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Scope

Environmental Data Science is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the use of data-driven approaches to understand environmental processes and aid sustainable decision-making. It is venue for research exploring new applications and methods and welcomes contributions concerning how  data science can inform societal responses to environmental problems (such as climate change, air quality, energy, transportation, and land use). EDS promotes the open availability and re-use of data where possible through data papers that describe, in a structured way, important open data sets with potential for use in further research. It also publishes shorter, invited position papers relevant to the journal's scope.

The journal welcomes new submissions throughout the year. 

Why Submit to EDS

✔ A venue dedicated to the intersection between Data Science / AI and Environment. 
✔ Indexed in Journal Citation Reports, Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals, with a 2024 Impact Factor of 1.7 and 2024 CiteScore of 2.5. 
✔  Open Access using a model that is not centered on article processing charges (APCs). Any author can publish OA, irrespective of their funding situation or institutional affiliation. 
✔ Promotes open sharing of data and code through Open Science Badges.

How to Submit

Please note the following key details, with more information available in the EDS Instructions for Authors:

Article Types: Authors should make sure that they select the most appropriate article type when they submit their work to EDS. The standard EDS article types are:

• Application papers: Research progress, or tackling a real-world problem, in an environmental field, enabled by data science. For example, AI or data science could be used for understanding of environmental processes, or improving forecasting tools.
• Methods papers: Novel data science methodology inspired by an environmental problem or application. Typically the methodology should be demonstrated in one or more environmental applications.
• Data papers that describe in a structured way, with a short narrative and accompanying metadata, important and re-usable environmental data sets that reside in publicly accessible repositories. These papers promote data transparency and data re-use.
• Survey papers: providing a systematic overview of a method, tool or approach, or a field or subfield that is relevant to environmental data science.

Templates:  Authors have the option of using the following EDS templates to help structure their submission:

• LaTeX template files
• Word template
• Overleaf (a collaborative authoring tool based on LaTeX; authors are able to submit directly to through Overleaf; read more about benefits here)

Authors not using our templates are reminded to include:

• An impact Statement: 120 words beneath the abstract describing the significance of the findings in language that can be understood by a wide audience

And at the back of the article: 

• Author contributions (using the CRedIT taxonomy as a guide)
• Competing interest statement
• Data availability statement
• Funding statement 

See the EDS Instructions for Authors for more details about these statements.

Submission portal: Authors should submit via the EDS ScholarOne site.

Peer Review 

EDS has a transparent model for peer review in which the review reports are published alongside the accepted article. If an article is sent to peer review, it will receive two review reports if it is a Methods or Application Paper. Data Papers and Position Papers, which may only receive one report. 

During peer review, the process is single anonymized: reviewer identity is not made visible to author,  but  the author's identity is visible to reviewer. If the article is accepted, the full content of the review reports are published alongside the article, along with the reviewer identity (if the reviewer opts into being named) and the reviewer statement of competing interests. For more detail, see this page. 

Open Access

Any author can publish on an open access basis in EDS if accepted, irrespective of their funding situation or institutional affiliation. There are no financial barriers to publication. Many articles have publishing costs covered through the Transformative Agreements that Cambridge has set up with universities worldwide. If the corresponding author on an article is affiliated with a Transformative Agreement this effectively covers publishing costs. Authors not affiliated with these agreements who have received a grant that budgets for open access publication are encouraged to pay an article processing charge (APC). However, if an author has no funding and no institutional agreement, the charge will be waived. Please do not let concerns about your financial situation or affiliation put off your submission.

Workshop Partnerships

EDS works with conferences and workshops including Climate Informatics, ClimateChangeAI and Fragile Earth. We welcome proposals to partner with other events related to its scope and we have two models for how to do so. Explore in more detail here. 

Special Collection Proposals 

We welcome proposals for special collections (virtual special issues). Read the proposal process here. 

Editorial Board

View the EDS Editorial Board here.