Review procedure

All manuscripts submitted for publication must go through a review process. All manuscripts are reviewed by PhDs (either Doctors of Science or Candidates of Science) who have agreed to be members of the Editorial Board and to peer review submitted manuscripts. Members of the Editorial Board represent different countries and cities, they are affiliated to different higher education institutions and research organizations. Peer reviewers do not have to members of the Editorial Board.

All manuscripts submitted for publication are checked for plagiarism. They are also assessed on conformity to the research spheres covered by the journal.

The Editor-in-Chief or another authorized person should check submitted manuscripts using the Rukontekst anti-plagiarism software to assess the originality and to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Articles that do not conform to the technical requirements or contain less than 80% of original content are returned to their authors with an explanation specifying the reasons for rejection, within 10 days after receipt of the article.

After that manuscripts are sent to a member of the Editorial Board or an Invited Expert.

The reviewer is obliged to peer review the manuscript within 60 days.

The Editorial Board can perform scientific or literary editing of submitted manuscripts, reduce them if necessary (having previously discussed this with the author) or, if the article touches upon an interesting issue, it may be sent for improvement.

If the article is believed to require improvement or if it does not comply with the requirements of the journal, the author is notified that it is necessary to improve it or that it is rejected.

An article can be accepted after it has been improved in line with the review and important drawbacks have been corrected.

Articles that have received a positive review are to be published in the nearest issue. The publishers are obliged to publish the article no later than six months after the receipt of a positive review.

The Editorial Board has a right to introduce stylistic (if they do not change the meaning), grammatical, punctuation and spelling corrections to the original text.

When the review procedure is over, the author of the article is notified that the article is accepted and is informed about the issue number and the time of the publication.

The original reviews are stored for 5 years. Copies of reviews are sent to the authors.

Copies of the reviews are sent to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation if required.