Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced a partnership to publish the new open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth's Future. The journal will begin accepting submissions form June 17.
Earth's Future will emphasize the Earth as an interactive, evolving system under the influence of the human enterprise and will reflect the risks and opportunities associated with environmental changes and challenges. It will feature primary research across disciplines and connect it to policy through the inclusion of editorials, essays, reviews, and other commentary pieces. Contributors will tackle solutions to such grand challenges as population increase, industrial and agricultural development, urbanization, climate change, energy, food and water resource sustainability and security.
Dr. Guy Brasseur has been appointed to lead the launch of Earth's Future as its inaugural Editor-in-Chief. Brasseur is the director of Germany's Climate Service Center. Previously, Dr. Brasseur was associate director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, and head of NCAR's Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory.
The new journal joins AGU's portfolio of peer-reviewed research publications, including Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. Both are ranked among the top ten most-highly cited research publications on climate change over the past decade. As with all its journals, AGU is responsible for editorial processes and content which will be published on Wiley's innovative platform.
The journal will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License enabling authors to be fully compliant with open access requirements of funding organisations where applicable. All articles will be published as fully open access on Wiley Online Library and deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon publication.
