Marine Georesources & Geotechnology

Marine Georesources & Geotechnology is a monthly journal from Taylor & Francis, published since 1975 and carrying its present title since 1993. It treats the geology of seafloor sediments and rocks together with the engineering that works upon them, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4.《海洋地质资源与岩土工程》是 Taylor & Francis 出版的月刊，1975 年创刊，1993 年起使用现名。刊物把海底沉积物与岩石的地质研究和在其上展开的工程实践放在一起讨论，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The stated remit covers research applied to the scientific and engineering aspects of seafloor sediments and rocks, along with their management and utilization.宗旨声明的范围包括海底沉积物与岩石在科学与工程层面的应用研究，也包括这些资源的管理与利用。

• Academic researchers and industry engineers are addressed in the same breath, since both need workable answers on marine minerals or on civil engineering at sea.读者对象同时覆盖学术界与产业界，海洋矿产与海上土木工程中的可行答案，对两类人都同样重要。

• Marine minerals lead the coverage, running from exploration and resource appraisal through to recovery, and each stage is handled as an engineering problem.海洋矿产占据范围的前段，从勘探与资源评价一直写到开采，每个阶段都按工程问题处理。

• Manganese nodules and cobalt crusts are named in the aims statement, phosphates and placers stand beside them, and shipboard mining systems are singled out for attention.锰结核与富钴结壳在宗旨中点名，磷块岩和砂矿同列，船上采矿系统也被单独提出。

• Gas hydrates entered through the research literature and now supply a steady stream of papers on dissociation, bearing behaviour and the response of subsea slopes.天然气水合物经研究文献进入刊物，围绕分解过程、承载性状与海底边坡响应的论文持续不断。^[1]

• Site investigation forms a second pillar, from cone penetration and resistivity profiling to the sampling and laboratory work that follow.场地勘察构成第二根支柱，从锥尖贯入与电阻率剖面，到随后的取样和室内试验，都在其中。

• In-situ testing has been present from the start, and the submersible cone penetrometer reported in 1975 shows how early offshore tools were being adapted.原位测试自创刊就已存在，1975 年报道的水下锥形贯入仪说明海上工具改造得很早。

• Slope stability and submarine landslides are treated through the mechanics of soft sediments, including the strength lost after gas charging or rapid deposition.边坡稳定与海底滑坡按软沉积物力学处理，气体充注或快速沉积之后的强度损失也包括在内。

• Foundations for offshore structures take in monopiles and suction caissons, bucket foundations and mooring systems, with cyclic loading a recurring theme.海上结构的基础涵盖单桩与吸力沉箱，桶形基础和锚泊系统同列，循环荷载是反复出现的主题。

• Pipelines, platforms and bottom installations bring the same soil mechanics to bear on touchdown, scour and long-term settlement.管道和平台连同海底安装设施，把同一套土力学用于着床、冲刷与长期沉降。

• Sediment mechanics covers calcareous sands and dredged slurries, marine clays among them, with particle breakage and consolidation among the standing questions.沉积物力学涉及钙质砂与疏浚泥浆，海相黏土亦在其中，颗粒破碎和固结性状属于长期议题。

• Seafloor mapping and geophysics contribute bathymetric analysis, seismic imaging, and photographic or acoustic censuses of nodule fields.海底测绘与地球物理带来水深分析、地震成像，以及结核区的照相与声学普查。

• Mining technology is examined as a system, from collector heads and tracked vehicles to lifting pipes and hydraulic transport, power units included.采矿技术按系统考察，从集矿头与履带车到提升管和水力输送，动力装置一并讨论。

• Environmental impact is given explicit priority in the aims, so plume dispersal and seabed disturbance belong to the core, and the recovery of disturbed communities with them.环境影响在宗旨中被置于优先位置，羽流扩散与海底扰动属于核心议题，扰动群落的恢复同样在列。

• Processing and transport close the chain, and beneficiation, dewatering and slurry handling occur often enough to count as regular subjects.加工与运输收束整条链条，选矿和脱水同矿浆处理一样频繁出现，足以列为常规题材。

• Coastal engineering structures and dredging practice sit beside the deep-water work, which keeps a single volume useful to harbour engineers as well as mining teams.滨海工程结构与疏浚实践和深水作业并列，一卷之中既有港工所需，也有采矿队伍的题目。

History

• The title has two parents. Marine Geotechnology and Marine Mining were combined in 1993, and the board page dates both editorial runs from 1975 to that merger.刊物有两个源头，《Marine Geotechnology》与《Marine Mining》于 1993 年合并，编委会页面把两者的主编任期都记为 1975 年至合并之时。

• Crane, Russak & Company of New York appears on the 1975 volumes, a house that later became part of the Taylor & Francis group.1975 年的卷次署名为纽约的Crane, Russak & Company，这家出版社后来并入 Taylor & Francis 集团。

• That first volume was practical from the outset, with a review of continental shelf geotechnics, penetrometer strength testing and a submersible cone rig among its papers.首卷从一开始就偏重实务，陆架岩土工程综述、贯入仪强度测试与水下锥形装置都出现在其中。^[2]

• Adrian F. Richards edited Marine Geotechnology from 1975 to 1983, and Ronald C. Chaney held the chair for the following decade.（Adrian F. Richards）自 1975 年至 1983 年主编《Marine Geotechnology》，此后十年由（Ronald C. Chaney）接任。

• J. Robert Moore edited Marine Mining throughout its life, from 1975 until the merger, and the board page still records that service.（J. Robert Moore）自 1975 年起主持《Marine Mining》，直到两刊合并，编委会页面至今保留这条记录。

• Volume 10 of the old title belongs to 1991, and the combined journal restarted the count at volume 11 in 1993.旧刊第 10 卷属 1991 年，合并后的刊物从第 11 卷重新起算，时为 1993 年。

• Moore and Chaney shared the editorship of the first combined issue, and Chaney then worked with Charles L. Morgan for the rest of volume 11.（J. Robert Moore）与（Ronald C. Chaney）共同主编合并后的首期，第 11 卷余下各期由（Ronald C. Chaney）与（Charles L. Morgan）分担。

• The second number of volume 11 carried a paper on nodule mining three miles down, a subject the merged journal took over from Marine Mining.第 11 卷第 2 期登出一篇讲三英里深处结核开采的论文，这个题目原先属于《Marine Mining》的版面。^[3]

• Michael J. Cruickshank joined Chaney in 1995 and the pair stayed in charge until 2007, a stretch of twelve years.（Michael J. Cruickshank）于 1995 年加入，与（Ronald C. Chaney）共同主持到 2007 年，前后十二年。

• Taylor & Francis publishes the title today under its Informa UK imprint, and the whole archive sits behind the 10.1080 prefix.刊物现由 Taylor & Francis 以 Informa UK 名义出版，全部过刊都落在 10.1080 前缀之下。

• One volume has appeared each year since the merger, so the 2026 volume is the forty-fourth and the sequence has never skipped.合并以来每年出版一卷，2026 年的卷号为第 44 卷，序列从未中断。

• Volume 11 carried four issues in 1993, while volume 43 carried twelve in 2025, the monthly rhythm the title now keeps.1993 年第 11 卷只有四期，2025 年第 43 卷则排满十二期，月刊的节奏延续至今。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, the five-year figure 2.8, and the Journal Citation Indicator 0.58.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.8，期刊引文指标为 0.58。

• Four categories carry the title in the Science Citation Index Expanded, with second-quartile placings in mining and mineral processing and in oceanography.刊物在 Science Citation Index Expanded 中跨四个类目，矿业与矿物加工以及海洋学两个类目都列第二四分位。

• Geological engineering ranks 37 of 68 and ocean engineering 10 of 18, both in the third quartile, while mining stands 16 of 35 and oceanography 32 of 67.工程地质列 68 种中的第 37 位，海洋工程列 18 种中的第 10 位，两者同处第三四分位，矿业列 35 种中的第 16 位，海洋学列 67 种中的第 32 位。

• Total citations reached 3,720 in the latest JCR year across 145 articles, with a cited half-life of 5.6 years, and gold open access accounts for 2.38 percent.最新 JCR 年度总被引 3720 次，刊出论文 145 篇，被引半衰期 5.6 年，金色开放获取占 2.38%。

Editors

• John Charles Wiltshire, of the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering at the University of Hawaii, is editor-in-chief.主编为（John Charles Wiltshire），任职于夏威夷大学海洋与资源工程系。

• Correspondence is directed to 1000 Pope Road in Honolulu, the address the journal prints for its editorial office.通讯地址印为火奴鲁鲁的 1000 Pope Road，刊物页面即以此为编辑部地址。

• His own research has centred on the use of deep-sea resources and on submersible operations, subjects close to the journal's mining brief.他本人的研究集中在深海资源利用与潜水器作业，与刊物的采矿方向相当接近。

• Wiltshire has also directed the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, which left his editorial work with first-hand knowledge of vehicles and of the seafloor they survey.他还主持过夏威夷水下研究实验室，这段经历让他的编辑工作对潜水器及其调查的海底有直接了解。

• Board members listed on the journal page come from Aalborg and Clemson as well as Chongqing, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Wuhan and Zhengzhou.编委名单跨越多国，Aalborg University 与 Clemson University 在列，重庆大学和香港理工大学也有学者入选，武汉大学与郑州大学同样在名单上。

• Geotechnical engineering weighs heavily in the list, with Jian-Hua Yin, Yang Xiao, Dongxing Wang, Yuke Wang and Lei Wang among the members.岩土工程在编委中分量很重，（Jian-Hua Yin）与（Yang Xiao）在列，（Dongxing Wang）和（Lei Wang）也在名单上。

• Mining and marine geology are represented too, which keeps the assessment of resource papers inside the board rather than at arm's length.采矿与海洋地质同样有人把关，资源类稿件的判断因此在编委会内部完成，无需外求。

• Manuscripts reach the journal through the Taylor & Francis online submission system, and the editor screens each one before referees are approached.稿件经 Taylor & Francis 的在线投稿系统进入，主编先行筛查，再决定是否送外审。

• Reports come from referees outside the board, revision is the ordinary route to acceptance, and the editor signs the final decision.评审意见来自编委会之外的审稿人，修回是通向录用的常规路径，最终决定由主编签发。

• A roll of past technical editors is kept on the board page, so the succession since 1975 can be read in one place.编委会页面保留历任技术主编的名录，1975 年以来的编辑传承可以在一处读完。