Contents
Policy and publication ethics
Peer review
Guide for Reviewers

▲Policy and publication ethics

The legal basis for ensuring publication ethics is provided by the international standards, which were accepted in the Second World Conference on Integrity in Scientific Research (Singapore, July, 22–24, 2010),by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and norms of Chapter 70 “Copyright” of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The Journal guarantees compliance with ethics of publishing scientific publications, scientific publication authorship, peer-review of scientific publications and editing scientific publications.
The policy of the editorial board is based on respect of the personal rights of the author and the right for intellectual property. The editorial board of the journal guarantees independent and conscientious review of all submitted manuscripts regardless of the official position of the authors, their commercial interests and relations with the Founders of the journal. The authors are also not charged for their publication. All materials published in the journal are fee-free.
All materials should carefully be checked before the submission in accordance with Guide for Authors. All authors of the paper should have affiliations, which are responsible for the expertise of their materials. The authors should avoid fabrication and falsification of data, plagiarism, concurrent submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal, replication of publications and disregard of the authors’ copyrights.

▲Peer review

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal are subject to peer-review by reviewers, who help the Editorial board to assess the scientific quality of the paper. Reviewers must not share the review or information about the paper with anyone. Communication between authors (corresponding author) and peer reviewers is mediated by a responsible member of the Editorial Board. The peer review process of the Journal is based on the following principles:
1) The review process does not involve reviewers, who work in the same research organization as the author(s).
2) The journal follows a blind peer review model, when author identities are known to peer reviewers, but peer reviewers identities are not revealed to the authors, except for those cases, when the reviewer suggests the direct contact with the author for better improvement of the manuscript. Authors receive electronic copies of the review; the original reviews are stored by the Editorial Board for five years.
3) During resubmission, the authors should provide a detailed response to the reviewers. Resubmitted manuscripts can again be reviewed if necessary. The final decision is made by the Handling Editor or Editor-in-Chief.
4) If authors do not agree with the decision of the reviewers, they can request additional review of their manuscript. In case of rejection of the manuscript, authors receive a substantiated decision of the Editor-in-Chief.

▲Guide for Reviewers

Peer reviewer selection is highly important to the publication process. The aim of the review is critical selection of manuscripts for publishing and constructive recommendations for their improvement. Reviewers must evaluate the scientific novelty and urgency of research, the appropriateness of methods used and the quality of data presented including figures and tables, whether the results are accurate and whether the conclusions are supported by the results. The reviewer can also comment on the style and the using of an appropriate language. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should decline to review manuscripts, with which they believe they have a competing interest.
Since timely reviews are of utmost importance to authors, reviewers should review the manuscript within 15 days of accepting this invitation. If they are unable to review the manuscript, they are kindly requested to suggest other possible reviewers. The review should follow above general recommendations, as well as reflect specific features of the reviewed manuscript. In conclusion, reviewer should provide a rationale for the improvement of the manuscript. Reviews should help authors revise their paper such that it may be accepted for publication. Decisions with rejections of the paper should explain the major weaknesses of the research to help the authors prepare their manuscript either for resubmission to the Journal or for submission to a different journal.
In addition to review with supporting arguments and references, Editorial Board also ask reviewers the following types of questions, to provide an assessment of the various aspects of a manuscript:
– Is the manuscript appropriate for the Journal?
– Is the manuscript original?
– Does the manuscript reference previous literature appropriately?
– Does the title of the manuscript meet its content?
– Does the abstract contain sufficient information?
– Are all figures necessary?
– Is the quality of figures good?
– Are the conclusions and data interpretation robust, valid and reliable?
– Is there any practical conclusions?
– Should the manuscript be corrected?
– Should the manuscript be re-reviewed?
– Should the manuscript be rejected?

Chief editor:   
Maslennikov V.V., corresponding member RAS, Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region. [expand title=”More”]Maslennikov V.V. – Specialist in the field of metallogeny, lithology, mineralogy, geochemistry and paleoecology of pyrite deposits. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences.
The main scientific achievement of V.V. Maslennikov is the creation of a unified theory of lithogenesis and pyrite formation, showing the interaction of the processes of sedimentogenesis, halmirolysis, diagenesis and biogenesis during the formation of deposits of pyritiferous paleohydrothermal fields. For the first time, the similarity of the Ural pyritic deposits with modern submarine sulfide structures has been substantiated.
As a professor at the Department of Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the South Ural State University, he developed the course “Genetic types of mineral deposits”.
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2004).
Author and co-author of 368 scientific publications, including 5 monographs. Author of 60 articles in peer-reviewed Russian and international journals.
Hirsch index in databases:  Scopus – 28;RSCI – 34.

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Deputy chief editor:
Belogub E.V., Doctor of Geological and Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region. [expand title=”More”]Research interests include mineralogy of hypergene processes, ore deposits, methods of mineralogical analysis.
E.V. Belogub created the basis for the development of the theory of hypergenesis of sulfide deposits using the example of the Southern Urals. The regularities of the formation of selenides in the hypergenic profile were identified and thermodynamically justified, and data on the distribution of sulfates in the Urals were systematized. As a professor at the Department of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, South Ural State University, E.V. The Belogub course was prepared “Mineralogy” and “Technological Mineralogy”.
The author and co-author of the discovery of 7 new minerals. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Chief Researcher.
E.V. Belogub is the author of more than 300 published works (including 31 in WebofScience), the author of 3 monographs.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus –13; RSCI – 19.

[/expand]Popov V.A., Doctor of Geological and Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region [expand title=”More”]The area of scientific interests is mineralogy, crystallomorphology.
The main scientific achievement of V.A. The doctrine developed by him on the paragenesis of the forms of crystals of minerals is populated. He established the series of corresponding forms of crystals of minerals, developed the morphological theory of recrystallization of minerals and the formation of structures of mineral aggregates.
Co-author of the international discovery in the field of crystallomorphology “The regularity of crystallomorphological evolution in mineral-forming processes” (No. 270 of the USSR State Register).
Author and co-author of the discovery of 11 new minerals.
Author of more than 470 scientific papers (including 13 articles in the WebofScience database) and 18 monographs.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 7; RSCI – 12.

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The composition of the editorial board: Anfilogov V.N., corresponding member. RAS, Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region [expand title=”More”]His research interests are petrology of magmatic processes, the structure of silicate melts, planetology. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences.
V.N. Anfilogov developed the theory of co-crystallization of isomorphic impurities in open systems, anionic equilibria, viscosity and electrical conductivity of melts. He substantiated the theory of polymer equilibria and methods for calculating the physicochemical properties of silicate melts. Founder and leader of the scientific school “Structure and properties of magmatic melts.” Ch. Commission on experimental petrography of the World Mineralogical Organization, member Scientific Council on Thermodynamics of Geochemical Processes at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2000).
Author of over 300 publications and 6 monographs.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 6; RSCI – 12.

[/expand] A. Askhabov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Branch, Syktyvkar [expand title=”More”]Specialist in the field of theoretical and experimental mineralogy, mineralogical crystallography and crystallogenesis, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Askhabov A.A. laid the foundations of a new evolutionary direction in crystallography and crystallogenesis. He established patterns of growth of artificial crystals at the stage of regeneration. He proposed new methods of rational use of natural crystalline raw materials, crystal synthesis and regulation of their properties. He made a contribution to the problem of a genetic interpretation of the characteristics of crystal growth, to the discovery of the laws and conditions of natural crystal formation, and he developed new morphological, crystallophysical, and anatomical indicators of the genesis of diamond, beryl, quartz, and other minerals.
He has published more than 200 scientific papers (25 in foreign publications), including 15 monographs.
Hirsch index in the database. Scopus –6; RSCI – 14.

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Voitekhovsky Yu.L., Doctor of Geological and Mathematical Sciences, Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity [expand title=”More”]Main research interests: geology and mineralogy of ore deposits of the Kola Peninsula, mainly kyanite and copper-nickel with platinoids.
The main scientific achievements are the creation of three scientific fields at the intersection of the natural and mathematical sciences: systematic combinatorial geometric analysis of polyhedral structures, including fullerenes and their analogues; systematic combinatorial geometrical analysis of real crystallographic simple forms in connection with the principle of P. Curie dissymmetry; structural analysis of crystalline rock as a space with various topologies and non-Euclidean metrics.
The author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 5 monographs.
Hirsch index in the RSCI database – 13; Scopus – 6.

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Votyakov SL, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Yekaterinburg [expand title=”More”]Specialist in the field of physics of minerals and materials science of natural substances, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He contributed to the development of modern concepts of mineral matter, to the development of spectroscopy of minerals. He obtained a number of original results in the study of point defects in the structure of minerals, he traced the dynamics of changes in structural defects under various thermodynamic and radiation influences in natural and model conditions, proposed mechanisms for the formation and transformation of defects, and established their relationship with the physicochemical properties and formation medium of minerals.
The author (co-author) of more than 350 scientific papers, including 8 monographs. Publications in WebofScience44.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 10;RSCI – 18.

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Galuskina I.O., University of Silesia, Sosnowiec (Poland) [expand title=”More”]Specialist in the field of crystallogeny and spectroscopy of minerals.
Author and co-author of the discovery of 15 new minerals.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 20.

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Krivovichev V.G., Professor, St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University), St. Petersburg [expand title=”More”]Specialist in the field of mineralogy, geochemistry and the genesis of rare-metal deposits associated with granitoid magmatism. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences; Professor, St. Petersburg State University; Mercatorian professor (Kiel, Geramnia).
Creator of the concept of mineral systems and its applications to the study of the evolution of mineral diversity.
V.G. Krivovichev prepared the courses “Mineralogy”, “Physicochemical Mineralogy”, “Introduction to Gemology”, etc .; textbook for universities “General Mineralogy” (co-authored, 2008). Editor of the Mineralogy section in the three-volume edition of Geological Dictionary (2010, 2011, 2012).
Author and co-author of more than 300 publications (20 in WebofScience), of which over 25 monographs and textbooks.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 15; RSCI – 18.

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Makagonov E.P., Ph.D., Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of RAS, Miass [expand title=”More”]Scientific interests: crystallography, mineralogy of deposits, mineralogical mapping.
The main theme of his work is associated with the creation of a meaningful axiomatic theory of the structure of intergrowths and transformations of minerals. The foundations of the theory of intergrowth symmetry are presented in the monograph “Symmetry of intergrowths of mineral individuals”. He developed the theory of symmetry of intergrowths of mineral individuals, the theory of affine homology of crystals. The fundamentals of the theory of homology are published in the monograph “Affine homology of crystals”.
The author of more than 100 scientific papers.
Hirsch index in the RSCI database –5, Scopus – 5.

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Melekestseva I.Yu., Ph.D., Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of RAS, Miass [expand title=”More”]His research interests are related to the research of ancient pyrite deposits and modern hydrothermal sulfide fields of the Atlantic, as well as gold deposits of the Southern Urals and Tuva.
I.Yu. The features of the structure and mineral composition of the South Ural cobalt-copper-sulphide deposits were determined, and the key role of diagenesis in the transformation of sulfide breccias, the magmatic contribution to the formation of copper-zinc ores enriched in gold and silver, enrichment with secondary sulfide impurities and the similarity of lithogenesis were established. Paleozoic and Cenozoic barite-containing pyrite ores of hydrothermal fields of the MAR.
He is the author of more than 70 scientific papers in peer-reviewed Russian and foreign publications, co-author of 5 monographs.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 11; RSCI – 14.

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Murzin V.V., Doctor of Geological and Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry (IGG UB RAS), Ekaterinburg [expand title=”More”]Research interests include mineralogy, geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, thermobarogeochemistry of precious metals and precious stones deposits.
He made a significant contribution to the creation of a model for the formation of gold deposits of non-traditional genotypes, including Svetlinsky type gold-sulfide mineralization, gold in rodingites, as well as to the development of a theory of the behavior of gold in weathering crusts.
The author of more than 90 scientific papers (22 of them in foreign publications).
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 9; RSCI – 20.

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Nimis P., professor, University of Padua (Italy) [expand title=”More”]Specialist in the field of crystalline chemistry of rock-forming minerals, crystal-chemical properties, formation conditions and geochemical properties and their application in petrological, geological and ore deposits.
He made a significant contribution to the study:
– thermobarometry of mafic and ultrabasic rocks and diamond inclusions, geochemistry of mantle rocks and their relationship with the diamond potential of kimberlites;
– volcanic sulfide deposits, taking into account their geodynamic conditions in comparison with modern mineralization of the seabed;
– metallogeny Cu of the Alpine folded region and its archeometry.
Author of over 300 publications, including 57 articles in the WebofSciences database. Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 30.

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Pautov L.A., Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.E. Fersman, Moscow [expand title=”More”]

The author of the discovery of more than 40 new minerals (for 2017). Researcher of the mineralogy of the alkaline massif Dara-i-Pioz (Tajikistan), skarn deposits of the ridge. Inylchek (Kyrgyzstan) and the pegmatites of the Ilmensky mountains (South Urals).
The author of 48 publications in WebofScience.
Hirsch index in databases: WebofScience – 10; Scopus – 9; RSCI – 12.

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Popova V.I., Ph.D., Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region [expand title=”More”]

IN AND. Popova is a leading specialist in the study of pegmatites, gold and copper deposits of the Urals, tin ore deposits of the Far East.
IN AND. Popova is the author of the development of the method of neutron activation radiography of large crystals of minerals after irradiation in a reactor, as well as electrolytic etching of large pyrite crystals. He is the author of the discovery of 6 new minerals.
IN AND. Popova published more than 280 scientific papers; including 7 monographs.
Hirsch index in databases:  Scopus – 7; RSCI – 11.

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Pekov I.V., Doctor of Geology and Mathematics, Professor, Moscow State University (Moscow State University), Moscow [expand title=”More”]Leading specialist in the field of mineralogy of natural objects and geochemistry of alkaline post-magmatic systems, granite pegmatites, exhalation post-volcanic formations and the hypergenesis zone of chalcogenide deposits, as well as mineralogy, geochemistry and crystal chemistry of rare elements, zeolite-like minerals and synthetic compounds, mineralogical materials science. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The main works are related to the study of complexes of alkaline rocks and granite pegmatites of the Kola Peninsula, the Middle and Southern Urals, Greenland, Canada, Germany, the fumarole fields of the volcanoes of Kamchatka, the oxidation zone of ore deposits in Altai, the Caucasus, the Urals, Greece, Chile, as well as experimental research of new zeolite-like materials based on silicates with heteropolyhedral skeleton and layered structures.
In 2016, he openly and thoroughly studied 202 new minerals, of which for 122 he is the leading author.
The author of 554 scientific publications, of which 429 are part of the WebofScience and Scopus databases.
Hirsch index in databases:  Scopus – 24; RSCI – 25.

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Tesalina S.G., Ph.D. – M.D., University of Curtin, Perth (Australia) [expand title=”More”]The area of ??scientific interests is the chemical and temporal evolution of the lithosphere of the Earth and associated mineral deposits.
Tesalina S.G. developed the Re-Os and Sm-Nd isotopic systematics for pyrite and gold deposits, which is used to increase the accuracy of geochronology and stratigraphy.
S.G. Tesalina leads the radiogenic isotope research department at the John de Laeter Research Center at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Her current project with WA Geological Survey is focused on developing Sm-Nd technology for isotope mapping of geological terranes.
Author of over 300 publications, including 42 articles in the WebofSciences database.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 20.

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Herrington R., Natural History Museum, London (UK) [expand title=”More”]A specialist in the field of studying the relationship between the formation of mineral deposits and the geodynamic history of the Earth, as well as the association of the formation of deposits and biota in the ocean.
R. Herrington is the author of a broad analytical review of Ural mineral deposits.
Author of over 400 publications, including 68 articles in the WebofSciences database.
Hirsch index in databases: Scopus – 31.

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Udachin V.N., Doctor of Geology and Mathematics, Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region [expand title=”More”]Research interests: geochemistry of mining industrial technogenesis, mechanisms of migration and accumulation of technogenic, potentially toxic elements.
The main subject of V.N. Success is associated with the creation of a theory of ecogeochemistry of mining industrial technogenesis using the example of the Southern Urals. For the Karabash and Mednogorsk geotechnical systems, he established the laws of distribution and form of toxic elements in natural depositing media (soils, bottom sediments of lakes, peat bogs and living organisms).
Under his leadership, research was carried out for the section “Environmental Geochemistry” of the 5th and 7th framework scientific and technical programs of the European Union.
The author of more than 80 scientific papers.
Hirsch index in databases:  Scopus – 13; RSCI – 11.

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