About the Journal

Focus and Scope of the Journal

Space-Society-Economy is an academic journal in the field of socio-economic geography, space economy and spatial development, that publishes articles of Polish and foreign authors. Articles published in the journal cover wide spectrum of research join with linkages between space, society and economy. Space-Society-Economy has been published since 1991, initially under the name of “Studies and Materials” (Abstracts of Papers for the Conference, in which were published research results in various areas of science as well as papers prepared by representatives of practice, that were presented mainly at national and international conferences organized by the Department of Spatial Economy and Spatial Planning (in the years 2013-15 by the Department of Population and Services Studies). In the years 2016-2018 the journal was published as a quarterly. In 2019 publication of journal was suspended  due to the fact that it was not scoring by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Since 2020 journal has been published annually (single articles are issued in continuous publishing – Online First) by Institute of the Built Environment and Spatial Policy (Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz).

Journals scoring by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 70 points (July 2023).

ISSN 1733-3180

 

Reviewing procedure
1. For each publication the Editorial Office will nominate two independent reviewers from outside the unit.
2. In case of a text written in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers has to be affiliated with a foreign institution of a nationality different than the author’s.
3. At each publication the Journal’s Editorial Office will strive to select reviewers that are independent and not affiliated to the author of the work. Otherwise, the reviewer will be obligated to sign a declaration of lack of conflict of interests (direct personal relations, professional subordination, direct scientific cooperation over the last two years preceding the preparation of the review).
4. A review will be in writing and each applicant will be able to read it and comment on it.
5. Once a year the list of reviewers is posted on the Journal’s website.
6. All articles and works submitted by authors and initially qualified for publishing by the Editorial Board will be subject to the reviewing procedure. The initial qualification involves assessing the scientific character of the work, its suitability for the Journal’s profile and its formal aspects as well as complying with the requirements of the Circulation procedure for contributions submitted for publication.

Principles of reviewing articles in the journal
The Editorial Office of Space-Society-Economy adopted the principles of reviewing text published in our journal in compliance with the recommendations contained in the brochure “Good Practices in reviewing procedures in science” published by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In particular, we pay attention to the:
1. Rule of double-blind review – the names of reviewers are disclosed only on the journal’s website without connecting them to the reviewed texts,
2. Substantial selection and competences of reviewers; the reviewers hold at least PhD degree,
3. Selection which ensures that the reviewer and the reviewed are not in close personal or professional relation,
4. Written nature of a review and its preparation according to a standard form, the review has to end with a clear conclusion – admitting the article for publishing or its rejection,
5. Presenting the review to the author and giving him or her a chance to comment thereon,
6. Publishing only these texts which received two positive reviews.

Open Access Policy

The basic license for publishing articles in the journal is CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution – Non-Commercial Use – No Derivatives). At the author's request it is possible to publish it under the CC-BY (Attribution) license.

Privacy policy

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.