Dear reader! You can see a scientific electronic journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika". The Founder and Editorial Board, which consist of well-known Russian and foreign scientists and experienced professionals, have decided to create the first Russian edition in the new electronic format in spite of the abundance of printed editions in the field of petroleum geology.
Several reasons have prompted us to come forward with this initiative. We can see the urgent character of the issues of oil and gas resources development in the country and in the world; and these issues are becoming more and more relevant as oil and gas production grows. After some period of recession the interest of the government and gas companies in the development of science has been renewed, the need for prompt exchange of information and research results among scientists is increasing. Meanwhile, the majority of printed special editions is now over-filled with advertising and is so expensive that they have become inaccessible for most researchers and professionals. The number of printed editions with similar subject areas is being increased, while the circulation is usually has the opposite trend. In this view, the accumulation, storage and usage of printed editions have become a problem even for large companies and organizations, not to mention particular readers.
We have preferred the new format - the electronic open-access journal, believing that modern engineer, scientist, and manager are competent computer users and have free access to the Internet. The ease of use and storage of the new journal are obvious. However, the main advantages are the fast information delivery and accessibility. It is always on hand in your computer.
;I am convinced that modern readers will appreciate the advantages of the new format.
Editor-in-Chief E.M. Khalimov /2006-2014/
Goals
- Creation of open-access scientific electronic journal in the field of petroleum geology.
- Introduction into the scientific environment in order to improve the efficiency of scientific research.
- High level of scientific publications.
Objectives
- Research: Promoting deep and comprehensive study of articles, testing of innovations, resulting from scientific research.
- Education: Support of higher education by providing open access to scientific articles.
- Information: Providing information for different categories of users in different fields of petroleum geology and environmental economics.
Uniqueness
The journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika" is the only academic electronic journal in the field of petroleum geology, registered as a mass media, the founder and publisher of which is the research institute - one of the Russian centers of scientific support for exploration, initiatiator of new research trends and methodological developments in the field of petroleum geology.
Open Access statement
The journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika" is an open access journal which means that all of our articles are free to access immediately from the date of publication. We do not charge our authors any fees for publication or processing, nor do we charge readers to download articles. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.
Full texts of articles published in the journal are freely available on the website of the journal, on the website of the Russian Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU, and on the EBSCOhost platform (starting from issue no. 3, 2020).
Charges
The journal does not have article processing charges or submission charges. Submission and publication of articles are free of charge.
Peer review process
The journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika" is committed to fair and objective "double-blind" peer review of all articles in order to prevent any actual or potential conflict of interests between review personnel and authors of reviewed material.
The peer review process of the journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika" consists of three stages.
The first stage of the peer review process is a double-blind peer review by at least one referee, who is expert in the article's topic and awarded PhD degree. All articles submitted for publication are subject to this stage. The referee decides if the article’s topic fits the journal domain; if the overall subject is relevant, topical, and important; evaluates the article’s quality and scientific value; identifies any factual errors that must be corrected before the article can be published and what, if any, changes need to be done to enhance an article. The results of this stage are: forwarding of article to the second stage of the review process; recommending changes in article’s content according to the referee’s comments; rejecting article’s publication.
The second stage of the peer review process is consideration by the person who is responsible for the section of the journal, in which article is submitted for. This person decide if the article’s topic fits the section and what, if any, changes need to be done to enhance the article. The results of this stage are: forwarding of article to the third stage of the review process; recommending changes in article’s content; rejecting article’s publication.
The third stage of the peer review process is consideration by Editorial Board members. All articles submitted for publication are subject to this stage. The Editorial Board members evaluate the article’s quality and scientific value and what, if any, changes need to be done to enhance the article. The results of this stage are: publishing the article; recommending changes in article’s content; rejecting article’s publication.
The journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika" upholds the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures to prevent any publication malpractices. The legal basis for ensuring publication ethics is the provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation "Copyright" (Chapter 70), provisions on the observance of good faith in scientific research (2nd World Conference, Singapore, 2010); provisions of the Committee on Ethics of Scientific Publications (The Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE).
The journal is committed to fair double-blind peer review of articles submitted for publication to prevent any actual or potential conflict of interests between review personnel and authors of reviewed material. All articles are considered without prejudice, in spite of national, racial, and religious affiliation, as well as the status or place of work of the author.
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors that contributed to the work are fairly acknowledged and that the published author list accurately reflects individual contributions.
All articles submitted for publication must contain information that have not been printed before, represent authors’ contributions, real and authentic data and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other publications.
All articles submitted for publication should be the original works of the author(s). Submitted manuscripts are downloaded in the internet service «AntiPlagiat» in order to check their original and prevent copying or plagiarism from public network sources. Manuscripts that are found to contain unacceptable level of similarity with other published works are immediately rejected.
All articles submitted for publication should not contain scientific and technical data relating to state, military or commercial secrecy. Authors should provide official document by the organization they work for with expert opinion on the possibility of publication. This document confirms that article presented by author does not contain scientific and technical data relating to state, military or commercial secrecy.
Authors should ensure that where material is taken from other sources the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained.
Only relevant citations should be used in the manuscripts. Addition of references which are not relevant to the work and irrelevant self-citation to increase one’s citation is strongly discouraged.
The authors of submitted manuscripts or published articles that are found to have fabricated or falsified the results, may incur sanctions, the manuscripts will be rejected and the published articles will be retracted.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright without restriction and grant the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article for the first time. Authors of articles are fully responsible for the content of articles. The editors are not liable to the authors and (or) third parties and organizations for any damage caused by the publication of the article. The editors reserve the right to retract published article, if it turns out that in the process of publication of the article someone's rights or generally accepted standards of scientific ethics had been violated.
License terms
All articles published by the journal "Neftegazovaya Geologiya. Teoriya I Praktika" can be used in accordance with Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This permits anyone to re-distribute and re-use a licensed work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited. Citation should include the article DOI. For more information please read Attribution 4.0 International License. The article license is displayed at the end page of the article pdf as follows: 