Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by Liaoning University. Liaoning University retains copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. The article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable format immediately after publication.
To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The open access publication fee for this journal is USD 300, plus taxes. All APCs for articles submitted to the journal before the 31 December 2025 will be fully waived. Liaoning University pays for the publishing costs incurred by the journal.
Peer review under the responsibility of Editorial Office of Geohazard Mechanics.
Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.
User Rights
A CC user license manages the reuse of the article. Articles will be published under following license:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
Let others to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the Article, to alter and revise the Article, and to make commercial use of the Article (including reuse and/or resale of the Article by commercial entities), provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
For non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the single article, Authors will retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. and Editorial Office of Geohazard Mechanics will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.
Publishing Schedule
This journal is published quarterly per year.
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Contact Detail
Editorial Office of Geohazard Mechanics
Dr. Liyuan Zhu
Email: geohazardmechanics@163.com
Address: No. 66 Chongshan Middle Road, Huanggu District, Shenyang, China
