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Landslides: A state-of-the art on the current position in the landslide research community

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The international journal Landslides (ISSN 1612-510X), launched in 2004 and published by Springer Verlag, soon gained international recognition as the only specialized scientific journal in the world dedicated to different aspects of landslides, and as one of the leading world journals in the field of geological engineering. After 7 years, seven published volumes with 28 issues and 290 published papers on 2,794 pages, there is time to make a comparison with other related journals that also cover the field of landslide risk mitigation. The critical review of these seven publishing years was done using ISI Journal Citation Reports produced by Thomson Reuters, and available scientometric data from the ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS. The data presented in this paper and the analysis shown may help the Editorial Board to further improve the journal into the direction of a high quality scientific journal with even higher impact on the international research community in the field of landslide risk mitigation.

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The paper was substantially stimulated by personal talks to different board members of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) on several occasions when we met and were discussing the positioning of Landslides in the landslide research community.

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Mikoš, M. Landslides: A state-of-the art on the current position in the landslide research community. Landslides 8, 541–551 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-011-0297-1

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