Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Annual Reviews, located in Palo Alto California, is the non-profit publisher of a collection of 32 review series in specific disciplines in science and social science. Each review series contains 12 to 40 authoritative comprehensive review articles, covering the major journal articles on a specific topic during the preceding few years. The major topics in each subject are covered every few years, and special topics appear as appropriate. These review are widely used in teaching and research, and serve the purposes both of current awareness and introduction to a new subject. Since in a scientific article it is customary to cite in detail the literature only since the most recent review, these periodicals are among the highest ranking journals in Impact Factor for their subjects, as shown in the publisher's table. (This does not imply that they are necessarily the most important journals in the subject; review series always rank highly because of the relatively few articles published each year and the many articles that cite them.) The reviews are written in a compact narrative style, with a minimum of descriptive text for each article covered. Many authors provide lists of summary points and future issues. The length of each review and the number of articles covered vary widely depending on both the topic and the preferences of the author. The articles are written by invitation to the authors, who are accepted authorities on the material covered.

Availability

Each series is available as a bound annual volume, as individual e-articles purchased online, or as a subscription to the print, online, or both. They are also available as a database consisting of some or all of the series, with site licensing available. The back years of the entire collection can be purchased for a one-time price. Effective January 2008, purchasing a subscription that includes online access entitles you to permanent data rights to that volume regardless of future subscription status. Customers with 2007 online subscriptions will retain access to the volumes that they have previously purchased.

History

The first series to be published was Annual Review of Biochemistry, which began in 1932. Additional series are started every few years, with the topics appropriate to the growth of scientific research. All Annual Review series became available online in 1996. Since 2004 most series have been richly illustrated in color.

List of titles

As of 2007, the publications included the following

A

• Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry (scheduled for July 2008)
• Annual Review of Anthropology
• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

B

• Annual Review of Biochemistry (1932)
• Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (1999)
• Annual Review of Biophysics (formerly Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure) (1972)

C

• Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
• Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

E

• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (formerly Ecology and Systematics)
• Annual Review of Entomology
• Annual Review of Environment and Resources (formerly Energy and the Environment)

F

• Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

G

• Annual Review of Genetics
• Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

I

• Annual Review of Immunology

L

• Annual Review of Law and Social Science

M

• Annual Review of Materials Research
• Annual Review of Medicine
• Annual Review of Microbiology

N

• Annual Review of Neuroscience
• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
• Annual Review of Nutrition

P

• Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease
• Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
• Annual Review of Physiology
• Annual Review of Phytopathology
• Annual Review of Plant Biology (formerly Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology)
• Annual Review of Political Science
• Annual Review of Psychology
• Annual Review of Public Health

S

• Annual Review of Sociology (1975)

External links

• Annual Reviews home page