IF: 2.539 | <6 months to publish Executive editors ▪ John M. Huthnance (chief-executive editor) ▪ Trevor McDougall ▪ Anne Marie Tréguier eISSN 1812-0792 | ISSN 1812-0784 www.ocean-science.net www.ocean-science.net Ocean → Impact Factor: 2.539 (2018) Science → on average 167 days from submission to publication (2019) An interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union → indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Current Contents, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, DOAJ, and others → archived in Portico & CLOCKSS Copernicus Publications Bahnhofsallee 1e 37081 Göttingen Germany Phone: +49 551 90 03 39 0 Fax: +49 551 90 03 39 70 [email protected] https://publications.copernicus.org Image credit: The great wave off shore of Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, between 1826 and 1833: Library of Congress, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. Interactive Public Peer ReviewTM ▪ manuscript posted in the OS discussion forum ▪ public discussion by the scientifi c community ▪ open access to referee reports ▪ authors’ revision and peer-review completion ▪ fi nal journal publication – fully peer-reviewed 1. Submission Referees 2. Access review 5 3. Technical corrections 4. MS posted in OSD forum 5. Public discussion 6. Revision Referee 7. Revised submission comments 8. Peer-review completion 9. Final revised publication 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 Author Editor Author Editor 3 Author 9 Discussion comments paper Short comments 1st stage 2nd stage (discussion (journal) Final forum) 5 revised paper Scientific community Aims and scope Ocean Science (OS) is a not-for-profit international open- ▪ ocean chemistry; access scientific journal dedicated to the publication and ▪ biological oceanography; discussion of research articles, short communications, ▪ air–sea interactions; and review papers on all aspects of ocean science: ▪ ocean models–physical, chemical, biological, experimental, theoretical, and laboratory. The prima- and biochemical; ry objective is to publish a very high-quality scientific ▪ coastal and shelf edge processes; journal with free Internet-based access for researchers ▪ paleooceanography. and other interested people throughout the world. Ocean Science covers the following fields: ▪ ocean physics (i.e. ocean structure, circulation, tides, and internal waves); www.ocean-science.net.