About AGU Journal Editors
The Union is interested in attracting papers in newly developing areas, improving the quality of AGU journals, and assuring that AGU journals support the information needs of the membership.
Editors-in-Chief (EICs) of AGU journals are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Council for a specified term of either 3 or 4 years, depending on the journal. Editors are normally nominated by the EIC or the Publications Committee and serve at the pleasure of the Union. An Editor's term is normally 3 years, but to give EICs of different journals flexibility, they can recommend the appointment of an Editor for a term of 2–4 years.
AGU Editors have the full authority to accept or reject submitted papers. Editors handle the review process and can seek out papers in their specialty for inclusion in the journal. Reviewers are chosen to assist an Editor and their input should be viewed as advisory to the Editor. Although reviewers provide critical guidance, the Editor has the sole right and obligation to decide what will be published by AGU.
The EIC and the Editors are the custodians of the journal for a time and are expected to interpret the scope of the journal broadly. An AGU EIC is an advocate for the journal and shall always act in the best interests of the journal and AGU. This is the primary reason why an Editor of an AGU journal may not serve simultaneously in another editorial capacity for a second AGU journal or a non-AGU journal.
Editors
AGU Fellows indicated by asterisk.
| Journal | Current Editor |
|---|---|
| Earth Interactions | Rezaul Mahmood |
| Geophysical Research Letters | Eric Calais, Editor in Chief Noah S. Diffenbaugh Paolo D'Odorico Ruth A. Harris Wolfgang Knorr Benoit Lavraud William K. Peterson Eric Rignot Meric A. Srokosz Peter G. Strutton Geoffrey S. Tyndall Paul D. Williams Michael E. Wysession |
| Global Biogeochemical Cycles | Eric Sundquist |
| Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | Joel A. Baker Thorsten Becker Louis A. Derry James A. Tyburczy |
| JGR-Atmospheres | Joost de Gouw Steven Ghan Sara Pryor Yinon Rudich Renyi Zhang* |
| JGR-Biogeosciences | Dennis D. Baldocchi* |
| JGR-Earth Surface | Alexander L. Densmore, Editor in Chief Bryn Hubbard |
| JGR-Oceans | Frank O. Bryan Eric Des Barton, Editor in Chief Miguel A. Goni Thomas H. C. Herbers Andrey Proshutinsky Harvey Seim Chunzai Wang |
| JGR-Planets | Mark Wieczorek |
| JGR-Solid Earth | Robert K. Nowack Tom Parsons* Andre Revil Michael Walter |
| JGR-Space Physics | Philippa Browning Masaki Fujimoto Robert L. Lysak*, Senior Editor |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | David Randall* |
| Paleoceanography | Christopher Charles Rainer Zahn |
| Reviews of Geophysics | Fabio Florindo Gregory S. Okin Mark Moldwin, Editor in Chief Alan Robock* Eelco Rohling |
| Radio Science | Paul S. Cannon |
| Space Weather | Louis J. Lanzerotti* |
| Tectonics | Todd A. Ehlers Onno Oncken |
| Water Resources Research | Ronald Griffin Hoshin Gupta* Tissa H. Illangasekare* Praveen Kumar, Editor in Chief Graham C. Sander John S. Selker |
