Climate of the Past

Climate of the Past (commonly abbreviated as Clim. Past) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal sponsored by the European Geosciences Union and published by Copernicus Publications. Launched in 2005, it is devoted to the climate history of the Earth, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.8.Climate of the Past（常用缩写 Clim. Past）是欧洲地球科学联合会主办、Copernicus Publications 出版的非营利国际科学期刊，2005 年创刊，专注地球气候历史研究，2025 年影响因子为 3.8。^[1]

Scope

• Scope: the journal publishes and discusses research articles, short communications and review papers on the climate history of the Earth, covering all temporal scales from geological time to multidecadal studies of the last century, while studies focusing mainly on present and future climate fall outside its scope.学科定位： 期刊出版与讨论地球气候历史的研究论文、短讯与综述，覆盖从地质时期到上个世纪多年代尺度的一切气候变化与变率时间尺度，以现今与未来气候为主的研究不在收稿范围。
• Subject coverage: it covers reconstructions of past climate from instrumental, historical and proxy data of marine, terrestrial and ice archives, the development and validation of new proxies, theoretical and empirical studies of processes and feedbacks among climate system components, and simulation of past climate together with model-based interpretation of palaeoclimate data.收录主题： 涵盖基于仪器与历史数据以及海洋与陆地（含冰芯）代用资料的过去气候重建、新代用指标的开发与验证、气候系统各圈层过程与反馈机制的理论和实证研究，以及过去气候模拟与模式基础上的古气候数据解释。
• Publishing model: fully open access, the journal runs an innovative two-stage process in which preprints undergo open scientific discussion before the final paper appears, fostering debate, making quality assurance transparent and enabling rapid publication.出版模式： 期刊实行完全开放获取，采用先公开科学讨论预印本、再发表定稿的两阶段出版流程，以促进科学讨论、提高质量控制的透明度并加快发表速度。
• Not-for-profit character: the journal is not-for-profit, and its editors serve on a purely voluntary basis in line with the EGU philosophy.非营利属性： 期刊为非营利刊物，编辑工作完全志愿进行，符合欧洲地球科学联合会的非营利哲学。^[2]
• Indexing and metrics: the journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, holds a second-quartile position in the JCR, and its 2025 impact factor is 3.8.收录与指标： 收录于科学引文索引扩展版，在 JCR 中为第二区，2025 年影响因子为 3.8。

History

• Founded in 2005: the journal was launched in 2005 and is published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union as part of its journal family.2005年创刊： 期刊于 2005 年创刊，由 Copernicus Publications 代表欧洲地球科学联合会出版，属联合会期刊家族成员。
• Background to the founding: palaeoclimate research had long lacked a dedicated international venue for the climate history of the Earth, and the journal was created to fill that gap with an interactive public review process from the outset.创刊背景： 古气候研究长期缺乏专门讨论气候历史的国际交流平台，期刊的创办正是为了填补这一空缺，并从创刊起即采用公开的交互式评审。
• Process history: the two-stage workflow has been in place since the launch, with preprints in the first stage undergoing open interactive discussion and revised final papers formally published in the second.出版流程沿革： 两阶段出版流程自创刊即建立，第一阶段预印本在交互式公开讨论中接受同行质询，第二阶段经修订的定稿正式发表。
• Recent metrics: the impact factor stood at 3.174 in 2017, 4.498 in 2021 and 3.8 in 2025, with a long-standing second-quartile position in the geosciences and meteorological categories.近年指标： 影响因子 2017 年为 3.174，2021 年为 4.498，2025 年为 3.8，长期处于地球科学综合与气象大气领域的第二区。^[3]
• Editorial orientation: the journal emphasises open science and data availability, requiring manuscripts to carry sufficient data and model documentation for reproducibility.办刊取向： 期刊强调公开科学与数据可用性，稿件须附带充分的数据与模式说明以便复现。

Editors

• Co-editorship: three co-editors-in-chief lead the journal, namely Erin McClymont of Durham University in the United Kingdom, Irina Rogozhina of the Center for Advanced Research in Arid Zones in Chile and Denis-Didier Rousseau of the CNRS and the University of Montpellier in France.联席主编制： 期刊设三位联席主编，分别为英国杜伦大学的 Erin McClymont、智利干旱区高级研究中心的 Irina Rogozhina 与法国国家科学研究中心及蒙彼利埃大学的 Denis-Didier Rousseau。
• Senior and honorary editors: Luke Skinner of the University of Cambridge is listed as senior editor, with Hugues Goosse of UCLouvain in Belgium and Gerald Ganssen of Germany as honorary editors.高级编辑与荣誉编辑： 剑桥大学的 Luke Skinner 列高级编辑，比利时天主教鲁汶大学的 Hugues Goosse 与德国的 Gerald Ganssen 为荣誉编辑。
• Editorial board: the editor team of about thirty members is spread across Australia, Italy, France, the United States, Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Chile, Japan, Poland, Spain and Norway, covering atmospheric dynamics, the carbon cycle, climate modelling, ice dynamics and proxy development.编委构成： 编辑团队约三十人，分布于澳大利亚、意大利、法国、美国、瑞士、巴西、德国、加拿大、英国、智利、日本、波兰、西班牙、挪威等国，学科覆盖大气动力学、碳循环、气候模拟、冰动力学与代用指标等方向。^[4]
• Submission and peer review: manuscripts enter public discussion as preprints before revised versions are formally published, the whole review remaining interactive and transparent.投稿与评审： 稿件先以预印本形式进入公开讨论，再经修订定稿发表，评审全程可交互且透明。
• Editorial policy: editors treat in-scope unpublished manuscripts even-handedly, serve without remuneration and are guided by the not-for-profit philosophy of the union.编辑方针： 编辑对不涉密、未发表的符合范围稿件一视同仁，编辑工作不取报酬，以联合会非营利哲学为准绳。