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PUBLICATIONS
Member Benefits Include:
Supporting Our • All members get free online

Geology. Student and early career
Science Community professional members also get
free online GSA Bulletin.
• Supercharge your research
In January 2020, GSA fulfilled a com- To help new authors get their work pub- with Geofacets—a web-based
mitment (approved by GSA Council in lished successfully, the GSA Publications tool to access thousands of
2019) to transfer its journal Lithosphere to Department holds an annual early-career georeferenced maps—included
a new home with a new purpose—serving publishing workshop led by GSA science with membership.
as an open-access journal for a community editors. The free workshop explains the pro- • Subscribe to premier publications
of society publishers. Now published by cess of preparing research for submission to
GeoScienceWorld on behalf of seven soci- scholarly journals and includes a section on at member-only rates when you
eties, the journal gives authors and the the importance of contributing as a reviewer. renew your 2021 membership.
participating publishers alike another
open-access option. ABOUT GSA JOURNALS AND BOOKS references for a number of years; and Field
The abrupt changes we all faced this year GSA’s peer-reviewed journals GSA Guides (four volumes in FY20) feature
due to the pandemic gave GSA publications Bulletin, Geology, and Geosphere are hosted guides from GSA or GSA-related field trips.
another opportunity to be of service, this at www.gsapubs.org, through the aggregate Memorials to deceased GSA members are
time to the hundreds of academic libraries GeoScienceWorld. GSA Bulletin and open access at https://www.geosociety.org/
worldwide who were suddenly shut out of Geology are also available in print. memorials.
their in-person campus resources. Along with Geosphere is 100% open access, and
several other society publishers, GSA agreed Geology is free online for all GSA members. 2020 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS
to open its online book content until the end Early career professional members, student (WEB OF SCIENCE GROUP, 2019)
of June—that’s well over 900 books made members, and K–12 teacher members also GSA Bulletin: 3.558; five-year: 4.368.
freely available to researchers everywhere. get free online access to GSA Bulletin. GSA Geology: 4.768; five-year: 5.412.
Today, GSA’s member magazine, is open Geosphere: 2.577; five-year: 3.032.
“GSA membership access at https://www.geosociety.org/ Lithosphere: 3.248; five-year: 3.530.
provides opportunities GSAToday, and members can get a free Environmental & Engineering Geoscience:
to have my ‘finger on the print subscription. 0.755; five-year: 0.785.
pulse’ of the cutting-edge Published jointly by the Association of
advances in our field—by Environmental and Engineering Geologists GSA STORE
networking with colleagues, and GSA, Environmental & Engineering Along with providing a storefront for
learning through direct Geoscience (online at GeoScienceWorld) GSA books, educational materials, spe-
contact, and publication contains peer-reviewed papers on new the- cialty tools, and the map and chart collec-
about new research.” ory, applications, and case histories illustrat- tion, the GSA Store offers e-versions of
ing the dynamics of environmental and hundreds of previously unavailable or out-
About halfway through the fiscal year, applied disciplines. of-print publications—including the com-
publications staff began transferring about The society publishes three peer-reviewed plete suite of Decade of North American
20,000 files and their accompanying meta- book series in print and online (www.gsapubs Geology volumes and maps—to research-
data from the GSA Data Repository site to .org): Special Papers (four volumes in fiscal ers and citizen scientists alike.
an outside host, Figshare. The new database year 2020) are for state-of-the-art treatments
is completely searchable and offers authors of evolving subjects; Memoirs (one volume in
new ways to post supplemental materials. FY20) are intended to remain authoritative

Publications by the Numbers

18 3,128 76 ISSN 1941-8264 | VOLUME 12 | NUMBER 1 | FEBRUARY 2020
science editors authors disciplines By P .G. DeCelles et al. Special Paper 547

Structural and Thermal Evolution of
190 53 9,253 the Himalayan Thrust Belt in Midwestern Nepal
associate editors countries pages published Structural and Thermal Evolution of the Himalayan Thrust Belt in Midwestern Nepal
and editorial board Sourcing some Rocky ancestors 88
Drifting away in Baja 122
Making Isua without plates 166
members
Thank you to our thousands of reviewers, the backbone of scientific peer review. GSA Special Paper 547 By P .G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, T .P . Ojha, G.E. Gehrels, and D. Collins

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