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Journal News

Virtual Special Issue on Air Quality in China
This freely available Virtual Special Issue, compiled by one of the journals' Editor-in-Chief Prof. Chak K. Chan, gives an overview of the accumulation of knowledge in air quality in China.
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Virtual Special Issue on the 2011 Mw 9.1 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Since the 2011 Mw 9.1 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Tectonophysics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Sedimentary Geology and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, have published a number of papers related to this event. In this Virtual Special Issue we have collected a range of these articles.
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New Virtual Special Issue demonstrates how ScienceDirect enriches academic publications with interactive geospatial data using Google Maps
Research output in the digital age is more than text and images; computer code, data, multimedia, and domain-specific data formats are increasingly important elements of the scientific record.
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New Virtual Special Issue of open access articles of the Earth and Planetary Science Journals
We are delighted to bring you a selection of the open access articles published in Elsevier's Earth and Planetary Science Journals to date.
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Content Innovation

Data Deposit and Linking
Elsevier encourages authors to deposit raw data sets underpinning their research publication in data repositories, and to enable interlinking of articles and data.

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AudioSlides presentations allow authors to explain in their own words what their paper is about
AudioSlides are short, webcast-style  presentations that are shown next to the online article on ScienceDirect.
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New feature on ScienceDirect for Precambrian Research
Inline Supplementary Material (ISM) enriches an article by providing ancillary information in the appropriate context within the main article body. 
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Elsevier and EarthChem database linking: how it benefits you
Elsevier-published research articles from 23 journals in the Earth Sciences, hosted on ScienceDirect are bi-directionally linked to the corresponding research datasets in EarthChem.
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Top 3 Most Cited Articles by Scopus

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis
2008, Precambrian Research, Volume 160, Issues 1-2, pp. 179-210
By: Li, Z.X., Bogdanova, S.V., Collins, A.S., Davidson, A., De Waele, B., Ernst, R.E., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Fuck, R.A., Gladkochub, D.P., Jacobs, J., Karlstrom, K.E., Lu, S., Natapov, L.M., Pease, V., Pisarevsky, S.A., Thrane, K., Vernikovsky, V.

The Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation
2008, Gondwana Research, Volume 14, Issues 1-2, pp.5-21
By: Joseph G. Meerta and Bruce S. Lieberman.

Geochemical constraints on the origin of the pore fluids and gas hydrate distribution at Atwater Valley and Keathley Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico
2008, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 25, Issues 9, pp.860-872
By: Kastner, M., Claypool, G., Robertson, G.