About the Journal
The Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España is an open access biannual publication of the Geological Society of Spain that has published articles since 1988, which includes scientific research works, in Spanish or English, related to any area of the Earth Sciences.
Abbreviated title: Rev. Soc. Geol. Esp. (RSGE)
Available since: 1988
Periodicity: Biannual (June and December)
Type of access: Open Access
ISSN online: 2255-1379
ISSN printed version: 0214-2708
Editorial office: Sociedad Geológica de España, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca (España)
URL: https://sociedadgeologica.org/publicaciones/revista-sge
Contact e-mail: sge@usal.es
Indexed in: Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index - ESCI, Zoological Record, SCImago Journal & Country Rank - SJR, Dialnet, Latindex, Dulcinea, InDICEs-CSIC, GeoRef
FOCUS AND SCOPE
The Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España publishes articles related to any area of Earth Sciences. Works on the geology of the Iberian Peninsula and nearby areas are particularly welcome, in addition to those related to the History of Geology, Geological Heritage, and similar topics. Work reviewing or compiling information on specific topics with an updated scientific perspective will also be evaluated for possible publication in the journal. The works must be original and unpublished, that is, not published (or not accepted) in another journal, either in full or in parts and/or in another language. All articles will be reviewed by at least two specialists (peer review) and by the Editorial Committee.
PUBLICATION FREQUENCY
The Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España is a biannual publication (two issues per year), where one issue is published in June and another in December of each year in electronic format (ISSN 2255-1379) and in paper (ISSN 0214 -2708).
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Volume |
Submission period (6 months) |
Submission deadline |
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(1) June |
October-March |
MARCH 31 |
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(2) December |
April-September |
SEPTEMBER 30 |
PEER REVIEW PROCESS AND EVALUATION
The manuscripts will be sent to the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España through the RECYT platform (Make a Submission) for evaluation and peer review, so that all the editorial management of manuscripts and workflow will be carried out through the OJS/PKP publication system.
Once the process of electronic submission of the work has been completed correctly, the person identified as the “corresponding author” will receive an email message as acknowledgment of receipt, and will be able to access the manuscript workflow throughout the editorial process.
The Editorial Committee of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España will be in charge of managing the review of the manuscripts received. In a preliminary evaluation, the adaptation of the work to the publication rules and whether the contents are in accordance with the editorial scop of the magazine will be assessed. During this first evaluation, the work may be rejected if it is not original, if it does not have a focus or scope appropriate to the theme of the magazine or does not have the required format. Failure to comply with the journal's publication rules and guidelines for the preparation of the manuscript will be sufficient reason for its rejection.
Once the editors consider that the work meets the preliminary requirements, the manuscript will be sent to two anonymous experts, to be reviewed and evaluated in depth, through the "single-blind peer review" system, that is, the reviewer will not know the name of the authors of the work before accepting the review. Once he/she has accepted the review, the reviewer will know the names of the authors and will be asked about any potential conflict of interest. The reviewers will be anonymous people, unless they indicate otherwise during the review process and sign their report to identify themselves. In this way, it will be up to the reviewers to identify themself to the authors, if they prefer. In case of total discrepancy in the evaluations, the work will be sent to a third person who, if necessary, may be one of those who are part of the Scientific Committee.
Each year, the list of reviewers who have participated in the evaluation of the manuscripts will be published in the second semester issue (December), with their implicit approval to publish their name, as indicated in the guide for reviewers. For those people who expressly express their wish to remain anonymous, only the institution to which they belong will be published.
Once the reports of the people who have reviewed the work are available, the Editor-in-Chief will issue a first decision on the manuscript, indicating whether the work is accepted or requires minor, moderate or major modifications, or if it is rejected. If it is accepted with modifications, the original manuscript must be corrected following the reviewers' observations. In this case, the authors will have 15 calendar days to make the appropriate modifications and justify, through a mandatory report, the changes introduced in the manuscript and possible discrepancies with the opinions expressed by the people who have reviewed the work. Once these documents have been evaluated, the Editor-in-Chief will decide if the new version of the document needs a second review or, if applicable, can be definitively accepted.
OPEN ACCESS, SELF-ARCHIVING AND DISTRIBUTION POLICY
The Geological Society of Spain provides online open access to the full content of all papers of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España published since 2022 in OJS (Open Journal Systems) within the Spanish Repository of Science and Technology (RECYT), as well as all the volumes published since 1988 on the website of the Geological Society of Spain.
The Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España allows the authors to self-archive their own works in the final versions of their articles once published on the website of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España. These permissions include self-archiving in Institutional Repositories and Open Access Thematic Repositories (DULCINEA), as well as on web pages, with the intention of contributing to the improvement of knowledge transfer, its dissemination and exchange.
Currently, about 30 copies of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España are published on paper (ISSN: 0214-2708), which are distributed among people and public institutions, national and foreign, subscribed, or by exchange of publications. To acquire printed copies, it is necessary to contact the SGE secretary (sge@usal.es).
PUBLICATION RATES
The Geological Society of Spain does not charge fees to authors for the submission of manuscripts or for the management of their work, nor for the publication of their articles in the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España.
COPYRIGHT POLICY AND USE OF WORKS
By publishing in the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, the authors grant the Geological Society of Spain the right of the first publication, and grant a non-exclusive license for the reproduction, public communication and distribution of the final version of the work in any format (digital or printed). They also grant non-exclusive commercial rights to the Geological Society of Spain, specifically for the distribution of the printed version of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España. This right is materialized by accepting a copyright assignment clause during the submission process through the website of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España (OJS/PKP system).
All articles in the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España (from 2023 onwards) are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows the use and reproduction of the articles and create derivative works in any medium and format (non-commercial purposes), as long as the authorship and the original publication of the article in the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España are acknowledged, including the DOI assigned to the final published version in the registration of the article. In any case, the authors retain all intellectual property rights.
With the aim of promoting the dissemination of knowledge, the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España adheres to the Open Access (OA) journal movement and delivers all of its contents to various national and international indexes, repositories and databases under this protocol. Therefore, the submission of a work to be published in this journal presupposes the author's acceptance of this distribution method, when the manuscript is submitted.
ETHICAL POLICY
The Editorial Committee of the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España is committed to guaranteeing the ethics and quality of the published articles, protecting and respecting the content of the articles, as well as their integrity. The Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España follows the Code of Conduct and good Practices for Editors of scientific journals defined by the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE).
For any questions or complaints related to content or a procedure of the journal, the authors and readers may contact the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, who will respond or submit the request to the Editorial Committee or the Scientific Board, as the case may be, for evaluation and resolution. The Editorial Committee undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary. The Editorial Committee guarantees at all times the confidentiality of the evaluation process and in the event of possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author wishes to send to the journal's committees.
Detection of plagiarism
Plagiarism is not acceptable in submissions to the Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España.
Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images or data from another source, even your own publications, without citing the original source. All previous works from which ideas, data, figures, etc., which have been the source for the work presented, must be explicitly cited in the manuscript.
The Editorial Committee with the help of external scientific reviewers will take care of these alleged cases of plagiarism are avoided. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the case will be studied by the Editorial Committee and the article would be retracted, if plagiarism was confirmed.
Corrections and retractions
When any significant error is detected in a published article, by any person, whether author or reader, please notify the Editor-in-Chief of the possible errors to proceed with their modification or elimination, according to the case.
- Significant unintentional errors that do not affect the interpretation of the results or conclusions will be subject to a correction (erratum) that will be published in the current issue identifying it with its title and the word “Correction”, where the necessary modifications to correct the errors will be included. In the online version, the article will be updated, indicating the date of the update.
- In case of plagiarism, manipulation of data, falsehood, use of other people's material or material already published without authorization, infringement of copyright, conflict of interest, etc., that will be checked by the Editorial Committee will check, the article will be retracted. In the online version, the original article will be withdrawn and will appear only with its title marked as "Article retracted".
