About the Journal
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
- 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
- sociology
- economics
dealing with issues of diverse spatial scales - local, regional, national, international
Indexation and bibliographic databases
AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library)
Arianta
Baidu Scholar
BazEkon
BazHum
CABI (over 50 subsections)
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA, ProQuest)
CEEOL - Central and Eastern European Online Library
CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science
CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
Current Geographical Publications
Dimensions
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
EBSCO (relevance databases)
EBSCO Discovery Service
EconBiz
ECONIS
Elsevier-SCIRUS
Engineering Village
Environmental Engineering Abstracts (CSA, ProQuest)
ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
ESCI Thomson Reuters
Genamics JournalSeek
GeoJournal
GeoRef
Google Scholar
Index Copernicus
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
J-Gate
JournalGuide
JournalTOCs
KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
Microsoft Academic
Naviga (Softweco)
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
POL-index
Primo Central (ExLibris)
ProQuest (relevant databases)
Publons
QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
ReadCube
Reaxys
Referativnyi Zhurnal (VINITI)
RePEc - Research Papers in Economics
ResearchGate
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
SCImago (SJR)
SCOPUS
Sherpa/RoMEO Sociological Abstracts (CSA, ProQuest)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SIGLA
Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest)
TDNet
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
WanFang Data
Web of Science - Emerging Sources Citation Index
WorldCat (OCLC)
WPSA - Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA, ProQuest)
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 and full access to DeGruyter e-technology
- 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 and full access to DeGruyter e-technology
Open Access Policy
The journal offers access to the contents in the open access system on the principles of non-exclusive license Creative Commons (CC BY-ND 3.0).
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
Sławomir KUREK, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland
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. 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
Committee for Language Consultation/Language Editors
Tim BROMBLEY, Grow, Toruń, Poland
Hazel PEARSON, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Katarzyna WIĘCKOWSKA, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Richard BOLT, Toruń, Poland
