Geoderma Regional

Geoderma Regional publishes high-quality research that advances understanding of soils within clearly defined geographic regions while contributing to general soil science knowledge. The journal focuses on studies grounded in regional contexts shaped by distinctive pedo-climatic, ecological, cultural, and land-use relationships, as such interactions generate locally specific soil properties, processes, challenges, and management opportunities.

The journal welcomes research from all regions of the world, provided that submissions situate regional findings within the international state of the art and demonstrate relevance beyond a single site or case study. Studies should contribute to general soil-system understanding, sustainable soil use, or regionally informed soil management strategies.

Geoderma Regional promotes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages the use of internationally recognized soil classification systems. Submissions are expected to describe investigated soils using the latest edition of either the IUSS World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) or USDA Soil Taxonomy. Where appropriate, authors may additionally include local or national soil classifications to support regional interpretation.

Authors are strongly encouraged to include comprehensive soil analyses and to investigate complete soil profiles rather than focusing solely on surface horizons. To enhance discoverability and international relevance, titles should be written in a generalist manner without explicit regional identifiers; the regional focus should instead be clearly reflected in the abstract and represented through appropriate regional keywords.

The journal welcomes, but is not limited to, scientific studies addressing:

• Regional patterns of soil properties and processes and their broader implications;

• Land-use and climate change impacts on soil and ecosystem properties, processes, and functions;

• Anthropogenic influences on soil biogeochemical cycles;

• Biotic and abiotic interactions within soil systems;

• Integration of experimental soil knowledge into modeling frameworks;

• Place-based and community-informed research, including ethnopedology, a field that examines how local communities understand, classify, use, and manage soils based on traditional or Indigenous knowledge systems, and that provides insights into the cultural dimensions of soil–landscape relationships to inform community-centred soil management and sustainable development.

Submissions that lack scientific novelty, broader relevance, or a clear connection to soil properties and processes—such as descriptive inventories, compliance-driven assessments, greenhouse/laboratory-based investigations, methods/model development studies, shallow-depth-only investigations, or work focused primarily on agronomy or socioeconomics—are generally not suitable for Geoderma Regional.