Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment is an online-only monthly review journal published by Nature Portfolio that was launched in January 2020, covering the entire spectrum of Earth and environmental sciences, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 74.1《自然综述：地球与环境》（Nature Reviews Earth & Environment）是 Nature Portfolio 出版的在线月刊综述期刊，2020 年 1 月创刊，覆盖地球与环境科学全领域，2025 年期刊影响因子为 74.1。

Scope

• It publishes Review, Perspective, Technical Review and Commentary articles across the entire spectrum of Earth and environmental sciences刊载地球与环境科学全领域的综述、观点、技术综述与评论文章。
• The weather and climate theme covers the physical processes influencing the climate system and its impacts on natural and social systems, including atmospheric science, climate science, cryosphere, meteorology, mitigation, oceanography and palaeoclimate天气与气候主题涵盖影响气候系统及其对自然与社会系统影响的物理过程，包括大气科学、气候科学、冰冻圈、气象学、减缓、海洋学与古气候。^[1]
• The surface processes theme covers the form, composition, function and change of the Earth's surface, including biogeochemistry, biosphere, geomorphology, hydrology, limnology, pollution and soil science地表过程主题涵盖地球表面的形态、组成、功能与变化，包括生物地球化学、生物圈、地貌学、水文学、湖沼学、污染与土壤科学。^[2]
• The solid Earth theme covers the composition, structure, dynamics and behaviour of the crust, mantle and core, including geochemistry, geohazards, geology, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology, seismology, stratigraphy, tectonics and volcanology固体地球主题涵盖地壳、地幔与地核的组成、结构、动力学与行为，包括地球化学、地质灾害、地质学、地球物理学、矿物学、岩石学、地震学、地层学、构造地质学与火山学。
• Because of human interactions with the physical environment, implications for sustainability, policy and economics are also featured鉴于人类与物理环境的相互作用，该刊亦关注可持续性、政策与经济层面的意涵。^[3]
• Interdisciplinary integrated Reviews and syntheses that span the Earth and environmental sciences are actively encouraged该刊积极鼓励跨越地球与环境科学的跨学科综合综述与集成研究。

History

• Nature Reviews Earth & Environment was launched in January 2020 as an exclusively online journal and publishes monthly该刊于 2020 年 1 月创刊，为纯在线期刊，按月出版。
• It was established by Nature Portfolio as part of the Nature Reviews portfolio of journals该刊由 Nature Portfolio 创办，属 Nature Reviews 系列期刊之一。
• Its founding Chief Editor was Graham Simpkins, who framed the journal's aims and scope to encourage Earth scientists to work with broader communities创刊主编为 Graham Simpkins，他确立了该刊的目标与范围，鼓励地球科学家与更广泛的社群合作。
• It is an exclusively online publication, allowing review-type articles to be published online as soon as they are ready该刊为纯在线出版，使综述类文章一经就绪即可在线发表。
• It remains a subscription-based hybrid journal rather than a fully open-access title该刊仍为订阅制混合期刊，并非完全开放获取。
• Its electronic international standard serial number is 2662-138X, and the correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing is Nat. Rev. Earth Environ.其电子国际标准连续出版物号为 2662-138X，用于文摘与索引的规范缩写为 Nat. Rev. Earth Environ.。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 42.1 in 2022 to 49.7 in 2023, 71.5 in 2024 and 74.1 in 2025, ranking first in Environmental Sciences and in Geosciences其期刊影响因子由 2022 年的 42.1 升至 2023 年的 49.7、2024 年的 71.5 与 2025 年的 74.1，在环境科学与地球科学中排名第一。

Editors

• Like other Nature titles, the journal has no external academic editors, and all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of full-time professional editors与其他 Nature 系列期刊一样，该刊不设外部学术编辑，所有编辑决定均由专职全职专业编辑团队作出。
• The Chief Editor is Clare Davis, who specialises in surface processes, joined the journal in April 2024 and became Chief Editor in September 2025 after editorial experience at Nature Geoscience and Communications Earth & Environment现任主编为 Clare Davis，专长地表过程，2024 年 4 月加入该刊，在 Nature Geoscience 与 Communications Earth & Environment 积累编辑经验后于 2025 年 9 月出任主编。
• The Senior Editor is Erin Scott, who specialises in solid Earth and joined the journal in September 2020 from Nature Communications高级编辑为 Erin Scott，专长固体地球，于 2020 年 9 月自 Nature Communications 加入该刊。
• Review and Perspective articles are commissioned, with editors selecting and inviting experts and working with them to develop the scope before peer review综述与观点文章以约稿为主，由编辑遴选并邀请专家，并在同行评审前与作者共同确定范围。
• Each manuscript is peer reviewed by typically two to three external experts, and the final decision to publish lies with the editors每篇稿件通常由两到三位外部专家评审，最终发表决定权归编辑。
• Under Nature Portfolio policy, peer review is single-anonymised by default, with a double-anonymised option available, and reviewers may be named on the published paper依照 Nature Portfolio 政策，同行评审默认单盲，另设双盲选项，审稿人可在发表文章上署名。