Elementa has an Impact Factor of 3.518. We congratulate and thank all the editors, authors, reviewers, and journal founder, BioOne, who have stewarded the journal into the high-quality publication it is today.

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene is an open-access, non-profit, interdisciplinary environmental science journal published by UC Press whose mission is Open Science for Public Good. In light of this mission, we’ve highlighted some key article- and journal-level metrics that demonstrate how Elementa‘s open, accessible research has a wide reach and impact across a global audience.

WHAT ELEMENTA PUBLISHES

Earth & Environmental Science
Editor in Chief: Oliver A. Chadwick
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Ecology
Editor in Chief: Donald R. Zak
University of Michigan, USA

Ocean Science
Editor in Chief: Jody W. Deming
University of Washington, USA

Sustainability Transitions
Editor in Chief: Alastair Iles
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Editor in Chief: Anne R. Kapuscinski
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Plus two types of special collections:
SPECIAL FEATURES and FORUMS.

ELEMENTA’S GLOBAL AUDIENCE
Top 10 Countries Accessing Elementa content:

  1. United States
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Canada
  4. Germany
  5. Australia
  6. India
  7. Brazil
  8. France
  9. China
  10. Italy

GROWTH IN PUBLISHED ARTICLES

GROWTH IN WEBSITE USAGE

Steady audience growth with 85% of traffic being new visitors (2019).

Combined reach of 69k on Facebook and 17k on Twitter across Elementa and UC Press social media.

Average total usage is 12,835 views & downloads per article (2013-2017).

Average production time is 20 days from acceptance to publication.

NOTABLE CONTENT

Carrying capacity of U.S. agricultural land: Ten diet scenarios (Peters et al, 2016)
136,891 views/downloads, Altmetric Score: 971

Global distribution and trends of tropospheric ozone: An observation-based review (Cooper et al, 2014)
36,013 views/downloads, 220 citations

Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere (Ellis et al, 2013)
33,143 views/downloads, Altmetric Score: 68

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
Elementa articles have been featured in the following media outlets, among others.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene was founded by BioOne in 2013 through a partnership with five research universities: Dartmouth, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington. Please visit our Founders page for the full history.