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American Journal of Science

journal focused on earth sciences. Overall volumes: 119 (1880) to end
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American Journal of Science

Summary

American Journal of Science is a scientific journal[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of scientific_journal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • American Journal of Science's image is recorded as American Journal of Science 1 Title page.png[3].
  • American Journal of Science's instance of is recorded as scientific journal[4].
  • American Journal of Science's instance of is recorded as academic publisher[5].
  • American Journal of Science's founder is recorded as Benjamin Silliman Sr.[6].
  • American Journal of Science's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 621145857115022922446[7].
  • American Journal of Science's ISSN is recorded as 0002-9599[8].
  • American Journal of Science's ISSN is recorded as 1945-452X[9].
  • American Journal of Science's OCLC number is recorded as 5694945[10].
  • American Journal of Science's place of publication is recorded as New Haven[11].
  • American Journal of Science's Commons category is recorded as American Journal of Science[12].
  • American Journal of Science's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • American Journal of Science's country of origin is recorded as United States[14].
  • +1880-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of American Journal of Science[15].
  • American Journal of Science's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gjj2t[16].
  • American Journal of Science's Internet Archive ID is recorded as mobot31753002152970[17].
  • American Journal of Science's official website is recorded as http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/5694945.html[18].
  • American Journal of Science's official website is recorded as http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/213801576.html[19].
  • American Journal of Science's official website is recorded as http://books.google.com/books?id=7HRUmJIas84C[20].
  • American Journal of Science's main subject is recorded as science[21].
  • American Journal of Science's document file on Wikimedia Commons is recorded as The American journal of science. (IA mobot31753002152970).pdf[22].
  • American Journal of Science's NLM Unique ID is recorded as 14830070R[23].
  • American Journal of Science's ERA Journal ID is recorded as 30190[24].
  • American Journal of Science's Scopus source ID is recorded as 22003[25].
  • American Journal of Science's ISO 4 abbreviation is recorded as AJS[26].
  • American Journal of Science's Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level is recorded as 1[27].

Body

Founding

American Journal of Science's founder is recorded as Benjamin Silliman Sr.[6]. +1880-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[15].

Identity

Short names include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'AJS'}[28] and {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Am. j. sci. (1880)'}[29].

Why It Matters

American Journal of Science ranks in the top 3% of scientific_journal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

science scientific journal United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Benjamin Silliman. Retrieved . ajsonline.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . api.crossref.org. Retrieved . api.crossref.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Q24490449. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ERA 2010 journal list. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Scopus. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . BFI 2012 journal list. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Biodiversity Heritage Library. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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