Editors ▪ Philippa Ascough ▪ Greg Balco ▪ Georgina King ▪ Andreas Lang ▪ Klaus Mezger [email protected] eISSN 2628-3719 www.geochronology.net Advances in geochronological science @EGU_GChron → article processing charges currently waived → indexed in ADS, DOAJ, Gale/Cengage, GeoRef, Google Scholar, J-Gate, ProQuest, World Public Library → 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: Time Infi nity: iStock.com/Dimitris66 Earth from space showing Europe and Africa: iStock.com/MarcelC www.geochronology.net Aims and scope Geochronology (GChron) is a not-for-profit international ▪ amino acid racemization; scientific journal providing a unified outlet for high-quality ▪ argon/argon dating; basic and applied research in geochronology, independent ▪ cosmogenic nuclide dating; of technique used or timescale considered. ▪ electron spin resonance dating; Geochronology publishes research in all aspects of geo- ▪ helium diffusion systems; science that aim to determine times or rates of geologic events and processes: basic research into fundamental ▪ fission track; physics and chemistry of geologic dating methods; ap- ▪ luminescence dating; plications across the full range of geosciences; and de- ▪ radiocarbon dating; velopments in standardization and intercomparison, sta- tistical methods, data management, and computational ▪ tephra; infrastructure. ▪ geochronological data analysis/statistics/modelling; Geochronology aims to encourage and sustain innovation ▪ stratigraphic/cyclostratigraphic; in geochronology by providing a centralized communica- ▪ SIMS, LA-ICP-MS; tion platform that transcends specific fields of application ▪ U-series; and focuses on the common theme of quantifying geolog- ic time. ▪ longlived radio-isotope systems; The journal subject areas are defined by the following in- ▪ dating water and ice. dex terms: If your manuscript does not exactly fi t one of these sub- jects, please select “other” during manuscript submission. An associate editor will be assigned based on the best per- ceived editorial fi t. Interactive Public Peer ReviewTM ▪ manuscript posted in the GChronD forum ▪ public discussion by the scientifi c community Referees ▪ open access to referee reports 5 ▪ post-discussion editor decision ▪ authors’ revision and peer-review completion Referee ▪ fi nal journal publication – fully peer-reviewed comments 2 9 1. Submission 1 4 6 7 2. Access review Author Editor Author Editor 8 3. Technical corrections 3 Author 10 4. MS posted in GChronD forum Discussion comments 5. Public discussion paper Short comments 6. Final response 1st stage 2nd stage 7. Post-discussion editor decision (discussion (journal) 8. Revision Final 9. Peer-review completion forum) 5 revised 10. Final revised publication paper Scientific community www.geochronology.net .