Editorial Policies
Aims and Scope
Remit of the journal, milestones, groups of specialties:
entry | Naming of the heading / division of peer-reviewed scientific publication | Branches of science, and/or groups of specialties of scientific workers in correspondence with the Nomenclature of scientific specialties, by which academic titles are awarded |
1 | Theory of law and state | 12.00.01 Theory and history of law and state; history of studies on law and state |
2 | History of law and state | 12.00.01 Theory and history of law and state; history of studies on law and state |
3 | Constitutional law | 12.00.02 Constitutional law, constitutional judicial proceedings, municipal law |
4 | Municipal law | 12.00.02 Constitutional law, constitutional judicial proceedings, municipal law |
5 | Civil law | 12.00.03 Civil law; entrepreneurial law; family law; private international law |
6 | Family and housing law | 12.00.03 Civil law; entrepreneurial law; family law; private international law |
7 | Entrepreneurial and economic law | 12.00.03 Civil law; entrepreneurial law; family law; private international law |
8 | Private international law | 12.00.03 Civil law; entrepreneurial law; family law; private international law |
9 | Financial and banking law | 12.00.04 Financial law; fiscal law; budgetary law
|
10 | Labour law and social security law
| 12.00.05 Labour law; social security law |
11 | Environmental and land law | 12.00.06 Land law; natural resources law; environmental law; agricultural law |
12 | Corporate and energy law
| 12.00.07 Corporate law; energy law
|
13 |
| 12.00.08 Criminal law and criminal science; criminal and penal law |
14 | Criminal science
| 12.00.08 Criminal law and criminal science; criminal and penal law |
15 | Criminal and penal law | 12.00.08 Criminal law and criminal science; criminal and penal law |
16 | Criminal procedure | 12.00.09 Criminal procedure |
17 | International law | 12.00.10 International law; European law |
18 | Advocacy and law enforcement activities | 12.00.11 Judicial activity, public prosecutor’s activity, advocacy and law enforcement activities |
19 | Criminalistics and forensic enquiry
| 12.00.12 Criminalistics; judicial and examination activities; investigative activities |
20 | Information law | 12.00.13 Information law |
21 | Administrative law and process | 12.00.14 Administrative law and administrative process |
22 | Civil process | 12.00.15 Civil process; arbitration proceedings |
23 | Arbitration proceedings | 12.00.15 Civil process; arbitration proceedings |
24 | Legal education
| 12.00.01 Theory and history of state and law; history of studies on law and state 12.00.02 Constitutional law, constitutional judicial proceedings, municipal law 12.00.03 Civil law; entrepreneurial law; family law; private international law 12.00.04 Financial law; fiscal law; budgetary law 12.00.05 Labour law; social security law 12.00.06 Landlaw; natural resources law; environmental law; agricultural law 12.00.07 Company law; energy law 12.00.08 Criminal law and criminal science; criminal and penal law 12.00.09 Criminal procedure 12.00.10 International law; European law 12.00.11 Judicial activity, public prosecutor’s activity, advocacy and law enforcement activities 12.00.12 Criminalistics; judicial and examination activities; investigative activities 12.00.13 Information law 12.00.14 Administrative law and administrative process 12.00.15 Civil process; arbitration proceedings |
25 | Tribune of young scientist | |
26 | Personalia | |
27 | Reviews | |
28 | Events |
Sections
Theory of law and state
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
History of law and state
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Ethics and psychology of law-enforcement activity
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Constitutional law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Municipal law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Administrative law and process
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Environmental and land law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Civil law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Family and housing law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Labour law and social security law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Civil process
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Arbitration proceedings
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Entrepreneurial and economic law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Financial and banking law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Criminal law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Criminal science
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Criminal and penal law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Criminal procedure
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Criminalistics and forensic enquiry
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
International law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Private international law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Corporate and energy law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Information law
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Legal education
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Tribune of young scientist
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Personalia
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Events
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
Competency, efficiency, confidentiality, objectivity, disaffection
Order
of direction, peer review and publishing of articles in the scientific journal «Juridical Journal of Samara University»
3.1. Articles in the scientific journal «JURIDICAL JOURNAL OF SAMARA UNIVERSITY» are filled out in accordance with the «Requirements to the design of articles» that are placed in the end of each issue of the journal and on the website of the journal. Articles that are presented with the violation of the before-mentioned requirements are not considered.
3.2. The articles are sent to the editorial staff of the journal in the electronic form from the personal e-mail of the author on the e-mail: jjournal@inbox.ru
3.3. All presented in the scientific journal articles are recorded in the registration log by the executive editor with the indication of date of entry in the editorial staff.
3.4. After registration scientific articles are delivered through the executive editor or publishing editor of series on peer review. In the registration log the information about the reader selected by the editorial board or by the editorial team of the journal is put. The term of peer review is 1–2 month.
3.5. Inthe article only those articles that are viewed and recommended to the publication are published. In the capacity of readers, expert scientists in the given area, having publication on the given subject for the period of the last 3 years, that give substantiated conclusion about scientific value of the presented material and its correspondence to the requirements of the journal.
3.6. If in the peer review on the article there is indication on the necessity of its refinement by the author, it is send to the author for correction of drawbacks or inaccuracies indicated by the reader.
3.7. At positive review authors by email are sent confirmation about the inclusion of an article in the corresponding issue of the journal.
3.8. At negative review the article according to the decision of the editorial board is rejected. In the registration log after getting review the corresponding mark «Publish», «For renewal», «Reject» is placed.
3.9. The articles are published as a rule in the order of precedence of their entry. If the article is sent to the author for renewal, then the final version of the paper is published in the next, from the moment of entry of the improved article, issue of the journal. The editorial board of the journal has a right to change the priority of publication of the articles.
3.10. Incase if the editorial board doesn’t share fully the viewpoint of the author of the published article, it has a right to make a footnote about this. Articles published in the course of discussion can also be accompanied by a footnote.
3.11. The editorial board has a right to publish letters of the readers that contain substantiated estimate of the published articles.
3.12. Copies of positive as well as negative reviews without indication of the family name of the reader are sent to the authors of the articles
3.13. The copies of the reviews are sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of theRussian Federationat entry of the request therefore in the editorial department
3.14. Reviews on the articles are kept for 5 years.
Open Access Policy
Статьи этого журнала доступны всем желающим с момента публикации, что обеспечивает свободный открытый доступ к результатам исследований и способствует прогрессу науки и медицины.
Archiving
The journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve all the published articles. The PKP PN is a part of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.
Also, the journal makes full-text archives on the Russian Science Electronic Library (http://elibrary.ru/) platform.
Publication Ethics
Ethical norms of scientific publications assume observation by the participants of scientific and publishing community of certain general principles and rules of interaction, that serve enhancement of a number of qualitative scientific publications and also successful and effective cooperation of authors, reviewers, publishers and readers of scientific publications.
1. In the process of cooperation, authors, reviewers, publishers and readers of scientific publications should be polite, tactful, avoid conflict situations, solving the questions aroused in creative, constructive and productive spring.
2. Deliberate assignment of authorship of an alien work of science, alien ideas and inventions, fraud of data is not allowed. Plagiarism is a violation of author-legal and patent legislation and may lead to legal responsibility.
3. The article should be original, contain element of new knowledge and be given for publication for the first time.
4. Non published data, received from manuscript presented to consideration should not be used or given to the third person without written author’s consent. Information or ideas received in the process of peer-reviewing and editorship and connected with potential dividends, should remain confidential and not used with the aim of getting self-profit.
5. Author (or group of authors) of publication have responsibility for novelty and authenticity of results of scientific research. Borrowed fragments or statements should be formed with the obligatory indication of an author and primary source of information. Excessive borrowings, and also plagiarism in any form, including unshaped citations, paraphrasing or assignment of rights on the results of alien researches, are unethical and unacceptable.
6. Co-authors of the article should indicate all persons that brought in a substantial contribution in carrying out research.
7. Author has a right to be acquainted with the results of peer-reviewing and comments of the reviewer and remove mistakes required by a reviewer or an editor.
8. If an author finds substantial errors or mistakes in the article on the stage of its reviewing or after its publishing, he should as quickly as possible inform about it the journal staff.
9. Reviewer carries out scientific expertise of author’s materials, regarding them as confidential document which should not be given for acquaintance or consideration to the third person that have no rights for it from the editorial staff.
10. Reviewer must give objective and substantiated estimate to the stated results of an investigation. Personal critique of an author is unacceptable.
11. The anonymity of reviewer must be observed.
12. Reviewer that doesn’t have, according to his opinion, competence for estimation of a manuscript or cannot be impersonal, should tell the publisher about it with a request to exclude him from the process of peer reviewing of the given manuscript.
13. Publisher of a scientific journal at decision taking about publication goes by the authenticity of data presentation and scholarly importance of the considered work
14. Publisher should evaluate intellectual content of manuscripts regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, origin, nationality, social standing or political preferences of the authors.
15. Copy editor combined with publisher should not leave without an answer accusations that concern the viewed manuscripts or published materials, and also at revelation of conflict situation take all necessary measures for restoration of violated rights.