Reviewing of articles, submitted to the Journal of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University – Geography Series, is performed in a double-blind manner. It means that reviewers remain unknown for the author of the article, and the author’s personality is unknown for reviewers. Sent manuscripts are considered by at least two independent reviewers who are not employees of the institution where the author works. Typically, one reviewer is an employee of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, while the other must be an employee of another institution. The review is given in the written form and should contain a clear conclusion of whether the article may be published in the Journal of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv – Series Geography.

The reviewer’s questionnaire form is published on the Journal’s site.

Ethical liability of the reviewer implies timely informing the editorial office about conflict of interests (for example, if a reviewer accidentally got for review an article of his/her own postgraduate / PhD etc.). The terms of reviewing an article depend on its content, topic, etc. The editorial board does not strictly limit reviewers in time, but kindly asks to prepare a review for up to 2 months from receipt of the article by the reviewer.

Reviewer fills in the questionnaire, where assesses the following:

• compliance of an article with the Journal’s  scope;
• conformance of the title, annotation, keywords, and UDC to the content of the article;
• presence of scientific novelty;
• adequacy and sufficiency of used methods;
• conformance to the requirements for the structure of scientific papers published in professional journals;
• the extent in which English abstract disclosure main research results;
• conformance of text and sources formatting to the Journal  requirements;
• the volume of the article;
• quantity and quality of illustrative material (pictures, tables, etc.);
• scientific language;
• grammatical correctness of the text.

Besides, the reviewer can add expanded comments, including further describing the abovementioned aspects, and give recommendations on possible directions and ways of modifying the article, the use of certain scientific methods or techniques, information sources, etc.

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LIST OF REVIEWERS
“Bulletin of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , Geography”

A. Internal Reviewers:

The Faculty of Geography
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Lyudmila Bilous, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: methodological bases of geo-research, landscape eniology, landscape-ecological geoinformation analysis of territories, the geography of biodiversity and geo-ecological principles of ecological network development.
Eduard Bondarenko, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: geographic information thematic mapping, telecommunication mapping, research of cartographic works of general geographical, thematic and special content, published in different historical periods, standardization of digital geographical information, theory and practice of development of spatial data infrastructures for mapping.
Yulian Braychevskyii, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: geography of the world economy, European integration, international production fragmentation, and world trade.
Igor  Vynnychenko, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: ethnogenic and military tourism, history and geography of foreign Ukrainian, national minorities in Ukraine, development of domestic and international tourism.
Elena Dronova, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests:problems of interaction between society and nature, sustainable development, ecological and natural-technogenic safety, geographical studies of urban systems, new urbanism and construction of a city-friendly for the people.
Victoria Kipenko, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: geography, geoglobalistics, geospatial management, strategic geography, tourism policy and tourism management.
Alla Krukivska, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests:regional features of modern climate change and their ecological and economic importance; development of methodological bases of general and specialized agroclimatic zoning of territories of different scale; urban meteorological problems of cities.
Olga Lyubitseva, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor, Head of the Department of Regional Studies and Tourism
Scientific interests: social geography, the geography of culture and religion, the geography of services, geography, and organization of tourism, organization of hotel business, research of domestic and world tourist market.
Oksana Malinovska, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: national studies, international tourism business, advertising and PR in tourism, branding of territories.
Anatoliy Melnychuk, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: historical geography, regional development, regional natural-technogenic security, territorial organization of power, spatial transformations, territorial identity.
Sergyi Syrovets, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: economic and social geography of foreign countries, the geography of tourism, development of tourism in Ukraine.
Valentin Stafiychuk, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: political geography, geo-conflictology, country studies, recreational geography and recreation, Central Europe.
Tetyana Shparaga, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: economics of the social sphere, the geography of services, organization of hotel and restaurant business, the economics of museum business, international tourism.

B. External Reviewers:

Institute of Geography, NAS of Ukraine

Golubtsov Alexander, PhD Geography
Scientific interests: landscape planning, geoinformation analysis of landscapes, geochemistry of landscapes.
Irina Gukalova, Doctor of Science in Geography, Senior Researcher Leading
Scientific interests: geographical studies of the quality of life of the population at different territorial levels, social geography and geo-urban studies, development of the social component of the National Sustainable Development Strategy of Ukraine, analysis of ecological and social problems of development of the regions of Ukraine.
Sergiy Doroshkevich, PhD Geography
Scientific interests: paleogeography, Quaternary geology, archeology, soil science and paleo-soil science, micromorphology of modern and fossil Pleistocene soils.
Evgenia Marunyak, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: spatial (territorial) and strategic planning, ecologically oriented (landscape) planning, balanced (sustainable) development of regions, environmental impact assessment, processes of globalization and international integration, geopolitics, geographical bases of management, etc.
Andrey Marushchynets, PhD Geography
Scientific interests: socio-geographical studies of transformation processes in the agricultural sphere; the impact of the transformation process on socio-economic development.
Sergey Lisovskyi, Doctor of Science in Geography, Senior Researcher Leading
Scientific interests: spatial (territorial) and strategic planning, ecologically oriented (landscape) planning, balanced (sustainable) development of regions, environmental impact assessment, processes of globalization and international integration, geopolitics, geographical bases of management, etc.
Grigory Podgrushniy, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: geography of industry, transformation of economic structure in modern conditions, information and cartographic support of programs of regional and sectoral development of economy of Ukraine, problems of development of the Capital region, stage-evolutionary development of cities and regions, integral potential of centers of socio-economic activity, poles of socio-economic development of the territory.
Sergey Poklyatsky, PhD Geography
Scientific interests: geographical studies of the conditions and quality of life of the population at different territorial levels, geo-urban studies, balanced urban development, social geography, scientific and organizational issues of geography development and its teaching.
Kateryna Polivach, PhD Geography, Senior Researcher Leading
Scientific interests: cultural heritage and its impact on the development of Ukrainian regions.
Ivan Savchuk, PhD Geography
Scientific interests: geography of foreign economic activity, foreign scientific schools, development of modern French social geography, country studies.
Svetlana Santalova, PhD Geography
Scientific interests: medical-geographical features of the spread of some non-communicable diseases of the population in Ukraine, which most often lead to fatal cases; socio-geographical study of population migration.
Roman Spitza, PhD Geography, Senior Researcher Leading
Scientific interests:regional structural geomorphology, modern and modern geodynamics, neotectonics, space-time analysis of morphostructure, neotectonics, modern geodynamics of transition zones, GIS-relief analysis and neogeodynamics, research of neotectonically active faults, applied research; geoinformation geomorphological mapping.
Viktor Chekhnii, PhD Geography, Senior Researcher Leading
Scientific interests: environmental landscape protection, landscape planning, GIS technologies in landscape science.

The Faculty of Geography 
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Yuriy Andreychuk, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: modeling using GIS technologies, remote sensing of the Earth, creation of databases of environmental information.
Mykola Dnistrianskiy, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: theory and methodology of geographical science; political geography and geopolitics; ethnography and historical geography; demogeography and geography of settlements; economic geography and geoeconomics.
Lydia Dubis, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: eolian morphogenesis, fluvial morphogenesis.
Marta Malska, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: tourism: conceptual foundations of tourism theory; theoretical and methodological principles of forming a spatial system of services; practical bases of spatial development of service systems, approaches to their management in the context of a new paradigm of regional development; problems of social geography and sphere of services, geography and organization of tourism, research of the domestic market of tourist services; marketing management of tourism enterprises in a market environment; optimization of spatial and structural organization of tourist infrastructure of the Carpathian region ”; optimization of the use of the recreational and tourist potential of the Western region of Ukraine: theoretical, methodological and applied aspects.
Nikolay Nazaruk, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: problems of interaction of human society and nature, ecological education and its philosophical and methodological foundations, philosophical problems of natural science, ecological and social problems of Lviv.

Department of geology, geography, recreation and tourism,
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Kateryna Sehida, Doctor of Science in Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: population geography, geodemography, urban geography, social geography, statistical and mathematical methods in geography, modeling and forecasting in social geography, problems of regional development, the geography of recreation and tourism.
Liudmyla Kliuchko, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: territorial management, tourism and recreation management, problems of social infrastructure, social security.

The Faculty of Geography,
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Vasily Dzhaman, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: demogeography, ethnography, migration processes, territorial settlement systems. Investigates territorial features of demographic processes and demographic situation in Ukraine, the geography of ethnic structure and population migration, formation and territorial organization of settlement systems
Miroslav Zayachuk, Doctor of Science in Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: geography of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, features of the structure of agroindustrial complex in conditions of transitioning to a market economy, the study of the components of the agro-ecological potential of the territory, methods of teaching geography.
Ivan Kostaschuk, Doctor of Science in Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: in the field of ethnography, demogeography and social geography, regional studies of the geography of religions (sacral geography), religious tourism and electoral geography.
Zhanna Buchko, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: the aesthetic potential of the landscape; environmental aesthetics; ecotourism; ethnic tourism.

The Faculty of Natural Sciences
Vasiliy Stefanyk Carpathian National University

Roman Slyvka, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: political geography, urban geography, ethnic geography

The Faculty of Geography
Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University

Andriy Kuzyshyn, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: geospatial features of the social and political sphere of Ukraine, problems of regional (economic) geography of Ukraine, history of domestic tourism, features of international tourism.

The Faculty of Geography,
Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University

Hryhoriy Denysyk, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: development of theoretical foundations of general and anthropogenic landscape science (AL); principles and methods of AL research; structure and classification of AL; regional studies of major AL classes; zoning and regional cancellation of AL of Ukraine; eco state, optimization, and protection of AL.
Volodymyr Volovyk, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor
Scientific interests: general geography, geomorphology, landscape science, general patterns of development of the Earth’s geographical envelope, historical geography.

The Faculty of Natural Sciences
Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University

Sergey Shevchuk, Doctor of Science in Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: problems of the history of Ukrainian social geography, the formation of scientific geographic schools, research of scientific potential of national geographical science and theoretical and methodological foundations of Ukrainian social geography.

The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University

Larisa Semenyuk, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: geography of Kirovohrad region, economic and social geography of Ukraine, geo-urban science, recreational geography.

The Faculty of Geology and Geography
Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University

Viktoria Yavorskaya, PhD Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: economic and social geography, geodemography, regional studies, population forecasting, urban studies.

The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography
Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University

Volodymyr Vorovka, Doctor of Science in Geography, Associate Professor
Scientific interests: geography, ecology, rational nature management

The Faculty of Economics and Business
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

Olexandra Olshanska, Doctor of Science in Geography, Professor, Dean of the Faculty
Scientific interests: sustainable development of socio-economic systems of the regions and mechanisms for its provision, international tourism business.

Alyona Melnyk , ​​Doctor of Science in Economy, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of  Business Economy and Tourism
Scientific interests: international tourism business, research of domestic and world tourist market, the economy of Ukraine and its prospects in conditions of globalization and transformation of international economic relations, the influence of world economic crises on development of the global economy.