Why does GMD not provide an individual category for particularly short papers (“letters” or “short communications”)?
• Since the process of peer-review and publication in GMD is inherently efficient and rapid for all types of manuscripts, there is no need to introduce artificial length restrictions. In traditional “letters” or “short communications” with rigid length restrictions, conciseness is frequently achieved at the expense of scientific completeness. • To support scientific conciseness and completeness at the same time, GMD favours the inclusion of extended abstracts (preferably < 2 pages) in all manuscripts submitted for peer-reviewed publication, i.e. for both discussion papers (GMDD) and final revised papers (GMD).
