Special Issues
Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) and its discussion forum Geoscientific Model Development Discussions (GMDD) offer an efficient new way of publishing special issues for related model descriptions. The individual papers are peer-reviewed & published as soon as available, in regular issues, but then labeled as part of the special issue and linked electronically.
Special Issues provide a framework in which papers related to a particular model may be brought together. Special Issues typically contain papers detailing different modules of one comprehensive geoscientific model, for example an Earth System model.
The specific advantages are:
- Publication date is not limited by the latest paper/slowest peer-review process: every individual contribution to the special issue is published as soon as available.
- Efficient interactive discussion of the common theme on the GMDD website.
- Pre-publication of discussion papers in GMDD allows efficient cross-referencing between the final revised papers in GMD.
- All contributions efficiently linked and coherently presented on dedicated special issue webpages (an appropriate logo is welcome as jpg file) easily accessible from the GMD/GMDD Online Libraries (chronological volumes and issues).
- Print-version available upon completed publication of all contributions. A minimum order of 20 copies will be needed, and the price will depend on the total number of pages in the special issue. Please contact the Copernicus Publications Production Office for a price calculation.
To make arrangements for a Special Issue (SI), please contact a GMD executive editor (see Editorial Board and Journal Subject Areas), and provide the following information:
- Title for the special issue;
- Name of a special issue coordinator;
- Start & end of submission (if appropriate).
The special issue coordinator is a contact who is directly involved in the research covered by the SI. He/she interfaces with the executive editors to discuss all issues related to the contents of the SI.
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All decisions regarding acceptance/rejection of articles in the SI is made solely by the regular GMD editors. |
The peer-review process for SI papers is not different from that of regular papers in GMD.
To browse existing special issues follow the links GMDD Special Issues and GMD Special Issues, respectively.
