Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (commonly abbreviated as Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.) is a not-for-profit open-access journal in hydrology published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. It was founded in 1997 and is currently run by four Executive Editors, Theresa Blume, Alberto Guadagnini, Thom Bogaard and Hilary McMillan, with a 2025 impact factor of 7.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences（常用缩写 Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.）是哥白尼出版公司受欧洲地球科学联盟委托出版的非营利性开放获取水文学期刊，1997 年创刊，现由 Theresa Blume、Alberto Guadagnini、Thom Bogaard 与 Hilary McMillan 四位执行主编共同负责，2025 年影响因子为 7

Scope

The journal encourages and supports fundamental and applied research that advances understanding of hydrological systems, of their role in providing water for ecosystems and society, and of the role of the water cycle in the functioning of the Earth system. A multi-disciplinary approach is encouraged that broadens the hydrological perspective and advances hydrological science through integration with cognate sciences and cross-fertilisation across disciplinary boundaries. HESS therefore serves not only the hydrological science community but all earth and life scientists, water engineers and water managers.该刊鼓励并支持基础与应用研究，以增进对水文系统的理解、它们为生态系统与社会提供水的角色，以及水循环在地球系统运行中的作用；刊物鼓励多学科路径，通过与相邻学科的整合以及跨学科的相互滋养来拓宽水文学的视野，因而它不仅服务于水文学界，也面向所有地球与生命科学工作者、水利工程师与水资源管理者^[1]

• Terrestrial water cycling: the role of physical, chemical and biological processes in the cycling of continental water in all its phases, including dissolved and particulate matter, ranging from micro-scale soil water processes to global-scale processes underlying hydroclimatology.陆地水循环：物理、化学与生物过程在陆地水各形态循环中的作用，包括溶解态与颗粒态物质，覆盖从土壤水微尺度过程到支撑水气候学分析的全球尺度过程*
• Water resources and budgets: the spatial and temporal characteristics and budgets of global water in solid, liquid and vapour form across the compartments of the Earth system, covering stocks, residence times, interfacial fluxes and the pathways between compartments.水资源与收支：全球水资源在固、液、气三态下的时空特征及其收支，涉及地球系统各圈层中的储量、停留时间、界面通量与各圈层之间的转换路径*
• Human activity and global change: interactions between human activity and all the processes, budgets, fluxes and pathways described above, and the options for influencing them sustainably, with particular reference to floods, droughts, desertification, land degradation, eutrophication and other aspects of global change.人类活动与全球变化：上述过程与人类活动的相互作用，以及以可持续方式影响这些过程的途径，尤为关注洪水、干旱、荒漠化、土地退化与富营养化等全球变化问题*
• Article types: research articles, technical notes, opinion papers, book reviews, articles on high-level scientific failures, cutting-edge case studies, brief communications, studies on earth science education and communication, and comments on papers previously published in the journal.体裁构成：研究论文、技术简介、观点文章、书评、高层级科学失败案例、尖端案例研究、简短通信、地球科学教育与传播研究，以及对本刊已发表论文的评论*

The journal operates a two-stage open-access model. Submitted preprints are posted openly on the union's preprint platform for public discussion and peer review, and accepted final papers then appear in the journal. Articles are freely available to all readers on publication, the publisher charges no fees to authors, and all content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.该刊采用两阶段开放获取模式，投稿先在联盟的预印本平台上公开贴出并接受公开讨论与同行评审，录用的最终论文再回到本刊，稿件一经发表即由所有读者免费获取，出版不收取作者费用，全部文章以知识共享署名 4.0 许可协议发布

History

• 1997: the journal was founded. The editorial in volume 1 issue 1 set out the rationale for hydrology as a geoscience standing alongside atmospheric, ocean and solid earth sciences. That positioning was strongly influenced by Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences published by the US National Academy Press in 1991, and the journal was expected to become a major forum for the publication and discussion of such research.1997年：期刊创刊，卷首社论给出了把水文学确立为与大气科学、海洋科学和固态地球科学并列的独立地球科学的理由，该定位受到 1991 年美国国家科学院出版社《水科学的机会》一书的直接影响，并期望本刊成为此类研究发表与讨论的主要论坛*
• Founding editor: Erwin Zehe of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology served as Executive Editor from the founding of the journal. Editorial responsibility has rotated many times since then, and he is still listed among the editors in his capacity as a founding Executive Editor.创刊主编：德国卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院的 Erwin Zehe 自创刊起长期担任执行主编，此后数十年间该刊的编辑工作多次轮换，他本人至今仍以创始执行主编的身份列在编辑名单中*
• Around 2001: the European Geosciences Union began promoting interactive open-access publishing, providing the institutional background for the journal's move from print to the web. Copernicus Publications, the union's commercial publishing house, took on the publication of the journal.2001年前后：欧洲地球科学联盟开始推行交互式开放获取出版，为该刊从纸质走向网络提供了制度背景，哥白尼出版公司作为联盟的商业出版机构承接了刊物的发行*
• 2005: the journal moved from print issues to fully web-based open access and introduced an open discussion style of peer review. Huub Savenije described the change in the editorial of the day as following the successful developments of other communities, in particular high-energy physics, and stressed that the new forum would make participation easier for young scientists.2005年：该刊从纸质期刊转为完全基于网络的开放获取，并引入公开讨论式的同行评审机制，Huub Savenije 在当时的社论中把这一转变称为向高能物理界成功做法的借鉴，并强调新机制有助于年轻学者参与*
• The 2010s: open preprint discussion became a permanent part of the workflow, and collections and opinion features such as HESS Opinions appeared in large numbers. The journal ran on a structure of Executive Editors plus several dozen topical editors, who were free to choose the manuscripts they handled and to give their independent final opinions.2010年代：预印本公开讨论成为常设环节，专刊与观点专栏（如 HESS Opinions）大量出现，编辑团队以执行主编加数十位领域编辑的结构运行，各编辑可自由选择稿件并独立给出最终意见*
• Recent years: preprint discussion has been consolidated into the union's single preprint server. The journal reached volume 30 in 2026, continues to operate as a community-driven not-for-profit publication, and has signed institutional open-access agreements with universities in countries including Sweden and Norway.近年：预印本讨论平台已整合进联盟统一的预印本库，2026 年该刊出版至第 30 卷，仍以非营利的社区驱动出版模式运行，并在瑞典与挪威等国的大学与出版方签署了机构层面的开放获取合作协议*

Editors

The journal is run collectively by its Executive Editors, four of whom currently share responsibility for its direction. Below them several dozen topical editors indicate their subject areas, such as global hydrology, groundwater hydrology, vadose zone hydrology, ecohydrology, rivers and lakes, water resources management and hydrometeorology. Guest editors look after collections. Editors may choose the manuscripts they wish to handle and give their own independent opinions on them.该刊实行执行主编集体负责制，现由四位执行主编共同决定期刊方向，其下设数十位领域编辑各自标注研究主题，如全球水文学、地下水水文学、土壤带水文学、生态水文学、河流与湖泊、水资源管理与水文气象，另设客座编辑负责专刊，编辑可自愿选择希望处理的稿件并独立给出处理意见

• Executive editors: the four current Executive Editors are Theresa Blume of the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Alberto Guadagnini of Politecnico di Milano in Italy, Thom Bogaard of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Hilary McMillan of San Diego State University in the United States. Blume has been a topical editor of the journal since 2012 and an Executive Editor since 2017.执行主编：现任四位执行主编分别为德国地学研究中心的 Theresa Blume、意大利米兰理工大学的 Alberto Guadagnini、荷兰代尔夫特理工大学的 Thom Bogaard 与美国圣迭戈州立大学的 Hilary McMillan，其中 Blume 自 2012 年起担任该刊专题编辑、2017 年起升任执行主编*
• Topical editors: the topical editors cover global and hillslope hydrology, soil water hydrology, ecohydrology, rivers and lakes, snow and ice, hydrometeorology, and agricultural and urban hydrology, and are drawn from universities and research institutes across Europe, the Americas and Asia.领域编辑：领域编辑名单涵盖全球与坡面水文学、土壤水文学、生态水文、河流湖泊、冰雪与冻土、水文气象以及农业与城市水文学等方向，成员分别来自欧洲、北美、南美与亚洲的多所高校与科研机构*
• Guest editors and collections: each collection is organised by guest editors drawn from the relevant research community, and the editor list is published with each volume. Long-running collections have covered droughts, the hydrological radar experiment, hydrological prediction uncertainty, high-mountain climate response and hydrology education.客座编辑与专刊：每期专刊由来自相关研究方向的客座编辑组织，编辑名单随卷公布，涵盖干旱、水文雷达试验、水文建模不确定性、高山地区气候变化响应以及水文教育等长期专题*
• Submission and open discussion: manuscripts are first posted as preprints and undergo public comment and peer review, with referee reports and author responses published alongside the paper and authors free to reply at any time. This transparency is regarded as the journal's defining feature as against conventional peer-reviewed titles.投稿与公开讨论：稿件先以预印本形式贴出，接受公开评论与同行评审，评审意见与作者回应一并公开可查，作者可随时对评论作出答复，这一透明机制被视为该刊区别于传统期刊的核心特征^[2]