- According to the prescribed procedure all papers sent to the journal staff must be provided with the referee report given by an expert involved in the particular topic of the paper and expert report confirming the paper publishing.
- All reviewers are specialists who are involved in the topic of the papers sent and have publications connected with the topic of the paper over the last three years.
- Executive secretary of the editorial board determines whether the paper corresponds to the journal profile, whether the paper meets requirements of the submission guidelines, checks the referee report and sends the paper to one of the editorial members or any specialist, who has an academic degree and who has articles closely related to the paper considered.
- The paper is sent to the reviewer via email. The deadline is determined by the executive secretary and can be varying according to fast publishing of the paper Peer-reviewing mustn’t prevent the terms of publishing as well as publishing the new issue of the journal.
- The both referee report sent with the paper and peer reviewed by editorial board or specialist must cover the following aspects:
Relevance of the submitted paper;
The content of the paper must be corresponded to its title;
The paper must correspond the up to date developments in theory and practice in accordance with the journal topics.
The referee report contains the comments and suggestions for improving the paper (language style, clear information for the audience, tables, diagrams, pictures, etc..)
- If the referee report contains comments and suggestions for improving the text of the paper, the executive secretaries sends referee report to the author and suggests taking into account it when making the new version of the paper or confuting the argument. Rewritten paper is sent to the peer-reviewing.
- The paper which was not approved by the viewer is not viewed anymore. The negative referee report is sent to the author via email, fax or per post.
- If the referee report is positive it doesn’t mean that the paper will be published. The final decision is made by editorial board of the journal
- After accepting the paper executive secretary informs the author about it as well as about deadline.
- The originals of the referee reports are stored by editorial board during 5 years.
The copy of the referee reports or motivated refusals is send to the authors published papers.
The editorial board sends the copy of the referee report to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation if the inquiry is sent to the editorial board of the journal.