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: 2024  = 0.8,  2024 (5- years) = 1.0
Scopus (CiteScore 20234- 1.7; CiteScoreTracker 2025 – 1.3)
Scopus Document h-index = 25
SNIP 2024 - 0.431
100 points in the evaluation of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Publication fee

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series is funded by the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. For this reason, publication in the Journal is free of charge.

Open Access

This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.
Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Users may not derive any financial benefit from the content published in the Bulletin.
This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

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, Web of Science and ERIH PLUS

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.

Similarity check
The journal content is indexed in Similarity Check, the CrossRef initiative to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.

Articles published in the Bulletin are regularly scanned to prevent authors from committing plagiarism.

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 

License & Open Access Policy

The journal offers access to the contents in the open access system on the principles of  license Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Dear readers and authors. We would like to inform you that articles published before the 67th issue are under CC BY NC ND and CC BY ND licence - they are out of date, from the 67th issue all articles are published under CC BY NC licence.

This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.
Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Users may not derive any financial benefit from the content published in the Bulletin.
This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Copyright

From and including the 67th issue, the author retains copyright and grants exclusive publishing rights to the publisher and transfers or grants exclusive commercial rights to the publisher.
Prior to the 67th issue, the author has transferred all copyrights to the publisher.

Publisher

The exclusive publisher is Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun.

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

Language Editor

Tim BROMBLEY, Grow, Toruń, Poland

 

List of reviewers

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