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- » Publication Frequency
- » Open Access Policy
- » Archiving
- » Peer-Review
- » Indexation
- » Publishing Ethics
- » Founder
- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
Aim and Scope
The main objective of the journal is the development of geographical science and the introduction of its achievements in the educational process for the preparation of highly qualified personnel.
Major tasks:
- coverage of theoretical and methodological developments in geography;
- publication of the results of research, applied and experimental activities of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of geography;
- introduction of interdisciplinary and applied research and analytical methods to geographical science;
- introduction of the most significant achievements in the teaching of geographical disciplines;
- introduction of faculty members, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students to the achievements of geographical science;
- integration of Russian scientists into the international scientific community.Section Policies
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Publication Frequency
6 issues per year
Open Access Policy
This 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.
Archiving
- Russian State Library (RSL)
- National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
Peer-Review
All research papers received by the editorial board of the journal "Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5. Geography” go through blind review. The reviewers' task is to assess the novelty and scientific merit of the paper, reliability of research results, clarity of the text, relevance of the title and abstract to the content of the paper, correctness of the list of references (in particular, identifying publications relevant to the topic of research that were not, but, according to the reviewer, should be mentioned in the article). Articles are reviewed either by members of the editorial board or guest reviewers (including foreign scientists), who are specialists in the corresponding field of knowledge. The review should be completed in 2-3 weeks, but at the request of the reviewer the deadline may be extended. The reviewer makes recommendations on the future of the article (every decision is justified): a) the article is recommended for publication in its present form; b) the article is recommended for publication after revision following reviewer’s recommendations; c) the article needs additional reviewing by another expert; d) the article is rejected from publishing in the journal.
The review with recommendations for correcting and revising the article is sent by the editorial board to the author together with a request to either consider them when preparing the new version of the article or provide a reasoned refusal. The revision of the article should not take more than two months from the date when the author was informed by the editorial board (by e-mail or phone call). The revised version of the article is re-routed for review. In case the authors refute to make a revision they need to inform the editorial board about their decision orally or in written form. If the authors do not return the revised version within three months following the date of the review, the editorial board withdraws the article and notifies the author about the decision. If the author and the reviewers have insoluble contradictions concerning the manuscript, the editorial board has the right to submit the manuscript for an additional review. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the chief editor taking into account the opinions of the editorial board members. The decision to reject the publication following the reviewers’ recommendations is made at the editorial board meeting. After the article is rejected by the editorial board it cannot be re-submitted. The author is informed about this decision by an e-mail message. The positive review is not a sufficient basis for decision on publication of the article. The final decision is done by the editorial board. In conflict situations, the decision is made by the chief editor. Originals of reviews are stored in the office for 3 years.
Indexation
Articles in "Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5. Geography” are indexed by several systems:
- Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI project is under development since 2005 by “Electronic Scientific Library” foundation (elibrary.ru).
- Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
- Scopus
- CAS
- EBSCO
- EDS
- Library of Congress
- Oxford Library
- SOCIONET
- WorldCat
Publishing Ethics
The editorial board, based on recommendations of the Committee on Ethics of scientific publications (http://publicet.org/code/) and the Elsevier Manual on Ethics of scientific publications (http://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk ), follows these fundamental principles:
- When deciding on the publication of an article, the editorial board is guided by its scientific importance, originality and reliability of the data, and clarity of the text.
- The editorial board assesses the intellectual content of the manuscript, regardless of race, sex, religion, origin, nationality, social status or political preferences of the authors.
- Unpublished data, information or ideas obtained from the submitted manuscripts are kept confidential and not used for personal purposes and are not passed to third parties without the written permission of the author.
- Information that is plagiarism is not allowed for publication in the journal.
- The editorial board takes appropriate measures in the event of ethical claims concerning submitted manuscripts or published materials.
Reviewer performing expert evaluation follows these principles:
- The manuscript received for review, is regarded as a confidential document, which cannot be transferred for review or discussion to the third parties not authorized by the editorial board.
- The review is impartial. It is an objective and reasoned assessment of presented research results. It should contain motivated critical comments concerning the scientific quality of the research, clarity of the manuscript, its correspondence to the profile of the journal, novelty and reliability of results. Personal criticism of the author is not acceptable. Recommendations of reviewers are the basis for the final decision on the publication of the article.
- Unpublished data from submitted manuscripts for consideration are not used by the reviewer for personal purposes.
- The reviewer, who, in his opinion, does not have sufficient expertise to evaluate the manuscript or may not be objective (conflict of interest with the author), at his request, is excluded from the process of reviewing the manuscript.
The author (or group of authors) when preparing and submitting the manuscript follows these principles:
- The author is responsible for the novelty and reliability of research results. Knowingly false or falsified statements are unacceptable.
- The author guarantees the originality of the research results presented in the submitted manuscript.
- Unoriginal fragments or statements are obligatory indicated (author and source). Plagiarism in any form, including unregistered quote, paraphrase or assignment of rights to the results of other people’s research, is unacceptable.
- Only persons who have made a significant contribution to the idea of the article, development, implementation or interpretation of the research are indicated as co-authors; those who did not participate in it cannot be listed among co-authors. All authors approve the final version of the article and give their consent to its submission for publication, they are equally responsible for its content.
- The publication recognizes the contribution of all those who participated in the study or influenced it. The authors give references to publications that influenced the research. Privately obtained data could be used only with the written permission from the original source.
- Submission of the same manuscript at the same time to more than one journal, or submission of an already published article, is a violation of ethical standards and provides a basis for the withdrawal of the article.
- Detection of significant errors or inaccuracies in the article during the review process or after its publication should be immediately reported to the editorial board for correction.
Founder
- M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Faculty of Geography
Author fees
Publication in "Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5. Geography” is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn't have any Arcticle processing charges.
The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Plagiarism detection
"Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5. Geography” use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.
Preprint and postprint Policy
Prior to acceptance and publication in "Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5. Geography”, authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.
As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in "Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5. Geography” we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.
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