About journal

The journal's founder

Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Voronezh State University" (Voronezh, Russian Federation).

General information

"Proceedings VSU. Series: Geography. Geoecology" is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published with a frequency of 4 issues per year. The journal was founded in 1993. It has been published as a separate series since 2000. The founder of the series was Professor V.I. Fedotov. The journal publishes materials on problems of theory, methodology and methods of geographical science; covers original results of scientific research; reflects new practice-oriented approaches in training of higher school specialists; publishes materials on significant persons who have made a significant contribution to the field of environmental and geographical knowledge, as well as reviews of scientific monographs, atlases and textbooks in the field of geography. The journal series provides for the possibility of thematic issues devoted to current issues of modern science.

Articles are published in Russian with an extended English-language abstract and a duplicated reference list with transliteration and translation into English; captions are given in two languages. Individual articles may be published in English with an extended summary in Russian. The volume of the journal is 120 pages in A4 format.

The edition is registered by the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with the Law in the Sphere of Mass Communications and Protection of Cultural Heritage: Certificate of Registration of Mass Media PI No. FS77-19716 dated April 7, 2005. The journal has the international standard serial number of the periodical ISSN 1609-0683 (print).

The founder is "Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Voronezh State University".

Publisher – VSU Publishing House. Issues of the journal are prepared for publication at the Faculty of Geography, Geoecology and Tourism of Voronezh State University. The editorial board includes leading geographers of Russia and other countries. The editorial board bases its work on Russian and international documents on the ethics of scientific publications.

Editorial policy

Purposes and objectives

The purpose of the journal is to publish the results of new scientific and scientific-practical research in the field of geography and geoecology and to implement their achievements in the educational process in the training of highly qualified personnel.

Main objectives:
- reflection of innovative theoretical and methodological ecological-geographical knowledge;
- publication of the results of research, scientific and practical and experimental activities of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of geography and geoecology;
- introduction of interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research and methods of analysis into the ecological-geographical science;
- assessment of natural resource and socio-economic potential in regional studies;
- dissemination of the most significant experiences in teaching ecological-geographical disciplines;
- familiarization of teaching staff, bachelors, masters and postgraduate students with the achievements of the world geographical science;
- integration of Russian scientists in the international geographical community.

Journal sections

Geography;
Geoecology;
Voronezh local history;
Teaching methods;
Reviews, chronicle, information;
History of science;
Scientific Archives.

The Editorial board of the journal accepts for publication articles on problems related to the Earth Science (geography, geoecology, environmental protection, climatology, biogeography, demography, territorial organization of society, tourism and other areas of the Earth Sciences, corresponding to the passport of the specialty of HCC: 25.00.23 - Physical geography and biogeography, soil geography and geochemistry of landscapes; 25.00.24 - Economic, social, political and recreational geography; 25.00.27 - Land hydrology, water resources, hydrochemistry; 25.00.30 - Meteorology, climatology, agrometeorology; 25.00.36 - Geoecology (by branch of geographical sciences)

Frequency of the publication

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

The journal is committed to attracting an authoritative audience of specialists to discuss the results of scientific research, based on the following principle: free open access to the results of research contributes to the global exchange of knowledge. The authors retain their copyrights and give the journal the right to publish their materials for the first time.

Indexing

Publications in the journal "Proceedings of Voronezh State University. Series: Geography. Geoecology" are included in the author and journal citation index calculation systems. "Citation index" is a numerical index that characterizes the significance of the article and is calculated on the basis of subsequent publications that refer to this work.

The journal is indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).

The journal is counted in the RSCI Core. The RSCI Core includes all articles published in the journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus or Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) databases.

The journal is included in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) database on the Web of Science platform and in the List of Russian peer-reviewed scientific journals, which should publish the main scientific results of dissertations for doctoral and candidate of sciences degrees.

Conflict of interest

In order for the journal's readers to assess the likely bias of an article, the authors are required to disclose any possible conflicts of interest. If there is a conflict of interest, it will be published with the article. If a conflict of interest is discovered after an article is published, the journal will publish the information separately and the authors will have to submit a letter of explanation to the editorial board. If there are no conflicts, the authors should state this: "The authors report no conflicts of interest that affected the results of the study or their interpretation. The forms of third-party funding of the work and possible conflicts of interest associated with them should be stated.

Borrowing and plagiarism

Editorial Board of the journal "Proceedings of Voronezh State University. Series: Geography. Geoecology" when reviewing the article performs a check of the material using the system Anti-plagiarity. The originality of the article submitted to the journal should not be less than 70 %.

Publication fee

The editors do not charge authors for preparing, posting and printing materials.

Subscription and purchase

Journal "Proceedings of Voronezh State University. Series: Geography. Geoecology" is distributed by subscription. In the electronic catalog "Russian Post" magazine has a subscription index PN069. Subscription can be done on the website Subscription online.

Terms of copyright transfer

Authors who publish in this journal retain the copyright and grant the journal the right to first publish the work, which is automatically licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The license allows you to distribute and copy this work with the obligatory preservation of references to the authors of the original work and the original publication in this journal.

Journal publisher

Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Voronezh State University" (Voronezh, Russian Federation)