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The change in this journal’s name from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences) to Journal of Earth System Science (JESS) in 2005 saw the number of submissions nearly double from 51 in 2004 to 97 in 2005. To accommodate the larger number of papers and decrease the period between acceptance and publication, the number of issues was increased from four to six the same year. The number of submissions has continued to increase: 452 manuscripts were received in 2014, when the number of issues was increased to eight.
The increase in number of submissions has necessitated a clarification of the journal’s scope, which was last modified in 2005 to reflect its new name and the broader scope it implied. As noted by Narasimhan in an editorial in JESS (Emerging relevance of Earth System Science, 2007, 116(6), 465–467), the articles published continue to emphasise distinct elements of the earth system. While this compartmentalisation is perhaps unavoidable owing to the fragmented nature of research programmes, the journal has...