E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 68, 243–244, 2020 https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-243-2020 © Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Editorial Editorial: E&G Quaternary Science Journal –a community-based open-access journal Christopher Lüthgens 1 , Daniela Sauer 2 , Michael Zech 3 , Becky Briant 4 , Eleanor Brown 5 , Elisabeth Dietze 6 , Markus Fuchs 7 , Nicole Klasen 8 , Sven Lukas 9 , Jan-Hendrik May 10 , Julia Meister 11 , Tony Reimann 12 , Gilles Rixhon 13 , Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger 14 , Bernhard Salcher 15 , Tobias Sprafke 16 , Ingmar Unkel 17 , Hans von Suchodoletz 18 , and Christian Zeeden 19 1 Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria 2 Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany 3 Heisenberg Chair of Physical Geography with Focus on Paleoenvironmental Research, Institute of Geography, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany 4 Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK 5 Chief Scientist Directorate, Natural England, Worcestershire, UK 6 Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems Group, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Alfred Wegener Institute, Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 7 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany 8 Institute of Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany 9 Department of Geology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden 10 School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia 11 Chair of Geography I – Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 12 Netherlands Centre for Luminescence dating, Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands 13 Laboratoire LIVE, Ecole Nationale du Génie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 14 Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Budapest, Hungary 15 Quaternary Geology, Department of Geography and Geology, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria 16 Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 17 Environmental History and Environmental Archives, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany 18 Chair of Landscape Ecology, Institute of Geography, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany 19 Section 5 – Rock Physics & Borehole Geophysics, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, LIAG, Hanover, Germany Correspondence: Christopher Lüthgens (christopher.luethgens@boku.ac.at) Relevant dates: Published: 16 January 2020 How to cite: Lüthgens, C., Sauer, D., Zech, M., Briant, B., Brown, E., Dietze, E., Fuchs, M., Klasen, N., Lukas, S., May, J.-H., Meister, J., Reimann, T., Rixhon, G., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Z., Salcher, B., Sprafke, T., Unkel, I., von Suchodoletz, H., and Zeeden, C.: Editorial: E&G Quaternary Sci- ence Journal – a community-based open-access journal, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 68, 243–244, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-243-2020, 2020. Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (DEUQUA) e.V.