Historical background
The first issue of the Geologický sborník (later Geologica Carpathica) was published in 1950 with articles in Slovak by the famous geologists Dimitrij Andrusov, Bohuslav Cambel, Ján Seneš, and Michal Maheľ. The journal Geologica Carpathica, with its 70 year-long tradition, covers a wide spectrum of geological disciplines. Geologica Carpathica is the Official Journal of the Carpathian–Balkan Geological Association and is thus primarily devoted to research articles from the Alpine–Carpathian–Balkan area. However, it has always been open to research articles from other orogenic belts. The reputation of the journal was supported by the long-term work of the editors-in-chief, managing editors and members of the Editorial board.
Webpage: www.geologicacarpathica.com
The milestones in the history of journal are as follows:
- 1950 – founding of journal with the title Geologický zborník
- 1965 – the title Geologica Carpathica was added to the journal title and its languages were English, German and Russian
- 1991 – journal starts as the Geologica Carpathica in a new larger format and articles published in English only
- 1996 – journal is indexed in the Current Contents and in the Web of Science
- 2001 – the journal starts online publishing (and continues in the printed form) and is fully open-access; establishing of Geologica Carpathica as the CBGA medium, involving of Czech and Polish co-editors
- 2014 – electronic editorial system.
Editors-in-chief:
- Dimitrij Andrusov 1950
- Rudolf Lukáč 1951–1952
- Dimitrij Andrusov 1953–1964
- Bohuslav Cambel 1964–1990
- Eduard Kohler 1990–1996
- Jozef Michalík 1996–2002
- Jozef Vozár 2002–2008
- Jaroslav Lexa 2008–2010
- Igor Broska since 2010
Managing editors:
- Augustín Gorek 1950–1960
- Eduard Martíny 1956–1963
- Oľga Fejdiová 1976–1977
- Miroslav Harman 1978–1990
- Mária Ovčiarková 1991–1994
- Eva Chorvátová 1994–2014
- Eva Petríková 2014–2015
- Milan Kohút since 2016