American Journal of Science
The U.S. scientific magazine American Journal of Science ( AJS short ) is the oldest of its kind in the United States. It was launched in 1818 by Benjamin Silliman and has been published continuously. It was originally financed by Silliman himself and edited. By 1880 it appeared under the name American Journal of Science and Arts, but its main focus has always been the natural sciences, especially geology and related branches of science.
AJS is an influential trade magazine (english high-impact ) with an impact factor of 3.607, and is among the journals with cross system reports thus the highest ranking journal of geosciences.
In the early years AJS has often been referred to as " Sillimans magazine". Since Silliman exercised a very long teaching career as a professor at Yale University ( 1804-1853 ), the magazine was therefore also associated with Yale. The function of the chief editor for a long time remained within the family Silliman - starting in 1838 assisted the son, Benjamin Silliman, Jr. to his father in this task. As Silliman the elder died in 1864, his son James Dwight Dana and by 1895 succeeded him as chief editor until 1926, Dana's son Edward Salisbury Dana. As editors worked at AJS including the botanist Asa Gray and the zoologist Louis Agassiz.
The current editors are Jay J. Ague and Danny M.Rye, both professors of geology and geophysics at Yale University.