Copyright Policy
Authors publishing articles in the ‘Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences’ agree with the following:
The authors retain copyright to the manuscript and grant the journal the right of first publication under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows others to distribute this work with the obligatory preservation of references to the authors of the original work and the original publication in this journal.
The authors retain the right to enter into separate contractual arrangements concerning non-exclusive distribution of the version of the manuscript in published form (e.g., placing it in an institutional repository, publishing it in a book), with reference to its original publication in the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences”.
Authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g., in an institutional repository or personal website) before and during the review process by the Journal, as this can lead to a productive discussion and more references to the work.
Authorship
In accordance with the ICMJE recommendations, the editorial board of the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” recommends authorship to be based on the following criteria:
- Substantial contribution to the conception or planning of the research work, or acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data of the research work;
- Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically, adding valuable intellectual content;
- Final approval of the published version of the manuscript;
- Agreement to take responsibility for all aspects of the work and ensure that any questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work may be examined and resolved.
Each author of the manuscript must meet all of the above 4 criteria for authorship.
In addition to responsibility for parts of the work the author performed, the author must be aware of specific parts of the work which co-authors are responsible for.
Persons who do not meet all four criteria should be mentioned in the “Acknowledgments” section. Each author must be aware ofshown and agree to the list and order of authors in the listof presented in ing the manuscript before sending it to the editorial board.
In case the authors wish to make changes to the list of authors after the manuscript has been sent to the editor, in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): it is necessary to provide the editor with a written justification of the reasons for making changes to the author group, with a detailed description of the contribution of added and/or removed authors to the work on the manuscript,
In case of disagreement between the authors, consideration of the article is suspended until an agreed decision is made within the author group.
In cases where a manuscript has already been published and assigned a volume and issue number, any requests to change authorship approved by the editor will result in the publication of corrections.
The editorial board of the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” has the right to request additional documents confirming the legitimacy of the changes made to authorship.
The manuscript is submitted to the editorial board as a file with the extension .doc, .docx, .rtf.
The author can submit an article an email: vestniksrvon@mail.ru
Contact person: Nadezhda V. Mironenko, vestniksrvon@mail.ru.
Preprint and Postprint Policy
In the process of submitting a manuscript, the author should confirm that the work has not been previously published or accepted for publication in another journal.
If the manuscript is based on a preprint that has been previously posted on the preprint server, publication in the “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences” is possible provided that the editorial board is notified about the preprint beforehand and the author (or team of authors) agrees to the revisions suggested by the editorial board and reviewers.
When submitting a manuscript based on a preprint to the editorial office, the corresponding author is required to provide a link to the published work on the preprint repository.
Once the final version of the manuscript has been published, the author will be responsible for updating the publication record with the link to the uploaded paper. The uploaded text should not be changed based on comments from reviewers and editors. The text of the uploaded version of the manuscript should remain unchanged. The text should also not be deleted or replaced.
When publishing the article in the journal “Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences”, the editorial board asks the author to include a link to the official journal website with the DOI for the full URL of the article.
Open Access Policy
The “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 and RASEP.
Disclosure Policy and Conflicts of Interest
All participants in the peer-review and publication process should 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.
Editorial 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.
Retraction
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 retraction
- 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.
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 database of retracted manuscripts) and to the Elibrary.ru.
Post-publication discussions and corrections
Changes to an article accepted for publication that has passed all stages of peer review and pre-print preparation fall into one of the following categories:
1. Addendum,
2. Publisher’s correction (erratum),
3. Author’s correction (corrigendum).
The decision to publish corrections is made by the journal editors on the recommendation of reviewers, members of the editorial board, or at the written request of the authors of the article. Publication of corrections includes consultation with the authors of the article, but the final decision is made by the editors / editorial board of the journal.
1. Addendum. Addition of new material to the article, supplementing its original content (addendum), requires mandatory peer review. The additional material is sent to the editors as a new manuscript with a link to the original article.
2. A publisher’s correction (erratum) is published in case of an error (typo, missed change) made by the journal in the process of preparing the article for publication, which is significant and affects the reader’s understanding of the article. Corrections are not published for simple and obvious typos.
3. Author’s correction (corrigendum). If the authors consider it necessary to make corrections after the publication of the article (corrigendum), they must send a request by emailwith justification to the editors of the journal. The final decision on the publication of a correction (corrigendum) is made by the editors of the journal and members of the editorial board after assessing the impact of the change on the scientific accuracy and significance of the published article. In some cases, the identification of serious errors and inconsistencies in a published article may require retraction of the article.
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.