‘Post-pandemic’ directions of Research, Education and History of Earth Sciences

Abstract

The remarkable reception of manuscripts by Terræ Didatica in 2022 comprises more than 80 unpublished contributions. The numbers indicate that the national and international geoscientific community considers the magazine to be an agile and effective vehicle for disseminating research results. The editors are grateful for the generous cooperation of dozens of highly qualified specialists from Brazil and abroad, who lead a demanding peer-review system. It is worth noting the relevant educational role of editorial job along with young new authors. The processing capacity of new contributions has increased, but the response does not always occur at the expected speed. The unique number of 39 papers rejected along the year is due both to cases of incomplete submission and low quality detected by the reviewers, who are responsible for rigorously applying the selection criteria. To improve the manuscripts, the editors tried to adopt some interaction mechanisms with the authors, without great success; this is the reason for archiving so many communications. Thus, volume 18 published the lowest number of contributions since 2019.