Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

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History

ACP was founded in 2001 by the non-profit publisher, Copernicus Publications. [1] It is an early example of open access publishing, founded prior to the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. The journal was a pioneer of open peer review. It was the first Copernicus and EGU journal, and among the first of all journals, to publicly publish and permanently archive reviews. [2] [3] [4] The open review approach has since been taken up by other major journals. [5]

Publication focus, form and process

The journal covers research on the Earth's atmosphere and the underlying chemical and physical processes, including the altitude range from the land and ocean surface up to the turbopause, including the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. The main subject areas comprise atmospheric modelling, field measurements, remote sensing, and laboratory studies of gases, aerosols, clouds and precipitation, isotopes, radiation, dynamics, and biosphere and hydrosphere interactions.

Article types published are research and review articles, letters, opinions, measurement reports, technical notes, perspectives and commentaries. [6]

The journal has a two-stage publication process. [7] In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access peer-review are immediately published on the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions forum website. They are then subject to interactive public peer review, including the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed), and the authors' replies. In the second stage, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in the journal. To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting record of the scientific discussion, both the journal and the forum are permanently archived and fully citable.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed by:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jisc partners with Copernicus to streamline open access publishing". Jisc. 2023-01-26. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
  2. ↑ Pain, Elisabeth (2013-04-09). "How Interactive Peer Review Works" . Science. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1300068.
  3. ↑ Brazil, Rachel (2 September 2024). "Will open science change chemistry?". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
  4. ↑ Ervens, Barbara; Carslaw, Ken S.; Koop, Thomas; Pöschl, Ulrich (2025-10-28). "Review of interactive open-access publishing with community-based open peer review for improved scientific discourse and quality assurance". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 25 (20): 13903–13952. Bibcode:2025ACP....2513903E. doi: 10.5194/acp-25-13903-2025 . ISSN   1680-7316.
  5. ↑ "Making peer review transparent". Nature Geoscience. 18 (10): 927. October 2025. Bibcode:2025NatGe..18..927.. doi:10.1038/s41561-025-01825-x. ISSN   1752-0908.
  6. ↑ "ACP - Manuscript types". www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
  7. ↑ Pöschl U (2012). "Multi-stage open peer review: scientific evaluation integrating the strengths of traditional peer review with the virtues of transparency and self-regulation". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 6: 33. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00033 . PMC   3389610 . PMID   22783183.
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