Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences

The Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences (IJES) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal of Geosciences published quarterly online by the Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, IRAN. IJES covers a wide spectrum of geological disciplines including Isotopic Geology, Petrology, Orogeny, Magmatism, Metamorphism, Regional Geology, Economic geology, Geochemistry, Environmental Geology, Structural Geology and Tectonics, Geohazards and Georisks, Paleontology, Quaternary Science, Soil Processes, Volcanology, Mineralogy, Geophysics, Earthquakes and Seismology, Engineering Geology, Bio Geoscience, Mining Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Sedimentary Geology, Hydrogeology and other branches of applied geophysics, economic and environmental geology, experimental and theoretical geoscientific studies.  IJES is indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ISI-WOS), SCOPUS,  ISC, SJR and SID. 

IJES is published quarterly per year.

IJES has no publication charges and no submission fees. 

All type papers published by IJES are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. IJES is an "Open access" publishing allows an immediate, world-wide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research papers, which is in the best interests of the scientific community.

High visibility for maximum global exposure with open access publishing model rigorous peer review (blind peer-review) of research papers prompt faster publication.

All corresponding authors of each manuscript should be download "Copyright Transfer Form" from above this page then complete and sign this form by all authors and submit this form with all mandatory files which mentioned in bellow. By signing this form, copyright transfer to IJES.

Submission of a manuscript implies that:

1) The work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis).

2) It is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

3) Its publication has been approved by all coauthors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out.

4) Authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher, if and when their manuscript is accepted for publication.

5) The manuscript will not be published elsewhere.

 IJES follows guidelines from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)  facing all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. COPE offers advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct.