Earth System Science Data

Earth System Science Data is an international interdisciplinary open access journal founded in 2009 and published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, dedicated to original research data and data sets for the Earth system sciences, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 13.6（Earth System Science Data）创刊于 2009 年，由（Copernicus Publications）代表（European Geosciences Union）出版，是刊载地球系统科学原始研究数据与数据集、全文开放获取的国际跨学科期刊，2025 年影响因子为 13.6。

Scope

• It publishes articles on original research data and data sets that further the reuse of high quality data of benefit to Earth system sciences, and its peer review secures that data sets are plausible, of sufficient quality with clearly stated limitations, openly accessible with standard metadata and available from a certified repository in customary non proprietary formats刊载原始研究数据与数据集论文，推动高质量数据的再利用以服务于地球系统科学；同行评审要求数据集合理、质量足够且局限说明清楚、以标准元数据开放获取，并以非专有通行格式存放于经认证的数据仓储。^[1][2][3]
• Its sections comprise regular length articles, brief communications such as additions to data sets, commentaries, review articles and special issues设有常规长度论文、数据集补充等简讯、评论、综述以及专刊等栏目。
• Articles in the data section may concern the planning, instrumentation and execution of experiments or the collection of data, while the interpretation of data lies outside the scope of regular articles数据栏目论文可涉及实验或数据采集的规划、仪器与实施，而数据解读不属于常规论文的范围。
• Articles on methods describe nontrivial statistical and other methods used to filter, normalize or convert raw data to primary published data, as well as nontrivial instrumentation or operational methods方法类论文描述用于过滤、归一化或将原始数据转换为一级发布数据的非平凡统计与其他方法，以及非平凡的仪器或操作方法。
• Review articles may compare methods, the relative merits of data sets, their fitness for specific purposes, or how combinations might serve as reference data collections综述可比较方法、数据集的相对优劣、对特定用途的适用性，或组合成为参考数据集合的方式。
• Its two stage publication process posts papers that pass rapid peer review on the discussion forum Earth System Science Data Discussions for interactive public discussion before the final revised papers appear in the journal采用两阶段出版流程，通过快速同行评审的论文先在讨论平台（Earth System Science Data Discussions）公开互动讨论，定稿后再发表于本刊。
• It also offers special issues in which individual papers are published as soon as they are available and linked electronically另设专刊模式，各篇论文一经就绪即行发表并以电子方式相互链接。

History

• It was founded in 2009 and published its first volume in the same year, reaching volume 18 in 2026该刊创立于 2009 年并于同年出版第 1 卷，至 2026 年已达第 18 卷。
• It is published by Copernicus Publications in Gottingen, Germany, on behalf of the European Geosciences Union该刊由位于德国哥廷根的（Copernicus Publications）代表（European Geosciences Union）出版。
• All its content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and authors retain copyright全部内容按（Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License）协议发布，作者保留版权。
• Both the journal and its discussion forum Earth System Science Data Discussions are registered, permanently archived and fully citable, with the electronic ISSN 1866-3591 for the forum本刊与讨论平台（Earth System Science Data Discussions）均注册（ISSN）、永久存档且完全可引用，讨论平台的电子（ISSN）为 1866-3591。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus and publishes continuously in one volume per year该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）与（Scopus）收录，按每年一卷连续出版。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 11.333 in 2021 and 11.815 in 2022 to 11.6 in 2024 and 13.6 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 11.333 与 2022 年的 11.815，升至 2024 年的 11.6 与 2025 年的 13.6。

Editors

• Its Chief Executive Editor is Kirsten Elger of the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany其首席执行编辑为（Kirsten Elger），任职于德国（GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences）。
• Its Chief Editors for the atmosphere are Tobias Gerken of James Madison University in the United States and Graciela Raga of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico其大气领域主编为美国（James Madison University）的（Tobias Gerken）与（Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico）的（Graciela Raga）。
• Its Chief Editors for the hydrosphere are Sibylle K. Hassler of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Conrad Jackisch of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, both in Germany其水圈领域主编为德国（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology）的（Sibylle K. Hassler）与（TU Bergakademie Freiberg）的（Conrad Jackisch）。
• Its Chief Editors for the ocean and the biosphere are Francois G. Schmitt of CNRS in France and Hanqin Tian of Boston College in the United States其海洋与生物圈领域主编为法国（CNRS）的（Francois G. Schmitt）与美国（Boston College）的（Hanqin Tian）。
• Its Chief Editors for the cryosphere and the anthroposphere are Baptiste Vandecrux of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and Yuyu Zhou of The University of Hong Kong其冰冻圈与人类圈领域主编为（Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland）的（Baptiste Vandecrux）与（The University of Hong Kong）的（Yuyu Zhou）。
• Its Editorial Manager is Johannes Wagner of Copernicus Publications, and its former Chief Editors include David Carlson and Hans Pfeiffenberger其编辑经理为（Copernicus Publications）的（Johannes Wagner），历任主编包括（David Carlson）与（Hans Pfeiffenberger）。