Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society

04/12/2024

❓ How much precipitation remains in a given area?
This study compares two different calculation methods to reveal trends for the period 1979–2023 in Bulgaria.
👉 The exact values of this indicator are extremely important for various sectors of the economy such as agriculture, water supply and sewage, transport, energy, etc.
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Nojarov P (2024) Evaporation and the difference between precipitation and evaporation in Bulgaria. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 131-149.
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Българска академия на науките - БАН
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02/12/2024

Welcome Ivica Milevski, the latest addition to our editorial team at the Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society!
https://jbgs.arphahub.com/news/756

25/11/2024

What is the role of in 🗺 mapping services? What -based tools to use in the process?
-> find out tomorrow, 26 Nov, at 14:00 pm 🇦🇲
Speaker: our managing editor Hristina Prodanova
Host institution: Երևանի բուսաբանական այգի / Yerevan Botanical Garden (Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan), ՀՀ Գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա / NAS of RA (National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.

Zoom link in the post below 👇
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Ecosystem services and Geoinformation technologies are the most highly covered topics in our journal. Read them here: https://jbgs.arphahub.com/articles

✅ ՀՀ ԳԱԱ Ա․ Թախտաջյանի անվան բուսաբանության ինստիտուտը շարունակում է միջազգային դասախոսությունների շարքը, որտեղ առաջատար միջազգային գործընկերները կիսվում են իրենց նորարություններով և գիտական արդյունքներով։

📌 Ս/թ․ նոյեմբերի 26-ին, ժամը 14:00-ին օնլայն ձևաչափով տեղի կունենա ԲԳԱԱ Երկրաֆիզիկայի, գեոդեցիայի և աշխարհագրության ազգային ինստիտուտի դոցենտ, գիտաշխատող Հրիստինա Պրոդանովայի «Էկոհամակարգային ծառայությունների քարտեզագրում» թեմայով զեկուցումը։
Մասնակցությունը ազատ է:

🔗 Մասնակցել ցանկացողները կարող են անցնել հետևյալ հղումով՝
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88354274481?pwd=nbaNwAgwhhKw5KlJw2l4ZTf4utBUMd.1
Meeting ID: 883 5427 4481
Passcode: 033863...................................

✅The Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan, NAS RA, continues its series of international lectures, featuring leading international experts sharing their innovative scientific insights.

📌On November 26 at 2:00 PM (local time), an online lecture by Hristina from the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography, BNAS, will take place. The lecture is titled “Mapping of Ecosystem Services.”

Participation is free.

To join, follow the link:

🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88354274481?pwd=nbaNwAgwhhKw5KlJw2l4ZTf4utBUMd.1
Meeting ID: 883 5427 4481
Passcode: 033863

20/11/2024

Happy GIS day 2024 from our subject editors at JBGS - Assoc. Prof. Stelian Dimitrov (right), Assoc. Prof. Alexander Gikov (left), and the Managing editor Dr. Hristina Prodanova (middle).
📸 : Vanya Stoycheva, Copy editor
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Българско географско дружество, Esri Bulgaria / Есри България

19/11/2024

👥 Conferences are a common place for researchers and like-minded editors to meet and discuss their journals.
🧐 One day before the annual , we are looking back to October 22-25 when the 20-th Anniversary International Scientific Conference "Space, Ecology, Safety" - SES 2024 took place in the Space Research and Technology Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Our Deputy Editor-in-Chief Stoyan Nedkov and the Managing Editor Hristina Prodanova met their colleagues - the Subject Editors Даниела Аветисян (Daniela Avetisyan) and Alexander Gikov - both of them highly active editors at the Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society and associate professors in Geoinformation Science and Remote Sensing at the -BAS.
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24/10/2024

Climate-aware 🌤 urban 🏢 environments pose a significant imperative to obtain thermally comfortable 🌡 outdoor areas. The present study addresses the optimization of urban block morphology in Guelma City, Algeria 🇩🇿, to enhance thermal performance in a semi-arid climate.
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🔗 Guergour H, Cheraitia M, Dechaicha A, Alkama D (2024) Optimization of urban morphology to enhance outdoor thermal comfort: A microclimate analysis. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 107-130.
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University 8 May 1945 Guelma (جامعة 8ماي1945قالمة), University of M'sila (جامعة المسيلة University of Msila)

21/10/2024

💪 Good health 🩺 is a right of every human being 👥, an asset and a source of economic and social stability.
📌 Despite the established principles of accessibility and equality in the use of medical assistance 🏥 and the existence of a valid health card 🪪, our research has shown that the population has different access 🔀 to facilities and centers for medical assistance at the regional and local level.
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📎 Nikolova G, Patarchanova E (2024) Spatial analysis of the healthcare system at a regional level: A case study of the Kyustendil district. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 85-106.
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Катедра "География, екология и опазване на околната среда", Югозападен университет "Неофит Рилски" / SWU "Neofit Rilski"

02/10/2024

🔓 Recently published

🔍 This important study on the continent 🇦🇶 🇧🇬 explored the relationship between the air temperature at the surface and the 🌡 distribution in the crevasses, including the temperature gradient at different levels and the direction of the airflow. The measured depth reached 18 m in the central part of the glacier and 9 m in the periphery. Meteorological parameters such as temperature, , atmospheric , and solar were measured on-site using autonomous sensors and recording devices mounted on installations on the glacier surface and at depth using alpine 🏔techniques.

🎯 The relationship between solar activity and climatic processes in glacier drainage systems adds new insights to solar-terrestrial .
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👀 Read more:
Parov T (2024) Temperature distribution in the crevasse-drainage systems of the Antarctic glaciers: A case study of the Perunika Glacier. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 63-84. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e126650
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Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, Space Research and Technology Institute—Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Българска академия на науките - БАН, Pensoft Publishers, IPCC, ESA - European Space Agency, Министерство на образованието и науката, National Geographic Magazine България, Българска Наука, Географ БГ, ПК Под Ръбъ / Speleo club Pod RB, Климатека, Gemini Data Loggers
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01/10/2024

🔓 Recently published
🔍 Since the topic remains quite unpopular for tourism researchers in Bulgaria, this paper aims to present the key explaining , outline the main features of such heritage as well as sketch contemporary research trends and gaps in this underestimated but promising academic field. The term “problematic” cultural heritage is proposed as appropriate for the Bulgarian context 🇧🇬, emphasizing the notion of / heritage as a “problem to be solved”. Its relevance to Ottoman and communist heritage in the country is justified.
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Dogramadjieva E (2024) Problematic cultural heritage in the context of tourism and Bulgaria: Key concepts, main features, and contemporary research. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 45-62. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e129955
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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Геолого-географски факултет, @Катедра "География на туризма" - СУ

30/09/2024

🔓 Recently published
🔍 The study was carried out to determine the soil susceptibility and distribution of Kuruçay Stream basin 🇹🇷, as well as to estimate the annual average amount of soil loss through the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation ( ) model using Geographical Information Systems ( ).
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Durak M (2024) Erosion analysis of Kuruçay Stream basin (Edremit—Balikesir, Türkiye). Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 23-44. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e128013
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Balıkesir Üniversitesi / Balıkesir University, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, BAUN Coğrafya
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27/09/2024

🔓Recently published
🔍This study examines the effects of extreme 🌡 events, defined explicitly as the 98th percentile temperature for heat, in 🇹🇿 from 1981 to 2023. The study utilizes percentile analysis, z-score calculations, and trend to highlight the prevalence of extreme temperatures.
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Kabanda T (2024) Spatial and temporal trend analysis of temperature extremes in Tanzania. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 51: 1-22.
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24/09/2024

Summer is officially over, and so does the summer break.
For us at the Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society is time to recap the first half of the year.

Volume 5️⃣0️⃣ (2024) contains:
- 10 research papers;
- 1 review paper;
- authored by 28 people;
- coming from 8 countries;
- and 4 continents.

Journal audience is growing along with the quality of published content. Volume 50 was already red almost 10 000 times!

👉 On the 190 pages you will find papers dealing with:
- employability in - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e113933
- Ukrainian - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e115315
- freshwater - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e115814
- radiological - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e114156
- geomorphological - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e119556
- new Europe’s southernmost - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e120301
- multispectral - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e124098
- transportation - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e115392
- landslides assessment - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e116695
- tourism in areas - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e117725
- review of peatland ES - https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e117635

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All papers are available from the general page of volume 50 (2024): https://jbgs.arphahub.com/issue/4805/

25/08/2024

🌍 Members of our editorial board are meeting with colleagues from around the globe this week at the 35th International Geographical Congress in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪.

Stoyan Nedkov - Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Hristina Prodanova - Managing Editor having great time together with our subject editors: Ines Grigorescu (Romania 🇷🇴 - Academy), Rafael de Miguel González (Spain 🇪🇸 - Universidad de Zaragoza) and Barbaros Gönençgil (Turkey 🇹🇷 - Istanbul University), and discussing journal development.
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“Celebrating a w☘️rld of difference”
- International Geographical Union

02/07/2024

Dear colleagues,
Our team is glad to inform you that according to the latest release of the Scopus CiteScore 2023, our journal is Q2 🟡 in Geography, Planning and Development (58th percentile)!

With Scopus CiteScore 2023: 2.6, Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society is being ranked in 4 subject categories:
- 🟡 “Geography, Planning and Development” – Rank #338/821 – Percentile 58th (Q2);
- 🟡 “Nature and Landscape Conservation” – Rank #94/221 – Percentile 55th (Q2);
- 🟠 “Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)” – Rank #84/159 – Percentile 47th (Q3);
- 🟠 “Ecological Modeling” – Rank #25/41 – Percentile 40th (Q3).

We are truly thankful to all of you who contributed to this achievement. Only with your support we can ensure journal integrity and quality.
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Detailed news is available in the journal website: https://jbgs.arphahub.com/news/637
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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Геолого-географски факултет, Географ БГ, Национален Институт по Геофизика, Геодезия и География - БАН, Катедра „Ландшафтна екология и опазване на природната среда“, Катедра "География, екология и опазване на околната среда", Катедра "География", ВТУ "Св. св. Кирил и Методий", Катедра "Социално-икономическа география", СУ "Св. Климент Охридски", Българско географско дружество, Pensoft Publishers

28/06/2024

NEW paper 🔓
This review paper applied , Direct and Scholar to investigate various aspects of peatland ecosystem services research in Indonesia 🇮🇩.
4️⃣5️⃣ papers analyzed out of 1,115 show that studies are heavily concentrated on the and islands while provisioning ES are the most frequently studied category.
Limited data, understanding, and long-term sustainability consideration were identified as knowledge gaps.
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👉 Yunus M (2024) A critical review of peatland ecosystem services research in Indonesia: Uncovering knowledge gaps and research needs. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 50: 169-190.