"Miles wide and miles deep"-Exploring the depth and breadth of geoscience during the first ten years of Geoscience Frontiers

作     者：Christopher J. Spencer Nick M.W.Roberts Damian Nance 

作者机构：The Institute of Geoscience Research (TIGeR) School of Earth and Planetary Sciences Curtin University NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory British Geological Survey Department of Geological Sciences Ohio University Department of Geology and Geophysics Yale University 

出 版 物：《Geoscience Frontiers》 (地学前缘（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第10卷第3期

页      面：1219-1221页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 

基　　金：NERC [NE/S011587/1] Funding Source: UKRI 

主　　题：engage its was can past be is now 

摘      要：When early explorers first crossed the Platte River in what is now Nebraska (USA), it was said the river was “a mile wide and an inch deep(Mokler, 1923;Smith, 1971). This phrase was used to describe not only the difficulty in crossing the river but also in navigating its length. The trouble with a river being too wide is the risk that it won’t provide the depth necessary to be useful. The same thing can be said of multidisciplinary scientific journals. While a journal can claim to be multidisciplinary, there is a risk of it being so broad that its articles can only engage the reader at a superficial level. Nothing could be further from the truth with Geoscience Frontiers. Over the past ten years, this journal has successfully navigated the wide breadth of geoscience while providing a level of depth and detail that rivals discipline-specific journals.