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About

The GEOSET Journal is a brand new, prestigious platform that showcases undergraduate students' exceptional research, innovation, and creativity in various interdisciplinary research fields through a hybrid format. Founded by Dr. Acquah and Divya Dubey (second-year PhD student at UMass Amherst), the GEOSET Journal continues the legacy of Sir Harold Kroto for research and outreach while promoting student success at UMass Amherst.

Focus and Scope

We welcome the following types of research submissions:

1. Primary Research Articles

Primary research articles present original scientific investigations carried out by scientists and students. These should include clearly defined hypotheses, data collected through experiments, surveys, or observations, and thoughtful analysis of the results. 

Submissions must demonstrate a novel contribution to the field, whether through discovery, methodology, or application. Projects may be conducted in the classroom, in research labs, online, at home, or in the field. 

The research or project has to be conducted with mentorship support. 

2. Secondary Research Articles (Literature Reviews, Software Code & Development)

Secondary research articles provide a structured synthesis and critical evaluation of existing scientific knowledge on a particular topic within Science, Engineering, and Technology. These submissions may include:

  • Traditional Literature Reviews that summarize key findings from published studies, highlight current trends or controversies, and identify knowledge gaps.
  • Software Code & Development,  which involves using digital tools to create software and code, in part or in completion, to improve upon current technologies and applications. Submissions may be accompanied by links to external repositories like GitHub. These projects do not require laboratory experimentation but must include a clear research question, hypothesis, methodology, data source(s), analysis, interpretation of results, a conclusion, and suggestions for future research. Submissions must highlight a novel finding and meaningful conclusions as determined by the GEOSET Journal editorial team.

3. Conference, Outreach Activities & Research

This category includes poster or oral presentations, along with their associated abstracts or project summaries, that were initially developed and presented at academic conferences, science fairs, symposiums, or poster sessions.

Outreach Activities include a report of an activity that supports Science, Engineering, and Technology, formatted to a template provided by the GEOSET Journal. 

These submissions provide a platform for new scientists and students to share projects that have already undergone peer review or assessment in another setting. When submitted to our journal, these will still undergo peer review. 

Submission Checklist

Authorship Criteria

The Journal of the Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering, and Technology (GEOSET Journal) adheres to widely accepted authorship standards, adapted from the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations. To qualify for authorship, each individual listed must meet all of the following criteria:

Substantial Contribution
– Made a meaningful contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data.

Manuscript Development
– Participated in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

Final Approval
– Provided final approval of the version to be published.

Accountability
– Agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that any concerns related to accuracy or integrity are appropriately investigated and resolved.

All authors must have contributed significantly and should be able to take public responsibility for the content of the work. In the case of student-authored submissions, a supervising educator or mentor may be listed as a co-author only if they meet all authorship criteria above.

Contributions that do not meet these thresholds—such as administrative support, general supervision, or routine editing—should be acknowledged in a separate section, but do not justify authorship.

Copyright Notice

Attribution-ShareAlike

You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes are made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike means that if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions. This means you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Peer Review

Peer Review Policy

GEOSET Journal uses a peer review model where authors are not aware of reviewers' identities. 

We encourage constructive, professional feedback that supports new scientists and students in their professional development, learning, and research integrity.

Peer Review Process

Initial check
When you send in your paper, our editorial team looks it over to see if it aligns with the journal’s focus, scope, and guidelines. We either send it back with a rejection or move it on to the next step.

Peer feedback
Your paper goes to an assigned reviewer or reviewers. These might be university professors, postdoctoral researchers, graduate or undergraduate students, or other scientists. They read your work and give constructive comments.

Revision
Once all comments are collected, we send them back to you so you can improve your paper. You revise your work by addressing the comments and then send back the revised manuscript.

Expert review and publication
After you revise, our editorial team handles final copyediting, formatting, and proofreading. Finally, your paper is published online.

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • CC BY-SA 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Fees

Open and freely available to all to read. There are no submission fees or publication costs. We prioritize inclusion and equity.

Publication Cycle

Publication Cycle: Yearly Publications (January to December)

Rolling publication throughout the year (January to December) with the exception of Special Editions. The general timeline from submission to publication is approximately 2 weeks to 2 months. 

 

Sections

Section or article type

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Indexed

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Acknowledgements Policy

Authors may include an Acknowledgments section to recognize individuals or organizations that contributed to the project but do not meet the criteria for authorship. This may include:

  • Administrative or technical support
  • Editorial or formatting assistance
  • General supervision or mentorship that did not involve direct scholarly input
  • Funding sources or institutional backing

Acknowledgments should be concise and placed in a separate section at the end of the manuscript, prior to references.

All individuals acknowledged must have given consent to be named.

AI Acknowledgement

AI Authorship: AIs will not be classed as authors, as accountability for work cannot be defined. 


Disclosure: AI tools used for text or image generation must be disclosed in the Acknowledgments section for all submissions, with additional details in the Materials and Methods section for Primary Research Articles. 


Exemptions: Disclosure is not required for "AI-assisted copy editing" for tools that correct readability, style, or grammar. However, editorial discretion will be applied.


Graphics: AI for cover art and descriptive diagrams with a disclosure are allowed, but images enhanced by AI are prohibited.


Editorial Discretion: The GEOSET Journal editorial team will determine if the AI use is too extensive and reject the manuscript.