Earth Surface Dynamics

Earth Surface Dynamics (commonly abbreviated as ''Earth Surf. Dyn.') is a fully open access journal published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. Founded in 2013, it publishes original research in geomorphology and related fields, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.Earth Surface Dynamics（常用缩写 Earth Surf. Dyn.）是哥白尼出版公司与欧洲地球科学联盟合作出版的完全开放获取期刊，2013 年创刊，刊载地貌学及其相关学科的原创研究，2025 年影响因子为 3。^[1]

Scope

• Scope: the journal publishes original research in geomorphology and related fields, covering geomorphic processes, landform evolution, mechanisms of deposition and erosion, floodplain and channel morphology, periglacial and arid-zone landforms, and developments in geomorphological methodology itself.学科定位： 刊发地貌学与相关学科的原创研究，覆盖地貌过程、地貌演化、沉积与侵蚀机制、河漫滩与河道形态、冰缘与干旱区地貌，以及地貌学方法本身的发展。
• Approach to scale: the journal places particular weight on geomorphic questions that span scales, linking process-scale experiments to landform patterns at catchment and global extent.尺度取向： 特别重视跨越空间尺度的地貌学问题，即从小尺度过程实验到大尺度流域与全球范围内的地貌格局之间的衔接。
• Interdisciplinarity: coupling with human activity is a central concern, and the journal welcomes work on how geomorphic processes interact with land use, urban expansion, climate change and engineering intervention.跨学科属性： 与人类活动的耦合是期刊的重点之一，欢迎地貌过程与土地利用、城市扩张、气候变化、工程干预之间相互作用的研究。
• Methodological orientation: methodological papers are also published, covering improvements in field measurement techniques, the analysis of remote sensing and digital elevation models, dating methods and numerical simulation techniques.方法学取向： 亦刊载方法学论文，包括实地测量技术、遥感与数字高程模型分析、年代学方法与数值模拟手段的改进。
• Full open access: the journal is fully open access and every article is published under an open access licence. No article processing charge is levied on authors完全开放获取： 期刊属完全开放获取，文章一律以开放获取许可发表，不向作者收取文章处理费；哥白尼出版对既有订阅经费另有安排，故本刊的完全开放获取不依赖商业性文章处理费收入。 Copernicus Publications have separate arrangements for their existing subscription funding, so full open access here does not depend on commercial processing charges.
• Indexing and metrics: the journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and ranks in the second quartile in the Physical Geography category, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.收录与指标： 收录于科学引文索引扩展版，在自然地理类别中分区为第二区，2025 年影响因子为 3。^[2]

History

• 2011 to 2012: the European Geosciences Union announced at its 35th General Assembly in Vienna that it would establish a new open access journal in geomorphology, to be prepared as the Union's flagship title for that community.2011年至2012年： 欧洲地球科学联盟在第 35 届凡尔纳大会上宣布将新设一份地貌学主题的开放获取刊，作为联盟面向地貌学界的旗舰刊筹备。
• 2013: the journal was founded. Its first editors-in-chief were two geomorphologists based in Germany and the United Kingdom respectively, and the first volume was issued as fully open access in the journal's launch year.2013年： 期刊创刊，首任主编为两位地貌学家分别来自德国和英国，首卷在创刊当年即以完全开放获取方式发行。
• Positioning at the launch: the journal was explicitly positioned to replace several existing European geomorphology titles, the most direct predecessor being a long-established geomorphological newsletter. The new journal therefore had to accommodate both review articles and original research from its inception.创刊定位： 创刊的定位明确是替代若干原有的欧洲地貌学期刊，其中最直接的前身是一份历史悠久的地貌学通讯类刊物，因此本刊在创刊之初即须同时承接综述性文章与原创研究两类稿源。
• The 2010s: the journal established itself as the Union's flagship in geomorphology. The geographic spread of submissions became increasingly international, with a marked rise in the share of authors from outside Europe and Asia.2010年代： 期刊在 EGU 旗下各刊中确立了地貌学旗舰的地位，稿源地域分布日益国际化，欧亚以外的作者比例显著上升。
• Recent years: the impact factor has settled in a range of 3 to 4, holding the second quartile in Physical Geography, while the journal retains its position as the only geomorphology title within the Copernicus portfolio.近年： 影响因子稳定在 3 至 4 区间，在自然地理类别中稳居第二区，同时在哥白尼出版体系内保持了地貌学方向唯一刊物的地位。
• Indexing history: the journal has moved from being covered by Scopus alone to being indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, becoming one of the few geomorphology titles in the Copernicus portfolio to enter that index, and it holds the second quartile in Physical Geography.收录演变： 期刊已由仅收录于 Scopus 转为同时被科学引文索引扩展版收录，成为哥白尼出版体系中少数进入该索引的地貌学刊物之一，在自然地理类别中稳居第二区。^[3]

Editors

• Editors-in-chief: the journal is led by two editors-in-chief based in Germany and the United Kingdom, who together form the head of the editorial office and between them reflect both the internal and external strands of European geomorphology.共同主编： 期刊设两位共同主编，分别来自德国与英国，共同构成编辑部的领导层，分工上兼顾欧洲内部与外部的地貌学研究脉络。
• Associate and topical editors: the office also has a number of associate editors and topical editors appointed to the branches of geomorphology, who screen submissions in their fields and organise special issues.副主编与学科编辑： 编辑部另设副主编若干，并按地貌学的分支设置学科编辑，负责相应方向的稿件筛选与组织专题。
• Geographical composition of the board: board members come from every inhabited continent, with a comparatively large share from outside Europe, reflecting the journal's worldwide open orientation within the EGU framework.编委的地域构成： 编委成员来自全球各大洲，其中来自欧洲以外的成员比例较高，反映期刊在 EGU 框架下面向全世界的开放定位。
• Shared editorial machinery: as a cooperating EGU title the journal follows the Union's common editorial machinery. Manuscripts are lodged through the online submission system shared by Copernicus Publications and the EGU, the peer-review process is open to authors, and editorial decisions are made by the editorial office with reasons given. Within the EGU the journal works closely with the geomorphology community and its scientific division, and themed collections and conference supplements are important instruments for organising content.EGU 旗下刊物的共性编辑机制： 作为 EGU 的合作刊物，编辑流程遵循联盟的通用机制，稿件通过哥白尼出版与 EGU 共用的在线投稿系统递交，同行评审过程对作者公开，稿件的编辑决定由编辑部作出并说明理由；在 EGU 体系内，期刊与地貌学社群及其学科委员会密切合作，专题专辑与会议增刊是期刊组织内容的重要形式。
• Publication and annual peer-review audit: the journal publishes fully open access and, following common practice for open access journals, publishes an annual report reviewing the quality-control and research-integrity performance of its editorial team.出版与同行评议年审： 期刊采用完全开放获取的发表模式，同时依照开放获取期刊的通行做法，每年对其编辑团队的质量控制与出版伦理执行情况公布同行评议年审报告。^[4]