The journal "RUSSIA IN THE GLOBAL WORLD" follows the principles and procedures that facilitate the fulfillment of ethical duties by the Editor-in-Chief, members of the editorial Board, Reviewers and Authors in accordance with established requirements.
The SPbPU Publishing House supports the Editorial Board and the Editorial Board of the online publication in reviewing claims to the ethical aspects of published materials and helps to interact with other online publications and/or Publishers if this contributes to the fulfillment of the Publisher's duties.
The journal "RUSSIA IN THE GLOBAL WORLD" promotes good practice in publishing research results, improving ethical recommendations, procedures for removing incorrect material and correcting errors, and provides appropriate specialized legal support (opinion or advice) if necessary.
The journal "RUSSIA IN THE GLOBAL WORLD" is guided in its activities by ethical standards accepted in the scientific community, in particular, the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics and the HENRI Ethics Committee.
To the editors. Ethical standards of conduct
Decision on publication
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for making a decision on publication based on the reliability of the work in question and its scientific significance. At the same time, he is guided by the Editorial Policy of the online publication, taking into account current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright, legality and plagiarism. When making a decision on publication, the Editor-in-Chief may consult with members of the Editorial Board and Reviewers.
Non-discrimination and Confidentiality
When evaluating the intellectual content of manuscripts by the Editor, any form of discriminatory approach is unacceptable and unacceptable.
As a rule, the editor appoints 1 scientific reviewer per article. But in certain cases, the editor may involve additional reviewers.
The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board do not unnecessarily disclose information about the accepted manuscript to other persons, except for the Authors, Reviewers, possible Reviewers, other Scientific Consultants and the Publisher.
Disclosure policy, abuse of office and conflicts of interest
Unpublished data obtained from the submitted manuscripts are not used in personal research without the written consent of the Author. Information or ideas obtained during the review and related to possible benefits are kept confidential and are not used for personal gain.
In case of conflicts of interest between various parties related to the manuscript, the Editor is obliged to refuse to review the manuscripts. In such a situation, there is cooperation with other members of the Editorial Board for joint decision-making.
The editor, who has provided convincing evidence that the statements or conclusions presented in the publication are erroneous or may cause moral damage to a third party, informs the Publisher (and/or the relevant Scientific Society) in order to notify as soon as possible of changes, withdrawal of the publication or other appropriate actions.
Cooperation with COPE
In case of ethical claims regarding reviewed manuscripts or published materials in an online publication, the Editor, together with the Publisher, take appropriate retaliatory measures, guided by the "Guidelines for Retracting Articles" The Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE). Such measures include interaction with the Authors of the manuscript and argumentation of the relevant complaint or claim, as well as interaction with relevant organizations and research centers within the framework of cooperation on issues of research purity (COPE program and recommendations).
Cooperation
To reviewers. Ethical standards of conduct
The editorial board shares the view that scientists who want to contribute to the publication do significant work on reviewing the manuscript. At the same time, it is taken into account that such work is performed on a voluntary basis by the Editor-in-Chief, unless the Reviewer is a full-time employee. The reviewer who accepted the manuscript for review is obliged to comply with the agreed review deadlines.
If the Reviewer realizes that he does not have sufficient qualifications to review the manuscript or does not have enough time to complete the work in a timely manner, he must notify the Editor and ask to be excluded from the review process of the relevant manuscript.
The reviewer should not participate in the review of the manuscript in case of conflicts of interest due to competitive, joint and other interactions and relationships with any of the Authors, companies or other organizations associated with the submitted work.
Non-abuse of official position and Confidentiality
The reviewer has no right to use unpublished data obtained from the submitted manuscripts in personal research without the written consent of the Author. Information or ideas obtained during the review and related to possible benefits should be kept confidential and cannot be used for personal gain.
Any manuscript received for review is treated as a confidential document. This work is not opened or discussed with any persons who do not have the authority to do so from the Editor-in-Chief.
Objectivity
The reviewer is obliged to give an objective assessment. Personal criticism of the Author is unacceptable. Reviewers should express their opinions clearly and reasonably.
Evaluation of the manuscript
Reviewers identify significant published works that correspond to the topic and are not included in the bibliography of the manuscript. Any statement, observation, conclusion or argument published earlier must be accompanied by an appropriate bibliographic reference in the manuscript. The Reviewer draws the attention of the Editor-in-Chief and members of the Editorial Board to the discovery of significant similarities or coincidences between the manuscript in question and any other previously published work within the scope of the Reviewer's scientific competence and expresses his opinion on the acceptability of the manuscript for publication from the point of view of ethical norms and rules.
To the authors. Ethical standards of conduct
Requirements for manuscripts and Guarantees
The authors should provide reliable results of the work done on the original research and an objective discussion of its significance. The data underlying the work must be presented accurately. The work should contain sufficient details and bibliographic references for possible reproduction. False or knowingly erroneous statements are perceived as unethical behavior and unacceptable. This may serve as a reason for rejecting the manuscript or refuting the published article.
Reviews and scientific articles should also be accurate and objective.
The author should not publish a manuscript devoted to the same research in more than one online publication as an original publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one online publication at the same time is perceived as unethical behavior and unacceptable. The author should not submit a previously published article for consideration by another online publication.
The authors guarantee that they present a completely original work. If the works or statements of other Authors are used, appropriate bibliographic references or excerpts should be provided. Additional data related to the manuscript may be requested from the authors. Authors should be ready to provide open access to information of this kind (according to the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if feasible, and in any case should be ready to save this data for the required period of time after publication.
Plagiarism in any form — from presenting someone else's work as an author's work to copying or paraphrasing essential parts of someone else's work (without attribution) and to claiming one's own rights to the results of someone else's research — is unethical and unacceptable.
The Editorial Board reserves the right not to respond to accusations of plagiarism if the accuser provides false personal information (for example, presents himself with an assumed name), or acts in an unethical or threatening manner. The editorial board is not obliged to discuss cases of alleged plagiarism with persons who are not directly related to it.
The authors confirm that their publication does not violate any of the existing copyrights and guarantee the Publisher damages in case of detection of such violations.
For the convenience of distribution and to ensure the implementation of the materials use policy, the Authors transfer to the Publisher the exclusive ownership of the manuscript, unless otherwise provided.
Permission to use the material
Before submitting an article to the Editorial Board for consideration, the authors must obtain permission to use any material created by other persons. Violation of this condition will entail certain difficulties in publication due to the need for the Authors to prove their rights to the published material.
The authors provide or should be ready to provide written permission to use such material at the request of the Editorial Board or Publisher.
The article cannot be published without the Authors obtaining the following rights to use the borrowed material:
- The non-exclusive right to reproduce it in the article.
- The rights to use the printed and electronic versions of the materials.
- The indefinite right to use the materials (implies the absence of time restrictions on the reuse of the material, for example, a one-year license).
It is allowed to reproduce tables, figures or fragments of text (more than 400 words in length) from other sources if the Authors:
- Received written permission for use in printed and electronic form from all persons who have rights to texts, illustrations, graphics or other materials that the Authors used in their manuscript, as well as for any minor adaptation of materials created by other persons.
- In case of significant changes to the material created by other persons and used in the manuscript, the copyright holder of the material was informed about this.
- Received written permission to use the material.
- They indicated the data source in the description of the drawings and duplicated it in the list of references.
- When using any material that is freely available on the Internet, we have previously clarified the information about the copyright owner and received permission to borrow (reprint) it.
In accordance with the editorial policy of the online publication "Russia in the Global World", it is unacceptable:
- Verbatim copying of 10 percent or more of another person's work without specifying his authorship, a link to the source and the use of quotation marks.
- Incorrect paraphrasing of another person's material, in which more than one sentence was changed within the same paragraph or section of the text, or the sentences were arranged in a different order without an appropriate reference to the source. Significant incorrect paraphrasing (more than 10 percent of the original work) without reference to the source is equivalent to verbatim copying.
- The use of elements of another person's work without attribution, for example, a drawing, table or paragraph without an expression of appreciation, a link to the source or the use of quotation marks. Authors must obtain permission from the copyright owner to use elements of his work.
- Autocitation (Self-citation). Authors should indicate that their work is being published for the first time. If the elements of the manuscript were previously published in another article, the authors are obliged to refer to an earlier work and indicate the significant difference between the new work and the previous one. They are also required to identify its relationship with the research results and conclusions presented in previous work. Verbatim copying of one's own works and their paraphrasing are unacceptable, they can only be used as a basis for new conclusions.
Important: In accordance with the international ethics of scientific publications, the online publication recommends that authors observe a degree of self-citation of no more than 20% (in the list of references).
Primary Sources, Authorship and Conflicts of Interest
Authors should refer to publications that are relevant to the performance of the submitted work. Data obtained privately (conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties) should not be used or presented without the explicit written permission of the original source. Information from confidential sources should not be used without the express written permission of the Authors of the work related to such sources. The authors of the publication can only be persons who have made a significant contribution to the formation of the idea of the work, the development, execution or interpretation of the presented research. All those who have made significant contributions should be designated as Co-authors. In cases where research participants have made significant contributions in a particular area of the research project, they should be listed as persons who have made significant contributions to this study.
The author guarantees that all participants who have made a significant contribution to the study are represented as Co-authors and those who did not participate in the study are not listed as Co-authors, that all Co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the work and agreed to submit it for publication. Individuals who have made minor contributions to the study are mentioned in the Acknowledgments section.
Authors are required to disclose in their manuscripts financial or other existing conflicts of interest that may be perceived as having influenced the results or conclusions presented in the work. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed in advance. Authors are required to list all sources of funding for research work.
Error correction
If the Author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in the publication, he must immediately inform the Editor of the online publication or the Publisher in writing and take appropriate measures to correct the errors or withdraw (retract) the publication. If the Editor or Publisher has received information from a third party that the publication contains significant errors, the Author is obliged to withdraw (retract) the work or correct the errors as soon as possible.
In cases of plagiarism, multiple publications of an article in other publications, falsifications or fabrications and other violations of publication ethics by the authors, the Publisher reserves the right to take the following actions:
to refuse to publish a manuscript that violates ethical standards;
to refuse to publish the author's subsequent manuscripts for a certain period of time;
to withdraw (retract) the specified article in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Ethics Committee.