Lithosphere《岩石圈》(年刊). As of January 2020, Lithosphere, a valued and established open access journal originally published by The Geological Society of America, will be published by GeoScienceWorld in alliance with a number of prestigious nonprofit societies. The open access journal will have an expanded scope covering research in all areas of earth, planetary, and environmental sciences, providing a unique publishing choice for authors in the geoscience community.