Journal Title：Episodes

Episodes is the quarterly journal of the International Union of Geological Sciences, published in Seoul, Korea. In circulation since 1978, Episodes is an international and interdisciplinary open access and free, both to submit and download, publication journal that covers all geoscience disciplines, including economic geology, environmental geology, geochemistry, geoethics, geoheritage, geophysics, hydrogeology, mineralogy, paleontology, petroleum geology, petrology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology, remote sensing, planetary geology, and social science (metric and diversity in publications and citations in Earth Sciences). Episodes includes authoritative articles that reflect global research advances, evolving trends in geoscience disciplines and concise reports on the results of international meetings, conferences, and symposia. It is a high visibility journal, and is indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE; Web of Science), and Journal Citation Reports (JCR)/Science Edition, along with many other databases such as SCOPUS. Submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately within 30 days after submission.

Episodes 是國際地質(zhì)科學(xué)聯(lián)合會的季刊，在韓國首爾出版。Episodes 自 1978 年發(fā)行以來，一直是國際和跨學(xué)科的開放獲取期刊，可免費(fèi)提交和下載，涵蓋所有地球科學(xué)學(xué)科，包括經(jīng)濟(jì)地質(zhì)學(xué)、環(huán)境地質(zhì)學(xué)、地球化學(xué)、地質(zhì)倫理學(xué)、地質(zhì)遺產(chǎn)、地球物理學(xué)、水文地質(zhì)學(xué)、礦物學(xué)、古生物學(xué)、石油地質(zhì)學(xué)、巖石學(xué)、沉積學(xué)、地層學(xué)、構(gòu)造地質(zhì)學(xué)、遙感、行星地質(zhì)學(xué)和社會科學(xué)（地球科學(xué)出版物和引文的指標(biāo)和多樣性）。Episodes 包括反映全球研究進(jìn)展、地球科學(xué)學(xué)科發(fā)展趨勢的權(quán)威文章以及國際會議、研討會和專題討論會結(jié)果的簡明報告。這是一本知名度很高的期刊，被收錄在科學(xué)引文索引 (SCI)、科學(xué)引文索引擴(kuò)展版 (SCIE；Web of Science) 和期刊引文報告 (JCR)/科學(xué)版以及 SCOPUS 等許多其他數(shù)據(jù)庫中。提交的稿件經(jīng)過同行評審，提交后約 30 天內(nèi)會向作者提供初步?jīng)Q定。

Episodes創(chuàng)刊于1978年，由International Union of Geological Sciences出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋地學(xué) - 地球科學(xué)綜合全領(lǐng)域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業(yè)認(rèn)可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 ，影響因子指數(shù)2.2，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預(yù)警名單，廣大學(xué)者值得一試。