About the Journal
 

The Natural Disasters journal is a specialized publication in the field of disasters, publishing articles in Persian with English abstracts. Its scope includes disaster management, risk prevention and reduction (including early warning indicators, forecasting, damage estimation, theories, algorithms, and risk assessment models), disaster preparedness, response, recovery and rehabilitation after disasters, resilience, technology and innovation in disaster management, participatory and community-based approaches, and disaster risk governance. Given the difficulty in distinguishing between human-made and natural hazards, submitted articles may address disasters resulting from natural hazards such as earthquakes and storms, or human-made hazards such as road accidents.

In accordance with Article 13 of the Press Law ratified on March 18, 1986, by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, and with the approval of the Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in its meeting dated February 18, 2025, the publication license for the Natural Hazards journal was issued in Persian and English, with quarterly publication frequency, national distribution, and magazine format. The license was granted to the Natural Disasters Research Institute under registration number 97381, dated March 20, 2025.

All articles submitted to Natural Disasters undergo an initial screening and are subject to a double-blind peer review process by at least two expert reviewers. Final acceptance and publication are contingent upon approval by the editorial board. Authors and researchers are kindly requested to prepare their manuscripts according to the journal's submission guidelines and to submit them through the journal's online system. Please refrain from in-person visits or phone calls to the journal office as much as possible. All correspondence with authors and reviewers is conducted via the journal website and submission system.

Bibliographic Information
Title	Natural Disasters
OCLC No.	1417782112
Subject Area and Category	- Disaster and crisis management, - risk reduction, - disaster preparedness, - disaster and accident response (emergency response), - post - disaster reconstruction and recovery (rehabilitation), - resilience, - technology and innovation in disaster management, - community - based approaches, - disaster risk governance systems
Language	Persian; including English abstracts and bibliographies.
Start Year	2025- Vol. 1, No. 1 -
Frequency	Quarterly
Editor-in-Chief	Delavar, Mahmoudreza Ph.D.
Director-in-Charge	Seyed AmirHossein Garakani, Ph.D.
Place of Publication	Iran, Tehran
Publisher	Natural Disasters Research Institute (NDRI)
Scientific Sponsorship Society	--
Status	Active
Refereed	Yes
Peer Review Type	Double Blind Peer Review
Primary Review Time	7 days, approximately.
Acceptance and Publication Time	12 weeks
Reference Style	APA Style
ORCID iDs	The ORCID identifier is required.
Type of Material	Serial (Periodical)
Type of Access	Open Access (OA)
Open Access Statement	The journal of Natural Disasters is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.  Benefits of open access for authors include:    - Authors retain copyright to their work.    - Free access for all users worldwide.    - Increased visibility and readership.    - No spatial constraints.    - Rapid publication.
The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism	We accept all terms and conditions of COPE regarding plagiarism in a submitted manuscript, and in case any attempt of plagiarism is brought to our attention accompanied with convincing evidence, we act based on flowcharts and workflows determined in COPE. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. Manuscripts submitted to the journal of Natural Disasters will be screened for plagiarism using similarity check and plagiarism detection tools. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to check the similarity before submitting their manuscript to the journal. Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in the journal of Natural Disasters using the Grammarly detection software (www.grammarly.com), and iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts and use Iranian plagiarism detection software such as IranDOC (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir) and Samimonour (www.samimnoor.ir) for the Persian text. The journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, it will be REJECTED (before acceptance for publication), and if it was published, it will be RETRACTED for plagiarism issues. The journal of Natural Disasters aims to ensure that all authors are careful and comply with international standards for academic integrity, particularly on the issue of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, phrases, or words from another source without proper credit to the source. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious ethical violation and unacceptable in scientific academic publications.
Retraction Policy	An article may be retracted when its findings are no longer considered trustworthy due to scientific misconduct or error, it plagiarizes previously published work, or it is found to violate ethical guidelines. An article may be retracted when the integrity of the published work is substantially undermined owing to errors in the conduct, analysis, and/or reporting of the research. Violation of publication or research ethics may also result in a study’s retraction. The original paper will be marked as RETRACTED, but a PDF version remains available to readers, and the RETRACTION statement is bi-directionally linked to the original published paper. Retraction statements will typically include a statement of assent or dissent from the authors.
Type of Publication (Processing Charges and Publication Charges)	No publication charges are required from the author.  Full-text access: Open Access
Authorship	The consent of all authors, as well as related authorities/institutions, have been received prior to the submission of the manuscript. The order of the authors (as to be reflected in the published article) has been established. The addition or deletion of authors once the manuscript has been accepted for publication would have to be accompanied by a signed statement of consent from all authors. All authors have contributed significantly to the research. Authors are obligated to participate in the peer review process, providing retractions/corrections/amendments when necessary. All conflicts of interest/financial support have been declared. Any changes or corrections to a published work require the consent of all authors.
Copyright owner / Copyright holder	Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights. The author has complete control over the work (e.g., retains the right to reuse, distribute, republish, etc.).
Copyright Notice	Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: 1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows others to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. 3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See: The Effect of Open Access).
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Complaint Process	The authors have the right to complain and ask explanation if they perceive any misconduct in any applicable policies and ethical guidelines. The authors can raise their complaints by submitting a letter to: disaster.jndri.ac.ir. We follow the COPE guidelines on responding to whistleblowers, which includes protecting anonymity. All the complaints regarding delinquencies in the work processes are investigated according to the prevailing publication ethics practices. An author or any other scholar may submit their complaints about any issues related to: - Authorship issues; - Bias in the review process; - Copyright violation; - Deceiving in research results or wrong research results; - Manuscript processing time is unusually late; - Plagiarism; - The peer-review comments are unsatisfactory; - Unrevealed conflicts of interest; and  - Violations of research ethics and integrity.
Policy for Dealing with Complaints	Once a complaint is received, at first, an acknowledgment is sent to the complainant with the assurance that appropriate action will be taken on a complaint within three working days excluding the complaint receiving date. The investigation process is initiated by the journal handling team according to the directions of the Editor-In-Chief. After the investigation is over, a meeting is held with a complete report on the complaint. The decision has been made and the same is forwarded to the concerned scholar through his/her submitted email ID. We consider complaints as an opportunity to enhance our existing Manuscript Processing System. All the received complaints are dealt with in a polite and timely manner with certainty.
Data Citation	Data should be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations, and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject-focused, or more general data repositories. It is not intended to take the place of community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes. When citing or making claims based on data, authors must refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. The journal of Natural Disasters follows the format proposed by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)”.
Informed Consent	All participants in human subjects' articles have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, etc., should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the participants (or parent or guardian) give written informed consent for publication. Informed consent in this situation requires that an identifiable participant be shown the manuscript, providing consent before publication. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potential identifiable material might be available via the Internet as well as in print after publication. Participants' consent should be written and archived either with the Journal of Natural Disasters, the authors, or both, as dictated by local regulations or laws.
Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing	Where authors use generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, they should only employ these technologies to improve readability and language. The application of AI technology must be accompanied by human oversight and control. Authors should carefully review and edit the results because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. AI and AI-assisted technologies should not be listed as authors or co-authors, nor should they be cited as an author.  Authorship implies tasks and responsibilities that are uniquely attributed to and performed by humans. Authors should disclose their use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process by following the instructions provided. A statement acknowledging this use will appear in the published article. It is essential to recognize that authors remain ultimately responsible and accountable for the content of their articles.Disclosure instructions: Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process by adding a statement at the end of their manuscript in the core manuscript file, before the References list. The statement should be placed in a new section entitled ‘Declaration of Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process’.Statement: During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the publication.This declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools for checking grammar, spelling, references etc. If there is nothing to disclose, there is no need to add a statement.
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Address	Office of the journal of Natural Disasters, Natural Disasters Research Institute, 19th Alley's End,18th Street, Sattari Highway North, Shahid Fahmideh Expressway, Tehran, Iran
Tel.	+98(0)2144974078
E-mail	disaster.jndri.ac.ir
URL	disaster.ndri.ac.ir