Call for papers – The Elements Collection in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Dear colleagues,

Please find below a call for papers for a special collection organized by AGU’s Global Biogeochemical Cycles, titled The Elements Collection. The submission deadline is 30 December 2025.

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GEOTRACES IPO

Global Biogechemistry Cycles – The Elements Collection

Submission Open: 15 January 2022
Submission Deadline: 30 December 2025

Special collection Organizers
Isaac Santos, Editor-in-Chief
Katsumi Matsumoto, Editor
Zanna Chase, Editor

Global Biogeochemical Cycles invites submissions for a new collection of authoritative papers focusing on individual or small groups of elements and/or compounds. All papers will be published with the similar title “The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of …”.

Submissions should fit GBC’s aims and scope: broad, interdisciplinary, novel, and large-scale. The papers should not only provide a state-of-the-art review the existing literature, but also a forward-looking perspective, set a research agenda, and discuss how global biogeochemical cycles have changed and will continue changing. When relevant, papers should include all of Earth’s spheres, discuss potential relationships to anthropogenic activities and climate change, cover time scales ranging from the geologic past into the future, and explain interactions with other global biogeochemical cycles.

We encourage authors to pitch paper ideas to GBC’s Editor-in-Chief via email (isaac.santos@gu.se). Authors should send a <2-page outline including the title, team of authors, sub-headings, a tentative list of illustrations, and references to 5 relevant papers on the topic. GBC editors will provide initial feedback prior to formal submission and peer review.

In line with AGU’s strategic plan, we encourage collaborative submissions by a diverse group of authors specializing on different spheres, scales or biogeochemical aspects of the chosen element or compound.

All papers will be published immediately after acceptance and become open access within 2 years of publication. GBC editors will explore options for collating and repurposing the articles in the collection, possibly in book format, to ensure that they become a living and durable resource for the community.

A selection of published papers from The Elements Collection is available here – The Elements Collection: Global Biogeochemical Cycles