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Interpretation is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published jointly by American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The current editor-in-chief is Dr. Yonghe Sun.

History
Interpretation is a peer-reviewed journal for advancing the practice of subsurface interpretation. It is jointly published by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).

Interpretation includes papers directly related to the practice of interpretation of the Earth’s subsurface for exploration and extraction of mineral resources and for environmental and engineering applications.

The journal, a peer-reviewed quarterly, was announced in October 2012 by SEG, which is the operator. The first issue was completed in August 2013 and included a special section on interpreting stratigraphy from geophysical data. The second issue included a special section on interpretation for unconventional resources.

Aims and scope
The journal aims to accelerate innovation in interpretation for resource exploration, exploitation, and environmental stewardship. While many activities of geoscientists routinely require judgment, interpretation here specifically refers to conceptualization of the subsurface by an interpreter with incomplete information and a-priori knowledge. An interpreter evaluates alternative subsurface models consistent with available data and selects the most plausible geophysical and geologic scenarios by following scientific methods.

Relevant contributions to Interpretation include, but are not limited to, submissions that advance geophysical or geologic concepts and principles of interpretation; correlation and calibration with engineering data; planning and evaluation of alternative completion strategies, case studies; algorithms for interpretation tools; and workflows, pitfalls, observations, insights, technical challenges, and tutorials. An Interpretation article is not required to contain an interpretation; it only has to help advance the practice of interpretation. Likewise an article may focus on interpretation of a data set if this provides significant new insight on the geology of an area or on the workflow used. Articles that describe interpretation methods and applications involving integration of multiple data sets to quantify as well as visualize subsurface structure are strongly encouraged.

Notable articles
The three most highly cited articles published in Reviews of Geophysics are:

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Science Citation Index Expanded

• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

• Chemical Abstracts

• Computer & Control Abstracts

• Electrical & Electronics Abstracts

• Physics Abstracts

• Energy Research Abstracts

• Engineering Index

• Excerpta Medica

• GeoRef

• GEOBASE

• International Aerospace Abstracts

• Mathematical Reviews

• SPIN

• Scopus

• PubMed According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 12.364, ranking it 2nd out of 76 journals in the category "Geochemistry & Geophysics".