About the Journal

 

Finansowanie ze środków Ministerstwa Edukacji i Nauki na podstawie umowy nr: RCN/SP/0371/2021/1 z dnia 18.11.2022 r. Środki finansowe stanowiące pomoc przyznaną w ramach programu „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych".

 

Journal Indexes

Web of Science - Impact Factor WoS: 2022 (2-years) = 1,100 - 2022 (5- years) = 1,200
Scopus (CiteScore 2023 - 2.1; CiteScoreTracker 2024 – 1,4)
Scopus Document h-index = 23
SNIP 2023 - 0.532
100 points in the evaluation of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Index Copernicus 2022 = 133.16

Focus and Scope

Journal profile

The topics of papers published in the BGSS range from theoretical to empirical investigations into:

  • human geography
  • demography
  • settlement geography
  • processes of urbanization and urban settlement systems
  • urban studies, metropolitan areas
  • integrated urban and regional development
  • landscape and rural settlement
  • cultural studies
  • geography, planning and development
  • spatial organization and territorial planning
  • regional policy
  • medical geography
  • tourism and recreation
  • economic geography
  • geography of crime
  • trade geography
  • geography of services
  • political geography
  • electoral geography
  • human ecology
  • social sciences
  • sociology
  • economics


dealing with issues of diverse spatial scales - local, regional, national, international

Indexation and bibliographic databases

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series is indexed in numerous bibliometric databases, including Scopus and Web of Science

Why subscribe and read

- a wide array of high quality original articles
- the articles published after double-blind peer review provided by minimum two subject experts (including foreign ones)
- a full database of up-to-date research results in human geography, economic geography – both theoretical and empirical
- a platform for exchanging ideas between the scientists from many countries of the World
- the Advisory Council, distinguished scientists from 31 different countries and from 49 research centres (universities and scientific institutes)

Why submit

- The articles of both domestic and foreign authors are always up-to-date, original, never printed before in other scientific publications, fulfill high scientific standards, and have very good educational value
- The articles are published after double-blind peer review provided by minimum two subject experts (including foreign ones). The reviews are anonymous, neither author nor reviewer knows the other's identity
- The rejection rate of articles amounts to approximately 55%
- All articles have language assistance for authors from non-English speaking countries
- The editors provide fast route for the publication process (average 3-4 months)
- Journal is highly evaluated and indexed e.g. on the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Evaluated Journals List.

 

Peer Review Process

  • The articles of both domestic and foreign authors are always up-to-date,original, never printed before in other scientific publications, fulfill high scientific standards, and have very good educational value
  • The articles are published after double-blind peer review provided by minimum two subject experts. The reviews are anonymous, neither author nor reviewer knows the other's identity
  • The rejection rate of articles amounts to approximately 55%
  • All articles have language assistance for authors from non-English speaking countries
  • The editors provide fast route for the publication process 

Open Access Policy


The journal offers access to the contents in the open access system on the principles of article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Advisory Council/Editorial Board

Jan F. ADAMOWSKI, McGill University, Canada

Hany M. AYAD, Alexandria University, Egypt

Stefan BOUZAROVSKI, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kuei-Tien CHOU, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Manolis CHRISTOFAKIS, Panteion University, Athens, Greece

Ana Maria DAOU, Federat University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gerard-Francois DUMONT, University of Paris Sorbonne, France

Daniel FELSENSTEIN, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lsrael

Alois HYNEK, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Peter JORDAN, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Sebastian KINDER, University of Tübingen, Germany

Vladimir KOLOSOV, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Lily KONG, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Irena E. KOTOWSKA, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Kostis KOUTSOPOULOS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Andrzej KOWALCZYK, University of Warsaw, Poland

Elmar KULKE, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Simon KUŠAR, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Maria LEWICKA, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Weidong LIU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 

Teemu MAKKONEN, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Szymon MARCIŃCZAK, University of Lodz, Poland

Ana MONTEIRO, University of Porto, Portugal

Etienne NEL, University of Otago, New Zeland

Michael A. NIEDZIELSKI, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA

Martin OUŘEDNIČEK, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Montserrat PALLARES-BARBERA, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

Michael POULSEN, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Christoph RUPPRECHT, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan

Sevil SARGIN, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Sergei SHUBIN, University of Swansea, United Kingdom

Ram Babu SINGH, University of Delhi, India

Nicolai SLUKA, Moscow State University, Russia

Eduardas SPIRIAJEVAS, Klaipeda University, Lithuania

Marie STENSEKE, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Tadeusz STRYJAKIEWICZ, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Michael John SUTTON, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Frank SWIACZNY, Chief Population Studies Branch at the UN DESA Population Division in New York, USA

Sasha TSENKOVA, University of Calgary, Canada

Christian VANDERMOTTEN, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Nigel WALFORD, Kingston University, United Kingdom

Kristopher WHITE, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Jean-Marc ZANINETTI, University of Orléans, France

Li ZHANG, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

Simon X.B. ZHAO, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

List of reviewers

No, 59-62/2023

No. 55-58/2022

No. 51-54/2021

No. 47-50/2020
No. 46/2019
No. 45/2019
No. 44/2019
No. 43/2019
No. 42/2018
No. 41/2018
No. 40/2018
No. 39/2018
No. 38/2017
No. 37/2017
No. 36/2017
No. 35/2017
No. 34/2016
No. 33/2016
No. 32/2016
No. 31/2016
No. 30/2015
No. 29/2015
No. 28/2015
No. 27/2015
No. 26/2014
No. 25/2014
No. 24/2014
No. 23/2014
No. 22/2013
No. 21/2013
No. 20/2013
No. 19/2013
No. 18/2012
No. 17/2012

 

Language Editor

Tim BROMBLEY, Grow, Toruń, Poland