Russian Journal of Earth Sciences (RJES) publishes original papers with treatment of all areas of geology, geophysics and geochemistry, including geodesy, geoinformatics, ecology and physics of atmosphere and Ocean. Articles submitted by foreign scientists or international author teams are highly encouraged.
The Journal is published in English and the issues are uploaded when ready without a given schedule. RJES is an open access journal.
Articles submitted to the Journal are passed through standard peer-review process. All articles are passed through standard editorial processing.
Accepted papers are published in high-resolution PDF format enhanced with local (to floats and references) and external (to documents in Internet) hyperlinks. The online version of the Journal is primary and considered as a version of record. The style of Journal is fully compatible with the typical scientific journals, so print companion can be easily produced by sending PDF version to printer.
The Editorial Board highly encourages including interactive and dynamic content into submitted articles, e.g. interactive maps, maps with dynamic paging (Google-type maps), animations, video clips in .avi, .mpg, .mp3, .flv, .swf, etc. formats (see Recommendations to Authors for more detail).
Along with the regular scientific articles the Journal started to publish the, so-called, interactive scientific records, i.e. integrated Flash and HTML5 presentations of lectures and reports which include video enhanced with synchronized slides, various transitions and pointers, subtitles, and tools of interactivity.