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Geothermal Energy Science An open-access journal
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Journal subject areas

The journal subject areas were defined by the following index terms below. These terms represented the keywords to be chosen for assignment of submitted manuscripts to individual editors.

GtES covered the following fields:

  • case histories/case studies;
  • combined uses/combined power and heat production;
  • direct use of geothermal energy/district heating systems;
  • drilling technology;
  • exploration of geothermal resources;
  • extraction and exploitation of geothermal energy;
  • financing of geothermal projects;
  • global geothermics;
  • heat pump technology;
  • modelling of geothermal reservoirs;
  • power plant technology;
  • pumping technology/upstream technology;
  • quality management of deep and near-surface applications;
  • regulations and standardization;
  • related acceptance research/social acceptance;
  • related environmental science;
  • related geosciences;
  • related legal issues;
  • related public relations research;
  • renewables in general/hybrid systems;
  • research on project development;
  • reservoir characterization and management;
  • specific risks and their mitigation;
  • stimulation of geothermal reservoirs;
  • sustainability of geothermal plants;
  • thermal response tests of near-surface extractions;
  • tracer testing of underground fluid flow.
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