“…NRR is recognized customarily for papers on methodologies for estimation/assessment of mineral resources and modeling/mapping of mineral potential or prospectivity (Carranza, 2017(Carranza, , 2018. Indeed, the NRR articles that contributed significantly to its first three IF were mostly (if not all) concerned with mineral resources (Carranza, 2019(Carranza, , 2020. However, since 2018 when our journal got its first IF, we have published several articles about other types of nat-ural resources, particular groundwater and energy resources (Fig.…”