About the Journal

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Geographia, publication of the Faculty of Geography of Cluj-Napoca, which reached its 56th year of existence (since 1957), is published in English twice a year, in June and December.

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Geographia continues the journal entitled “Papers of the Cluj Institute of Geography” („Lucrările Institutului de Geografie din Cluj”), issued between 1922 and 1947. Very large and highly valued scientific studies were published in this journal by a number of Romanian and foreign geographers, including the famous French geographers Emm. de Martonne and Robert Ficheux.

 

Aims and Scope

As a publication of the Faculty of Geography of Cluj-Napoca, the journal valorize in the first place the results of the scientific activity of the faculty teaching staff (many research contracts, applied in regional development), as well as papers of other Romanian and foreign geographers. The studies, since 2009, are published exclusively in English. They belong both to the field of Physical Geography and Human Geography and refer mostly to the Transylvanian territory. At the same time, the journal comprises papers which deal with a series of issues analyzed nationally and internationally. For this reason, the journal editors constantly encourage the external contributions.

 

Open Access Policy

Studia UBB Geographia is a Fully Open Access Journal. The Journal does not charge readers or their institutions for access (read, download, copy, distribute, print for research use, search, or link to the full texts of articles). 

Studia UBB Geographia does not charge authors any kind of publication fees or article processing charges.

There is also a printed version of the journal (ISSN 1221-079X).

Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits, without charge, use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

Prevention and Fight against Plagiarism and other forms of fraudulent conduct

Authors of the journal must be aware and understand that Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai intends to prevent, and also sanctions attempts and acts of plagiarism and other forms of fraudulent conduct, including but not limited to the fabrication and/or falsification of data. Therefore, authors are hereby advised that:
– Plagiarism attempts or other fraudulent actions discovered and documented during the review process (Editorial Office, peer review) may lead to: a) rejection of the manuscript for publication; b) official information of the higher education or research institution of the author’s affiliation; and c) information of the scholarly community and public opinion.
– Upon notification on allegation of plagiarism or other fraudulent actions for any article that has been already published in Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, and following the thorough verification of the notification, the Editorial Office may take the following steps: a) contact the Index of allegations of plagiarized works in Romania; b) follow the procedure in place for plagiarism attempts or other fraudulent actions discovered and documented during the review process; c) officially inform the higher education or research institution of the author’s affiliation, making available all necessary documents (including the author’s responsible declaration of originality); d) advise the most important international databases about the allegation of plagiarism; and e) publish (on the site, etc.) its official position on the matter. As conceptual and general guidelines on plagiarism, the journal Studia UBB refers to: “What Constitutes Plagiarism?”, in “Harvard Guide to Using Sources”, available here: https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism

See also: https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/uploads/2020-06/RA_HEADT%20Centre%20Webinar%20on%20Plagiarism_FINAL.pdf

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement