Communications Earth & Environment

Communications Earth & Environment is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio, part of Springer Nature, launched in 2020 and publishing research across the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.3《通讯-地球与环境》是施普林格·自然（Springer Nature）旗下（Nature Portfolio）的开放获取期刊，2020 年创刊，发表地球、环境与行星科学领域的研究，2025 年影响因子为 9.3。

Scope

• All areas of the geosciences, climate and environmental sciences and planetary sciences地质科学、气候与环境科学以及行星科学的全部领域。
• Research at the interface with ecology, sustainability and environmental social sciences与生态学、可持续性及环境社会科学交叉界面的研究。
• Important insights gained from field work由野外工作获得的重要认识。
• Novel analyses of existing data, numerical and analytical modelling, theoretical studies and laboratory experiments对既有数据的新颖分析、数值与解析模拟、理论研究以及实验室实验。
• Submissions that provide independent confirmation of particularly influential publications对具影响力论文提供独立验证的投稿。^[1]
• Research, reviews and commentary that represent significant advances bringing new insight to a specialised area在该刊发表的论文、综述与评论须代表显著进展，能为某一专业领域带来新认识。
• Peer reviewed contributions include Articles, Matters Arising, Perspectives and Reviews, while Comments may be peer reviewed at the editors' discretion经同行评审的稿件类型包括论文、（Matters Arising）、观点与综述，评论是否送审由编辑决定。

History

• The journal was launched in 2020 by Nature Portfolio, with Heike Langenberg as its launch Chief Editor该刊由（Nature Portfolio）于 2020 年创办，创刊主编为（Heike Langenberg）。
• It is an online-only, fully open access journal with a single electronic ISSN and no print edition该刊为纯在线、完全开放获取期刊，仅有电子刊号、无纸本。
• Articles are published on a continuous basis so that findings are communicated as soon as they are accepted论文连续出版，一经录用即在线发布，以便迅速传播。
• It is part of the Communications series of Nature Portfolio journals该刊属（Nature Portfolio）的（Communications）系列期刊。
• It charges an article processing charge of GBP 2890 / USD 3690 / EUR 3190 and publishes under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence该刊收取 2890 英镑、3690 美元或 3190 欧元的文章处理费，并按（CC BY）或（CC BY-NC-ND）许可发表。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 7.29 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2024 and 9.3 in 2025其影响因子由 2022 年的 7.29 升至 2024 年的 8.9 与 2025 年的 9.3。
• It is placed in the first quartile of Geosciences, Multidisciplinary, Environmental Sciences and Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences该刊在地球科学综合、环境科学以及气象与大气科学类别均居第一四分位。

Editors

• Heike Langenberg is the Chief Editor, based in the London office, and has a degree in mathematics and a PhD in oceanography, having launched Nature Geoscience as its Chief Editor and led it from 2007 to 2020主编（Heike Langenberg）驻伦敦办公室，拥有数学学位与海洋学博士学位，曾于 2007 至 2020 年创办并执掌《自然·地球科学》。
• Joe Aslin is the Deputy Editor, based in London, with a background in tectonics and structural geology副主编（Joe Aslin）驻伦敦，研究方向为构造与构造地质学。
• Senior Editors include Alireza Bahadori in New York, Alice Drinkwater in London, Somaparna Ghosh in Heidelberg and Martina Grecequet in New York高级编辑包括驻纽约的（Alireza Bahadori）、驻伦敦的（Alice Drinkwater）、驻海德堡的（Somaparna Ghosh）与驻纽约的（Martina Grecequet）。
• Associate Editors include Nicola Colombo in Heidelberg and ChenRui Diao in Shanghai, among others副编辑包括驻海德堡的（Nicola Colombo）与驻上海的（ChenRui Diao）等。
• Editorial Board Members are organised into fourteen subject-area boards spanning atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, agriculture and food systems, climate science, coastal science, deep Earth and planetary science, energy and resources, geochemistry and petrology, geophysics and geodynamics, high-latitude science, hydrology and freshwater biogeochemistry, ocean science, past climate, sustainability and policy, and the terrestrial biosphere编委会按十四个学科板块组织，涵盖大气化学与气溶胶、农业与食物系统、气候科学、海岸科学、深部地球与行星、能源与资源、地球化学与岩石学、地球物理与地球动力学、高纬科学、水文与淡水生物地球化学、海洋、古气候、可持续性与政策以及陆地生物圈。
• Editorial decisions are made collaboratively by in-house professional editors together with Editorial Board Members or Guest Editors编辑决策由驻社专职编辑与编委会成员或客座编辑共同作出。
• The journal operates single anonymized peer review by default with double anonymized review available on request, and it publishes transparent peer review files online alongside accepted articles该刊默认采用单匿名评审，并可按作者要求改为双匿名；录用论文的审稿意见与作者答复会作为透明评审文件随文在线公开。