Geophysical research letters: New policies improve top-cited geosciences journal

Abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) is the American Geophysical Union's premier journal of fast, groundbreaking communication. It rapidly publishes high-impact, letter-length articles, and it is the top-cited multidisciplinary geosciences journal over the past 10 years, with an impact factor that increased again in 2009, to 3.204. For manuscripts submitted to GRL, the median time to first and final decision is 23 and 27 days, respectivelya 35% improvement since 2007and the median time from submission to publication is 13 weeks for 90% of GRL papersa 25% improvement since 2007. Among high-impact publications in the geosciences, GRL has the fastest turnaround.