Editorial's Board Ethic | South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences

Editorial's Board Ethic

The editor’s board guarantees that:

  • the authors be informed about the receipt of the article applied in five days after the  article has reached;
  • the authors be informed in the abovementioned period of time that the article shall be arranged for qualified double blind reviewing (anonymous for both the reviewer and the author);
  • the reviewing and correspondence with the author shall be confidential;
  • the texts and the research data in them are kept from public disclosure  before being published;
  • the author will be timely and accurately informed about reviewer’s remarks and  how to improve the article after them and in time;
  • all the errors and mistakes will be published corrected if discovered by the author in his/her results or/and conclusions after the article is published.

The editor’s board may reject the text before its formal reviewing if it is found to be out of the format or content of the journal or if the evidence exists of the fact that the text has been published or is being reviewed partially or as a whole at another edition.

The editor’s board is always ready to provide necessary explanations on its decision, and to bring its excuses in case of impossibility to strike a compromise between intellectual and ethical norms.

In case there appear the facts of plagiary, deceit or other misbehaviour in publication of scientific materials, the editor’s board reserves the right to amerce the author as follows and/or in every and/or each case:

  • to refuse to publish the article applied;
  • to veto the author’s publications in the journal for a set period of time.

The editor’s board also reserves its right to inform the relative editions about the cases of corporate culture violations by providing them with the names of the violators. All the correspondence connected with the violation shall be kept for the period of three years.

The journal uses the practice of retraction of articles.