TY - JOUR A1 - Kolditz, Olaf A1 - Teti, Paola A1 - Dörhöfer, Gunter A1 - LaMoreaux, Jim A1 - Andriani, Gioacchino F. A1 - Appleyard, Stephen A1 - Asch, Ted A1 - Buttafuoco, Gabriele A1 - Dietrich, Peter A1 - Hursthouse, Andrew A1 - Kim, Derek A1 - Merkel, Broder J. A1 - Schwarzbauer, Jan A1 - Siegesmund, Siegfried A1 - Kolditz, Barbara T1 - Environmental Earth Sciences Progress Report 2020 and Outlook 2021 Y1 - 2021-04-09 VL - 80 IS - 8 JF - Environmental Earth Sciences DO - 10.1007/s12665-021-09531-8 PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg N2 - The present editorial 2020 continues the series of status reports in Environmental Earth Sciences (EES) in previous years 2017 and 2019 (Kolditz et al. in Environ Earth Sci 77: 8, 2018, Kolditz et al. in Environ Earth Sci 79: 11, 2020). The year 2020 coming to an end was heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic affecting all areas of life including research work and, therefore, scientific publishing as well (“Introduction”). One bright spot which shows longevity of journals that produce a quality product is that Environmental Earth Sciences (EES) is celebrating its 45th anniversary of publication. To this extent EES continues the tradition to honor the most cited papers contributing to the 2020 Impact Factor (IF) (“Highly and most cited topics”) and provide information on the current status of EES as well as an outlook to 2021 (“Progress report”) UR - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11239 ER -