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Overview
Discover Soil is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to soil science.
Publication costs for Discover Soil are covered by Springer Nature until 27 March 2025. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication before that date will not pay an article-processing charge. Find out more in our submission guidelines. Current charge: £0/$0/€0 Standard charge: £1040.00/$1390.00/€1190.00
- Considers articles from a broad range of soil science disciplines.
- Topics include soil chemistry, physics and biology, soil conservation and more.
- A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
Journal updates
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Writing your manuscript: interactive author tutorials
Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more.
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Topical Collections
The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of soil science. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them. Find out more about our topical collections
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Introducing In Review
In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Soil. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:
- Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review.
- Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level.
- Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.
See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 3005-1223
- Copyright information