Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

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Special Issues are collections of papers that have been solicited and managed by Guest Editors of the journal. Since 2009, our Special Issues are on-line only which enables publication of Special Issue manuscripts online and in print in a timely fashion.

Recent Special Issues include:

• Historical Range of Variability in a Geomorphic Context - Special Issue, May 2013

• River bifurcations and avulsion - Special Issue, March 2013

• Marine and River Dune Dynamics - Special Issue, January 2013

• Geomorphology and terrestrial carbon cycling - Special Issue, October 2012

• Disturbance regimes at the interface of geomorphology and ecology - Special Issue, October 2012

• Quantifying Rates and Processes of Landscape Evolution - Special Issue, November 2011

• The Megadeltas of Asia: Interlinkage of Land and Sea and Human Development - Special Issue, July 2011

• River Meander Dynamics - Special Issue, July 2011

• Remote Sensing of Rivers - Special Issue, May 2011

• New Developments in Process Understanding and Modelling in Geomorphology - Special Issue, December 2010

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms' Themed Topics are collections of papers brought together by one of the journal’s Associate Editors or the Managing Editor, that flag a coherent set of manuscripts published over the past few years and address a topical geomorphological theme.

Recent Themed Topics include:

• 21st Century climate change: where has all the geomorphology gone? - Themed Topic, November 2012

• Distance, Time and Scale in Soil Erosion Processes - Themed Topic, December 2010

• Reappraising the Geomorphology - Ecology Link - Themed Topic, October 2009

• Landslides, Erosion and Landscape Evolution - Themed Topic, April 2009

• Aeolian Processes and Landforms - Themed Topic, October 2008

• Water Resources - Themed Topic, April 2008

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Seeking good peer review in geomorphology
Stuart N. Lane

This paper provides an extended guide to reviewing for ESPL in particular and geomorphology in general. After a brief consideration of both how we choose reviewers and why we hope that reviewers will accept, I consider what makes a fair and constructive review.

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State-of-the-Science papers

State-of-the-Science papers are now a regular feature of the first issue of the journal each calendar year. These papers not only review but also reframe and reformulate our current understanding of key geomorphological questions.