The Department of General and Regional Geography of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko and Sumy Department of Ukrainian Geographic Society annually are preparing next issue of “Scientific Notes of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko. Geographical Sciences” (ISSN 2524-2598 - Online, ISSN 2413-8800 - Print) for publication.

SNSSPU publishes peer-reviewed articles on the topics of basic and applied research in geography and related subjects. The journal is published scientific articles in accordance with the such chapters, as “Physical Geography and Landscape Science”, “Cartography and Geoinformatics”, “Socio-Economic Geography and Geopolitics”, “Evolutionary Geography and Geomorphology”, “Geoecology and Environmental Management”, “Recreation Geography and Tourism”, “Methods of Geographical Subjects Teaching” etc. We invite lecturers, researchers, doctoral students, postgraduate students, master students, teachers of schools and other educational institutions for cooperation.

SNSSPU is open to independent views; it discusses different issues in geography with scientists from different countries. Original research studies, reviews, hypotheses, editorial commentary, and special reports spanning the spectrum of geography and experimental research in fields of Earth sciences will be considered. The Editorial Board welcomes scientifical articles from both Ukraine and foreign researchers (except for the author from the Russian Federation and Belarus).

This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking for prior permission from the publisher or the author, but with the obligatory reference to the authors of the original work and the publication of the work in this journal. The authors have the right to distribution of their articles in the form in which it has been published by the our journal (for example, to upload the work to the online storage of the journal or publish it as part of a monograph), provided that the reference to the first publication of the work in this journal is included.

Journal instances are hosted in Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. Since 2018 all published articles are assigned to Digital Object Identifier (DOI) provided by ZENODO.