Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal covers topical and debatable, theoretical and applied problems of modern geography and related Sciences. Much attention is paid to the publication of articles on major economic problems related to the spatial organization of the economy and regional development, rational use of natural resources and conservation of natural diversity. The composition of the authors is constantly expanding, replenished by leading scientists and practitioners from related industries. The journal covers the issues of methodology and methodology of geographical research, raises the problems of geographical education. The issues of Izvestia of The Russian geographical society acquaint readers with the latest achievements of the theory and practice of geographical and related Sciences.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the editorial office of the journal "Izvestiya Russian Geographical Society" are subject to mandatory blind review (the authors of the manuscript do not receive information about the reviewers). If possible, a double-blind review is carried out, when the reviewer also does not receive information about the authors of the manuscript. Each manuscript, with the exception of materials for the sections "Chronicle", "Reviews", "Anniversaries", is reviewed, as a rule, by two reviewers.

The review of manuscripts is carried out by members of the editorial board, as well as by invited reviewers — leading experts in the relevant field. The decision on the choice of a reviewer for the examination of the article is made by the editor-in-chief or the executive secretary of the editorial board. The standard review period is 1 month.

Each reviewer has the right to refuse a review if there is an obvious conflict of interests that affects the perception and interpretation of the materials of the manuscript. Based on the results of the review of the manuscript, the reviewer makes recommendations on the future fate of the article (each decision of the reviewer must be justified)

• accept the manuscript for publication in this form;
• accept the manuscript for publication after correcting the shortcomings noted by the reviewer;
• reject the manuscript;
• recommend sending the manuscript to a journal of a different profile.

The editorial board of the journal sends the text of the review to the author. If there are recommendations for the revision of the manuscript, the editorial board suggests taking them into account when preparing a new version of the manuscript.

In case of disagreement with any recommendations (comments) in the response letter to the reviewers, the authors should clearly explain the reason for refusing to make the appropriate corrections (additions).

The manuscript revised by the author is re-sent for review.

If the author and the reviewer have unsolvable contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editorial board has the right to send the manuscript for consideration to another reviewer.

If the authors refuse to finalize the materials, they must notify the editorial office in writing or orally of their refusal to publish the article. If the authors do not return the revised version after 3 months from the date of sending the review, even if there is no information from the authors with a refusal to finalize the article, the editorial board removes it from the register. In such situations, the authors are sent a corresponding notification about the withdrawal of the manuscript from registration due to the expiration of the period allotted for revision.

The presence of a positive review is not a sufficient reason for the publication of the article. The final decision on the publication is made by the editorial board. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the editor-in-chief.

After the editorial board of the journal makes a decision on the admission of the manuscript for publication, the editorial board informs the author about this and specifies the publication dates.

The decision to refuse to publish a manuscript is made at a meeting of the editorial board in accordance with the recommendations of the reviewers. The message about the refusal of publication is sent to the author by e-mail, the letter contains reviews and grounds for refusal of publication. A manuscript that is not recommended for publication by the decision of the editorial board is not accepted for re-consideration.

The original reviews are kept in the editorial office of the journal for at least 5 years.

Reviews of manuscripts are not published in the public domain and are used only in the internal document flow of the editorial office, as well as when communicating with the authors.

Publication Frequency

Журнал выходит 4 раза в год.

Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

"Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society" is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

Indexing

  eLIBRARY.RU,  RSCI, РИНЦ,  Ядро РИНЦ,  Перечень ВАК РФ,  Scopus,  CrossRef

Publishing Ethics

Publishing Ethics

The publication of materials in the journal "Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society" makes a significant contribution to the development of geographical science and contributes to the implementation of relations in the scientific community. Therefore, it is important to establish standards of ethical behavior for all parties involved in the publication.

Articles submitted to the journal must:

• match the subject of the magazine;
• contain new data and research results that have not been published before and have not been submitted for publication to other publications;
• include a complete list of the literature used in the preparation of the article;
• do not contain plagiarism and false information;
• contain information about financial support, if any;
• be issued according to the existing requirements.

Responsibilities of Authors:

• provide an original article containing reliable results of the work done and an objective discussion of the significance of the study;
• provide the article with bibliographic references to the works of other authors used;
• avoid plagiarism in any of its forms;
• ensure that all authors of the article participated in the conducted research and agree with the submission of the work for publication;
• participate in the process of finalizing the article and, if necessary, provide a refutation or correct errors.

Responsibilities of Reviewers:

• have sufficient qualifications and sufficient time to review the manuscript;
• respect the author's point of view and contribute to improving the quality of the submitted work;
• provide the editorial board with the information necessary for making a decision on publication, through an objective assessment, expressed clearly and reasoned;
• identify significant published works that correspond to the topic and are not included in the bibliography of the manuscript; pay attention to the detection of significant similarities or coincidences between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work that is within the scope of the reviewer's scientific competence.
• maintain confidentiality;
• do not use unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts in personal research without the written consent of the author;
• not to participate in the review of manuscripts in the event of a conflict of interest due to competitive, joint and other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies or other organizations associated with the submitted work.

Duties of Editors and Editorial Board:

• be responsible for making a collective decision on a publication that meets all the selection criteria and the subject of the journal;
• be guided by the editorial policy of the journal;
• evaluate the content of the manuscript in accordance with the reliability of the results of the work and its scientific significance, regardless of other factors;
• shorten and edit the submitted articles, if necessary, to improve the quality of the publication and achieve compliance with the standards of publications;
• when rejecting an article, be guided by objective criteria;
• monitor the absence of conflicts of interest between participants in the publication preparation process;
• maintain the anonymity of reviewers;
• do not use unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts in personal research without the written consent of the author;
• ensure the publication of refutations or corrections in case of errors.

Publishing Ethics

Publication in “Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society" is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.

The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.