Icarus (journal)

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| editor = Rosaly Lopes

| discipline = Planetary science

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| language = English

| abbreviation = ICARUS

| publisher = Elsevier

| country = United States

| frequency = Monthly

| history = 1962–present

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| impact = 3.508

| impact-year = 2020

| website = https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/icarus

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| ISSN = 0019-1035

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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.

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|+ List of ICARUS Editors

{{cite journal

|author=C. Sagan

|date=1980

|title=Editorial

|journal=Icarus

|volume=41 |issue=1 |page=iii

|bibcode=1980Icar...41D...3S

|doi=10.1016/0019-1035(80)90155-4

}}

{{cite journal

|author=J. A. Burns

|date=1997

|title=Thanks for the Memories

|journal=Icarus

|volume=130 |issue=2 |pages=225–227

|bibcode=1997Icar..130..225B

|doi=10.1006/icar.1997.5859

}}

! Years

! Editor(s)

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| 1962–1968

| Albert G. Wilson and Zdeněk Kopal

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| 1968–1979

| Carl Sagan

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| 1980–1997

| Joseph A. Burns

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| 1998–2018

| Philip D. Nicholson

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| 2018-present

| Rosaly Lopes

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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."[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/icarus/ Journal Homepage]