Editorial Policies
Aims and Scope
Subject of the journal
The journal "Bulletin of the North Ossetian State University named after K.L. Khetagurov" serves as a platform for discussing significant results and achievements of fundamental and theoretical-applied research in the field of history and archeology, pedagogical and economic sciences.
The mission of the journal is to provide an opportunity for the scientific community to publish original results of their research, to draw attention to promising and relevant areas of historical, economic and pedagogical sciences.
The objectives of the journal:
- to promote scientific exchange and cooperation between Russian and foreign scientists in the field of history, economics, pedagogy, as well as specialists in related fields;
- to present the results of scientific research and constructive ideas for the development of historical, economic and pedagogical sciences, as well as innovative methods of teaching them, relevant for the Russian and international scientific community;
- to acquaint readers with the latest trends and theories in the field of research in history, economics and pedagogy, developed both in Russia, the CIS countries and abroad, and their practical application;
- publish the results of original scientific research on a wide range of current interdisciplinary issues.
Sections
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Historical sciences
Pedagogical sciences
Economics sciences
Peer Review Process
All scientific articles submitted to the editors of our journal are subject to mandatory review. The decision to publish is made by the editorial board of the journal only based on reviews containing expert evaluations of reviewers.
The journal uses double-sided blind review (the reviewer does not who the author of the article is, the author of the article does not know who the reviewer is).This review is carried out by members of the editorial board of the journal, or by third-party experts from the expert base of experts (reviewers), on behalf of the editorial board.
The reviewer makes recommendations. After receiving the recommendation, the status of the article will change in the author’s personal account on the journal’s website.
Statuses can be:
To accept manuscript. The reviewers have no principal comments. Corrector, editor and coder start working with the article.
Need fixes. The article needs methodological revisions. The author is sent an e-mail with a notification about the status of the article and the comments of the reviewers without specifying any personalities.
To reject manuscript. The authors are sent a motivated refusal.
Peer review deadline
The deadline for the preparation of the review is set in agreement with the reviewer, but may not exceed two weeks from the time the manuscript is received by the reviewer. The reviewer has the right to refuse from reviewing within one week from the moment of receipt of the manuscript to him, to notify the editorial board of the Journal about it.
Expert assessment of the manuscript is carried out within 2-4 weeks.
The reviewer is notified that the manuscript sent to him for review is an object of copyright and refers to information that is not subject to disclosure prior to its publication. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the manuscript and transfer it to third parties. The review is carried out confidentially. Violation of confidentiality is possible only if the reviewer claims that the materials contained in the manuscript are unreliable or falsified. The review is of a closed nature and is provided to the author of the manuscript through his Personal Account without a signature and without indicating the name, position, place of work of the reviewer. The review must be done in accordance with the requirements and contain a qualified analysis of the article material, an objective and reasoned assessment of its material and reasonable recommendations for improving the quality of work. The reviewer assesses the main advantages and disadvantages of the manuscript, guided by the following criteria: correspondence of the content of the article to the profile of the journal, the relevance of the selected topic; scientific and methodological level; the use of the necessary research methods; scientific style of presentation of the material; the quality and / or quantity of the assessment of the material given in the article: factual and illustrative; compliance with the requirements for the design of the article material: compliance with the volume of the article, the presence of annotations in Russian and English, the presence of a list of references and references to it in the text; novelty and originality of the main provisions and conclusions, practical significance.
All materials which are not rejected after preliminary review are subject to obligatory independent scientific peer-review by not less than two specialists with specialization close to the topic of the article. Specialists should be Ph. D., Assoc. Prof. PhD., Prof. Dr. habil. or have similar science degrees, assigned by leading Russian or foreign Universities.
Peer review decision
By the decision of editor-in-chief of the journal the second and additional can be performed (by previous or new reviewers) and also in case of resubmission by the author after its improvement.
Scientific peer-review can be performed by any qualified specialists (mainly – external), as well as members of editorial board of the journal in case of no conflicts of interests (official subordination of author and reviewer, academic supervision or co-authorship, etc.).
Reviewer has to notify editorial board about the conflict of interests and refuse to perform peer-review, the author can name undesirable reviewers.
Positive peer-review report isn’t sufficient for publication the article. The final decision of publication is taken by editorial board of the journal and recorded during the meeting of the editorial board.
Publication Frequency
Please use the Journal online submission system to submit papers. Follow the instructions on Guidelines for Contributors to log in and register.
Journal is issued 4 times per year
Open Access Policy
Information about all articles published in the journal is stored in the Scientific Electronic Library https://elibrary.ru/. Direct link to the journal card: https://www.elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?id=28432. In the SEL, you can perform an advanced search for journal articles (by keywords, author, title, section). A link to the full text of an article is indicated on the article page in the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru. Full texts of articles are stored on the journal server. Access to them is through this page (https://bulletinnosu.ru/issues/index.php) or from an individual article page on the website of the Scientific Electronic Library. Printed copies of journal issues are transferred for permanent storage to the Russian Book Chamber - a branch of ITAR-TASS, the Russian State Library and other leading libraries of the Russian Federation.
Periodicity
Journal is issued 4 times per year