Scientific Journal

Soil Organisms presents high-level, novel research results, review papers, and a number of other formats in English covering the complete field of soil biology, including taxonomy and systematics, soil ecology (including interactions), biogeography, morphology, conservation, evolution and ecosystem functions. Unique among soil-biological journals, Soil Organisms especially considers the organismic aspects of soil biology. Three issues per volume are published as one volume per year (issued in April, August and December). Soil Organisms is committed to fair open-access publishing, which is why we offer online open access publishing of all papers without any publication fees.

Articles published from Vol. 96 No. 3 (2024) onwards are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Articles published from Vol. 80 No. 1 through Vol. 96 No. 2 are available under the previous terms, allowing non-commercial, private, and scientific use.
Authors retain copyright of all articles published in Soil Organisms. Authors publishing their articles Open Access will sign an Open Access license to publish agreement (LTP), and grant non-exclusive rights to the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany where a CC BY license is selected.

Soil Organisms practices a double-blind peer review process, in which both the reviewers’ and the authors’ identities are kept confidential during the review process. It is implemented to ensure an impartial and unbiased evaluation of research papers.

The journal website soil-organisms.org provides free access to current and past issues. For more information, including Guidelines, Editorial Board, and Current Issue, please visit our website.

Soil Organisms
eISSN 2509-9523 (Online) | ISSN 1864-6417 (Print)

All articles are archived for the long term: digitally via the German National Library (DNB) and the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) – https://soil-organisms.org/SO/gateway/lockss.
The parallel print edition supports sustainable archiving in libraries and the exchange of publications with currently over 224 partner institutions in 36 countries.

Soil Organisms is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Zoological Record, and BIOSIS PREVIEWS.

For information on submitting a manuscript to Soil Organisms, please visit our journal website soil-organisms.org/submissions.

For details about our Editorial Board, please visit our journal website soil-organisms.org/editorialTeam.

Editors-in-Chief
Anton Potapov (Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Germany)
Nico Eisenhauer (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany)

Communication Editor
Monica Farfan (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany) 

Contact Information
Email: soil-organisms@senckenberg.de

Address
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Institute
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Am Museum 1
02826 Görlitz
Germany

Soil Organisms provides policies on Publishing Ethics and Generative AI, which are available on the journal website:

https://soil-organisms.org/SO/Publication-ethics-and-research-misconduct

https://soil-organisms.org/SO/GenerativeAI

The print version of Soil Organisms is published in three issues per year and is available for purchase via the order form.

To order the print edition, please complete our order form and send it either by email or by post (print and sign) to our library.

For information on ordering and payment, please contact:
library-gr@senckenberg.de

or by post:
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Library
Am Museum 2
02826 Görlitz
Germany

Within Germany/Foreign countries: per invoice
Shipment takes place via surface mail. Extra costs will be charged for airmail.