Soil

SOIL is a not-for-profit, fully open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union, published by Copernicus Publications in Göttingen and founded in 2015, which treats soil as a system at the interface of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.1.《土壤》（SOIL）是欧洲地球科学联合会创办的非营利全开放获取期刊，由位于哥廷根的（Copernicus Publications）出版，2015 年创刊，把土壤视为大气圈、岩石圈、水圈与生物圈交界处的系统，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.1。

Scope

• The journal covers the physical, chemical and biological aspects of the soil system, from pore-scale processes to landscape and global scales.期刊覆盖土壤系统的物理、化学与生物学层面，从孔隙尺度过程延伸到景观尺度与全球尺度。
• Explicit attention goes to the interfaces between soils and plants, soils and water, soils and the atmosphere, and soils and biogeochemical cycling.刊物特别关注土壤与植物、土壤与水、土壤与大气以及土壤与生物地球化学循环之间的界面。
• Soil degradation, soil protection and remediation are central, including erosion, compaction, salinisation, contamination and loss of organic matter.土壤退化、土壤保护与修复是核心议题，包括侵蚀、压实、盐渍化、污染与有机质损失。
• Soil biodiversity, soil health and food security are treated as linked properties of managed and natural ecosystems.土壤生物多样性、土壤健康与粮食安全被视为管理与自然生态系统中相互关联的属性。
• Soils and global change form a further axis, from carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes to land-use and climate feedbacks.土壤与全球变化构成另一条主线，从碳固存与温室气体通量到土地利用与气候反馈。
• Soil as a resource, soil policy, socio-economics and culture, and soil and human health extend the remit well beyond agronomy.土壤作为资源、土壤政策、社会经济与文化，以及土壤与人类健康，把报道范围扩展到农学之外。
• Methods papers on soil measurement, mapping, monitoring and modelling are welcomed, and the journal accepts original research articles, reviews, short communications, forum articles, SOIL Letters of under 2,500 words, letters to the editor, comments and replies.关于土壤测定、制图、监测与建模的方法学论文同样受欢迎，刊物接受原创研究论文、综述、短通讯、论坛文章、篇幅不足 2500 词的（SOIL Letters）、致编辑信以及评论与答复。

History

• SOIL was established in 2015 by the European Geosciences Union, whose journals are published by Copernicus Publications, and its first volume carried papers dated January 2015.本刊由欧洲地球科学联合会于 2015 年创办，该联合会旗下期刊均由（Copernicus Publications）出版，首卷论文的出版日期为 2015 年 1 月。
• One volume has appeared each year since then, reaching volume 11 in 2025 and volume 12 in 2026, with two issues per volume and continuous pagination through the year.此后每年出版一卷，2025 年为第 11 卷，2026 年为第 12 卷，每卷两期，全年连续编页。
• The journal uses a two-stage model in which manuscripts released for discussion appear as citable preprints with a DOI before final peer-reviewed publication.刊物采用两阶段模式，通过初审的稿件先以带（DOI）的可引用预印本形式公开，再完成最终同行评审并正式发表。
• Authors, not readers, pay: full-length articles submitted from January 2025 carry a list price of EUR 1,800 net, short article types EUR 900, with reductions for EGU members and waivers under Research4Life.费用由作者而非读者承担，2025 年 1 月起投稿的全文文章标价为 1800 欧元净额，短篇文章为 900 欧元，欧洲地球科学联合会会员可享折扣，（Research4Life）计划下可获豁免。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.1, after 4.3 in 2024, 6.373 in 2022 and 5.841 in 2021, placing the journal 11th of 48 in soil science at Q1.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.1，2024 年为 4.3，2022 年为 6.373，2021 年为 5.841，在土壤科学类别 48 种期刊中位列第 11，属 Q1。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, DOAJ, AGRICOLA, GeoRef, Chemical Abstracts and ADS, and reports a 2025 CiteScore of 7.7 and an SJR of 1.54.刊物被（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）、（DOAJ）、（AGRICOLA）、（GeoRef）、（Chemical Abstracts）与（ADS）收录，2025 年（CiteScore）为 7.7，（SJR）为 1.54。

Editors

• Five executive editors lead the journal: Rémi Cardinael of CIRAD in France, Olivier Evrard of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences near Paris, Peter Fiener of the University of Augsburg, Raphael Viscarra Rossel of Curtin University, and Jeanette Whitaker of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.刊物由五位执行编辑主持，分别是法国（CIRAD）的（Remi Cardinael）、巴黎附近气候与环境科学实验室的（Olivier Evrard）、奥格斯堡大学的（Peter Fiener）、科廷大学的（Raphael Viscarra Rossel），以及英国生态与水文中心的（Jeanette Whitaker）。
• Cardinael, an IPCC lead author, works on soil organic carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and agroforestry, while Whitaker's expertise lies in plant-soil interactions and soil carbon under land-use and climate change.（Cardinael）是（IPCC）主要作者，研究土壤有机碳固存、温室气体排放与农林复合经营，（Whitaker）则专长于植物与土壤相互作用以及土地利用和气候变化下的土壤碳。
• Topic editors carry subject labels such as soil biodiversity and soil health, soil degradation, soils and managed ecosystems, soils and global change, and soil pollution and remediation, so authors can route a manuscript to a specialist.专题编辑按学科标签分工，例如土壤生物多样性与土壤健康、土壤退化、土壤与管理生态系统、土壤与全球变化、土壤污染与修复，作者可据此把稿件交给对口专家。
• The panel is international, with editors based in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Brazil and Ethiopia, among other countries.编委具有国际性，成员分别来自西班牙、德国、英国、澳大利亚、中国、巴西与埃塞俄比亚等国。
• Review runs as an interactive public discussion: after an access check by a handling editor, the preprint is posted for six weeks, referees may sign their reports or remain anonymous, and reports, author responses and the editor decision are published with the final paper.评审以公开互动讨论的方式进行，经处理编辑准入审查后，预印本公开讨论六周，审稿人可具名或匿名，其报告、作者答复与编辑决定都随最终论文一同发布。
• Editors serve voluntarily without remuneration, in keeping with the union's not-for-profit philosophy, and referees may work as a supervisor-executor pair to train early-career scientists.编辑纯属义务服务、不取报酬，这与该联合会的非营利理念一致，审稿人还可以导师与执行者的组合形式共同评审，以培训青年科学家。