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communications-earth-and-environment

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Use when targeting Communications Earth & Environment or deciding whether an earth, environmental, or planetary-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the solid-and-complete-advance bar, Nature Portfolio reporting/data standards, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• fit/framing check for an earth or environmental science paper
• weighing a solid result against more selective Nature Portfolio venues
• re-framing a specialist contribution for broad earth/environment relevance
• journal's reporting/data-availability expectations
• credible alternative route
• solid-earth and planetary science
• climate and atmospheric science
• oceanography, cryosphere, and hydrosphere processes

When not to use

• replacing the journal's current author guidelines
• flagship-Nature bar of transformative significance

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