Preprint and Postprint Policy
When submitting a manuscript, the author must confirm that the manuscript has not been published or accepted for publication in another scientific journal. When referring to an article published in the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences”, the editorial staff asks to place a link (full URL of the material) to the official website of the Journal. Manuscriptss previously posted by authors on personal or public websites not related to other publishers will NOT be accepted for consideration. Preprint publication is possible only if the editorial staff is notified of the preprint and all reviewers’ comments are taken into account by the authors.
Open Access Policy
“Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” adheres to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and is a completely open access journal (diamond / platinum open access). This means that all manuscripts become available to readers immediately after publication under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Authors are not charged for publishing a manuscript. The journal is financed by the Founder.
The copyright for any manuscript belongs to the author (authors).
According to the license (CC BY-NC 4.0) the following use of manuscripts published in the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” is possible:
- share (exchange) — copy and distribute the material on any medium and in any format;
- adapt (create derivative materials) — modify the material and create something new based on it.
The following conditions are mandatory:
- “Attribution” — indication of authorship, link to the license and changes, if any.
- “NonCommercial” — absence of commercial purposes when using the material
Borrowing and Plagiarism
When reviewing a manuscript, the editorial board of the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” may check the material using the Antiplagiat system. In case of finding multiple borrowings, the editors act in accordance with the rules of COPE, ANRI.
Disclosure Policy and Conflicts of Interest
All participants in the peer-review and publication process should consider and disclose all relationships that could be considered as potential sources of a conflict of interest (financial relationships (e.g., employment, consulting, stock ownership, royalties, patents, or paid expert assessments), personal relationships and rivalries, competition in the academic environment and intellectual views).
Authors
All authors are required to disclose all financial and personal relationships that have influenced or could influence their work when submitting a manuscript to the journal, indicating:
- the presence or absence of a conflict of interest for the authors;
- sources of support for this work (funding), including sponsors, and, if any,
- also an explanation of their role in developing the research plan; collection, analysis and interpretation of data; drafting of the report; decision to submit the report for publication; or a statement that the source of support has had no such involvement.
Reviewers
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or other organizations connected to the submitted work.
Journal Editorial Board and Journal Staff
Editors and staff should refuse from editorial decisions when they have conflicts of interest related to manuscripts under consideration.
Unpublished data disclosed in submitted manuscripts should not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the written consent of the Author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
Procedure for retracting an article from publication
Retraction of a text from publication is a mechanism for correcting published scientific information and notifying readers that the publication contains serious shortcomings, erroneous data that cannot be trusted, cases of duplicate publications (when authors present the same data in several publications), plagiarism and concealment of conflicts of interest that could affect the interpretation of the data or recommendations for their use.
Reasons for retracting a manuscript:
- detection of plagiarism in a publication;
- duplication of a manuscript in several publications;
- detection of falsifications or fabrications in the work (for example, manipulation of experimental data);
- detection of serious errors in the work (for example, incorrect interpretation of results), which casts doubt on its scientific value;
- incorrect list of authors (no one worthy of being an author is included; persons who do not meet the authorship criteria are included);
- hidden conflict of interest (and other violations of publication ethics);
- republication of a manuscript without the author’s consent.
Retraction is done according to an official request from the author/group of authors of the manuscript, who gave a reasoned explanation for their decision, as well as upon the decision of the editorial board based on their own expertise or information received by the editorial board.
The editorial board is required to inform the author (leading author in case of collective authorship) about the retraction of the manuscript and justify the reasons for it. If the author/authors ignore the messages, the editorial staff informs the Council on the Ethics of Scientific Publications about it.
The manuscript and the description of the manuscript remain on the journal’s website as part of the corresponding issue, but the electronic version of the text is marked with the words RETRACTED and the date of retraction, the same note is put under the manuscript in the table of contents of the issue. The comments to the manuscript indicate the reason for the retraction (in case of plagiarism – with an indication of the sources of borrowing).
Information about retracted manuscripts is transferred to the Council on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (for entering the information into a single database of retracted manuscripts) and to the NEL (elibrary.ru).
The journal’s policy regarding the transfer of reviews to the RSCI
The editorial board informs reviewers that since September 2019 it has been transferring information about the reviewer and the texts of reviews (which are closed to all RSCI users but open to RSCI experts), completed reviews to Scientific Electronic Library LLC for their placement/accounting and analysis along with the texts of manuscripts on the eLIBRARY.RU platform.
Reviewers have the right to express their CONSENT/REFUSAL to the transfer of review texts; as well as to the disclosure of their personal data and information about the review performed to external users of the eLIBRARY.RU platform, using the appropriate forms.
When submitting new reviews to the journal from September 2019, reviewers are asked to send a signed and scanned CONSENT or REFUSAL.