Mineralium Deposita

Mineralium Deposita takes its title from Latin and means mineral deposits. It is an authoritative journal in mineral deposit geology and economic geology, published by Springer in cooperation with the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, founded in May 1966, with a 2025 impact factor of 5.0.Mineralium Deposita 的刊名取自拉丁语，意为「矿床」，是施普林格出版的矿床学与经济地质学权威期刊，与矿床地质学应用学会合作出版，1966 年 5 月创刊，2025 年影响因子为 5.0。^[1]

Scope

• Disciplinary boundary: the journal centres on economic geology and mineral deposits, emphasizing new observations, principles and interpretations, and caters to field geologists, mineral deposit researchers and those engaged in ore deposit exploration.学科边界： 期刊以经济地质学与矿床学为核心，关照新资料、新原理与新解释，读者群涵盖野外地质工作者、矿床研究者与找矿勘探从业者。
• Subject coverage: non-metallic mineral deposits are covered and experimental and applied geochemistry is admitted, but the emphasis remains on the deposits themselves, in the form of short and comprehensive articles, reviews, letters, notes, scientific discussions and reports on meetings of importance to mineral research.选题范围： 涵盖非金属矿床，兼收实验与应用地球化学，但重心始终落在矿床本身，体裁包括短篇与完整论文、评论、综述、简讯、通讯、学术讨论及重要会议报告。
• Evidence policy: the journal favours papers grounded in first-hand field observations and in laboratory, microscopic and isotopic analytical results, and does not entertain purely theoretical argument unsupported by new data.证据取向： 偏好以第一手野外地质观察和室内实验、显微与同位素分析结果为依据的稿件，缺乏新资料支撑的纯理论论述不在其列。
• Quality and geography: every paper is subject to international peer review, and the journal insists on high quality in both content and form together with international coverage of subject matter.质量与地域： 所有稿件均经国际同行评审，期刊明确要求内容与形式俱佳，并强调选题在国际范围内的覆盖面。
• Open access: the journal is hybrid, offering authors a paid immediate open-access option beyond subscription. Authors from countries and institutions covered by publishing agreements may have the corresponding charges waived.开放获取： 属混合开放获取刊物，订阅之外作者可付费选择立即开放，部分作者可经所在国家或机构的出版协议免除相应费用。
• Submission profile: submissions from China form a substantial share, and the editors have stated publicly that roughly forty-five per cent of all manuscripts came from China while about thirty per cent of accepted papers were Chinese-authored.稿源分布： 中文投稿占相当比重，编辑部曾公开表示全部来稿中约四成半来自中国，而录用稿中中国学者的比例约三成。

History

• May 1966: the first issue appeared, running to seventy-five pages, with the three issues of the opening volume totalling two hundred and sixty pages.1966年5月： 创刊号出版，仅七十五页，首卷三期合计二百六十页。
• Founding credo: Paul Ramdohr, then honorary president of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, set the tone in the preface, calling for a focus on new field and laboratory observations, as little theory and opinion as possible, no repetition or doctrine, and a concise style.创刊宗旨： 时任矿床地质学应用学会荣誉会长的 Paul Ramdohr 在创刊词中定下基调：聚焦新的野外与实验观察，尽可能少收理论与评论，不容重复与教条，行文务必简洁。
• Early languages: from foundation until the early 1990s the journal published in English, German and French with bilingual abstracts, before following the global drift of scientific literature into English alone.早期语言： 创刊至 1990 年代初以英、德、法三种文字发表并配双语摘要，其后顺应科学文献的全球趋势改为只用英文。
• Internationalisation of the editorial: the first twenty-five years followed the older European pattern of successive editorships in Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin. A professional editorial office was established in Cardiff in the early 1990s and a co-editor was added in Denver in 1997, after which the journal became genuinely international.编务国际化： 前二十五年沿欧洲学术期刊的旧例，由海德堡、慕尼黑与柏林的学者先后主编；1990 年代初在英国卡迪夫设立专业编辑部，1997 年在美国丹佛增设共同主编，期刊自此真正走向国际。
• Two editorial offices: the European office moved to Clausthal in Germany in 2000. The office outside Europe passed through Pullman, Townsville and Quebec City before returning to Denver at the end of 2022.双编辑部体制： 欧洲编辑部于 2000 年移至德国克劳斯塔尔，北美编辑部历经普尔曼、汤斯维尔与魁北克城，2022 年底回到丹佛。^[2]

Editors

• Editors-in-chief: the journal is co-led by David Banks of the University of Leeds and Karen D. Kelley of the US Geological Survey in Denver, the latter having taken over from a predecessor co-editor in 2023.现任主编： 两位共同主编为任职于英国利兹大学的 David Banks 与任职于美国地质调查局丹佛办事处的 Karen D. Kelley，后者自 2023 年起接替前任共同主编。
• Division of labour: the associate editors, numbering more than twenty, handle the review of most submissions, while the editors-in-chief confine themselves to day-to-day decisions. The efficiency of the peer-review system depends heavily on referees worldwide.编委分工： 协编二十余人承担了大部分稿件的评审工作，主编只负责日常决策，评审效率在很大程度上取决于世界各地审稿人的投入。
• Geographic spread of the board: board members are based in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Australia and China, at institutions including the Geological Survey of Finland, the University of Western Australia, the University of Würzburg, the University of Manitoba, the Guangzhou and Guiyang institutes of geochemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the China University of Geosciences.编委的地域分布： 编委成员分属英国、德国、奥地利、瑞士、芬兰、加拿大、美国、巴西、澳大利亚与中国等地，机构包括芬兰地质调查局、西澳大利亚大学、德国维尔茨堡大学、加拿大曼尼托巴大学、中国科学院广州与贵阳地球化学研究所以及中国地质大学。
• Submission system: manuscripts are lodged through the publisher's online submission system, and the editors publish their intake figures, receiving roughly three hundred and fifty manuscripts a year with an acceptance rate near one fifth.投稿系统： 稿件通过出版方的在线投稿系统递交，编辑部公开其收稿与录用规模，近年每年收稿约三百五十件，录用率约两成。
• Metrics: the 2025 impact factor is 5.0 and the five-year impact factor 5.8. The impact factor has risen steadily over twenty years, and the journal is now among the most widely cited titles in mineral deposit geology.指标： 2025 年影响因子 5.0，五年影响因子 5.8，影响因子在二十年间持续上升，期刊已成为矿床地质学领域被引最广的刊物之一。^[3]