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Mission & scope

Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES3) is a new, fully gold open access journal, owned and published by the Geological Society of London using the systems and services of Frontiers Media.

ES3 is dedicated to the publication of timely and topical research of high importance across the breadth of the geosciences.

The journal has a special focus on cross-disciplinary research that showcases the relevance of geoscience to sustainability in society. The journal welcomes contributions, which explores challenges such as:

Climate change – past, present and future
Energy transition, decarbonisation and critical materials
Hazards and risk – prediction, mitigation and reduction
Urban development and land-use dynamics
Habitable planet – terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life
Holocene-Anthropocene interface
Big data, data science and mathematical modelling
Sustainable and responsible natural resource management
Geohealth – the intersection of geoscience and health
Earth systems science – natural and social science interaction
Monitoring change – advances in technology and instrumentation
Geoscience communication and ethics

The journal is also concerned with broad research from across the geosciences. Subjects include but are not limited to:

Biogeoscience
Energy, exploration and resource geoscience
Engineering geology, hydrogeology and environmental geoscience
Geochemistry, geochronology and isotope geology
Quaternary geology, geomorphology and landscape evolution
Geophysics (geodynamics, seismology and geomagnetism)
Marine geoscience and paleoceanography
Metamorphic and igneous geology
Paleobiology and paleoenvironments
Planetary geoscience
Sedimentology and stratigraphy
Structural geology and tectonics
Volcanology

Facts

Short name

Earth Sci. Syst. Soc.
Abbreviation

esss
Electronic ISSN

2634-730X

Indexed in

1Science, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), Chinese Academy of Sciences GoOA, CLOCKSS, CNKI Scholar, CrossRef, DeepGreen, Dimensions, DOAJ, EBSCO, Figshare, GeoRef, Google Scholar, Jisc, MyScienceWork, OpenAIRE, Semantic Scholar, Sherpa/Romeo

Chief Editor: Kathryn Goodenough, British Geological Survey, The Lyell Centre, United Kingdom

PMCID: NA

Submission

Earth Science, Systems and Society welcomes submissions of the following article types: Original Research, Review, Perspective, Correction, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, and Special.

All manuscripts must be submitted directly to Earth Science, Systems and Society, where they are peer-reviewed.

Open Access Statement

Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES³) provides online free gold open access to the journal and all of its research publications.

Open Access funder and institutional mandates: ES³ is fully compliant with open access mandates, by publishing its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY). Funder mandates such as the Australian Research Council (Australia), as well as other funders, are fully compatible with publishing in ES³. Authors retain copyright of their work and can deposit their publication in any repository. The work can be freely shared and adapted provided that appropriate credit is given and any changes specified.

Copyright Statement

Under the Conditions for Website Use and the General Conditions for Authors, authors of articles published in ES³ retain copyright on their articles, except for any third-party images and other materials added by ES³ or the Geological Society of London which are subject to copyright of their respective owners. Authors are therefore free to disseminate and re-publish their articles, subject to any requirements of third-party copyright owners and subject to the original publication being fully cited. Visitors may also download and forward articles subject to the citation requirements and subject to any fees the publisher may charge for downloading licenses. The ability to copy, download, forward or otherwise distribute any materials is always subject to any copyright notices displayed. Copyright notices must be displayed prominently and may not be obliterated, deleted or hidden, totally or partially.

Quality

Each Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES³) article strives for the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors, editors and reviewers. ES³ only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews, as established in the ES³ review guidelines.