Why publish your Geography paper with Elsevier?
How to get published guide
We are continuously working to help authors enrich their articles, and researchers gain deeper insights and draw conclusions more quickly. Here are some of the benefits of publishing with Elsevier, including a few of our key innovations.
The guide has been developed by Elsevier experts to advise researchers, especially PhD students, on how to write academic articles. It also covers other useful topics like publishing ethics, open access options and Impact Factors. Read the guide online.
Your open access choices
We understand that some researchers want to make their research easily available and downloadable beyond the academic community. To meet this need, we offer researchers a number of open access publishing choices. These include:
- Open access journals
- Open access articles
- Open archives
- Manuscript posting
Google maps
We are the first journals publisher to incorporate Google Maps into scientific, peer reviewed articles. The interactive maps help users to visualize the author's data more effectively, in order to gain deeper insights, get a broader overview, and draw conclusions quicker.
Example Article
- From spatial interaction data to spatial interaction information? Geovisualisation and spatial structures of migration from the 2001 UK census
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 33, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 161–178
Alisdair Rae
Submit your movies
You can submit electronic supplementary files to support and enhance your scientific research. We support applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. These files will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article on SciVerse ScienceDirect.
Example Article
- Spatial video data collection in a post-disaster landscape: The Tuscaloosa Tornado of April 27th 2011
Applied Geography, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 393–400
Andrew Curtis and Jacqueline W. Mills
Graphical abstracts
Elsevier articles can now feature graphical abstracts, a visual summary of the main findings of the article, to allow readers to quickly gain an understanding.
Example Article
- A model for evacuation risk assessment with consideration of pre- and post-disaster factors
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Article in Press
Xiang Chen, Mei-Po Kwan, Qiang Li and Jin Chen
Research highlights
Get to the point with research highlights. These are bulleted lists of key findings of an article to help readers see whether the research is of interest to them.
Example Article
- Multidimensional urban sprawl in Europe: A self-organizing map approach
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 35, Issue 4, July 2011, Pages 263–275
Daniel Arribas-Bel, Peter Nijkamp and Henk Scholten
Enhanced upload tool
The Enhanced Upload Tool in the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) is specifically designed to facilitate the upload of large files, like those explained above.
CiteAlert
CiteAlert is an initiative from Elsevier, which notifies authors by email when their articles are cited in Elsevier articles on ScienceDirect, offering them insight into how their work has influenced that of other researchers.
Article of the Future
The Article of the Future is now live on SciVerse ScienceDirect. This is an ongoing initiative aiming to revolutionize the traditional format of the academic paper in regard to three key elements: presentation, content and context. The 2 pane navigation and presentation features were released on January 7th. Mid 2012, the final part of the 3 pane format (contextual discipline-specific applications) will be added along with further improvements.
If you would like to hear more about it, there is a useful explanatory video on the website.
