I What Are the Best Academic Journals for Aspiring Planetary Scientists?

[astrogato96]

Hi all,

I'm an undergraduate Physics major looking to jump into Planetary. Through either a reasonably priced subscription, or free, and in paper or online, what would you suggest as a journal or professional level news aggregate for me to get the latest updates and literature in planetary science?

I'm essentially looking for some source of planetary news that is a little more professional/academic than popular science news outlets to follow, so I have things to write and think about for grad school.

For Space!
~ Jared

 

[jedishrfu]

Phys.org maybe

 

[stefan r]

Should find out what journal your faculty advisor publishes in.

 

[astrogato96]

Have had a busy time since that week in January.

I've made phys.org my homepage, and really like the 2nd idea. Thanks!

 

[phyzguy]

Try scrolling through the astro-ph page on the ArXiv every day. Even if you just read the titles and abstracts, you will get a feeling for what people are working on and what progress is being made. If there is a really interesting paper, you can dig into it in more detail.

 

[ExoExplorer]

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics and Astrophysics in arxiv are good sources, but some of these articles are still under peer review and waiting to be accepted.
I would recommend MNRAS, A&A, ApJ, AJ, Icarus, Nature Astronomy, Nature Geoscience, PASP, ARAA, A&AR, Space Science Review, JGR, EPSL, Physics Report, GRL, G3. They are all peer-reviewed scientific journals, and cover all the latest papers.