Aim and Scope

Mission Statement The Journal aspires to increase the opportunity for researchers and practitioners to explore the advanced and latest research developments in various fields of economics. 

Aims and Scope:

• to highlight actual and the most challenging and interesting aspects of scientific researches in economics and sociology;
• to provide a platform (a shared body of knowledge) for dissemination of high impact research findings and build an international community of diffusion scholars who could exchange their scientific findings with one another;
• to enhance research capacity of scholars and university faculty by encouraging them to publish articles, exchange opinions, which will improve and upgrade science education for students and post-graduates;

The Journal highlights a wide range of topics related to the most urgent fundamental and practical issues of modern economic science.

Section Policies

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

"World of Economics and Management" 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.

Archiving

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

Peer-Review

A double-blind peer review method is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of "World of Economics and Management". This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer. The manuscripts are sent to two reviewers for evaluation.

1. Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or science editor choose readers for peer review. We aim to limit the review process to 2-4 weeks, though in some cases the schedule may be adjusted at the reviewer’s request.
2. Reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript. Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the editorial board with one of the following recommendations:
   - to accept the paper in its present state;
   - to invited the author to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before final decision is reached;
   - that final decision be reached following further reviewing by another specialist;
   - to reject the manuscript outright.
3. If the reviewer has recommended any refinements, the editorial staff would suggest the author either to implement the corrections, or to dispute them reasonably. Authors are kindly required to limit their revision to 2 months and resubmit the adapted manuscript within this period for final evaluation.
4. We politely request that the editor be notified verbally or in writing should the author decide to refuse from publishing the manuscript. In case the author fails to do so within 3 months since receiving a copy of the initial review, the editorial board takes the manuscript off the register and notifies the author accordingly.
5. If author and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding revision of the manuscript, the editor-in-chief resolves the conflict by his own authority.
6. The editorial board reaches final decision to reject a manuscript on the hearing according to reviewers’ recommendations, and duly notifies the authors of their decision via e-mail. The board does not accept previously rejected manuscripts for re-evaluation.
7. Upon the decision to accept the manuscript for publishing, the editorial staff notifies the authors of the scheduled date of publication.
8. Kindly note that positive review does not guarantee the acceptance, as final decision in all cases lies with the editorial board. By his authority, editor-in-chief rules final solution of every conflict.
9. Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 3 years.

Publishing Ethics

The decision to accept the submitted manuscripts for publication is made by Editorial Board of The World of Economics and Management in line with the requirements provided in::

Recommendations of Committee on Ethics of Publications (COPE) and the Code of ethics of scientific publications (www.publicet.org/code);

• COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors and Guidelines for Best Publication Practice;
•  Provisions adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity (Singapore, July 22-24, 2010);
•  Provisions set forth in Clause 70 “Copyright”, Civil Code of the Russian Federation/

In the light of the above mentioned standard-setting instruments, Editorial Board have developed ethical principals of professional conduct for the editors, authors, and peer-reviewers to follow..

Principles for professional editors and publisher:

• Decision on publication

Editorial Board members ensure the publication of high quality materials and contribute to the development of economic science both in Russia and abroad. Before the manuscript is released, Editors carefully sel ect and revise the submitted materials; Editorial Board assesses validity, credibility and reliability of the reported data as well as the relevance and scientific merit of the research. Editorial Board reserves the right to reject the paper or require its revision/modification. Manuscripts can be rejected without reviewing if Editor-in-Chief determines that they do not fall within the aims and the scope of the Journal, or do not meet the Journal’s quality standards, or they are of limited scientific merit and are not appropriate for the Journal's readership. Before making a decision on publication, Editor-in-Chief can consult the members of Editorial Board or peer-reviewers.

• Fairness and Impartiality

Editors should strive for fairness and impartiality in their practices and guarantee independent and objective judgement of submitted manuscripts in terms of their scientific value and topicality of the theme.
Editors guarantee to consider submitted materials without prejudice as well as assess each manuscript irrespective of the author’s social status, racial, religious, national identity, sexual orientation, political preferences, etc.

• Confidentiality

Editors and the Journal’s Editorial Board members shall not disclose any information related to the contents of the submitted papers to third parties, except for those who assess/edit such manuscripts. Unpublished data from the submitted materials shall not be passed to any third parties without the author(s) written consent. The information or ideas obtained in the course of editing and related to possible advantages shall remain confidential and shall not be used in personal interests.

• Violation of ethical principles

The manuscript shall not be accepted for publication if there are sufficient grounds to believe that it is plagiarism. In case of any ethical claims connected with or arising out of the submitted manuscripts or published materials, Editor shall take appropriate answer-back measures to restore the violated rights on the basis of CORE’s Guidelines for Retracting Articles. If there is convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of the work published in the Journal are false, incorrect or erroneous, Editor, after notifying the author(s) thereof, shall facilitate publication of appropriate comments/errata identifying those errors and, if possible, correcting them.

Code of Conduct for Authors

• Manuscript submission standards

Authors shall submit only original and reliable research results. Deliberately false or fraudulent statements are not acceptable. Primary research results shall be complete and contain references to publicly available information sources so that the experts could, if needed, reiterate the research.
Authors bear primary responsibility for the content of the article and its publication. Editorial Board does not assume any responsibility before Authors, third parties and organizations for any possible damage/losses connected with or arising out of such publication. Editorial Board reserves the right to withdraw the published article if it has become obvious that the publication of such paper has caused the violation of someone's rights or the generally accepted codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research.

• Originality and plagiarism; multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

Authors of articles bear all completeness of responsibility for the content of articles and for the fact of their publication. Editorial office of the journal doesn't bear any responsibility before authors and/or the third parties and the organizations for the possible damage caused by the publication of article. Edition has the right to withdraw already published article if it becomes clear that in the course of the publication of article someone's rights or the standard standards of scientific ethics were violated.
Authors shall avoid manuscript duplication and ensure that the submitted research results are completely original/novel and have neither been published by any third party in the present content and form nor submitted to other journals (or are under consideration for publication elsewhere), and that any possible conflicts of interests in relation to copyright and publication of the submitted manuscripts have been settled. Every borrowed fragment or statement shall be identified and accompanied by a mandatory reference to the author and the original source of the borrowed text, pictures and ideas. Excessive borrowing as well as any form of plagiarism (self-plagiarism), including non-documented citations, paraphrasing or appropriating other persons’ research results shall be deemed as non-ethical and unacceptable. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence or in discussion with third parties should not be used or reported without explicit permission from the researcher with whom such information originated. Authors shall ensure that their publication does not violate any existing copyrights. Should such violations occur, Authors undertake to reimburse the publisher for any possible losses thereof.

• References

Authors shall quote those publications which significantly contributed to the research, and which can allow the reader a quick overview of the earlier works essential for understanding of the research. Except for reviews, it is required that Authors minimize citations of the works which do not have a direct bearing on the research. Authors shall not copy the references to the works from other publications which they have not studied. Besides, Authors shall properly identify the relevant sources of the materials used in their works if such materials were not received by Authors in the course of their research.

• Co-authorship

All those who have made significant contributions to the work and who share the responsibility for the research results are to be designated as co-authors. Other contributions shall be noted in a footnote or in the Acknowledgements. It is not acceptable to list the persons who did not take part in the research. In case the article is written by several authors, the author who provides contact details and the materials and conducts correspondence with Editors shall assume the responsibility for the consent of other authors (co-authors) to its publication in the Journal.

• Significant errors/inaccuracies

If Authors find significant errors or inaccuracies in the manuscript under consideration or after its publication, they should immediately inform Editorial Board thereof.

• Disclosure of information and conflict of interests

Authors shall inform Editor of any possible conflict of interests (employment details, provision of consultancy services, holding joint-stock property, receiving fees, providing expert opinions, patent application, patent granting, receiving grants or other financial support, i.e. the facts which might impact on the research results or the conclusions of the submitted manuscripts) and the sources of financial support of the research (if any).

Code of Conduct for Reviewers

• Confidentiality

The submitted manuscripts shall be treated as a confidential document which cannot be passed for discussion or examination to any third party except for the persons from whom specific advice or expertise may be sought.
Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations contained in the submitted manuscripts are deemed as confidential and shall not be used or otherwise disseminated by Reviewer, except with the consent of the author(s) and with appropriate attribution. However, it is not considered controversial to some ethical termination for Reviewers to stop his/her own researches if such information indicates that they seem to be inconclusive

• Standards of objectivity

Editorial Board shall maintain the high ethical standard relating to the publication of manuscripts, require Reviewers to give an objective judgement of the submissions and avoid any conflicts of and/or the appearance thereof that Reviewer may have with regard to the article, the author(s), and/or the source of research funding. Reviewers shall give an objective and reasoned assessment of the research results. Personal criticism of the author(s) is inappropriate. Editorial Board develops the procedure for reviewing the submitted manuscripts in strict compliance with the Journal policy.
Submitted articles shall be reviewed anonymously (single-blind peer review).
Reviewers shall argue their opinions and give clearly justified recommendations so that Editors and Author(s) could have a good understanding of what their commentaries are based on. The statement that any observation, conclusions or argument has been previously published should be identified and confirmed by an appropriate reference.

• Conflict of interests

Reviewers shall request the Editor to exclude them fr om the reviewing process in case they do not possess the required expertise or cannot be objective as well as in case of competing interests with any of the authors or institutions. Reviewers shall not assess the manuscripts of the author(s) or co-author(s) with whom he/she has personal or professional relationships, and in case such relations/contacts might influence or affect their objective judgment. Citations and

• Referencing

Reviewers shall note any cases of insufficient citation of other scientists’ works directly related to the article, but it must be taken into account that the complaints about the lack of citation of the Reviewer’s own works can be considered as biased. Reviewer should notify the Editor of any substantial similarity between the manuscript and any other already published article or manuscript submitted to other journals.

Founder

• Novosibirsk State University

Author fees

Publication in "World of Economics and Management" 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.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Authors shall inform Editor of any possible conflict of interests (employment details, provision of consultancy services, holding joint-stock property, receiving fees, providing expert opinions, patent application, patent granting, receiving grants or other financial support, i.e. the facts which might impact on the research results or the conclusions of the submitted manuscripts) and the sources of financial support of the research (if any).

Plagiarism detection

"World of Economics and Management" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in "World of Economics and Management", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

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

Glossary (by SHERPA)

ISSN 2542-0429 (Print)
ISSN 2658-5375 (Online)