Open Access

All articles in The Chinese Journal of Geological Hazards and Control will be available immediately and permanently to any readers for free reading and downloading upon publication on the website.After the publication of this journal's papers, they are immediately available. Readers can enter the "Current Articles" and "Archive" on the home page from the official website of hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, search the papers through the issue, find the required papers, click to enter the paper page, and then download the papers in PDF format.

Editorial Board Right

After the paper accepted for publication by The Chinese Journal of Geological Hazards and Control, the author needs to sign a "Copyright Transfer Agreement"  with the editorial board to transfer the copyright of the paper to the Editorial Board of Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology, including the rights of adaptation, compilation, distribution, reproduction, translation, information network dissemination and performance, etc.

The author shall sign a "Confidential Examination Certificate" to ensure that the content of the paper does not involve state secrets, and shall be sealed by the unit.

Author Rights

After publication of the paper, the authors have the right to share their paper in the same ways permitted to third parties under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (e.g. stored in institutional repository), as well as certain scholarly usage rights. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Publication Fees

To ensure the regular publication of the journal, The Chinese Journal of Geological Hazards and Control will charge Article Processing Charge (APC), which needs to be paid by the authors or their institutions, funded programs, etc. In case the authors do not have any funds for the research subject to pay the APC, they may apply for an exemption. Application method: The authors may submit a written application stamped by the scientific research management department in the institutions at which the authors are employed and provide the telephone number of the scientific research management department, and if the application is accepted by the Editorial Board, the APC may be exempted.

Article Processing Charge：an additional charge of 300 yuan will be charged for each page.The charging standard for the paper processing charge of expedited papers is:  600 yuan will be charged for each page.And no reviewing fee for each paper.

Archiving policy

The electronic content of the journal is stored in (but not limited to) CNKI.