Monthly publication of Landslides: Journal of International Consortium on Landslides (ICL)
Monthly publication of Landslides: Journal of International Consortium on Landslides (ICL)
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DOI:
10.1007/s10346-017-0928-2
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发表时间:
2017
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影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
K. Sassa
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作者:
K. Sassa
The initiation of Landslides: Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides was proposed at the foundation meeting of the International Consortium on Landslides held in Kyoto on 21–25 January 2002. The establishment of the Landslides journal was adopted as the first coordinating project of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL-C100) at the first session of the Board of Representatives of ICL held at UNESCO Headquarters on 19–21 November 2002. After consultation with several publishing companies, ICL agreed with Springer, Heidelberg, to publish a new full-color journal BLandslides: Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides^ in 2003. The initial issue of Landslides was published in April 2004 supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Landslide phenomena are studied by many fields of sciences: geology, geomorphology, geotechnical engineering, geophysics, forest engineering, and social sciences, and research results are published in various related journals and other formats. Terminologies in each field are not always the same although the definition of landslides and their types were generally agreed during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) and were published by Cruden and Varnes (1996). Highland and Bobrowsky (2017) recently published TEXT-tool 0.001–2.1 Landslide Types: Description, Illustration and Photos in the ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools to provide a readily accessible and user-friendly visual summary of landslide technologies.Landslides is a full-color journal including full-color photos and full-color geological maps. Full-color photos of landslides are a common information source for landslides that are made understandable for all readers, scientists in different fields, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers. No contribution fee and no full-color printing fee are charged to promote contributions from less developed countries and young researchers. Progress of Landslides is shown in Fig. 1 in terms of the number of pages/year, the number of articles/year, and the impact factor. The annual number of pages has continuously increased from 323 pages in 2004 to 2162 pages in 2017, and the number of articles has risen from 37 to 161 over the same period. The impact factor has increased from 0.986 in 2007 to 3.657 in 2016. The number of issues/year was 4 from 2004 to 2012 (9 years from vol. 1 to vol. 9) and then 6 from 2013 to 2017 (5 years from vol. 10 to vol. 14). From January 2018 (vol. 15) onwards, it will consist of 12 issues/year, namely a monthly journal.