The journal was originally part of the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. This journal was established in 1934, but in 1978 it was split into three different journals: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences), Journal of Chemical Sciences, and Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical Sciences. In 2005, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences) was renamed as Journal of Earth System Science.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.9121
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