Editorial Policies

Aim and Scope

The mission of "Humanities and law research" journal is to contribute to the development of research on the civilizations of the West and the East, the peculiarities of their relationships; publication of original articles, reviews on the history of civilizations, philology and law studies of Russia and foreign countries, reviews of monographs, collections of articles, works of international and All-Russia conferences. One of the essential activities of the journal is the development of international cooperation with scientific communities in foreign countries in the framework of topical issues of the history of civilizations of the East and the West, philology and law studies of Russia and foreign countries.

The aim of the journal is to identify and publish top-level research works on the history of civilizations of the East and West, philology of Russia and foreign countries which are based on modern theoretical and methodological approaches as well as a wide range of sources and follow the academic publication ethics. Considerable attention in the editorial policy is paid to the analysis of complex and controversial topics of history, philology, law studies of Russia and foreign countries, civilizational interaction and intercultural dialogue, peculiarities of the development of various civilizations and their cultural codes, the intellectual heritage of Western and Eastern civilizations. The Editorial Board supports interdisciplinary research and academic discussions, considering it as a basis for presenting various points of view of scientific schools, concepts, methodological approaches in modern humanities.

"Humanities and law research" journal publishes academic papers on the history of civilizations of the East and West, philology and law studies of Russia and foreign countries. The journal introduces archival and other documents into academic circulation; provides information about new publications, scientific congresses, conferences, seminars, jubilees of prominent Russian and foreign scholars. The journal publishes papers in Russian and English.

The journal serves a platform for highlighting the scientific activities of representatives of Russian and foreign higher educational institutions, facilitates the scientific activities of young scientists.

Section Policies

HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

LEGAL SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

REVIEW

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

HISTORICAL SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SCIENTIFIC REVIEW

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ANNIVERSARIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

POLITICAL SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

OBITUARIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

"Humanities and law research" is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

The year of the journal's transition to open access is 2014.

Archiving

Russian State Library (RSL)
National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Peer-Review

Each article submitted shall be registered at the Editor’s Office with an indication of the date of submission, title, author(s)’s name(s), and the author(s)’s affiliation. Each article is assigned an individual registration number.
All the articles submitted shall be subject to single-blind review.
Editor-in-Chief (Assistant Editor) shall determine if an article submitted deals with the issues belonging to the fields covered by the Journal and is compliance with the technical requirements, to forward the item for review. The articles that do not belong to the respective fields shall not be returned to the author while the latter shall be notified of the issue.
The reviewers are members of the editorial board and external reviewers – scientists and specialists in the given field (doctors, candidates of science). Each manuscript is sent for evaluation to external reviewers supervising the corresponding branch of science, members of the editorial board are involved in reviewing if it is not possible for some reason to obtain an external review. Also, members of the editorial board can be involved in reviewing in controversial cases and if necessary to obtain a third opinion. Each article is sent for verification to two reviewers. The decision on choosing one or another reviewer to conduct an examination of the article is made by the Editor-in-Chief, Vice Editor-in-Chief, Executive editor.
An article submitted for a review shall be reviewed and returned back to the Editor’s office within 30 calendar days since it was received; otherwise there must be a reasonable response provided explaining the refusal to review the article.
The reviewer’s identity shall remain confidential and closed to the author, and can be disclosed to the latter upon their written request, yet with no signature, surname, position, and employer of the reviewer. A review disclosing the expert’s identity may be submitted, upon a request, to the expert Committees of the National Attestation Committee (VAK) of Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Federation.
A review must contain the following information: a general analysis of the scientific level, the terminology used, the structure of the article, and the relevance of the theme; the potential to be published in view of the language and the style employed, as well as the compatibility between the title and the content, and compliance with the technical requirements; an analysis of the presentation manner, and the compliance of the methods, methodologies, recommendations and the outcomes with the contemporary state of scientific advance.
A reviewer may recommend a respective manuscript to be published; to be published after certain amendment in view of the respective comment; or not to be published. In case an article is recommended to be further amended or not to be published, such a review shall come with the reasons behind the decision.
A reviewer shall enjoy a right to require amendments to be introduced, after which the manuscript shall be referred (through the Editor’s Office) to the author. In this case, the manuscript delivery date shall be the date the amended manuscript was provided to the Editor’s Office. The article once amended shall go through another review.
Once a manuscript is submitted to the Editor’s Office the Editorial Board shall adopt, at its meeting, a final decision regarding publishing/rejecting the respective articles. The information concerning the articles accepted to be further published shall be displayed at the website after the respective decisions have been made. Motivated explanations must be sent to the authors whose manuscripts got rejections.
Should an author disagree with the respective reviewer’s opinion, the manuscript, upon approval of the Editorial Board, may be referred for another (additional) review.
The procedure and timing for each article to be published shall be subject to the volume of the materials submitted and the sections in each particular issue of the Journal.
The originals of the reviews shall remain on file at the Editor’s Office for a period of five years.

Executive editor:
Karine R. Ambartsumyan
Phone: (8652) 33-01-82 (ext. 4331)
E-mail: gujournal2014@yandex.ru

Publishing Ethics

The Editorial Council of "Humanities and law research” journal is dedicated to follow fair practice of publication based on:

Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics: https://publicationethics.org/membership/cope-code-of-conduct
Declaration of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers "Ethics principles of academic publications": http://hfrir.jvolsu.com/index.php/ru/component/attachments/download/1124
RF Civil Code (Article 70. Copyright)

The Editorial Board of "Humanities and law research" journal is responsible for:

evaluating manuscripts and making decisions based on the principle of justice and fairness without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors;
elimination of business and political influence on pursuing publication ethics and maintaining high intellectual level of the journal;
abidance by the principle on freedom of expression as regards the authors, editorial staff and reviewers;
striving for meeting requirements of readership, modern science and society;
making decision about publication materials following the spectrum of criteria such as relevance to the scope and content of the journal, topicality, novelty and scientific significance of a submitted manuscript, absence of plagiarism, scientific certainty of research results and completeness of conclusions;
persistent enhancement of peer-review and editing process; making sure the peer-review process is conducted by competent peer-reviewers in the relevant scientific field;
deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published with the account of reviewers’ recommendations for acceptance or rejection for a manuscript they receive;
preventing any pressure on the reviewer with the purpose to obtain approval of the manuscript under review;
sending reviewers’ observations and recommendations to the author if any revision is required; providing the author of the peer-reviewed article with the opportunity to explicit an authorial research standpoint;
justification of a final decision on rejection;
not using information contained in unpublished articles for editor’s research purposes;
persistent quality enhancement of the journal;
extending the Editorial Board and the editorial staff by inviting competent scholars;
accepting all rational measures for ensuring the high quality of publication materials;
preserving privacy data protection as regards the authors;
providing confidentiality of the peer-review process and the name of the reviewer;
providing free publication of manuscripts.

The authors submitting articles to "Humanities and law research" journal are responsible for:

submitting only original manuscripts (in the Antiplagiarism system uniqueness is to be no less than 80% while the remaining 20% can contain the references to incorrect scientific sources, regulatory legal acts, terms and set expressions typical of a certain scientific field, etc.);
submitting a manuscript edited in accordance to the submission guidelines of the journal;
avoiding excessive and inconsistent citing of one’s own works (the reference to fragments from published articles and monographs);
ensuring that textual or graphic information from manuscripts published by the author prior or by other authors is cited ethically. There must be full and prominent disclosure of the original source; otherwise, it is regarded as plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected, the authors will be debarred from publishing their papers in the journal in future;
presenting an accurate account of the work performed and original data obtained. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. The authors should not give false information or fabricate the results;
not copy references to sources from the works they are not familiar with directly, the quotations should be given in accordance with the submission guidelines of the journal;
the authors should avoid or duplicate or redundant publications (submission of one and the same manuscript to more than one journal). If the submitted manuscript employs previously published articles, the authors are encouraged to enclose citations. If duplication is detected, the authors will be debarred from publishing their papers in the journal in future;
reasonable use of the works published earlier in the manuscript submitted; avoiding references to one’s own works with the purpose of expanding the manuscript;
following the ethical standards whilst criticizing and commenting in regard to other authors’ research work;
enlisting all co-authors of the article and ensuring that no uninvolved persons are included in the author list;
working with the editorial staff to introduce corrections in a timely manner once the decision to publish the manuscript is made;
following the norms of copyright: to provide the reference to data, text, scheme, table and figure authorship, etc., copyright materials can be used only with the permission of the owners.

Peer-review ethics of the journal:

The Editorial Board guarantees independent, fair and competent peer-review ensuring objective and impassionate assessment of the quality of the manuscript;
The Editorial Board may reserve the right to reject the manuscript without peer-review assessment in case the check report in "Antiplagiat” service reveals plagiarism and inappropriate amount and incorrect citing, as well as in case of detection of unreasonable and excessive references to one’s own works;
The Editorial Board sends the manuscripts for peer-review to relevant experts in compliance with the topic of the manuscript;
Peer-review assessment is sent solely to the author, no indication of reviewer’s name is given;
The reviewer shall assess the manuscript and express opinions based on factual information and prove decisions adopted;
The reviewer can provide recommendations to improve the manuscript;
If the reviewer questions the validity of the manuscript, its quality, topicality, novelty, etc. the author is provided with the opportunity to respond to the observations made;
The author-reviewer communication is mediated by the technical secretary of the journal. The Editorial Board does not disclose reviewer’s personal data.

The “Humanities and law research” may publish articles by the Editor-in-Chief, the Vice Editor-in-Chief, the Executive editor and members of the editorial board and editorial council, but there should be no abuse of official position. Manuscripts of journal staff are sent for review only to external experts. To resolve contradictions and conflict situations, only external experts are involved. In the event of a conflict regarding the Editor-in-Chief's manuscript, the final decision on the possibility of publishing the article is made by members of the editorial board.

When publishing articles by members of the editorial board/council, the Editor-in-Chief, the Vice Editor-in-Chief, the Executive editor, the information about the authors’ affiliation with the journal is indicated in the “Conflict of Interest” section.

Conflict of interest

To prevent the conflict of interest and, as a consequence, the violation of publication ethics, each party involved in the publishing process is required to comply with the following guidance.

The editor should:

appoint another member of the Editorial Board and expert referee in case there is a conflict of interest between the initially appointed reviewer and the manuscript author;
consider incoming complaints concerning publication ethics;
ensure comprehensive investigation of incorrect citing and plagiarism;
avoid using the unpublished manuscript for private research gain;
prevent situations, in which authors, reviewers and other relevant parties involved in the production process of scientific works, violate ethics; ensure retraction of fraudulent publications from the scientific environment;
ensure confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and avoid handing over the material to the third party, other than reviewers and members of the Editorial Board.

The author should:

mention all known and potential sources of the conflict of interest;
disclose the employment, institutional affiliations and the source of research funding;
disclose relations with production and finance companies which could lead to the conflict of interest.

The reviewer should:

inform the Editor-in-Chief about the presence of the conflict of interest (double bindings, competing interests) and recuse himself / herself from reviewing the manuscript.

In case comprehensive investigation reveals the violation of publication ethics of the journal, the Editorial Board takes the following measures:

to reject the publication of the submitted manuscript;
to publish a notice on correcting the violation in an upcoming issue of the journal;
to correct the published material in the form available for the readers and indexing systems;
to reject further cooperation with the author, reviewer, member of the Editorial Board;
to formally remove the article from the journal.

Author(s) shall have the right to appeal a decision on violation. All appeals must be submitted in written form to the Editorial Board within 30 days of notification of the decision. The appeal must include a rebuttal of the decision, explaining in detail the author(s) rationale for why the decision was in error.

Founder

FSAEI HE "North-Caucasus Federal University"

Indexation

Articles in the “Humanities and law research” journal are indexed by:

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must 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.

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 institutions connected to the papers.

Plagiarism detection

The editorial board of journal “Humanities and law research" uses native Russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Manuscripts sent to the “Humanities and law research" journal for publication are subject to mandatory verification for text plagiarism through the Antiplagiat system. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in “Humanities and law research", the authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

As part of submission process, the authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in “Humanities and law research" we suggest that the link to the article on the website of the journal is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Glossary (by SHERPA):

Preprint - In the context of Open Access, a preprint is a draft of an academic article or other publication before it has been submitted for peer-review or other quality assurance procedure as part of the publication process. Preprints cover initial and successive drafts of articles, working papers or draft conference papers.

Postprint - The final version of an academic article or other publication - after it has been peer-reviewed and revised into its final form by the author. As a general term this covers both the author's final version and the version as published, with formatting and copy-editing changes in place.

Manuscrit Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online:

by emailing to gujournal@ncfu.ru;
by uploading to the submission system at our website.

Either way is appropriate.

Revenue Sources

The publication of the journal is financed at the expense of the founding organization.

Author fees

Publication in “Humanities and law research" is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.

The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.

Retraction note

1. Retracted article: Stankevich G., Kasevich E. Financial control: theoretical approaches. Humanities and law research. 2015. No. 3. Р. 67-71. (In Russian)

This article by Galina Stankevich and Ekaterina Kasevich has been retracted (i.e. withdrawn from the press) by the editor with permission of the publisher. The reason for the article retraction is redundant publication: the author has published substantially the same article under the same title in the journal «Innovation science». 2015. No. 8-2. P. 123-126.