Gems & Gemology

Gems & Gemology publishes the latest research on diamonds and colored stones.

As the award-winning quarterly journal of GIA, Gems & Gemology publishes the latest research on diamonds and colored stones—where they are found, their special characteristics, simulants and synthetics, treatments, and identification techniques. View the current issue.

Packed with spectacular full-color illustrations, each issue of Gems & Gemology delivers:

• Full-length feature articles: Incisive research articles by the world's leading gemologists.
• Lab Notes: The latest discoveries from GIA researchers.
• Gem News International: Global coverage of new discoveries, unusual gem materials, and current events.
• Book Reviews: A comprehensive guide to the latest gem and jewelry books and other media.
• Gemological Abstracts: Summaries of important articles recently published elsewhere.

What’s New at G&G

Take the Gems & Gemology Challenge Online!
This year, we have made it possible to complete the Gems & Gemology Challenge online. If you have a print subscription, you can take the online version or complete the traditional mail-in card (but not both—only the first entry we receive will be counted). If you have a PDF-only subscription, you must complete the Challenge using the online method. (And if you don’t have a subscription, you need to subscribe for your entry to be counted.) When you’re ready to submit your answers, take the G&G Challenge online. Entries must be received by Monday, August 3.

Online Subscriptions to Gems & Gemology Are Now Available!
We are pleased to announce that, beginning immediately, online (PDF) subscriptions to Gems & Gemology are now ready for ordering. Both print + online combination and online-only subscriptions are available (print-only subscriptions are still available and are not affected by this new initiative). Important: If you are a current subscriber and wish to convert your existing print subscription to a combination package or to online-only, you need to contact our Circulation Coordinator rather than placing an order through our web site. New subscribers and those renewing an expired subscription (i.e., you have received your last issue) can proceed directly to the Ordering and Renewals page.
    The online version of Gems & Gemology is hosted by MetaPress at gia.metapress.com. After you have purchased an online subscription, we will provide you with a code that you can use to activate your access to MetaPress. PDF versions of both full issues and individual articles and Lab Notes/GNI sections can also be purchased directly from MetaPress, which hosts PDF versions of all issues going back to Spring 1981. Note that Editorials, Letters, Book Reviews, and Gemological Abstracts (and all items marked with a solid green box on the MetaPress tables of contents) are available free of charge.

New G&G Book on Treated Diamonds
The newest volume in the Gems & Gemology in Review series, Treated Diamonds,  compiles over 70 years of G&G material on diamond treatments, making it an essential reference for anyone handling diamonds. The handsomely slip-cased volume also includes a folded version of the chart “Identification of Filled Diamonds.”

You can order Treated Diamonds separately or as part of a full three-box set that includes previous volumes in the series, Colored Diamonds and Synthetic Diamonds.

Two Recent Awards for G&G
The American Gem Society has presented Russell Shor with its annual Richard T. Liddicoat Journalism Award for Industry/Trade Reporting for his Fall 2007 G&G article “From Single Source to Global Free Market: The Transformation of the Cultured Pearl Industry.” And a Gold Ink Award in the Scientific and Technical category was presented Oct. 27 to G&G’s printer, Allen Press of Lawrence, Kansas. Cosponsored by Print Media and Printing Impressions, the Gold Ink Awards are considered the nation's most prestigious print quality competition.

Gems & Gemology in EBSCO
Full-text PDF versions of all G&G issues from Spring 2005 forward are now available as part of the EBSCO host Academic Search Complete database. Note that you will need an EBSCO subscription to access this database.      Test.

Journal Information
Gems & Gemology's impact factor is 1.172 (ranking 12th out of the 26 journals in the Mineralogy category), according to Thomson Scientific's 2008 Journal Citation Reports (issued July 2009).

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