About this journal
Aims and scope
All Earth (formerly Geodinamica Acta) publishes interdisciplinary research relevant to all fields of Earth Science, including cross- and multi-disciplinary studies. The journal welcomes all sound, reproducible research relating to the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, cryosphere, the terrestrial earth, earth observations, planetary change, and human interactions with natural systems and processes. There are no constraints on themes, provided research meets the scope of one of the journal’s six Sections (below).
The journal strives to understand the processes, systems, and challenges of our home planet, and its land, air, ice reservoirs, and water which sustain all life. All Earth aims to bring together research exploring the complex individual and interacting components and forces of the earth, as well as investigating anthropogenic impacts and interactions. As an open access journal, All Earth has a mission to enhance the scientific understanding of the earth’s processes and connections, and how this science can help translate the latest original research into evidence-based policy advice and decision-making to meet the global challenges of the 21st century, in particular the global policy priorities represented by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
All Earth consists of six distinct but interrelated Sections, each dealing with its own broadly defined field of Earth Science. Each Section is overseen by a Section Editor and Editorial Board who are experts in relevant disciplines. It is anticipated that authors may identify multiple suitable Sections for their research due to the interconnected nature of Earth Sciences, however at the point of submission authors will be asked to select their preferred Section.
- Atmosphere: all aspects of atmospheric fundamentals and applications, including but not limited to climatology and climate change, meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and interactions with aquatic and terrestrial systems and human activities.
- Biosphere: earth systems and processes that support life, including terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, landscape dynamics and land use change.
- Hydrosphere: all aspects of the hydrogeology, chemistry, and physics of the hydrosphere and its liquid, solid, and vapour components, including marine and freshwater environments, hydrology, cryology and glaciology, water quality, water resources management, natural and anthropogenically originated hazards, and engineering.
- Lithosphere: all aspects of the solid earth, including the areas of geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and studies relating to the earth's processes and forces.
- Planetary Change & Paleosciences: changes in earth systems and processes. Planetary Change crosses many subjects and the Section will interplay with various other Sections within All Earth, with a focus on understanding change and its impacts, now and into the future. Paleosciences focuses on past changes to the earth and its systems, across such fields as paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleobotany, and paleontology.
- Earth Observations: all aspects of earth observation systems, data, methods, modelling, and applications in environmental changes, human-nature interactions, and societal impacts.
All Earth is a fully open access journal. This means all submitted articles will, if accepted, be available for anyone to read, anywhere, at any time, immediately on publication.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 94K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.623 (2023) SNIP
- 0.394 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 40 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 46 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 37% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief:
Professor Yeqiao Wang, University of Rhode Island, USA
Jump to section
All Earth publishes across six areas of Earth Science. Each section is led by a Section Editor, as listed below.
Atmosphere
Section Editor
Yeqiao Wang, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island
Associate Editor
Jihong Cole-Dai, South Dakota State University, USA
Editorial Board Members
B. Tyagi, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Biosphere
Section Editor
Yeqiao Wang, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island
Associate Editor
Mei Yu, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Editorial Board Members
A. Ribeiro, University of Lisbon, Potugal
Earth Observations
Section Editor
Dr Yuyu Zhou, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Associate Editors
Ghassem Asrar, Universities Space Research Association, USA
Anthony Daniel Campbell, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, USA
Zhiqiang Feng, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ehsan Forootan, Aalborg University, Denmark
Xuecao Li, China Agricultural University, China
Yuanjin Pan, Wuhan University, China
Yongze Song, Curtin University, Australia
Davide Tiranti, ARPA Piemonte, Italy
Zongming Wang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Editorial Board Members
D. Mao, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
D. Varade, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India
Hydrosphere
Section Editor
Prof CK Shum, Ohio State University, USA
Associate Editors
Francisco Javier Alcalá, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Motomu Ibaraki, Ohio State University, USA
Daniel Ibarra, Brown University, USA
Aive Liibusk, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
Guoqing Zhang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jianjun Zhao, Northeast Normal University, China
Senlin Zhu, Yangzhou University, China
Editorial Board Members
J.P. Bravard, University of Lyon, France
G. Castelli, University of Florence, Italy
Lithosphere
Section Editor
Prof Rodolfo Carosi, University of Torino, Italy and Prof Ioannis Koukouvelas, University of Patras, Greece
Associate Editors
Elizabeth Catlos, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Soumyajit Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Editorial Board Members
E. Barbero, Italian National Research Council - Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources in Turin, Italy
D. Bernouilli, University of Basel, Switzerland
R. Butler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
J.P. Burg, ETH/University of Zurich, Switzerland
Y. Callot, University of Lyon 2, France
A. M. Casas-Sainz, University of Zaragoza, Spain
G. Clauzon, (Aix-Marseille)
R. Derakhshani, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
C. Faccenna, Third University of Rome, Italy
P. Giacomoni, University of Ferrara, Italy
E. Gilli, University of Paris VIII: Vincennes - Saint-Denis, France
G. Göçmengil, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey
S. Kokkalas, University of Patras, Greece
S. Kropelin, University of Cologne, France
T. Kusky, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
B. Lombardo,
University of Turin, ItalyM. Liu, Corning Research and Development Corporation, US
D. Mohanty, CSIR- North East Institute of Science and Technology, India
P. Pace, PACE Geoscience/University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
L. Piroddi, University of Cagliari, Italy
L. Ratschbacher, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany
P.F. Santanach, University of Barcelona, Spain
K. Schulmann, (Praha)
Plantary Change & Paleosciences
Section Editor
Dr Jingmai O'Connor, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
Associate Editors
Jessie Atterholt, Western University of Health Science, USA
Alex Dececchi, Mount Marty College, USA
Fabiany Herrera, Field Museum Chicago, USA
Jing Lu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China
Imran Rahman, Natural History Museum London, UK
Haijun Song, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China
Nikita Zelenkov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Editorial Board Members
A. M. Bailleul, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Abstracting and indexing
Indexing
- Current Abstracts
- DOAJ
- EBSCO
- GeoRef
- GEOBASE
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
- Ovid
- ProQuest
- GoOA (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science)
Open access
All Earth is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
1 issues per year
Currently known as:
- All Earth (2021 - current)
Formerly known as
- Geodinamica Acta (1987 - 2020)
Special Issue: Climate Change, Extreme Weather and impacts on the Environment (deadline: 30 November 2023)
Special Issue: Paleoclimates and Environmental Sustainability (deadline: 30 November 2023)
Special Issue: A decolonial turn in the study of Earth and its history… (deadline: 30 November 2023)
Special Issue: Remote Sensing for Global Environmental Change (deadline: 30 July 2023)
Special Issue: Natural Resources - Energy Transition for a Sustainable Future (deadline: 30 July 2023)
Special Issue: Sustainable Natural Resource Management in the framework of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus (deadline: 30 July 2023)
Special Issue: Earth-Life Transitions across the Carboniferous and Permian - papers in honor of David S Berman (deadline: 30 June 2023)
All Special Issue proposals should be directed to
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