All manuscripts submitted to Advanced Geoscience Research Letters must comply with the policies set out below. Authors are required to confirm compliance at submission. Failure to comply may result in rejection prior to peer review or retraction after publication.
Submitted manuscripts must report original research that has not been published previously in any peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration elsewhere, and does not substantially duplicate any published work by the same authors. Submission of the same work in different languages is not permitted. Prior dissemination as a preprint on a recognised community server (e.g. ESSOAr, EarthArXiv, arXiv) is acceptable and does not constitute prior publication; authors should disclose preprint status at submission.
All listed authors must have made a genuine and material contribution to the design, execution, or interpretation of the work, and must have approved the final submitted version. Gift authorship, ghost authorship, and honorary authorship are violations of this policy. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring all co-authors are aware of and agree to the submission. We apply the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) framework; a CRediT author statement is required for all Articles and Review Articles.
Research Articles, Brief Communications, Analyses, Reviews, Perspectives, and Correspondence are subject to rigorous peer review, typically by two or more independent experts. All reviewers are required to declare conflicts of interest before accepting an invitation. AGRL operates single-anonymised peer review as its default (authors are known to reviewers; reviewers are anonymous to authors). Double-anonymised review is available on request — see Submission Guidelines.
A Data Availability Statement is mandatory in all published articles. Where data are deposited in a recognised repository, the accession number or DOI must be provided. Where data cannot be made publicly available (e.g. for reasons of national security or third-party confidentiality), authors must explain why and must commit to sharing data with bonafide researchers upon reasonable request.
Where custom code, scripts, or computational models are central to the reported findings, authors must either make the code publicly available (e.g. via GitHub/Zenodo with a permanent DOI) or provide a clear statement of why this is not possible and a commitment to share upon request.
All authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could influence the work. This includes employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications, and travel grants related to the subject of the work. Disclosures are published alongside the article. The absence of any conflict of interest must also be explicitly stated.
Research involving human participants must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Research involving animals must comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and all applicable national and institutional regulations. Authors must confirm ethics approval and provide the name of the approving body in the manuscript.
Significant errors in published articles that affect the interpretation of results will be corrected by publishing a formal Correction notice, linked bidirectionally to the original article. Articles found to contain fabricated or falsified data, to constitute plagiarism, or to involve undisclosed duplication, will be retracted in accordance with COPE guidelines. Retraction notices are published permanently and the original article is watermarked; articles are not deleted from the record.
Authors who believe a rejection decision was based on a factual error in the review process, or that a reviewer's assessment contained a significant scientific error, may appeal in writing to the editorial office within 30 days of the decision. Appeals based solely on disagreement with the scientific judgement of editors or reviewers are unlikely to succeed. See Submission Guidelines for the full appeals process.