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 peer-reviewed 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, prepared by the Gemological Abstracts Review Board and other abstracters.

What’s New at G&G

Free iPad App
G&G has launched a free application for iPad tablets. This app will complement the print quarterly with enhanced digital content. You can tap on interviews with industry experts, videos from the world of gems, detailed slideshows, and other online exclusives. The new G&G app is downloadable for free on iTunes. Other tablet apps and a desktop version are scheduled for launch in the upcoming year.

Take the Gems & Gemology Challenge
This year's G&G Challenge is now open to subscribers. In addition to improving your gemological expertise, participation has some concrete benefits: Readers who score 75% or higher will earn a special letter of completion; score 100% and your name will appear in the Fall 2012 issue!
    We’ve placed the Challenge online to make participation easier than ever. You can take the online version or complete the traditional mail-in card (only the first entry we receive will be counted). Click here to take the Challenge online.
    If you have any questions, please e-mail managing editor Justin Hunter at justin.hunter@gia.edu.

New Print-Only Subscription Pricing!
Gems & Gemology is pleased to announce its new print subscription pricing, effective immediately: 

    PDF versions of individual articles and Lab Notes/GNI sections can still be purchased from MetaPress, which hosts PDF versions of all issues going back to Spring 1981.
    For institutional rates, please contact Customer Service.

E-mail Alerts of New Issues
To sign up to receive emails containing tables of contents of G&G as each new issue is published, visit our site on Metapress and register for a free Metapress account. Once you’ve signed up, navigate back to our MetaPress page and click “Journal Issues,” then “Enable Table of Contents Alerting” in the upper right corner of the issue page.

G&G eBrief
G&G eBrief, our monthly e-newsletter, focuses on gemology and gem-related topics. Each issue brings you the latest reports from GIA's laboratory, global news and trade alerts, practical identification tips, a look at future G&G articles, and upcoming conferences and exhibits worldwide. The G&G eBrief is available exclusively to Gems & Gemology subscribers. The newsletters are archived here,  starting three months after their release.

Journal Information
Gems & Gemology's five-year impact factor (for 2005–2009) is 1.737, according to Thomson Reuters' (ISI) 2010 Journal Citation Report, issued July 2011.

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