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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Dear GLIMS,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Here is more about the Frontiers in Earth Science special issue on High Mountain Asia. This is an open call, so if you are doing physical science work, or related applied work, on High Mountain Asia-- not just glaciers,
but cryosphere is highlighted-- then please consider it. Note the two deadlines:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Sep. 28, 2018: abstracts</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Feb 1, 2019: papers. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The NASA High Mountain Asia Team is making an aggressive push to contribute papers, and I urge the international GLIMS community who is doing High Mountain Asia work to make contributions as well.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Sincerely,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Jeff Kargel</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> himat-bounces@nsidc.org <himat-bounces@nsidc.org> on behalf of Anthony Arendt <arendta@uw.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> himat@nsidc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [HiMAT] invitation to submit to HMA Research Topic</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hi Everyone,</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">We would like to invite submissions to our Research Topic for Frontiers in Earth Science, now available
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8607/collaborative-research-to-address-changes-in-the-climate-hydrology-and-cryosphere-of-high-mountain-a" target="_blank" id="LPlnk680612" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
here</a>. The deadline for abstracts is September 28, 2018, and the deadline for manuscripts is February 1, 2019.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">There were many considerations when choosing a journal. Frontiers in Earth Science has Gold Open Access status, a transparent and efficient review process, an ability to cross-list our diverse topics across several different
journal categories, and a group of trusted editors. A few members of HiMAT raised concerns about the fact that they are not yet recognized by Web of Science and therefore do not yet have an impact factor. As a relatively new journal this is to be expected,
and we are aware that Frontiers in Earth Science is already indexed in Scopus with a citescore of 2.66, and hopefully well on their way to full inclusion in WoS. For more information please see the attached statement from the Journal manager.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">We hope this Research Topic provides an opportunity for HiMAT to publish on some of the high impact, collaborative research in progress across the team. We’re especially aware of upcoming deadlines for getting content into the
next IPCC, and hope this can be a venue to facilitate that. We are also aware that institutional or other factors might lead you toward publishing elsewhere, which we don’t see as a problem. I know all of us on the editorial team would be glad to talk through
various options with you.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Finally, note that this invitation extends to our entire community, so please feel free to distribute this to other colleagues.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Regards,</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Anthony</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">On behalf of Summer, David, Sujay and Nir</p>
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