Geography and Regional Future Studies

Last update: 24 August 2026

"Geography and Regional Future Studies" Quarterly Journal with the approach of expanding and creating a platform for scientific communication between prominent domestic and foreign researchers on the topics of "Spatial Planning, Regional Planning, and Future Studies" has received permission to publish on 2023/07/08 under registration number 92477 from the Supervisory Board of The press of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

It is with great pleasure that we inform you that based on the report of the latest evaluation and ranking of scientific journals in the year (2025) by the Scientific Publications Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, the quarterly journal "Geography and Regional Future Studies" has achieved a rank of "B" and has been classified among the approved scientific journals starting from Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2023. Additionally, this journal has also been indexed on the website of the Ministry of Science in the section of reputable publications.

• This journal follows of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. Also, the Journal of Geography and Regional Future Studies fully respects and supports the laws of free access to information or in other words (Journal of Geography and Regional Future Studies  by Urmia University is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International).

• This quarterly journal is based on peer review and has open access by the public.

• The journal's policy on how to deal with plagiarism: If plagiarism of a paper is detected for the journal, it blacklists the author/authors and if their paper is published, the relevant paper is archived and the words "the paper is plagiarism" are inserted under the name of the author/authors.

Attention all respected authors: Reminder that having an orcid code as a unique identifier is a requirement for all authors, please refer to https://orcid.org/register to get your Orcid code. Please be careful in entering the correct Orcid code of each author.

ISO Abbreviation: GRFS

Publisher: Urmia University

Journal Type: Scientific; Research

Language: Persian and English

Type of Papers that can be published: Original Article, Review Article, Case Report, Short Communication

Publication Period: Quarterly

Printing status: Print and Electronic

Publishing Cost: Free

Indexing in: https://grfs.urmia.ac.ir/?lang=en

Average time of reviews: 6 weeks and average time to first decision: 10 days

Review Policy: Peer review and double blind, It is done by at least 2 reviewers and 1 comparative reviewer. It is necessary for the author to prepare the original file of the paper without the names and details of the authors.

Copyright: Copyright is transferred to the author(s) when an article is accepted for publication.

Publishing rights: When an author/s publish an article in Geography and Regional Future Studies, the author/s enter into a non-exclusive publishing agreement. This means that author/s retain the copyright and full publishing rights.

Journal Email: grfs@urmia.ac.ir - grfs.urmia@gmail.com

The journal uses plagiarism software in the evaluation of papers to safeguard other scholars' rights and to avoid the copying of intellectual works. Dear authors, Please use Samimonoor (click), Hamyab (click) or Dupli Checker (click) for content similarity detection. When submitting a new manuscript, you must attach a PDF of the similarity checker report.