Communications Earth & Environment (communications-earth-and-environment)

Journal positioning

Communications Earth & Environment is the Nature Portfolio open-access journal that publishes high-quality research from across the earth, environmental, and planetary sciences. Its defining expectation is a solid, complete, and broadly framed advance: the work must be technically rigorous and represent a meaningful step for its field, but it need not clear the flagship-Nature bar of transformative significance that nature-geoscience and nature-climate-change demand. A result that is sound and useful to its specialist community but framed only for that community — with no articulated interest for the wider earth-and-environment readership — is a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Communications Earth & Environment submission guidance.

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