Soil Organisms

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) 

Technical Editor
Jacqueline Gitschmann

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

For print subscription options of Soil Organisms, please visit our publisher website senckenberg.de/soil-organisms/subscription.