶厂联系起来。

• The economic and environmental sides of extraction are treated, so a deposit is weighed as a project and not only as a body of rock.开采的经济与环境方面得到处理，矿床因此既被当作一块岩体，也被当作一个项目来权衡。

• Case studies drawn from one district are accepted beside broader syntheses that range across several.取自单一矿集区的案例研究与横跨数个矿集区的较广综述同样被接受。

• The journal carries thematic issues that gather work on one region or one commodity, and recent calls have looked to the georesources of Africa and the Middle East.该刊出版专题各期，汇集围绕某一地区或某一矿种的工作，近期征稿把目光投向非洲与中东的地质资源。

• A place is kept for early-career researchers, and abstracts from a young researchers' symposium have appeared in the pages.该刊为青年研究者留有位置，一场青年研究者讨论会的摘要曾在其版面出现。

• The editorial line asks that fundamental science be tied to outcomes that speak to industry, and to a view of the policy that governs a resource.编辑方针要求把基础科学同面向工业的结果结合，并顾及支配资源开发的政策视角。

History

• The journal descends from the Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, whose Section B carried applied earth science from 1966.该刊源自矿冶学会汇刊，其 B 辑自 1966 年起承载应用地球科学。

• The Transactions reach back further still, to 1892, and the volume number of the present journal runs on that long series without a break.这套汇刊的源头更早，可上溯到 1892 年，现刊的卷号在这条长序列上一路接续而未曾中断。

• The present main title took shape in 2003, when Section B was issued as Applied Earth Science with volume 112.现用主标题成形于 2003 年，B 辑以《应用地球科学》面世，卷号为第 112 卷。

• Early volumes were published from London, at first by the institution and later on its behalf by the Maney house.早期卷次在伦敦出版，先由学会自印，后由 Maney 代印。

• Taylor & Francis took over the publishing from 2016 and the imprint moved to Abingdon.Taylor & Francis 自 2016 年起接手出版，印地迁往阿宾登。

• The title was accepted into the Emerging Sources Citation Index in 2016, a step its editor noted in an editorial of the time.该刊于 2016 年被新兴来源引文索引收录，时任主编在当时的一篇社论中记下了这一步。

• Editorial leadership changed hands in 2023, when Simon Jowitt, involved with the journal since 2010, stepped down.编辑领导权在 2023 年易手，自 2010 年起参与该刊的（Simon Jowitt）在那一年卸任。

• Sage became the publisher in 2024, taking the title over from Taylor & Francis for the institute.Sage 于 2024 年成为出版方，自 Taylor & Francis 手中为学会接过该刊。

• The journal appears quarterly, four issues to a volume, and volume 135 falls in 2026.该刊每季出版，一卷 4 期，第 135 卷对应 2026 年。

• The impact factor has risen quickly of late, from 0.9 in 2023 through 1.4 in 2024 to 2.2 in 2025, and the platform also reports a CiteScore that has climbed to 3.7.影响因子近年上升很快，由 2023 年的 0.9 经 2024 年的 1.4 升至 2025 年的 2.2，平台另记下 CiteScore 已升至 3.7。

• The gold open access share stayed small at 5.56 per cent in 2025, the title remaining a subscription journal with an open option.2025 年金色开放获取的比例仍小，为 5.56%，该刊保持订阅制并附开放选项。

• Each volume carries a modest output of some eighteen papers, and the readership remains largely professional and international.每卷的产出不大，约十八篇论文，读者大体仍是专业而国际的。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Ahmed E. Radwan of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.主编为弗罗茨瓦夫理工大学的（Ahmed E. Radwan）。

• Two editors support him, Marat Abzalov of MASSA geoservices in Australia and Tingting Gu of Purdue University in the United States.两位编辑辅佐他，即澳大利亚 MASSA geoservices 的（Marat Abzalov）与美国普渡大学的（Tingting Gu）。

• An editorial board of some twenty members stands behind them, drawn from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Slovenia and further afield.他们身后有一个约二十人的编委会，成员来自澳大利亚、加拿大、英国、斯洛文尼亚等地。

• Among the board are Jasminka Alijagic of the Geological Survey of Slovenia, Stephen Carey of Federation University Australia and Peng Jiang of the University of Hawaii.编委中有斯洛文尼亚地质调查局的（Jasminka Alijagic）、澳大利亚联邦大学的（Stephen Carey）与夏威夷大学的（Peng Jiang）。

• Alessandra Costanzo of Birmingham City University and Stéphane Roy De Souza of the Université du Québec à Montréal also sit on the board.伯明翰城市大学的（Alessandra Costanzo）与魁北克大学蒙特利尔分校的（Stéphane Roy De Souza）也在编委会之列。

• Papers are peer reviewed, and the journal follows the publisher's standard procedure for the earth sciences, the referees being kept anonymous to the author.稿件经同行评议，该刊遵循出版方在地球科学方面的标准程序，评审人身份对作者保密。

• The journal is owned by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and its editorial policy is settled with the institute.该刊由材料、矿物与采矿学会所有，其编辑方针与该学会共同确定。

• Manuscripts are submitted online, and the guidance names the research paper, the review and the case study among the accepted forms.稿件在线提交，指南把研究论文、综述与案例研究列为所收体裁。

• Authors are asked to tie a study to a real deposit or district wherever the work allows it.作者被要求在工作允许时把研究与真实矿床或矿集区联系起来。

• The board encourages submissions that combine fundamental science with industrially relevant outcomes and a policy-aware view.编委会鼓励把基础科学同工业相关结果以及顾及政策的视角结合起来的投稿。

• Special issues are common, and the associate editors have gathered calls around single topics such as natural resource development in a region.专刊较为常见，副编辑们围绕诸如某地区自然资源开发一类的单一主题征集稿件。

• The journal is one of several the institute issues through its publisher, the others covering mining technology and mineral processing.该刊是该学会通过其出版方发行的数份刊物之一，另几份分别覆盖采矿技术与矿物加工。

• Research papers, reviews and case studies are taken, and a paper on a working mine is as welcome as a district-scale synthesis.该刊收载研究论文、综述与案例研究，关于在产矿山的论文与矿集区尺度的综合研究同样受欢迎。

• A paper is handled by the editorial team with the help of outside referees, and the editors look for a clear link between the field data and the conclusion drawn from it.来稿由编辑团队在外部评审人协助下处理，编辑看重野外数据与由之得出的结论之间的清晰联系。