Scientific Journal

Soil Organisms presents high-level 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.

Soil Organisms is committed to fair open-access publishing. All articles are available online without any publication fees. Articles published from December 2024 onward are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Articles published before December 2024 are available under previous terms, allowing non-commercial, private, and scientific use.

Double-blind peer reviewed.

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 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

Institut
Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Am Museum 1
02826 Görlitz
Deutschland

All articles from Senckenberg’s Open Access scientific journals and series that are made available on the Senckenberg website (www.senckenberg.de) may be read, copied, distributed, and (in limited quantity) printed for non-commercial, private, scientific purposes. In accordance with the German Science Foundation’s „Rules for the Safeguarding of Good Scientific Practice”, references to cited articles are to be complete and correct and furnished with a link to the website of the Senckenberg journal in question.

The Senckenberg Society for Natural History Research (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, SGN) is a member of the Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft) and is therefore attuned to the idea of Open Access as explained in the Berlin Declaration (Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge, Berliner Erklärung über den offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen).

Open Access is understood to mean the charge-exempt public access to scientific results via the internet. The users should be able to read, copy, print, search within, and reference the full text without limitation and to use it in any conceivable lawful manner without financial, legal or technical hindrance.

This applies also to the SGN, which publishes various scientific series. Some scientific journals are made available to the public via Open Access in addition to printed copies.

The print version of Soil Organisms is published in three issues per year and is available for purchase (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:
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