Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The policy of "Arctic and North" helps to ensure that published articles and reviews are in demand for research, PhD dissertation, state and municipal management, policy making and the development of the northern regions.

The publication activity is assessed by the RSCI. A hard copy of the journal is not published.

The editorial board is committed to the policy of openness and accessibility.  All articles are checked by the Antiplagiat system.

“Arctic and North” is a periodical scientific online journal with an integrated approach to covering political, socio-economic, social and international problems of northern societies. The topics of published articles and reviews reflect research issues in the arctic and the north. The scientific articles and reviews consider the arctic and the north as the objects of research and are the subject to groups of specialties: economic sciences; sociological sciences; political sciences.

The materials published in “Arctic and North” are in demand in research work, in the defense of dissertations for the academic degrees of candidate of sciences and doctor of sciences, in the practice of state and municipal administration, policy development, implementation of socio-economic activities and development of northern Russian regions. The journal is intended for publishing the results of fundamental and applied scientific research by scientists around the world in the form of scientific articles, reviews, reports, and notes in the field of studying northern and arctic territories and societies. A mandatory requirement for articles is their thorough scientific study, the use of methodological techniques, and the primary publication of the prepared research text.

The journal is published in Russian and English, which ensures the availability of articles for readers from different countries.

Sections

Статьи

Social and Economic Development

Political Processes and Institutions

Northern and Arctic Societies

Reviews and Reports

Peer Review Process

The main principles of reviewing are objectivity, constructive approach, and consideration of evaluation criteria. Reviewing is based on mutual respect between the author and the reviewer, and implies their equality as participants in the scientific process; the main goal of reviewing is to evaluate the scientific value of the article and its compliance with the general requirements for scientific work; the purpose of the comments set out in the review is to improve the quality of the article; comments and recommendations must be clearly substantiated and based on objective data; the reviewer is obliged to keep the content of the article under review confidential until its publication, and cannot show or transfer the article to third parties without the appropriate permission of the editors. The main criterion for the quality of an article is its scientific novelty; if the article does not have it, it should be rejected, even if it has educational value; the practical significance of the article is important, which must be substantiated.

The editors ensure the review of all scientific articles accepted for consideration. The review is carried out by members of the editorial board or invited reviewers who are recognized experts in the subject of the reviewed materials and have published on the subject of the article being reviewed over the past three years. The editors send copies of the reviews or a reasoned refusal to the authors of the submitted materials. The preparation period for one review is 2-3 weeks. After assessing the article for compliance with the journal's requirements, the executive secretary appoints one or two scientific reviewers. Based on the results of the article review, the reviewer chooses one of the possible conclusions: the article is acceptable; acceptable with corrections; unacceptable.

Publication Frequency

Не менее 4 раз в год

Open Access Policy

«Арктика и Север / Arctic and North» имеет официальную страницу по адресу: https://arcticandnorth.ru, где расположены сведения об издании  и полный архив публикаций. Постоянное хранение публикуемых статей, их доступность обеспечивается также путём размещения в научной библиотеке САФУ имени М. В. Ломоносова, каталоге «Арктик-Фонд», в электронных библиотеках eLIBRARY.RU и «Киберленинка». В печатном виде не издаётся.

Редакция издания проводит политику открытости и доступности. С сентября 2016 года журнал лицензирован по нормам CC BY-SA.

Ethics of scientific publications

Publication in a peer-reviewed journal is a means of scientific communication and contributes a lot to the development of the respective field of scientific knowledge. Therefore, it is important to establish a standard for ethical conduct of all the parties involved in the publishing process: the Editorial Office, Authors and Reviewers. All parties are responsible for publication and dissemination of research findings.

General provisions of publication ethics of ‘Arctic and North’ are based on the ethical standards devised by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The Editorial Board does its best to prevent any misconduct and violation of publication ethics.