Editors' Roundtable

The Editors' Roundtable is a group of editors, publishers, and database providers that has been meeting since 2007 to discuss and promote policies that improve geochemical data publication practices, with the overall aim of better serving the scientific community.  The Editors' Roundtable includes representatives from the following journals:

  • Chemical Geology (Elsevier)
  • Contribution to Mineralogy & Petrology (Springer)
  • Earth & Planetary Science Letters (Elsevier)
  • Geochimica & Cosmochimica Acta (Elsevier/Geochemical Society)
  • Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (AGU)
  • Geology (GSA)
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Nature
  • Science

Meetings of the Editors' Roundtable have been organized and sponsored by EarthChem.

 

At their last meeting during the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting, the Editors' Roundtable agreed on a joint editorial policy statement that establishes a common set of standards for reporting geochemical data. The policy addresses the problem of inconsistency and incompleteness of data and metadata in publications, and will help to facilitate the incorporation of data into digital data collections.

Download the Policy Statement for the Publication of Geochemical Data (PDF)