Aims and Scope
Mineralogia (ISSN: 1899-8291, e-ISSN: 1899-8526) is an international, peer-reviewed, English-language, free open-access journal that publishes original research and review papers covering the broad fields of geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, technical, experimental, and applied mineralogy, and environmental sciences. The journal aims to advance and disseminate high-quality research in the mineralogical sciences, facilitate communication across related disciplines, and promote the international exchange of scientific knowledge. Its target readership includes researchers, academic teachers, students, and professionals working in mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, environmental sciences, applied mineralogy, and related areas of the geosciences.
Mineralogia, formerly published as Mineralogia Polonica, has a publishing tradition extending over 50 years. The journal’s subtitle, Geochemical, Mineralogical and Petrological Research, reflects its broad and inclusive scientific scope. The regular series Mineralogia is accompanied by the irregular series, including Mineralogia - Special Papers (containing conference abstracts) and Thematic Collections devoted to selected research topics.
- Publications in the scope of widely understood mineralogical sciences (mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, environmental sciences, applied mineralogy, etc.)
- Original research and review papers, letters (a short research paper), short notes (a brief communication), book reviews, and letters to editors with comments on papers published in Mineralogia
The journal facilitates communication and promotes scientific research in the scope of:
- descriptive mineralogy,
- experimental mineralogy,
- igneous petrology,
- metamorphic petrology,
- sedimentary petrology,
- hard rock geochemistry,
- geochronology and petrochronology,
- environmental mineralogy and geochemistry.
Why Subscribe and Read
- excellent source of outstanding interdisciplinary research papers in mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry and related disciplines;
- over fifty years of publishing;
- offers high-quality electronic publications (eISSN 1899-8526);
- special issues publishing reviewed abstracts from conferences co-organized by the Mineralogical Society of Poland.
Why Submit
- fast, fair, and constructive single-blind peer review and editing;
- no processing and no publication charges;
- language-correction services for authors from non-English-speaking regions.
Editorial Policy
Editorial and Publishing Policies
Mineralogia is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, editorial independence, research integrity, and transparency. The journal’s policies are based on the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
These policies apply to all content published by Mineralogia, including original research papers, review papers, letters, short notes, book reviews, letters to the editors, Thematic Collections, Mineralogia – Special Papers, and conference-related publications.
Authors, reviewers, editors, members of the Editorial Board, and the publisher are expected to observe the principles described below.
1. Editorial Independence and Responsibilities
Editorial decisions are based on the scholarly quality, originality, methodological soundness, relevance, and conformity of a submission with the journal’s aims and scope. Decisions must not be influenced by the authors’ nationality, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, gender, religion, political views, commercial interests, or personal relationships.
The Editor-in-Chief and handling editors are responsible for:
- ensuring a fair, confidential, and timely evaluation of submissions;
- selecting suitably qualified and independent reviewers;
- identifying and managing actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest;
- protecting the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and reviewer reports;
- taking appropriate action when ethical concerns or allegations of misconduct are raised;
- maintaining the integrity of the published scholarly record.
The journal’s owner, publisher, funding sources, and service providers must not interfere with individual editorial decisions. Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest.
2. Responsibilities of Authors
Authors must ensure that their submissions:
- present original work accurately and honestly;
- contain sufficient information to allow the research to be understood and, where possible, reproduced;
- appropriately acknowledge all sources, data, methods, software, funding, and contributions;
- do not contain fabricated, falsified, manipulated, plagiarized, or unlawfully obtained material;
- have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another journal, except as permitted under the journal’s preprint and prior-publication policy;
- comply with applicable legal, institutional, professional, and ethical requirements.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the manuscript and for responding fully and promptly to editorial questions concerning the research or its publication.
3. Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work; acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or preparation and critical revision of the manuscript. All listed authors must approve the submitted and final versions and accept responsibility for the work.
Individuals who contributed to the research but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged, with their permission. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the author list and contributor information are complete and accurate.
Any request to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must:
- include a clear explanation for the proposed change;
- be approved in writing by all listed authors and any author being added or removed;
- be approved by the Editor-in-Chief.
Authorship disputes that cannot be resolved by the authors may be referred to the relevant institutions for investigation. The journal will not determine the relative contributions of disputing authors. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to describe individual contributions using a recognized contributor-role taxonomy.
Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools
Generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, or originality of a published work.
Authors must disclose any substantive use of generative AI in preparing text, images, code, data analysis, or other manuscript content. Authors remain fully responsible for all submitted material, including the verification of AI-generated information, references, analyses, and conclusions.
Editors and reviewers must not upload unpublished manuscripts, reviewer reports, or confidential editorial information to publicly accessible generative AI systems or other services that do not guarantee confidentiality.
4. Responsibilities of Reviewers
Reviewers must:
- provide objective, constructive, and evidence-based assessments;
- treat manuscripts and associated materials as confidential;
- disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest;
- decline a review when they lack the necessary expertise or cannot complete it within a reasonable period;
- identify relevant published work that has not been cited;
- inform the editor of suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, or other possible misconduct;
- refrain from using unpublished information obtained through peer review for personal, professional, or commercial advantage.
Personal criticism, discriminatory comments, and requests for unnecessary citations intended to increase the citation count of the reviewer, journal, or associated publications are unacceptable.
5. Conflicts of Interest and Competing Interests
A conflict of interest may be financial, professional, institutional, intellectual, contractual, or personal. Conflicts may exist even when an individual believes that they do not affect their judgement.
Authors must disclose all relationships, activities, funding, or interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research or its interpretation. A competing-interest statement must be included in the manuscript. Where no competing interests exist, this should be stated explicitly.
Reviewers must disclose relevant conflicts before accepting a review assignment. Reviewers with a conflict that could affect, or appear to affect, their impartiality will not be asked to review the manuscript.
Editors and Editorial Board members must not handle manuscripts involving:
- their own work;
- recent collaborators, students, supervisors, or close professional associates;
- individuals at the same institution where impartial handling cannot be ensured;
- personal or financial interests that could influence editorial judgement.
A submission authored by an editor or Editorial Board member will be handled independently by an editor who has no conflict of interest. The author-editor will have no access to confidential information concerning the review or decision-making process.
Conflicts identified after publication will be assessed and may result in a correction, editorial notice, expression of concern, or retraction, depending on their significance.
6. Allegations of Research and Publication Misconduct
Mineralogia takes all allegations of misconduct regarding submitted or published material seriously, regardless of whether they are raised by identified individuals, anonymous whistleblowers, reviewers, readers, editors, or institutions.
Research and publication misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism or unattributed text recycling;
- fabrication or falsification of data;
- inappropriate manipulation of images or analytical results;
- duplicate or redundant publication;
- citation manipulation;
- authorship manipulation;
- peer-review manipulation;
- undisclosed conflicts of interest;
- unethical or unlawful collection or use of research materials;
- misrepresentation of permits, approvals, funding, methods, or results.
When an allegation is received, the journal will conduct an initial assessment to determine whether it is specific, credible, and within the journal’s remit. Where appropriate, the journal may:
- request an explanation and supporting information from the authors or other persons concerned;
- seek confidential advice from independent experts;
- temporarily suspend editorial consideration or publication;
- contact the relevant institution, employer, research-integrity office, ethics committee, repository, or funding body;
- cooperate with an institutional or regulatory investigation;
- publish a correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other notice when necessary.
The journal is responsible for assessing the reliability of submitted and published content. Formal determinations of research misconduct are normally the responsibility of the authors’ institutions, employers, funders, or competent authorities.
Allegations will be handled as confidentially as possible. The identity of whistleblowers will not be disclosed unnecessarily, although complete anonymity cannot be guaranteed where disclosure is required by law or is essential to a fair investigation.
No action will be taken solely on the basis of an author’s institutional affiliation, nationality, reputation, or other irrelevant characteristic.
7. Complaints and Appeals
Complaints may concern the journal’s policies, editorial procedures, staff conduct, peer-review process, publication delays, ethical decisions, or published content. Complaints should be submitted to the journal using the contact details provided on the journal website and should include:
- the name and contact details of the complainant;
- the manuscript or article concerned, where applicable;
- a clear description of the issue;
- relevant supporting information or documentation;
- the resolution requested.
Complaints will be acknowledged and considered by an editor or representative who was not directly involved in the matter wherever practicable. Complaints concerning the Editor-in-Chief will be referred to an uninvolved senior member of the Editorial Board or an appropriate representative of the Mineralogical Society of Poland.
Authors may appeal an editorial decision when they believe that a significant factual error, procedural irregularity, conflict of interest, or misunderstanding affected the decision. An appeal must explain the grounds for reconsideration and respond specifically to the editorial and reviewer comments.
An appeal is not an opportunity to submit an extensively revised version of a rejected manuscript or merely to disagree with reviewers’ scholarly opinions. Appeals may be reviewed by an editor who was not involved in the original decision, and additional expert advice may be sought.
The journal will communicate the outcome and, where appropriate, the reasons for its decision. Normally, only one appeal will be considered for each manuscript, and the decision reached following the appeal will be final.
Submitting a complaint or appeal in good faith will not disadvantage an author, reviewer, or reader in future interactions with the journal.
8. Data Sharing and Reproducibility
Authors are responsible for preserving the integrity of the data, observations, samples, analytical results, software, and other evidence supporting their conclusions.
Original research articles must include a Data Availability Statement explaining where and under what conditions the supporting data can be accessed. Where possible, data, code, analytical protocols, and other reproducibility materials should be deposited in a trusted repository that provides a persistent identifier.
The manuscript should contain sufficient information about:
- sampling and analytical procedures;
- instruments, calibration, standards, and quality-control procedures;
- software and relevant version numbers;
- statistical and computational methods;
- uncertainties, exclusions, transformations, and data-processing decisions.
Data should be made available unless sharing is prevented by ethical, legal, contractual, confidentiality, intellectual-property, conservation, security, or legitimate cultural considerations. Where access is restricted, the Data Availability Statement must explain the reason for the restriction and indicate whether controlled access may be requested.
Editors may request underlying data, original images, analytical outputs, laboratory records, code, or other relevant documentation during review or following publication. Unreasonable refusal to provide supporting information may result in rejection or post-publication action.
Authors should retain research data and documentation in accordance with applicable institutional, disciplinary, funder, and legal requirements.
9. Ethical Oversight
Research must comply with applicable national and international law, institutional requirements, professional standards, and accepted principles of responsible research.
Where relevant, authors must provide information about ethical approval, informed consent, permits, licences, or other authorizations in the manuscript.
Geological and Mineralogical Materials
Research involving geological, mineralogical, archaeological, palaeontological, extraterrestrial, protected, culturally sensitive, or commercially restricted materials must comply with applicable rules governing:
- access to and sampling of field sites;
- collection, ownership, transport, export, and import of specimens;
- protected areas and protected geological heritage;
- access to private, Indigenous, community-managed, or culturally significant land;
- deposition and documentation of important specimens;
- confidentiality of sensitive locality information.
Authors must provide permit or approval numbers where applicable and must accurately report the provenance of research materials. Sensitive geographic information may be withheld where disclosure could facilitate illegal collection, damage protected sites, or create risks for communities or landowners. Any restriction should be explained to the editor.
Human Participants, Animals, and Confidential Information
Although such research is uncommon within the journal’s scope, studies involving human participants, personal information, or animals must have received the appropriate ethical approval and must comply with relevant standards and legislation.
Informed consent must be obtained where required. Information capable of identifying individuals must not be published without appropriate consent or another valid legal and ethical basis.
Editors may reject work where the research was conducted unlawfully or unethically, even where formal institutional approval was obtained.
10. Intellectual Property, Originality, and Prior Publication
Authors retain copyright in their articles. Published articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution, and adaptation provided that appropriate attribution is given.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted figures, tables, photographs, maps, datasets, extensive quotations, or other third-party material. Permissions and acknowledgements must be supplied before publication.
Submissions must be original and must not be under simultaneous consideration elsewhere. Overlapping material, related manuscripts, earlier versions, and relevant conference publications must be disclosed at submission.
The posting of a manuscript on a recognized preprint server does not normally constitute prior publication and does not automatically prevent consideration by Mineralogia. The existence of a preprint must be disclosed at submission. Authors should update the preprint record with a link to the published article after publication.
Prior publication of a conference abstract does not normally prevent consideration of a substantially developed full research paper. The earlier abstract must be cited or otherwise disclosed, and the submitted paper must contain a meaningful expansion of the methods, data, analysis, and conclusions.
The journal may use similarity-checking or other research-integrity tools. Detection of overlap will be assessed in context and in accordance with the journal’s misconduct procedure.
11. Peer-Review Integrity and Confidentiality
Mineralogia uses single-blind peer review, in which reviewers know the identities of the authors but reviewer identities are not disclosed to the authors unless a reviewer voluntarily signs the review report and chooses to reveal their identity.
The peer-review process, including the types of content subject to review and any exceptions, is described separately on the journal’s Peer Review page.
Submitted manuscripts, reviewer reports, correspondence, and editorial records are confidential. Information obtained through the editorial process must not be used for personal advantage.
Reviewer suggestions provided by authors may be considered, but the editors are not obliged to invite the suggested individuals. Authors must not recommend reviewers using false identities or email addresses and must disclose relevant relationships with suggested reviewers.
Attempts to manipulate reviewer selection, reviewer identities, reports, citations, or editorial decisions constitute misconduct.
12. Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retractions
The journal is responsible for maintaining an accurate and reliable scholarly record. Published content will not be altered silently when a change affects the interpretation, attribution, reliability, or integrity of the article.
Corrections
A correction will be published when an error or omission affects the article or its interpretation but does not invalidate its main findings. The correction will identify the article, describe the change, and be linked electronically to the original publication.
Minor typographical or formatting errors that do not affect meaning may be corrected without a formal notice where this is consistent with the publisher’s version-control practices.
Expressions of Concern
An Expression of Concern may be published when there are substantial doubts about the integrity or reliability of an article but an investigation is incomplete, inconclusive, or expected to take a significant period of time.
Retractions
An article may be retracted when its findings are unreliable as a result of major error or misconduct, when it contains plagiarized or unlawfully published material, when it reports unethical research, or when another serious problem makes continued reliance on the article inappropriate.
Retraction notices will:
- be clearly identified as retractions;
- state the reason for the retraction;
- identify who initiated the retraction;
- be linked to the original article;
- remain freely accessible.
Retracted articles will normally remain available and will be clearly marked as retracted in order to preserve the scholarly record.
Removal of Published Content
Complete removal of an article will be considered only in exceptional circumstances, such as a legal requirement, a serious privacy violation, defamatory content, or an immediate and substantial risk of harm. Where possible, a public notice explaining the removal will remain in place.
13. Post-Publication Discussion
Mineralogia welcomes evidence-based scholarly discussion of published articles.
Readers may submit comments, criticisms, replication findings, or responses as letters to the editors. Submissions should address the scientific content of the article, use respectful language, and disclose relevant competing interests.
Where a post-publication submission raises a substantive scientific or ethical issue:
- the authors of the original article will normally be invited to respond;
- the comment and response may be peer reviewed;
- the journal may publish the comment, response, correction, or another editorial notice;
- concerns about integrity will be considered under the misconduct policy, whether or not a formal comment is published.
The journal may also consider concerns first raised through external scholarly discussion platforms, institutional correspondence, or other credible channels.
14. Fees, Access, Ownership, and Commercial Influence
Mineralogia is owned and managed by the Mineralogical Society of Poland.
The journal is a diamond open-access publication. Authors are not charged submission fees, article-processing charges, or publication fees.
All published content is freely accessible. Authors retain copyright, and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
The journal is supported by the Mineralogical Society of Poland. Its sources of financial or organizational support do not influence peer review or editorial decisions.
The journal does not accept commercial advertising or conduct direct marketing activities that could influence editorial content or decisions.
15. Digital Preservation and Archiving
The journal is committed to the long-term preservation and continued accessibility of its published content. Published content is digitally preserved through Portico.
16. Reporting Concerns
Questions, complaints, appeals, allegations of misconduct, and concerns about published articles should be sent to the journal using the contact information provided on the Mineralogia website.
Correspondence should identify the manuscript or published article concerned and provide sufficient information and supporting evidence to permit an appropriate assessment.
The journal will handle concerns in accordance with these policies and relevant COPE guidance.
Editorial Board
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Jarosław Majka
Editor-in-chief
AGH University of Krakow, Kraków, Poland Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden jaroslaw.majka at geo.uu.se
Aratz Beranoaguirre
Associate Editor
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany beranoaguirre at fierce.uni-frankfurt.de
Karolina Kośmińska
Assistant Editor
AGH University of Krakow, Kraków, Poland karolina.kosminska at agh.edu.pl
Irena Brunarska
Assistant Editor
Jagiellonian University, Poland, Cracow irena.brunarska at uj.edu.pl
Contact
Address
Mineralogical Society of Poland, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Publisher
Published by: Mineralogical Society of Poland In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Financial Support
Czasopismo Mineralogia zostało dofinansowane ze środków Ministerstwa Edukacji i Nauki w ramach programu "Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych" na podstawie umowy nr RCN/SN/0190/2021/1 z dnia 20 grudnia 2022 r. Okres realizacji projektu: 2022-2024. Wartość dofinansowania: 76 000 PLN. Celem programu jest wsparcie redakcji czasopisma "Mineralogia" w realizacji strategii jego rozwoju. Projekt obejmuje wdrożenie profesjonalnych praktyk edytorskich, umiędzynarodowienie zespołu redakcyjnego oraz optymalizację systemów zarządzania publikacjami w celu zwiększenia rozpoznawalności i atrakcyjności czasopisma w środowisku naukowym.
