GFF is one of the world's oldest continuing Earth Science journals, presently working on our 137th volume. We are very pleased to see that our journal and the papers we publish receive attention from scientists from all over the world. This is not only evident in the growing circulation of the journal through the Taylor & Francis network but also in the thousands of monthly article downloads and in an increasing Thomson Reuters Impact Factor for the journal – in 2014 up to 1.309.
The editorial team at GFF and the Geological Society of Sweden (Geologiska Föreningen, GF) acknowledges that our great scientific journal GFF is only as good as the manuscripts that we have the privilege to publish. The manuscripts that form GFF come from scientists from all over the world and cover a vast range of Earth Science disciplines, from the large scale structure of the planet to sedimentological processes, from the oldest known Precambrian rocks to the Quaternary, from fossils to minerals.
To celebrate the importance of these scientific contributions, the editorial team and the board of the Geological Society of Sweden each year make an award for the best papers published in GFF. The first authors of the selected manuscripts receive an award of 5000 SEK as well as the honor. The papers will also be free to access until the end of December 2015.
For 2013 the board of the Geological Society of Sweden have decided to award the following scientists:
Dominique B. Maier, Umeå Universitet (Maier et al. Citation2013);
Stephen F. Poropat, Uppsala Universitet (Poropat Citation2013);
Tarmo Kiipli, Tallin University (Kiipli et al. Citation2013);
Erin E. Maxwell, Universität Zürich (Maxwell & Kier).
For 2014 the board of the Geological Society of Sweden have decided to award the following scientists:
Anders Lindskog, Lunds Universitet (Lindskog et al. Citation2014);
Christian M. Rasmussen, Köpenhamns Universitet (Rasmussen Citation2014);
Mikael Erlström, SGU (Erlström & Persson Citation2014);
Marek Grad, University of Warsaw (Grad et al. Citation2014).
References
- Erlström, M. & Persson, L., 2014: Radiomagnetotelluric mapping of marlstone and limestone in the Silurian bedrock of Gotland. GFF 136 (4), 1–10.
- Grad, M., Tiira, T., Olsson, S. & Komminaho, K., 2014: Seismic lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the Baltic Shield. GFF 136 (4), 1–18.
- Kiipli, T., Kallaste, T., Kiipli, E. & RadzeviČius, S., 2013: Correlation of Silurian bentonites based on the immobile elements in the East Baltic and Scandinavia. GFF 135 (2), 152–161.
- Lindskog, A., Eriksson, M.E. & Pettersson, A.M.L., 2014: The Volkhov–Kunda transition and the base of the Holen Limestone at Kinnekulle, Västergötland, Sweden. GFF 136 (1), 167–171.
- Maier, D.B., Rydberg, J., Bigler, C. & Renberg, I., 2013: Compaction of recent varved lake sediments. GFF 135 (3–4), 231–236.
- Maxwell, E.E. & Kear, B.P., 2013: Triassic ichthyopterygian assemblages of the Svalbard archipelago: a reassessment of taxonomy and distribution. GFF 135 (1), 85–94.
- Poropat, S.F., 2013: Carl Wiman's sauropods: The Uppsala Museum of Evolution's collection. GFF 135 (1), 104–119.
- Rasmussen, C.M., 2014: Phylogeography of Ordovician–Silurian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods: tracking higher order distributional patterns, radiations and extinctions in 4D. GFF 136 (1), 223–228.