ARC Geophysical Research

About the Journal

ARC Geophysical Research (ISSN 3067-6711) is an online-only open access journal published by the Academic Research Community (ARC) Alliance for the geosciences by the geoscience community.  ARC GR publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts from all areas in geosciences as well as fostering scientific bridges to related fields.  The published research showcases mechanistic understanding that is general, consequential, and transferable beyond the specifics of the original study.  The journal seeks to reflect a diversity of research techniques and invites theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches, or combinations thereof that advance fundamental understanding. The journal offers flexible article length and formats to allow authors to reach a broad audience while maintaining the highest scientific rigor sought by specialists.

Why Submit to the Journal?

With thousands of journals in existence, a legitimate question for any scholar is why should I submit my work for consideration to this journal? First, some of the finest scholars in the field are associated with this journal, which includes extensive editorial expertise and collective standards that ensure excellence of accepted, published work. Second, all publications are open access and open science, which ensures that the work published in this journal is reproducible and can be built upon by the community. Third, the intent of this journal is to serve the scholarly community, not make a profit for a publisher. Fourth, there is no charge for authors to publish in this journal, which saves authors money that can be better spent to support students and post docs. Fifth, state of the art library science practices are employed to ensure indexing by all major services and article and journal citation statistics are compiled as soon as the journal is eligible, which varies depending upon the indexing source. All articles are assigned a DOI upon publication.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

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Web of Science (Application in progress)
Scopus (Eligible to apply in January 2027)

Publisher Information

The Academic Research Community (ARC) Alliance is a community of like-minded scholars supportive of a non-profit, altruistic, high-quality scholarly publishing alternative to standard publishing models. ARC Alliance utilizes a Diamond Open Access model in which no article processing charge is paid by authors, publications are open access, and copyright is retained by authors of their scholarly work.

Motivation for the development of the ARC Alliance is rooted in the unsustainable state of the cost of scholarly publishing, a rapid transition to open access publication, and a desire to catalyze a transition to a high-quality, low-cost, sustainable publishing alternative to best serve the ARC. This effort is a direct response to the rapidly rising costs of access to scholarly publications provided by existing publishers and a means to support the transitions to open access publication without fees to authors or the granting sources funding their research.

Publisher email: ARC_Alliance@unc.edu 

Publisher address: 3201 McGavran-Greenberg Hall, CB# 7431, Chapel Hill, NC 27599