Geosciences
Grunnleggende informasjon
Internasjonal tittel: |
Geosciences |
e-ISSN: |
2076-3263 Periode: [2011 .. ] |
Språk: |
Engelsk |
Utgiverland: |
Sveits |
URL: |
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences |
Forlag: |
MDPI |
ITAR-kode: |
1028223 |
NPI Fagfelt: |
Geovitenskap |
Minimumskriterier
| ✅ Vitenskapelig redaksjon |
| ✅ Fagfellevurdert |
| ✅ Internasjonal forfatterkrets |
| ✅ Godkjent ISSN |
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Nivå X vedtak: NPU mottok bekymringsmeldinger fra forskningsmiljøet vedørende tidsskriftets praksis. Forskere fikk blant annet tilbud om å være redaktør i tidsskriftet, tross at forskers fagbakgrunn ikke passer tidsskriftets profil. I dialog med fagorganet i geofag besluttet NPU å plassere tidsskriftet på nivå x-listen. Tidsskriftet har i ettertid mottatt flere kommentarer fra forskere som i hovedsak viser til positive erfaringer. Derfor har NPU i dialog med fagorganet i geofag besluttet at tidsskriftet beholder nivå 1.
| År | Nivå | Forfatterandeler | Publiseringspoeng |
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| 2023 | 1 |
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| 2022 | 1 | 3.1125 | 6.5256 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4.0929 | 7.9418 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1.9167 | 2.4665 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1.8917 | 3.145 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3.9444 | 7.3407 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.3 |
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Logg inn for å kommentere- When reviewing, I asked for major revision, and the editor did require a major revision and asked the authors to answer my comments, which they did in an appropriate way, at which point I recommended acceptance of the paper. The other reviewers also had comments, that also were answered by the authors in an appropriate way. I think that the peer review and the scientific discussion during the review was very good and sound.
- When publishing at MDPI Geosciences myself, I actually received 3 reviews. The reviews were detailed and of good quality. Actually, 1 reviewer recommended acceptance as is, 1 asked for minor revision, and 1 for major revision, and the editor picked the "major revision" decision, so it was definitely not sloppy. There also, I was perfectly satisfied.
For my part, I think I will continue to use them, as:
- yes it costs a bit (around 1500USD), but the final paper is gold access, under a permissive license (CC BY), so i) everybody can read it without paywall, ii) the permissive license means that everybody can re use the figures etc as long as they give credits, which I think is very useful (for example for writing a review or a book)
- the editors are responsive and publication goes reasonably fast: it took 3 weeks between submission and first review, I had 2 weeks to revise, and after I submitted the revised manuscript, it took 2 weeks before acceptance. This is much better than other geosciences journals that can take up to 1 to 1.5 years to get things published. This has a lot to say when publishing with students, who will be long gone when they are MSc or BSc students if the review takes 1 to 1.5 years, while a couple of months as it took with MDPI is much more manageable.
Thank you for the information.
We have placed the journal back at level 1, as you might have noticed, due to the positive comments we received.
Kind regards,
Lena-Cecilie Linge
I do have reservations about the publisher in their aggressive drive for Special Issues, and the demands they make on reviewers' turnover time (10 days) - but this applies to many more journals than just Geosciences, and is no reason to single out this particular journal.
With regards to the quality of the research published, and the peer review process, I see no reason to change the status from Level 1.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences/special_issues/basin_modelling
I found the review (two anonymous reviewers) and the work of the editors very professional and comparable to other open source journals such as Frontiers in Earth Science.
Strengths: The journal is a full open access journal and in my experience, it was really good at promoting transparency. They required full datasets to be published where possible, gave detailed instructions for describing author contribution and funding information etc. Open reviews were offered but optional. Fairly low APC and rapid publication times are also good for scientific transparency. There are few fully open journals in geoscience, and I think that is worth supporting.
Weaknesses: If there was any in-house scientific control in addition to the reviews it was not clear to me as an author. We received the reviews without any further comments from the editor. The journal uses external editors for their many special issues, and I suppose those judge whether or not the suggested article topic is relevant, but I’m not sure if they are further involved later in the process or if the reviewers serve as the only real quality control. I have also received a few reviewer requests from the journal that were somewhat relevant but which I find too far outside of my expertise.
Overall, I believe that the journal has some problems but based on my experience I would keep it at level 1 for now.
High Visibility/ Indexing and abstracting: Geosciences Journal is Indexed in the Major Indexing/Abstracting Service In The Field of geoscience, future earth and planetary science that include interdisciplinary topics as the effect of climate change on the existing built environment. It is indexed to Scopus, Web of Science; Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science), and other databases as ADS - Astrophysics Data System, DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, GeoRef (American Geosciences Institute) and other. This Factor Is Used For Evaluating The Prestige Of Journals.
Impact factor: The CiteScore in 2017 (Scopus) was: 1.97, which equals rank 32/182 (Q1) in the category 'General Earth and Planetary Sciences'. It means that Geosciences Journal is in the top quartiles of all the journals published in the field.
Open access/online submission: Open access is free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions. In addition the Online submission system of the MDPI publisher is user-friendly.
Journal citation and ranking: Papers published in geosciences Journal have a high citation. It means that authors publishing in this journal can improve their h-index.
Journal reputation/ circulation: The Journal reputation is high in the field (of geoscience, future earth and planetary science that include interdisciplinary topics as the effect of climate change on the existing built environment). This is due to the above quality criteria, the regularity and international presence of the authors that choose to publish in Geosciences and that are very well known in the field, the publication of Special issue that are of high interest among the researchers (e.g. “Geoscience of the Built Environment 2019 Edition”; "Weathering Processes in Cold Region: Questions, New Ideas and Approaches, and New Findings"; "Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Resources Threatened by Climate Change"). Finally it is due to the Journal publisher and editorial board quality recognized at international level.
Paper originality/ Acceptance and rejection rates: The Acceptance Criteria Is Of High Quality Standard. The Journal has a High Rejection Rate as the review process requires acceptance status from at least 3 reviewers.
Length of review / Time lag: It has a Rapid publication. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 18 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.95 days (median values for papers published in the first six months of 2018).
