v10n6 From the Editors
By Georges Calas, John Valley, Patricia Dove, Pierrette Tremblay, and Jodi Rosso | December, 2014
How did life arise from inorganic molecules? Did it develop in an early Earth primordial soup or was there an extraterrestrial source? Although the answer to the origin of sentient life has yet to be discovered by scientists, the origins of the genetic blueprints for life (e.g. RNA), the workhorses of life (e.g. proteins), and the protective membranes for life (e.g. lipids) are rapidly being uncovered.
v10n5 From the Editors
By Pierrette Tremblay, Patricia M. Dove and Virginia Tech | October, 2014
Elements’ impact factor climbed from 3.156 in 2012 to 4.5 in 2013. As a reminder the 2013 impact factor measures the number of citations articles published in 2011 and 2012 received during 2013. Thus, Elements’ articles are well cited, oftentimes in journals outside the mineralogy geochemistry –petrology community. The 335 articles published in Elements up to the end of 2013 received 1555 citations in 2013, giving an average of 4.6 citations per article.
v10n4 From the Editors
By Pierrette Tremblay and Patricia M. Dove | August, 2014
We welcomed Jodi Rosso, incoming executive editor, and Bernie Wood, incoming principal editor, to our day-long annual meeting, held prior to the Goldschmidt Conference. We reviewed thematic issues currently in preparation, proposals received for potential inclusion in the 2016 lineup, and various editorial questions.
v10n3 From the Editors
By Pierrette Tremblay and Gordon E. Brown Jr. | June, 2014
I am thrilled that Jodi Rosso has been chosen to succeed me at the end of this year (see accompanying text). I did not know Jodi personally but thought she had the perfect profile for the job. So I was delighted that after an international search, the search committee came to the same conclusion. For the last month Jodi and I have conversed during weekly Skype calls, and it has been inspiring to share ideas and make plans. At the Goldschmidt Conference in Sacramento, we intend to map out the next few months to ensure that the transition is complete by the end of the year.
v10n2 From the Editors
By Pierrette Tremblay | April, 2014
Our next editorial meeting will be held in Sacramento, USA, on June 8, immediately prior to the Goldschmidt Conference. This yearly face to-face meeting is extremely valuable as it gives us an opportunity to discuss in depth various aspects of Elements. Traditionally we invite the incoming editor to attend the meeting as it is a great way to get an overview of how Elements functions. One of our main tasks is discussing the proposals we have received for future issues of the magazine.
v10n1 From the Editors
By Georges Calas, John Valley, Trish Dove, Gordon Brown, and Pierrette Tremblay | February, 2014
Coincidentally, our first issue of 2014 deals with asteroids and highlights this very exciting field of space exploration. Much of the information related in this issue is mind boggling and reads almost like science fiction, but it is real frontier science. Take, for example, the Hayabusa spacecraft: it traveled 300 million kilometers to a target less than one kilometer across. It brought back the very first sample of an asteroid— estimated at 100 to several hundred micrograms. Many of these tiny particles have been scrutinized and analyzed—and with the wide range of data acquired, special issues of journals have been published and many papers written speculating on what these tiny samples tell us.