Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan welcomes contributions in Earth sciences, including geology, geophysics, geochemistry, mining, engineering geology, economic geology, hydrology, and water resources. The journal also features studies exploring the atmosphere, ocean, and environment.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff first. The paper are judged mostly on the general interest or scope of the paper (whether the paper is suitable for the journal), the format of the writing (whether the author has followed the guidelines provided) and pass the plagiarism screening. Only those papers that  meet editorial criteria are sent for formal peer review. Those papers judged by the editors to be of insufficient are rejected promptly without external review.

Manuscripts judged to be of suitable for further process are sent to (typically) two reviewers. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice:

  • Accept, with minor or without revisions,
  • Accept, with mayor revisions,
  • Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission.

 

Publication Frequency

Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan published twice a year in June and December.

 

Open Access Policy

Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan  is a peer-reviewed scientific journal committed to the open dissemination of knowledge. In alignment with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021), Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan provides immediate, free, and unrestricted access to its published content. The journal operates in full compliance with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

  1. Definition of Open Access

Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan defines Open Access as the unrestricted availability of research outputs on the public internet. Users are permitted to:

  • Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles.

  • Crawl articles for indexing or utilize them for any other lawful purpose.

  • Access content without financial, legal, or technical barriers, aside from those inherent in gaining internet access itself.

All articles are made openly available immediately upon publication without an embargo period, and are delivered in formats that support both reuse and machine-readability.

  1. Author Copyright

Authors publishing in Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan retain full copyright of their work. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan an exclusive license to publish, distribute, and archive the article in both print and digital formats.

The official copyright notice is detailed at: https://jrisetgeotam.brin.go.id/index.php/jrisgeotam/about/submissions#copyrightNotice

  1. Licensing (for CC-BY-NC-SA)

All articles published in Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at brin.go.id.

This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work non-commercially, provided they give appropriate credit to the original author and license their new creations under identical terms. This policy ensures that while the work can be freely shared and reused for educational and research purposes, it remains protected from unauthorized commercial exploitation.

  1. Article Processing Charges (APC)

Riset Geologi dan Pertambangan is a diamond open access journal, meaning that:

  • No submission fees are charged.

  • No article processing charges (APCs) are imposed on authors.

All publication costs are fully funded by the journal's publisher to promote equity in scholarly communication. The Author Fee Policy can also be found at: https://jrisetgeotam.brin.go.id/index.php/jrisgeotam/pages/view/apc

 

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.