Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The main mission of the journal is: to support the development of innovative, fundamental and applied research in the field of mining geology, engineering and economic sciences and to promote achieved research findings to the national and global scientific, educational and economic environment; to improve quality of training specialists for mining sector and for the development of mineral resources complex in agreement with the Russian state strategy and worldwide science and higher professional education development trends.

Journal objectives:

- publication of articles containing results of original open research (theoretical and experimental) works, research-and-practical and innovative activities of faculty members and research scientists of universities and scientific organizations of Russia, near and far-abroad countries of mining-and-geological, technical, economic profiles;

- development of open scientific dispute that promotes further improvement of quality and efficiency of scientific research, streamlining of scientific works evaluation;

- ensuring publicity of the process and work results of various research groups, schools of sciences and providing Russian and foreign scientists with maximum access to them;

- promotion of scientific achievements of mining-and-geological, technical and economic profiles in Russia and abroad;

- identification of intellecutual asstes of Russian and foreign universities academia, research centers and top companies of mineral resources sector for implementation of advanced research into educational process;

- reproduction and development of scientific traditions, research schools and ensuring their integration into research in mining-and-geological, ecological, economic, engineering fields;

- assistance in modernization of specialized education for training specialists for a mineral raw materials sector in line with the main trends and challenges of our times.

Section Policies

Geology

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Mining

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Oil and gas

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Metallurgy and mineral processing

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Electromechanics and mechanical engineering

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Geoecology and occupational health and safety

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Geoeconomics and management

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two leading experts in the area of research. All reviewers are acknowledged experts in the areas of reviewed materials and have 3 recent publications in the subject area of refereed article.

Expert review:

• recommended for publication;
• recommended with with due allowance for the correction of shortcomings noted by the reviewer;
• not recommended.

A reviewer acts in accordance with ethical standards and does not make use of the scientific data obtained for their own benefit.

The final decision on the possibility of the publication is made on the basis of peer review results at the meeting of the Editorial Board.

The editors observe the ethical standards of confidentiality in regard to scientific information prior to its publication.

Article reviews are reposited in the publishing company and in the editorial department during the period of not less than 5 years.

Order of reviewing

1. Primary reviewing (not more than 4 weeks). The manuscript is sent to a leading expert in the area of research (anonymous reviewing means that the authors’ surnames are unknown to the reviewers, in its turn authors the reviewers’ surnames are unknown to the authors).

1.1. On receiving the resolution "the article is recommended with due allowance for the correction of the shortcomings noted by the reviewer" the article and the reviews are forwarded to the responsible author to answer the reviewers’ questions and to make corrections in the manuscript. The opportunity of article correction is on a one-off basis. If the corrected article isn't submitted to the Editorial office within 1 month from the sent date of the review, then the manuscript is withdrawn from publication.

1.2. In case of positive and negative reviews the article goes to the third expert.

1.3. In case of two negative reviews ("the article is not recommended") the manuscript of article is rejected.

2. Secondary reviewing (not longer than two weeks). The manuscript processed in compliance with all remarks goes to the reviewers for the approval of the corrected version of the manuscript.

3. The final decision on a the possibility of publication is made at a meeting of the Editorial Board.

Publication Frequency

The periodicity of publishing is 6 volumes per year.

Open Access Policy

The journal "Zapiski Gornogo Instituta / Journal of Mining Institute” provides public access to its content and to full-text articles following the principle:free public access to research findings contributes to the increase of global exchange of knowledge.

The Journal publishes the materials on the basis of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This means that it is possible to read, download, copy, distribute, print the articles and make reference to the full-text articles with attri -bution without any restrictions.

What is permitted:

• to share (exchange) - copy and distribute the material in any medium and in any format;
• adapt (create derivative works) - remix, modify and create new, basing on this material for any purposes, including commercial ones;
• licensor may not revoke these freedoms as long as you perform the license conditions.

Under the following conditions: «Attribution» — You must ensure the appropriate attribution, provide a link to the license and identify changes if any have been made. You can do this in any reasonable manner, but not by the one that would imply that the licensor endorses you or your way of using the piece of work.

Without additional limitations — You may not apply legal restrictions or technological measures that create to others legal obstacles in the implementation of something from what is permitted by the license.

Archiving

• The journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive system between the libraries participating libraries in the system and allows these libraries to create permanent log files for the purpose of saving and restoring
• Russian State Library (RSL)
• Scientific electronic library eLibrary (Russian Science Citation Index)
• Scientific electronic library CyberLeninka

Indexing

According to the decision of the Presidium of the Highest certifying commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation the journal is included in the «List of lead peer-reviewed journals and publications issued in the Russian Federation in which main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences must be published.

The Journal is indexed by scientometric databases Web of Science Core Collection (archive since 2015, volume 211) in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and Scopus (archive since 2017, volume 223).

The journal is included in the full-text scientific electronic library eLibrary and is indexed in the Russian Index of Scientific Citing (RISC).

The journal is included in World geographical Reference System GeoRef system (USA).

Publication ethics

The Editorial Board of “Zapiski Gornogo Instituta / Journal of Mining Institut” follows the conventional ethical principles for scientific periodicals and guidelines of the Publication Ethics Code developed and approved by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE) and demands that all those involved in publishing operation should observe these rules.

1. General provisions

1.1. Publication ethics is a set of well-known and generally accepted principles, norms and rules that should be followed by the participants of scientific publication process (the author or authors, reviewers, editors, publishers) and which regulate the relationship between the participants.

1.2. Publication ethics of the journal "Zapiski Gornogo Instituta / Journal of Mining Institute" (further – publishing ethics) are based on the international standards developed by the Committee on Publication ethics (COPE).

1.3. Fields of application of publicationethics norms and rules:

- preparation and submission of scientific articles by the author (authors);

- cooperation between the author (authors) and reviewers;

- interaction between the authors;

- interaction between the author (authors) and the Editorial Board;

- rights of author (authors);

- publishers readers relationship;

- disputed situations between the participants of publishing activities.

1.4. Publishing ethics compliance is provided by the Editorial Board, the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial and Publishing center.

1.5. Editorial Board headed by the Editor-in-Cheif is the main regulatory body that exercises control of publishing ethics observance at all stages of preparation and publication of scientific papers.

1.6. Decisions made by the Editorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief on observance or violation of publishing ethics are final.

2. Publishing ethics for the author (authors).

2.1. An article can bedone and provided for publication by one or several authors (coauthors).

2.2. The author (authors) sends an article done according to the Rules and accompanying documents to Editorial Board be means of website.

2.3. An article should contain complete author’s (authors’) affiliation o academic degree, academic stasus, position, complete name of the organization, postal address of the organization, city, country, e-mail.

2.4. An article submitted by the author (authors) for publication should contain:

- new, original scientific results obtained by the author (authors);

- true, trustworthy , theoretically and empirically substantiated , logically consistent, accurately represented data;

- bibliographic references (name-title reference) in case of citation or usage of other researchers' ideas;

- imprint of author's (authors’) earlier published scientific works in case of their verbatim copying which may be used only as a basis for esearch and new conclusions;

- sources of any financial support.

2.5. An article submitted for publication should not contain:

- false and/or fraudulent information;

- plagiarism.

2.6. An article submitted for publication should not be:

- earlier published in printed and electronic media;

- sent for publication to other printed and electronic media.

2.7. Authors guarantee that names of all co-authors and project participants who made significant contribution in research are acknowledged.

2.8. The author (authors) assumes obligation to participate in the process of revising the article (corrections, amendment) within a timeframe fixed by the Editorial Board when submitting the article to the Editorial Board.

3.Publishing ethics for the Editorial Board

3.1. The Editorial Board should in a given time:

- inform the author (authors) about the receipt of the article and accompanying documents,their registration and acceptance for consideration;

- direct the article for peer review (if necessary – to additional review) to members of the Editorial Board or leading experts in a the area of research;

- inform the author (authors) about the results of scientific review;

- make a decision on acceptance or rejection of the article on thebasis of reviews and examination of the authors’ observance of established rules of submission and representation of the article;

- report to the author (authors) about the decision of the Editorial Board on acceptance or rejection of the article (with reasons for rejection);

- to make the author (and co-authors) aware of the received review (reviews) at his/her/their request(-s);

- send the article to the author (authors) for finalizing in accordance with the reviewer (reviewers) comments.

3.2. The Editorial Board:

- reserves the copyright;

- builds up of the reviewers database – the database of experts in specific research areas presented in the journal;

- qualified and non-biased reviewing.

3.3. The Editorial Board bears responsibility for the final decision on acceptance or rejection of the article.

3.4. Editorial Board:

- considers each message on the facts of non-compliance with publishing ethics, irrespective of the time of its receipt;

- in case the facts of non-compliance with publishing ethics are confirmed it without fail publishes either a denial of a statement or apologies, and as well as the information on the carried-out follow-on revision of the article;

- reports to the Editor-in-Chief on observance and/or on all violations of publishing ethics at all stages of publishing;

3.5. The Editorial Board takes measures for prevention and/or resolution of the conflicts between the participants of the publishing process at all stages of its implementation.

4.Publishing ethics for reviewers (experts)

4.1. All articles received by the Editorial Board of the journal pass expert review (scientific expertise).

4.2. The expert is chosen from the members of the Editorial Board or from the database of reviewers- leading experts in the field of the given research).

4.3. The manuscript submitted for expertise is a confidential document, the expertise procedure is carried out in a confidential manner.

4.4. The manuscript submitted for expertise can't be copied and made available to other reviews or be discussed with them without coordination with the Editor-in-Chief.

4.5. Co-authors or the author of the article can't among the be reviewers of the article.

4.6. The reviewer formulatesreasoned critical comments on the relevance of research, its compliance to the profile of the journal, novelty and reliability of results, level and clarity of a material wording and presents the opinion in the form approved by the Editorial Board.

4.7. Reviewers' recommendations are the basis for the final decision on the publication of the article made by the Editorial Board.

4.8. Reviewing should be objective, independent.

4.9. The reviewer should not review articles in which he is interested, and should not use the content of the article for personal benefit.

4.10. Reviewers are obliged to report to the Editorial Board about a conflict of interests arising in the course of article reviewing.

Conflict of interests

When evaluating a manuscript, the Editorial Board seeks to prevent conflicts of interest between its members, reviewers, the journal's publishers and authors.

Experts should not be involved in reviewing the works if there is a conflict of interest due to competitive relations, cooperation or other interactions or relations with authors, companies or institutions in any manner connected with the submitted materials. In the event of any conflict of interest that precludes independent assessment of the manuscript, the persons concerned must take their own discretion by transferring their authority to make decisions to another member of the Editorial Board or to a certain reviewer.

The presence of a conflict of interest, declared by one of the participants of the review process, does not in itself lead to a refusal to publish, since the most important criterion for evaluating the manuscript is its scientific quality.

Unpublished materials available in the presented study may not be used by the Editorial Board in their own developments without the written consent of the author. Such information is not disclosed and may not be used by the reviewers, members of the Editorial Board, the editorial staff of the journal for the purpose of obtaining personal benefits.

An article is placed in public domain in case of acceptance for publication. If there is a suspicion of a conflict of interest after publication, the editors of the Zapiski Gornogo Instituta / Journal of Mining Institute act in accordance with the COPE’s recommendations:

• The reviewer suspects an undisclosed conflict of interest in the article submitted
• The reader suspects an undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article

Plagiarism Detection

The Editorial Board of the journal checks the materials for plagiarism by means of the plagiarism screening service Antiplagiat. Before submission authors must use that or other services to screen their work and make certain that the work contains original data, and other authors’ materials used in their work and/or words are appropriately cited or quoted and included in reference list. Borrowed parts of the text without reference sources are inadmissible.

Regarding plagiarism the journal follows COPE’s recommendations:

• Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript
• Suspected plagiarism in a published manuscript

Publication Fee

"Zapiski Gornogo Instituta / Journal of Mining Institute" publishes papers free of charge. No fees are charged for reviewing, preparation, translation, display and printing of materials.

Magazine founder

An establisher of scientific journal "Zapiski Gornogo Instituta / Journal of Mining Institute" is Saint-Petersburg Mining University (St. Petersburg, Russia).