About Geochemical Transactions

What is Geochemical Transactions?

Geochemical Transactions is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of geochemistry. Geochemical Transactions is the official journal of the Geochemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.

The journal covers high-quality research in all areas of chemistry as it relates to materials and processes occurring in terrestrial and extraterrestrial systems, including: organic geochemistry, inorganic geochemistry, marine and aquatic chemistry, chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, applied geochemistry, astrobiology, and environmental geochemistry.

Geochemical Transactions offers scientists a unique opportunity to publish their research rapidly in an open access medium that is freely available online to researchers worldwide. Geochemical Transactions, launched in 2000, is Indexed in Thomson Reuters (ISI) and presently has third highest-ranking impact factor among geochemistry journals. Starting in 2006, all articles will also be indexed by PubMed. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are subject to rigorous peer review. Published material may include electronic supplementary material, such as animations (e.g., of global circulation models or geologic flow and convection) or data (e.g. raw spectra) that can be downloaded for a reader's use.

Content overview

Geochemical Transactions considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. They focus on specific issues and are about 800 words.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. Opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board usually write these articles. They have an educational aim and are 2000-3000 words.

Peer review policies

All submissions for publication will be screened by one of the Editors-in-Chief within ten business days and each manuscript will be assigned to an Associate Editor. The Associate Editor will secure at a minimum two independent reviews and present the reviews and a recommendation to the handling Editor-in-Chief. The handling Editor-in-Chief will make all final decisions. Authors are invited to provide contact details of up to four referees for their manuscript. Associate Editors will consider referees suggested by authors, but they are not bound by the suggestions.

Edited by Ken B. Anderson, Susan Carroll and Martin Schoonen, Geochemical Transactions is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Geochemical Transactions

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, Thomson Reuters (ISI), CAS, Scopus and GeoRef.

Articles in Geochemical Transactions should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Geochem Trans 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Geochemical Transactions does not have issue numbers either. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Geochemical Transactions using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Geochemical Transactions is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Geochemical Transactions however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Geochemical Transactions's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Institute for Scientific Information to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Geochemical Transactions will be available.

Geochemical Transactions is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.

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