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[U06-P01] Earth, Planets and Space: its status in 2022
Keywords:Earth, Planets and Space, scientific publication, geoscience
EPS (Earth, Planets and Space) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published on behalf of the five societies; Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, The Seismological Society of Japan, The Volcanological Society of Japan, The Geodetic Society of Japan, and The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, all of which are society members of the Japan Geoscience Union. EPS covers broad area in earth and planetary sciences with particular foci on geomagnetism, aeronomy, space science, seismology, volcanology, geodesy, and planetary science.
Since 2014, EPS has been published as an open access journal under the SpringerOpen platform. About a half of the Editorial Board members are from outside Japan and more than half of the submissions are from overseas. 2-year impact factor (IF) of EPS is 2.363 and 5-year IF is 2.790 as of 2021.
EPS publishes the following article types: (1) "Full paper", (2) “Express Letter” which aims at fast publications, (3) “Frontier Letter” for leading edge researches only with the invitation from the editor in chief, and (4) “Technical report" which describes technical developments for scientific researches. In addition to regular publication, EPS promotes topical article collections called special issues about various geoscientific events (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions) or scientific missions (satellite missions). For example, recently published special issues includes those about the thirteenth generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field, the Martial Moon Exploration, and phreatic eruption of Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane.
As part of the promotion of the journal we have four annual awards to recognize authors and reviewers: (1) EPS Excellent paper awards, (2) EPS Young researcher award, (3) Highlighted Paper Awards and (4) Excellent Paper Awards.
Recently we have been trying to increase the publication speed. On average, it takes 46 days for the first decision and 131 days for acceptance from the submission. We are trying to promote EPS as an important scientific contribution from Japan to the global geoscience community. We expect to receive more submissions of important science results from JpGU members.
Since 2014, EPS has been published as an open access journal under the SpringerOpen platform. About a half of the Editorial Board members are from outside Japan and more than half of the submissions are from overseas. 2-year impact factor (IF) of EPS is 2.363 and 5-year IF is 2.790 as of 2021.
EPS publishes the following article types: (1) "Full paper", (2) “Express Letter” which aims at fast publications, (3) “Frontier Letter” for leading edge researches only with the invitation from the editor in chief, and (4) “Technical report" which describes technical developments for scientific researches. In addition to regular publication, EPS promotes topical article collections called special issues about various geoscientific events (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions) or scientific missions (satellite missions). For example, recently published special issues includes those about the thirteenth generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field, the Martial Moon Exploration, and phreatic eruption of Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane.
As part of the promotion of the journal we have four annual awards to recognize authors and reviewers: (1) EPS Excellent paper awards, (2) EPS Young researcher award, (3) Highlighted Paper Awards and (4) Excellent Paper Awards.
Recently we have been trying to increase the publication speed. On average, it takes 46 days for the first decision and 131 days for acceptance from the submission. We are trying to promote EPS as an important scientific contribution from Japan to the global geoscience community. We expect to receive more submissions of important science results from JpGU members.