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Earth System Dynamics

Copernicus Publications · Germany · Est. 2010

ISSN2190-4979eISSN2190-4987

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q1+25

✓ DOAJ Verified+15

Total65

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

3.412

H-Index

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

2.259

Total Works

880

Total Citations

37,636

2yr Mean Citedness

5.11

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Aims & Scope

Earth System Dynamics (ESD) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies that take an interdisciplinary perspective on the functioning of the Earth system and global change. The overall behaviour of the Earth system is strongly shaped by the interactions among its various component systems, such as the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, oceans, pedosphere, and the lithosphere, but also by life and increasingly by human activity. ESD solicits contributions that investigate these various interactions and the underlying mechanisms, ways how these can be conceptualized, modelled, and quantified, predictions of the overall system behaviour to global changes, and the impacts for its habitability, humanity, and the future functioning of the Earth system in the Anthropocene.

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

weeks to review

Slow · median is 15 wks

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2010

Annual Volume~ 85 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications880

Publisher OrgCopernicus Publications

OA Since2009

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewOpen

Review Time~36 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Copernicus Publications

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2190-4979 / 2190-4987

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Open

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

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Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

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Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Climate variability and modelsAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsMeteorological Phenomena and SimulationsGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsOceanographic and Atmospheric ProcessesCryospheric studies and observationsClimate change impacts on agricultureEcosystem dynamics and resilienceMarine and coastal ecosystems