The Journal of Mining Institute is one of the oldest leading Russian and international peer-reviewed periodicals, in which authors from all over the world publish results of fundamental and applied research in the field of Earth Sciences.
The purpose of the Journal of Mining Institute is to create a platform for open scientific polemic, research on sustainable management of global natural resources and development of relevant technologies for industrial implementation. Preference is given to the articles describing theoretical, observational and experimental studies that have cross-cutting and interdisciplinary aspects on the following topics at the field, landscape, regional or global level.
The target audience of the Journal of Mining Institute includes representatives of the expert and scientific community, academics, postgraduate students and mining engineers.
All the manuscripts received by the Journal are peer-reviewed by the leading experts in the respective research field and indexed in the international databases, including Scopus and Web of Science.
The Journal of Mining Institute contains four main sections that accept articles for publication:
- Geology
This section is presented by leading scientists and embodies major scientific fields of geologic study such as: petrology; geochemistry and geochemical methods of mineral prospecting; mineralogy and crystallography; general and regional geology; geotectonics and geodynamics; hydrogeology. All of the above explore composition, structure, origin and history of the development of the earth's crust and the Earth on the whole.
- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
This section focuses on the issues of subsoil use; geomechanics and mining; prospecting and extraction of minerals, including oil, gas and coal; geophysics and geodesy; aspects of geological exploration, construction and operation of mining structures, such as wells; mineral processing. Labor protection issues such as the impact of production factors and consequences of survey and exploration works on the human body and geoecology are also taken into consideration.
- Economic Geology
This section includes articles devoted to solving urgent economic problems of the functioning of the mining and fuel and energy industries. The section is open to a wide range of topics; however, any submission should have aspects of scientific novelty and practical relevance, both of which should contribute to the development of a methodology for managing national raw materials, as well as contribute to sustainable development of different branches of industry.
- Energy
This section is devoted to fundamental and applied research in the field of energy efficiency and energy saving in the mining sector at the stage of operation of enterprises and devices, and includes newly proposed efficiency criteria. It covers a wide range of research topics in the following areas: assessment of enterprises along with modern ways to increase heat and power efficiency and also energy saving; control automation of energy systems and devices; development of new evaluation criteria and more energy-efficient devices; diagnostics of energy consumers.
Types of articles
- Research articles that contain original data on a certain scientific problem.
- Review articles that describe international practices in the research field of a certain scientific problem.
- Experience of industrial implementation of research results (case study).
Criteria: articles sent to the editorial board must correspond to the topics of the Journal of Mining Institute, contain original scientific results (at least 85% of originality) and be formatted according to the journal rules. Articles must have no more than three authors with academic degrees. It is also necessary to specify the contribution of each author to the study. To facilitate the publication process, the manuscript needs to be submitted in a template and accompanied by a cover letter indicating the names of potential reviewers.
Simultaneously the editors can review up to two articles by the same author/group of authors, which in case of acceptance will be published with an interval of three or more volumes.
Volume: the manuscript must be no longer than 40,000 characters with spaces, including the abstract, main part, figures, tables, acknowledgements and references..
Peer-review process: all the received articles must contain original research based on the up-to-date international scientific works. The editorial board makes sure that this requirement is satisfied, and articles considered recommendable for publication are sent to the reviewers. The editorial board comes to a decision about publishing the article after two rounds of peer-review and reception of favorable conclusions.