About the Journal

Established in 1889, the Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva plays a major role in influencing geological research with an interdisciplinary approach. The journal Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva is focused on original scientific contributions over a wide range of topics in any field of the geological sciences.

The scopes of the journal include the following fields: geodynamics, tectonics and structural geology, geochronology and isotopic geology, stratigraphy, paleobiology, paleontology and biostratigraphy, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironment analysis, subsurface hydrology and geology, geological hazards and other branches of applied geophysics, economic and environmental geology.

Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge and used in accordance with the Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY). The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.

The journal is published by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mining and Geology, Department of Regional Geology and Department of Palaeontology.

Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva is published biannually, in July and December. Submissions are accepted on a continuous basis throughout the year. The Journal publishes articles online ahead of print publication in the Articles Online First section of our web site.

Contributions to the journal are published in English, with abstract and summaries in Serbian.

Manuscripts in English should be delivered through the Journal's system. Authors should prepare their manuscripts using a manuscript guidelines for writing articles, which can be found in the Authors Guidelines.

Papers will be considered only if they have not been published elsewhere before, are not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and their publication has been tacitly or explicitly approved by all co-authors (if any) and by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work was carried out. Parallel submission of the same paper to another journal constitutes a misconduct and eliminates the manuscript from consideration by Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva. After publication in the Journal, the authors also warrant that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder.

The Journal welcomes manuscripts from authors whose articles can enrich the overall view of geology scientific disciplines (see Focus and Scope). After initial editorial checking, the submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer review process. This journal uses double‐blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The submitted manuscripts are forwarded to two or three referees for a double-blind review. The usual period of reviewing the papers takes 30 days, depending on the number of submitted materials. All of the reviewers of a paper act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editors-in-Chief may assign additional reviewers.

The Journal welcomes manuscripts from authors whose articles can enrich the overall view of geology and related scientific disciplines. It is understood that all the authors, having submitted their papers to the Journal, agree to the publishing politics and ethics. The Editors-in-Chief are responsible for deciding which articles will be published. The Editors-in-Chief are guided by the policy of the Journal and constrained by legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. More information about the responsibilities of editors, authors, reviewers, and the publisher can be found in Publishing Ethics.

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