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Policies
This page sets out how Journal of “Geotechnological Problems of Oil, Gas and Chemistry” assesses, publishes and archives the work it receives. Requirements addressed to authors when preparing a manuscript are on the Submissions page.
Peer review
Every submission is first read by the editors, who check that it falls within the journal's aim and scope, that it reports original work, and that it meets the formal requirements for submission. Manuscripts that fail this check are returned to the author without review.
Manuscripts that pass are sent to two independent reviewers under a single-anonymous model: the reviewers are told who the authors are, the authors are not told who the reviewers are. Reviewers are drawn from the members of the relevant section and from external specialists, and are asked to declare any conflict of interest before accepting.
The section editor-in-chief collects the reports and recommends a decision; the final decision to accept, revise or reject rests with the Editor-in-Chief and is taken on the scientific merit of the work as established by the reviews. Where the two reports disagree materially, a third reviewer is appointed.
After acceptance and copyediting, authors receive proofs and have five days to return corrections. Proof corrections are limited to errors introduced in production and to factual corrections; they are not an opportunity to revise the argument.
Publication ethics
The journal follows the principles and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Editors, reviewers and authors are all bound by them.
- Submission of a manuscript is a statement that the work is original, that it is not under consideration elsewhere, and that all authors have approved it.
- Authorship is limited to those who made a substantial contribution to the work; everyone who qualifies must be listed, and no one who does not.
- Allegations of misconduct — plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, undisclosed duplicate publication, undisclosed conflicts of interest — are investigated by the editors following COPE guidance, whatever the stage of the manuscript and including after publication.
- Errors found after publication are corrected through a published correction, or, where the conclusions are invalidated, a retraction notice. The original article is not removed.
Plagiarism
All submissions are screened with similarity-detection software before review. A similarity score is not by itself a finding of misconduct: every match is examined by an editor, since correctly quoted and attributed text, standard method descriptions and reference lists all raise the score legitimately. Manuscripts showing unattributed reuse of text, data or figures — including substantial reuse of the authors' own previously published work — are rejected, and the case is handled under the publication-ethics policy above.
Declarations required of authors
Each manuscript must carry the following declarations, placed before the reference list. Where a declaration does not apply, it is still made, stating that fact.
| Declaration | What it must state |
|---|---|
| Funding | The source of financial support for the research, with grant numbers, or an explicit statement that the research received no specific funding. |
| Competing interests | Any financial or personal relationship that could be seen to influence the work, or a statement that the authors declare none. |
| Author contributions | What each named author contributed, for multi-author papers. |
| Data availability | Where the data and any code underlying the results can be obtained, and on what terms; if they cannot be shared, why. |
| Use of artificial intelligence | Any use of AI tools in preparing the text, the analysis or the figures, naming the tool and describing what it was used for. AI tools cannot be listed as authors, and the authors remain fully responsible for the content. |
| Ethics approval and consent | Required where the work involves human or animal participants, personal data, or hazardous materials: the approving body, the reference number, and the consent obtained. |
Copyright and licensing
Authors retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows anyone to read, download and share the article with attribution, but not to use it commercially or to distribute a modified version without the authors' permission.
By submitting, authors grant the journal the right of first publication. Third-party material reproduced in an article — figures, tables, long quotations — remains under its own terms, and it is the author's responsibility to obtain and supply written permission for it.
Open access
The journal provides immediate open access to its full content on the principle that making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There are no submission charges, article processing charges or subscription fees.
Digital object identifiers and the version of record
Every article is registered with Crossref and receives a DOI under the journal's prefix 10.65294. The version of record is the final, copyedited article as published in a numbered issue; that is the version to cite, and it is not replaced after publication. Corrections and retractions are published as separate items linked to it.
Issues and archiving
Content is published in numbered issues identified by volume, issue number and year. Past issues remain permanently available under Archive. The journal's metadata is exposed for harvesting via OAI-PMH and indexed by Google Scholar.
Privacy
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