Journal Title：Earth-science Reviews

Covering a much wider field than the usual specialist journals, Earth Science Reviews publishes review articles dealing with all aspects of Earth Sciences, and is an important vehicle for allowing readers to see their particular interest related to the Earth Sciences as a whole. Our readership is more diverse than that of specialist journals: as well as research scientists, also students, government agencies involved in programme support and management and in environmental assessment and control, private industries concerned with planetary resources, and the independent consultant. The journal's vision includes ensuring accessibility for all of these groups.

Every review article published will advance existing knowledge and highlight new directions being taken at the forefront of expanding subject areas by synthesis, evaluation and discussion of previously published literature. The value of such articles to the readership is increased with comment and opinion provided by the author from a specific context. Authors may further enhance their article with the addition of supplementary material such as videos, datasets and applications.

Articles may be extensive, providing comprehensive coverage of a relatively broad or cross-disciplinary subject area, or they may be much shorter providing an in-depth overview of a very specific topic, and authors may choose to include a proportion of their own primary research data to support their arguments. From time to time, 'Invited Earth-Science Reviews' will be published about topics of exceptional interest.

Earth Science Reviews 涵盖的领域比通常的专业期刊要广泛得多，它发表的评论文章涉及地球科学的各个方面，是让读者了解他们对整个地球科学的特殊兴趣的重要工具。我们的读者群比专业期刊的读者群更加多样化：以及研究科学家、学生、参与项目支持和管理以及环境评估和控制的政府机构、关注行星资源的私营企业以及独立顾问。该期刊的愿景包括确保所有这些群体都可以访问。

发表的每篇评论文章都将通过对先前发表的文献的综合、评估和讨论，推进现有知识并突出在扩展学科领域的前沿所采取的新方向。这些文章对读者的价值随着作者在特定背景下提供的评论和意见而增加。作者可以通过添加视频、数据集和应用程序等补充材料来进一步完善他们的文章。

文章可能很广泛，提供相对广泛或跨学科的主题领域的全面报道，或者它们可能更短，提供非常具体的主题的深入概述，作者可以选择包括他们的一部分自己的主要研究数据来支持他们的论点。将不时发布关于特别感兴趣的主题的“地球科学特邀评论”。