Copernicus Publications

{{Short description|Scientific publishing house}}

{{distinguish|text=GRECE's publishing house, called (Éditions) Copernic.}}

{{primary sources|date=July 2011}}

{{Infobox publisher

| status = Active

| founded = {{Start date|1994}}

| country = Germany

| headquarters = Göttingen

| distribution = Worldwide

| publications = Scientific journals

| topics = Earth science

| url = {{URL|publications.copernicus.org}}

}}

Copernicus Publications (also: Copernicus GmbH) is a publisher of scientific literature based in Göttingen, Germany.{{cite journal| author=Bornmann L, Daniel HD| title=Do author-suggested reviewers rate submissions more favorably than editor-suggested reviewers? A study on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | journal=PLoS ONE | year= 2010 | volume= 5 | issue= 10 | pages= e13345 | pmid=20976226 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0013345 | pmc=2954795 | bibcode=2010PLoSO...513345B | doi-access=free }} Founded in 1994, Copernicus Publications currently publishes 28 peer-reviewed open access scientific journals and other publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

Copernicus Publications is part of the open-access publishing movement. Initially, the CC BY-NC was used. In 2007, they switched to the CC BY attribution license.{{cite web | url=http://publications.copernicus.org/for_authors/license_and_copyright.html | title=License and Copyright Agreement | publisher=Copernicus Publications | access-date=March 22, 2012}} Copernicus Publications has been described as the largest open access publisher in the Geo- and Earth system sciences,[http://www.mpg.de/568610/pressRelease20080128 Press release] of the Max Planck Society and it is known as one of the first publishers to embrace public peer review.[http://go.nature.com/qamrfc The editors of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics explain their journal's approach]

In 2014, one of their journals was terminated under allegations of nepotistic reviewing and malpractice; see Pattern Recognition in Physics#History for details.