Icarus (journal)

The journal was founded in 1962, and became affiliated with the DPS in 1974. Its original owner and publisher was Academic Press, which was purchased by Elsevier in 2000.

The journal is named for the mythical Icarus, and the frontispiece of every issue contains an extended quotation from Sir Arthur Eddington equating Icarus' adventurousness with the scientific investigator who "strains his theories to the breaking-point till the weak joints gape."

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is indexed by the following services:

• Science Citation Index
• Current Contents /Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• Computer & control abstracts
• Electrical & electronics abstracts
• Physics abstracts. Science abstracts. Series A
• GeoRef
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• International aerospace abstracts
• Energy research abstracts