Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal is intended to promote the development of a complex of historical disciplines as an important section of humanitarian knowledge, by highlighting and discussing the results of fundamental and applied research, as well as accumulating experience in using the results of current scientific activity for the development of Russian and world historical science.

Sections

Статьи

History of Everyday Life

Archaeology and History of Ancient Rus'

17th Century

Current Issues in the History of the Russian Empire

USSR as a Historical Phenomenon

Historical Cultural Studies

Peer Review Process

The editors of the journal History: Facts and Symbols adhere to COPE guidelines when working with manuscripts, reviewers, and organizing the review process.

All manuscripts undergo mandatory double-blind peer review. This means that neither the author nor the reviewer know each other's names and places of work. Correspondence is conducted through the editor of the scientific journal “History: Facts and Symbols”. Each manuscript is sent to two experts.

The review process in the journal History: Facts and Symbols takes on average from 1 to 6 months. This is the initial review of the manuscript, the selection of reviewers, the time to prepare the review, the time for the author to finalize the article and re-review, and the involvement of additional experts.

The decision to select a reviewer for the journal History: Facts and Symbols is made by the editor in consultation with a member of the editorial board.

The editor of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” can give the author one of the following decisions on the manuscript:

The manuscript will be included in one of the regular issues of the journal and will be submitted to the editor for further work. The author will be notified of the publication deadline.

In this case, the author will be asked to make changes to the manuscript indicated by the reviewer within a week. If deficiencies are eliminated or if there is a justified refusal to make changes, the manuscript is accepted for publication.

In this case, the author will be asked to make changes to the manuscript indicated by the reviewer within two weeks. The manuscript will be sent for re-review. Within 30 days, the author will receive a final decision on the fate of the manuscript.

In this case, the author will be sent a reasoned refusal to publish the manuscript. Refusal to publish does not prohibit authors from further submitting manuscripts to the journal “History: Facts and Symbols”, however, if publication is refused due to gross violations on the part of the author, the editor-in-chief may decide to blacklist the author. In this case, other articles by this author will not be considered.

The editors of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” provide for three rounds of reviewing - this means that after the first decision to revise the article, the author has two attempts to make changes. If, after the third round of reviewing, the expert again sends comments, the journal editor will invite the author to consider the possibility of publication in another journal or resubmit the article for review with changes made in six months.

If the author does not plan to finalize the article, he must notify the editors of the journal. Work on the article will be discontinued.

During the review process of a manuscript, a conflict may arise between the author and the reviewer. In this case, the editor of the journal History: Facts and Symbols has the right to appoint a new reviewer for the manuscript and involve the editor-in-chief to resolve disputes.

The journal “History: Facts and Symbols” may publish articles by the editor-in-chief, his deputy, executive secretary and members of the editorial board, but there should be no abuse of official position. Manuscripts of journal staff are sent for double-blind review only to external experts. To resolve contradictions and conflict situations, only external experts are involved. In the event of a conflict regarding the fate of 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 and his deputy, information about the authors’ affiliation with the journal is indicated in the “Conflict of Interest” section.

The journal “History: Facts and Symbols” does not exempt scientists from reviewing manuscripts, regardless of their status.

Copies of reviews are stored in the editorial office of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” for at least 5 years.

Publication Frequency

4 times a year

Open Access Policy

"History: facts and symbols" is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly 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.

Ethics of scientific publications

Authorship

 

The journal "History: Facts and Symbols" adheres to the following criteria for authorship (developed and described in the ICMJE recommendations):

 

Substantial contribution to the conception or planning of scientific work or the production, analysis or interpretation of this work;

Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically, adding valuable intellectual content; 3. Final approval of the published version of the manuscript;

Agreement to accept responsibility for all aspects of the work and an assurance that all questions related to the accuracy and integrity of any part of the work can be properly investigated and resolved.

In addition to being responsible for those parts of the work that the author performed himself, he or she should have an understanding of which co-authors are responsible for other specific components of the work. In addition, authors must be confident in the integrity of their co-authors' contributions. All persons identified as authors must meet all four criteria for being an author, and all persons meeting these four criteria must be identified as authors.

Individuals who do not meet all four criteria should be mentioned in the Acknowledgments section.

 

Responsibility

 

Responsibility for maintaining standards of authorship and authorial contribution rests with the editors of History: Facts and Symbols.

Authors are required to provide transparent and correct information about the authors of the article and persons who made a significant contribution to the preparation of the article.

  If a manuscript is submitted for consideration to the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” by the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, member of the editorial board or editorial council, the manuscript is reviewed only by external experts.

o correctly determine your contribution to the preparation of an article, use the following resources:

https://www.apa.org/science/leadership/students/authorship-determination-scorecard.pdf

https://www.apa.org/science/leadership/students/authorship-tie-breaker-scorecard.pdf

 

Authorship Statement

 

The editors of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” require that, along with the manuscript, authors provide a statement of authorship signed by all co-authors.

 

By signing the application, the authors guarantee:

 

each author who signed the statement meets the authorship criteria set out in the ethical policy of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols”;

all persons who participated in the work on the study, but are not the author, are indicated in the “Acknowledgments” section;

the contribution of each author is described. This information will be published in the journal “History: Facts and Symbols”;

the authors take responsibility for the correctness of the information provided.

 Upon receipt of the article, the editor checks the availability of information about the authors and all necessary documents. If there is no statement of authorship or signatures of all authors, the article will not be accepted for consideration.

 

 Controversy

 

If disputes arise about authorship, work with the article is terminated, regardless of what stage it is at.

 

All co-authors are informed of the occurrence of a dispute about authorship via email.

The editor of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” has the right to indicate the exact period during which the authors can provide clarification on the requested questions. After this period, the article is removed from publication with appropriate explanation. If the article was published in Online First mode, explanations about the removal of the article from publication are posted in the public domain.

If a dispute arises regarding a published article, the editor of the journal History: Facts and Symbols publishes a correction, refutation, or retracts the article indicating the reason for the changes to the published document.

 

In any dispute, the editors and editor-in-chief maintain objectivity and impartiality.

To prevent manipulation of co-authorship, the editors of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” use COPE flowcharts and when working with an article pay attention to the following:

it is indicated that the research was funded by an organization whose authors are not on the general list. This requires more careful verification of the contributions of all authors and, if necessary, seeking necessary clarification from the corresponding author.

the list of authors includes scientists from another scientific field. This may indicate guest authorship.

indication of the person in the “Acknowledgments” section without indicating a specific contribution.

a very long or very short list of authors, atypical for a given scientific field or type of article.

incomplete description of the authors' contributions: for example, lack of information about who drafted the manuscript or processed the data.

checking using “Anti-plagiarism” shows that there are borrowings from the dissertation work, the author of which is not listed in the list of authors.

articles on similar topics were published by other teams of authors.

the list of authors suddenly changes at the stage of publication of the article without prior discussion with the editors of the journal.

the author has a lot of publications, although his position does not imply such publication activity (head of department, director of the institute).

the corresponding author cannot respond to reviewers' comments.

 The editors of the journal History: Facts and Symbols expect that organizations affiliated with the author will be willing to participate in the investigation of disputes about authorship.

 

 COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS

 

The editors of "History: Facts and Symbols" are sensitive to complaints about the conduct of editors and reviewers, which may relate to issues such as violations of confidentiality, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and misuse of confidential information obtained during the review process. Authors may also disagree with decisions regarding the expression of doubts on certain articles or complain about violations of editorial processes.

 

We respect the authors and their opinions.

 

All complaints can be sent to the journal’s e-mail; they will be considered in accordance with the general procedure. The complaint review process does not take more than 7 days. The person who filed the complaint receives information about the decision made, as well as about the measures that will be taken and the timing of their implementation.

 

When considering complaints, the editors rely on the COPE guidelines in each of the following cases:

Dealing with post-publication criticism

Post-publication discussions and changes

Suspicion of post-publication review manipulation

Image manipulation in a published article

Fabrication of data in a published article.

The editors ask authors to respect their colleagues and treat reviewers with understanding and respect.

 

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

 

(This section was prepared according to WAME recommendations).

Conflicts of interest are conditions in which people have conflicting or competing interests that may influence an editorial decision as well as the interpretation of data in an article. Conflicts of interest may be potential or perceived, or actual. Objectivity may be affected by personal, political, financial, scientific or religious factors.

 

Conflicts of interest may include the following areas:

 

financial: this conflict arises when a participant in the publication process has received or expects to receive money (or other financial benefits such as patents or stock), gifts or favors that may affect the work associated with a particular publication. Examples: payment for research, fees for consultations and public speaking, etc.

personal relationships: this conflict arises in the case of personal relationships with family, friends, competitors, former colleagues.

political and religious beliefs: adherence to one religion or political party may influence the outcome of an article that analyzes these issues.

institutional affiliation: this conflict arises when someone involved in the publication process is directly associated with an organization that has an interest in the publication.

The editors of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” may ask the authors additional questions or request additional information if necessary.

 

Conflicts of interest may involve authors, reviewers and editors. The following policy statements have been prepared based on ICMJE recommendations.

 

 

Authors' responsibilities when disclosing conflicts of interest

 

When authors submit a manuscript of any type or format, they are required to disclose all relationships and activities that may influence or be perceived as influencing their work.

The author must notify the editor of an actual or potential conflict of interest by including information about the conflict of interest in the appropriate section of the article.

 

 Responsibilities of reviewers when disclosing conflicts of interest

 

Reviewers should inform editors of any conflict of interest that may influence their opinion of a manuscript, and they should themselves recuse themselves from reviewing if there are grounds for bias. Reviewers should not take advantage of information about the work they are reviewing before it has been published.

 

 Editors' responsibilities when disclosing conflicts of interest

 

Editors making final decisions on manuscripts should recuse themselves from editorial decisions where there is a conflict of interest or relationship that may create potential conflicts related to the articles under review. Other editorial staff involved in making editorial decisions should inform the editors of their current interests (since they can influence editorial decisions), and independently refuse to make decisions if there is a conflict of interest. Editorial staff should not use information obtained while working with manuscripts for personal purposes. Editors should regularly publish reports of potential conflicts of interest involving themselves and journal staff. Guest editors must follow the same procedures.

rticles by the editor-in-chief of the journal, deputy editor-in-chief of the journal, members of the editorial board and the editorial council of the journal “History: Facts and Symbols” must clearly indicate the connection with the journal “History: Facts and Symbols”.

 In the event that an undisclosed conflict of interest is discovered in an unpublished article, the editors of the journal "History: Facts and Symbols" act in accordance with the COPE guidelines.

In the event that an undisclosed conflict of interest is discovered in a published article, the editors of the journal "History: Facts and Symbols" act in accordance with COPE guidelines.