Editorial Policies
- Aims and Scope
- Sections
- Peer Review Process
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
- Publication Ethics
- Open Access Policy
- Author Self-Archiving
- Author Fees
Aims and Scope
Prospects of the journal: bringing to the public the results of the latest scientific research in various areas of law, providing a platform for young scientists.
Remit of the journal (legal sciences), specialties
- Theoretical and historical legal sciences
- Public law (state-legal) sciences
- Private (civil) sciences
- Criminal legal sciences
- International legal sciences
Sections
Theoretical and historical legal sciences
Public law (state-legal) sciences
Private (civil) sciences
Criminal legal sciences
International legal sciences
Legal education
Tribune of young scientist
Reviews
Personalia
Events
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»
The journal publishes scientific articles selected by the editorial board headed by the editor-in-chief from among the manuscripts submitted by the authors. The selection of manuscripts for publication is carried out by the journal’s team in several stages and is based on independent external or internal “single blind” peer review.
Selection of manuscripts for publication: preliminary review
1. Articles in the scientific journal are designed in accordance with the “Requirements for the design of articles” posted at the end of each issue of the journal and on the journal’s website. Articles submitted in violation of the above mentioned requirements will not be considered.
2. Articles are sent to the editorial office of the journal in electronic form from the author’s personal email address to e-mail: jjournal@inbox.ru or through the “Submit Article” service on the official website of the journal. Articles sent to a different email address will not be accepted for consideration.
3. Articles in content must strictly comply with the legal specialties indicated on the official website of the journal.
4. Articles prepared by an author who does not have an academic degree are published subject to co-authorship with an author who has an academic degree in law.
Articles prepared solely by an author who does not have an academic degree (postgraduate student) are accepted for consideration if there is a positive review (external review) by a supervisor or other authoritative scientist in the relevant field of scientific knowledge.
An exception to this procedure may be made by decision of the editorial board for law enforcement specialists who have presented material that meets the criteria of scientific novelty and relevance for practice. Articles of students (bachelors, masters) prepared individually are not published.
5. All articles submitted to a scientific journal are recorded in the registration journal by the executive secretary, indicating the date of receipt by the editorial office. All articles are checked in the Anti-Plagiarism system.
6. After registration, scientific articles are submitted through the executive secretary or deputy editor-in-chief for peer review. The registration log contains information about the reviewer selected by the editorial board of the journal. The peer review period is 1-2 months.
7. Articles that do not pass the pre-selection are rejected. The author responsible for communication with the editors is notified of the decision made by sending a message to the email address specified when submitting the manuscript to the editors. If a manuscript is rejected due to illegal borrowings or duplicate publication, the author is additionally sent a report from the Anti-Plagiarism system.
Selection of manuscripts for publication: review
8. Manuscripts of scientific articles (results of original research, scientific reviews, short communications) that have passed the preliminary selection are sent by the editors for mandatory independent internal or external single-blind peer review - the manuscript is sent to reviewers indicating the names and contact details of the authors, the authors are not informed of the names and places reviewers' work.
9. The journal publishes only those articles that have been reviewed and recommended for publication. Reputable scientists in the field who have published on this topic over the past 3 years are invited as reviewers, who give a reasoned expert opinion on the scientific value of the presented material and its compliance with the requirements of the journal.
10. Manuscripts of members of the editorial board and the editor-in-chief himself are accepted for publication only after independent review and in case of positive feedback. In cases where the identity of the experts invited for review cannot be hidden from the authors, “simple blind” review is used - the manuscript is “blinded” before transferring it to reviewers (from the manuscript the executive secretary removes information about the authors, their places of work, and sources of funding for the work). The decision on the possibility of publishing articles by the editor-in-chief is made by a collective vote of members of the editorial board after reviewing the results of the review.
11. Reviewing is carried out by experts on a voluntary basis and free of charge. The reviewer has the right to refuse to review for any reason, including if he identifies a potential conflict of interest that may arise as a result of competition, cooperation or other relationships with any of the authors, companies or other organizations associated with the work submitted for examination (as this may affect the perception and interpretation of the content of the manuscript, the reviewer is obliged to declare the identified conflict of interest and refuse to consider the manuscript sent to him for review)
12. The reviewer works with the article as confidential material, strictly observing the author’s right to non-disclosure before publication of the information contained in the article. Additional experts may be involved by the reviewer only with the permission of the editors and also on confidentiality terms.
13. If the peer-review of an article indicates the need for improvement by the author, the article is sent to the author to correct the shortcomings or inaccuracies indicated by the reviewer. Three rounds of review are allowed. The period for one round of review may be up to 30 (thirty) days.
14. If the authors refuse to revise the manuscript, the author responsible for communication with the editors must notify the editors in writing of the withdrawal of the article from the journal. If the authors do not send the revised version to the editorial office within two months from the date of sending the review text, the editorial office interprets this as a withdrawal of the article from the journal and sends the author responsible for communication with the editorial office a notice of rejection of the article due to the expiration of the period allotted for revision.
15. If the author and reviewer have irresolvable contradictions regarding the article, the editorial board has the right to send the article to another reviewer. In conflict situations, the author has the right to appeal the decision of the editorial board. The appeal is submitted to the editor-in-chief, who makes the final decision. The appeal can only be submitted once.
16. If the review is positive, the authors are sent confirmation by email that the article is included in the corresponding issue of the journal.
Selection of manuscripts for publication: review by the editorial board
17. If the review is negative, the article is rejected by decision of the editorial board. After receiving the review, the corresponding mark “Publish”, “For revision”, “Refuse” is placed in the registration log.
18. Articles are published, as a rule, in the order in which they were received. Exceptions may be made by decision of the editorial board when preparing issues or sections in issues devoted to certain topics, events, etc.
19. If an article is sent to the author for revision, then its final version is published in the next issue of the journal from the moment the revised article is received. The editorial board has the right to change the order of publication of articles.
20. If the editorial board does not fully share the views of the author of the published article, it has the right to make a footnote about this. Articles published in discussion order may also be accompanied by an appropriate footnote.
21. The editorial board has the right to publish letters from readers containing a reasoned assessment of published articles.
Reviews and review history
22. Authors of articles are sent copies of both positive and negative reviews without indicating the reviewer’s name.
23. Copies of reviews are sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receipt of a corresponding request by the editorial office.
24. Reviews of scientific articles are stored for 5 years.
25. Information on peer-reviewing, including the texts of reviews and peer-reviewers’ data can be transferred to the Scientific Electronic Library (Russia) and other systems of accounting and evaluation of reviewing (like Publons and ORCID) in arrangement with peer-reviewers.
26. All rejected and withdrawn manuscripts are placed in the Editorial Board archive, to which the reviewers have no access.
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.
Open Access Policy
"Juridical Journal of Samara University" provides immediate open access to all articles published therein on the basis of principles formulated in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition, and applies the CC BY 4.0 Licence to all content we publish. The journal provides direct Open Access to its content on the basis of the following principle: free open access to the results of research contributes to the increase of global knowledge sharing.
Author Self-Archiving
The journal is compliant with Platinum Open Access mode for articles distribution.
Terms and definitions
We use the following terms and definitions:
- Preprint: An early version of an article prior to the version submitted for publication in a journal. Theses and dissertations are considered to be preprints.
- SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review): The version of the article that is under formal review for inclusion in the journal.
- AM (Accepted Manuscript): The version of the article that has been accepted for publication. This version may include revisions resulting from peer review but may be subject to further modification by Eco-Vector (for example, copyediting and typesetting).
- VoR (Version of Record): The version that is formally published. This not includes any Online First article that is formally identified as being published online before the compilation of a journal issue. The VoR includes any post-publication corrections.
- Personal webpage: Web pages created by you, about you and your research which are hosted on a non-commercial website (such as your institute’s website). Personal profile pages in commercial sharing sites (such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Facebook) are not considered to be personal web pages.
- Department or institutional repository: Web pages hosted by an academic or research institute or department to provide access to the work to promote and the activities of the institute or department, at all times operating for a non-commercial purpose.
- Subject repository: Web pages hosted by an organization to provide access to the work from researchers working in a subject or range of subjects, at all times operating for a non-commercial purpose.
- Commercial and non-commercial: Commercial means any activity for direct or indirect financial gain. When considering whether a use is commercial or non-commercial, we look at the nature of the activity rather than the nature of the site or organization performing the activity.
What can be self-archived, where and when
| Personal | Department or institutional repository | Non-commercial subject repository | Commercial repository or social media site |
Preprint, | At any time | At any time | At any time | At any time |
AM | At any time | At any time | At any time | At any time |
VoR | At any time | At any time | At any time | At any time |
Plan S compliance
Our Platinum OA policy is compatible with Plan S, and our License to Publish agreements with authors may not conflict with authors' agreements with their cOAlition S funders.
Creative Commons and other end-user licenses
Preprints and SMURs can be made publicly accessible under any license terms the authors choose. We recommend a Creative Commons CC-BY or a more restrictive CC license.
Accepted Manuscripts can be made accessible under a Creative Commons CC-BY license or equivalent.
Third-party material
Before posting articles online, authors should ensure they have the appropriate permission to include any third party content. When posting articles under a Creative Commons license, the permission should allow the third-party material to be included either (i) under the Creative Commons license or (ii) clearly indicated as being protected by third party copyright, with a clear notice that it cannot be reused without further permissions clearance from the identified third-party rights holder.
Posting content in repositories
We require repositories to include:
- If an article has not yet been published, a clear statement that the material has been accepted for publication in a revised form, with a link to the journal’s site on https://journals.ssau.ru/jjsu/.
- For all published articles, a link to the article’s Version of Record in https://journals.ssau.ru/jjsu/ – for example, via a DOI-based link.
- A clear statement about the license terms under which the posted version of the article is deposited.
Example statements are:
- This article has been published in a revised form in Juridical Journal of Samara University [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for any purposes, re-distribution or re-use. © Authors.
- This article has been published in a revised form in Juridical Journal of Samara University [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC BY. Commercial re-distribution and re-use allowed. Derivative works can be distributed. © Authors.
Citing content in repositories
When citing an Accepted Manuscript or an earlier version of an article, we request that readers also cite the Version of Record with a DOI link, for example: Subsequently published in revised form in Juridical Journal of Samara University [http://doi.org/XXX].
Author Fees
Publication in “Juridical Journal of Samara University” is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn’t have any article processing and submission charges.