About the Journal

Scope of the journal

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin (HGB) is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal in the field of geography and the wider geosciences. The journal publishes articles on many aspects across the whole spectrum of research in the discipline, both theoretical and empirical results, and both in the fields of physical and human geography. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin is issued quarterly both in online and printed versions and in colour format.

Open access policy

This is an Open Access journal. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles or use them for any other lawful purpose. All the papers published in Hungarian Geographical Bulletin are free to access immediately from the date of publication. There are no author fees and article submission charges (commonly known as APCs), and no charge for any reader to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without any restriction and to retain publishing rights without restrictions. Digital copies of the journal are stored by the Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database (EPA) of the Hungarian National Széchényi Library and the REAL-J repository of Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Peer review

All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor-in-chief and the managing editors for suitability for the journal. This includes fact-checking the content, spelling and grammar, writing style, and figures. Papers that appear to be plagiarized, are ghost-written, have been published elsewhere, are outside the scope of journal, or are of little interest to readers of Hungarian Geographical Bulletin may be rejected. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. We use a double-blind review process, which means the identities of authors and reviewers are not known to each other. The review process is supervised by those members of the editorial board who are familiar with the topic of the paper. Papers are rejected or accepted based on the peer reviews and editorial board’s decision.