Icarus (journal)

*ICARUS*
Discipline	Planetary science
Language	English
Edited by	Rosaly Lopes
Publication details
History	1962–present
Publisher	Elsevier (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	3.508 (2020)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	ICARUS
Indexing;
ISSN	0019-1035;
OCLC no.	1752499
Links
	Journal homepage;

ICARUS is a scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science. It is officially endorsed by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). The journal contains articles discussing the results of new research on astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, and other scientific aspects of the Solar System or extrasolar systems.

The journal was founded in 1962, and became affiliated with the DPS in 1974. Its original owner and publisher was Academic Press, which was purchased by Elsevier in 2000.

List of ICARUS Editors^[1]^[2]
Years	Editor(s)
1962–1968	Albert G. Wilson and Zdeněk Kopal
1968–1979	Carl Sagan
1980–1997	Joseph A. Burns
1998–2018	Philip D. Nicholson
2018-present	Rosaly Lopes

The journal is named for the mythical Icarus, and the frontispiece of every issue contains an extended quotation from Sir Arthur Eddington equating Icarus' adventurousness with the scientific investigator who "strains his theories to the breaking-point till the weak joints gape."^[3]

^ C. Sagan (1980). "Editorial". Icarus. 41 (1): iii. Bibcode:1980Icar...41D...3S. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(80)90155-4.
^ J. A. Burns (1997). "Thanks for the Memories". Icarus. 130 (2): 225–227. Bibcode:1997Icar..130..225B. doi:10.1006/icar.1997.5859.
^ Journal Homepage

[1] C. Sagan (1980). "Editorial". Icarus. 41 (1): iii. Bibcode:1980Icar...41D...3S. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(80)90155-4.

[2] J. A. Burns (1997). "Thanks for the Memories". Icarus. 130 (2): 225–227. Bibcode:1997Icar..130..225B. doi:10.1006/icar.1997.5859.

[3] Journal Homepage

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