Publications

AI-based tools in scientific publishing: to what extent can we rely on them?

Eduardo Queiroz Alves February 14, 2024

Image credit: Drew Hemment (imaggeo.egu.eu)

Academic publishing has considerably evolved in response to technological developments. Current discussions revolve around the rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or Large Language Models (LLM). They exceed the capabilities of simple spelling and grammar checkers or translation software and their use in the publication process has several implications that need to be considered. ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!

Hazel Gibson January 31, 2024

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For January, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology (GMPV) and Tectonic and Structural Geology (TS). They are served by the journals: Solid Earth (SE) and Geoscientific ...[Read More]

Three peer review myths debunked by the First EGU Peer Review Training

Eduardo Queiroz Alves December 29, 2023

Credit: Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2023, EGU offered Peer Review Training for the first time, over three virtual sessions in September and October 2023, with a little homework in between. With more than 100 applications, from which we chose 57, mostly Early Career Scientists (ECS) to fill the available places, the desire for this kind of training in the EGU community was clear. About 80% of the participants completed the trainin ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

Hazel Gibson December 21, 2023

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geodynamics (GD), Geomorphology (GM) and Soil System Sciences (SSS). They are served by the journals: Biogeosciences (BG), Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf), Geoscientifi ...[Read More]