references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . july 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message not to be confused with grece s publishing house called ditions copernic . copernicus publications status active founded 1994 1994 country of origin germany headquarters location g ttingen distribution worldwide publication types scientific journals nonfiction topics earth science official website publications.copernicus.org copernicus publications also copernicus gmbh is a publisher of scientific literature based in g ttingen germany . 1 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 . 2 copernicus publications has been described as the largest open access publisher in the geo and earth system sciences 3 and it is known as one of the first publishers to embrace public peer review . 4 in 2014 one of their journals was terminated under allegations of nepotistic reviewing and malpractice ; see pattern recognition in physics history for details . see also edit category copernicus publications academic journals open access scholarly publishers association of which copernicus publications is a founding member 5 references edit bornmann l daniel hd 2010 . do author suggested reviewers rate submissions more favorably than editor suggested reviewers a study on atmospheric chemistry and physics . plos one . 5 10 e13345 . doi 10.1371 journal.pone .0013345 . pmc 2954795 . pmid 20976226 . license and copyright agreement . copernicus publications . retrieved march 22 2012 . press release of the max planck society webcite the editors of atmospheric chemistry and physics explain their journal s approach webcite 1 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to media from copernicus . official website this article about a publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title copernicus publications & oldid 642690406 categories academic publishing companiespublishing companies established in 1994open access publishers1994 establishments in germanypublishing company stubshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from july 2011all articles lacking reliable referencescommons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 16 january 2015 at 01 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view