Earth System Dynamics

Earth System Dynamics is published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH and is in Zone 2 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, together about 46% of its articles. Its main subfields are Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Earth System Dynamics (ESD) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies investigating the functioning of the Earth system and global change. The scope of ESD is flexible with regards to topics and methodologies, with the key focus being on a system perspective. The journal specifically encourages studies that take an interdisciplinary view of the functioning of the Earth system and global change and that consider the roles of and interactions between multiple spheres of the Earth system. ESD accepts regional studies for review if they provide broader insights into the functioning of the Earth system, beyond the specific region that they study. Regional studies drawing conclusions of chiefly regional or local relevance are considered outside of the journal's scope. Heavily mathematical or technical papers should ensure accessibility to ESD's broad readership. Papers whose conclusions require specialist mathematical or technical knowledge to be understood, beyond what is typical for the Earth sciences community, are also considered outside the journal's scope. ESD welcomes modelling studies. It is generally expected that diagnostic studies using existing model simulations, such as global climate or Earth system models from CMIP, rely on multiple models. Where a single model is used, this should be scientifically well justified. Getting published in Earth System Dynamics Earth System Dynamics accepts submissions after an innovative open-access peer-review process. The peer-review process takes place in two stages involving the public discussion of preprints on EGUsphere, EGU's preprint repository, or in the scientific discussion forum Earth System Dynamics Discussions (ESDD). This form of peer review has been designed in order to do the following: foster scientific discussion; maximize the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance; enable rapid publication; make scientific publications freely accessible. In the first stage, manuscripts that pass a rapid access review by the editorial board are immediately posted as preprints on EGUsphere or in ESDD. They are then subject to interactive public discussion, during which the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed), and the authors' replies are also posted alongside the preprints. In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed; if

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editor-in-chief Ira DidenkulovaPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 6%); most named Germany 9, United States 8, United Kingdom 6, Mainland China 3, Canada 3 (52 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

6.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

11.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

11.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

2.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.94LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

29LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

100OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

616OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

6.33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

107LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 36 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 36 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Open peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

ISSN

2190-4979

Electronic ISSN

2190-4987

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ