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The Journal of Geophysical Research was originally founded in 1896 under the name Terrestrial Magnetism by Louis Agricola Bauer, the president of the American Geophysical Union. It acquired its current name in 1948.
The seven sections are A: Space Physics, B: Solid Earth, C: Oceans, D: Atmospheres, E: Planets, F: Earth Surface, and G: Biogeosciences. Each section is published as a separate issue with its own editorial team.
Louis Agricola Bauer, president of the American Geophysical Union, founded the journal in 1896 under its original name, Terrestrial Magnetism.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had an impact factor of 3.303 in 2010, ranking it 15th out of 165 journals in the Geosciences, Multidisciplinary category.
JGR-Atmospheres was the 6th most cited publication on climate change between 1999 and 2009. The journal is indexed in major databases including Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed.
The journal published 2,995 articles in 2010 across its seven sections. All current and back issues are available online for subscribers.