Its topical scope includes research on all aspects of theoretical, computational, applied and observational geophysics.

[5] These were not published on a regular schedule, but instead issued whenever a sufficient number of geophysical papers were ready for publication, and distributed to MNRAS subscribers.

This arrangement continued for several decades, until the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 brought renewed attention to the subject.

[6][note 1] In 1970, it established an office in the United States to handle the increasing number of submissions from North America.

[7] Meanwhile in Germany, the DGG was founded in 1922 and in 1924 began publishing the German language journal Zeitschrift für Geophysik (lit.

[9] When the EGS merged into the European Geosciences Union in 2002, the new body decided not to continue involvement with GJI, leaving it under the control of the RAS and DGG,[2] which is the current arrangement.