Journal Policies

Frequency: 4 issues per year (March, July, October, December)
Indexing: HAK (K2), CrossRef, Jisc Open Policy Finder (formerly Sherpa Romeo), Ulrichs Web Global Serials Directory, Russian State Library (RSL), Google Scholar, Mendeley, Lens, OpenAIRE, Wikidata, Internet Archive Scholar, Infra-M, ISTINA, CyberLeninka, IPRBooks, LitRes, RUDN University, RUDN University.

Archiving:

• Russian State Library (rsl.ru)
• Scientific Electronic Library (elibrary.ru)
• CyberLeninka (cyberleninka.ru)

Founder: the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Funding: The journal is funded by the Founder.
Publication Fees: Publication is free of charge for authors. The editorial board does not charge fees for preparation, placement, or printing of materials.

Open Access Policy

The "Journal of Public and Municipal Administration" adheres to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and is a fully open-access journal (diamond/platinum OA). All the articles are freely available to readers (from the first issue) immediately after publication under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Until December 2024 (inclusive), the journal used the CC BY-NC-SA license.

Copyright

Copyright for any article remains with the author(s).
Under the CC BY-NC license, the following uses are permitted:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt (create derivative materials) — modify material and create new one based on it.
  The following conditions are required:
• Attribution — Appropriate authorship must be given, along with a link to the license and indication of changes.
• NonCommercial — The material may not be used for commercial purposes.

Plagiarism Policy

The editorial board of the Journal may verify the material by using the Antiplagiat system. If significant plagiarism is detected, the board follows guidelines from COPE and the Russian Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (RASEP).

• Peer Review Policy
• Publication Ethics

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All the participants of the peer review and publication process must consider and disclose any relationships that could be perceived as potential conflicts of interest (financial relationships (e.g., employment, consulting, equity ownership, fees, patents or paid expert testimony), personal relationships, competitiveness, academic rivalry, or intellectual beliefs).

Policy on Transferring Reviews to RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index)

Since September 2019, the editorial board transfers reviewer information and review texts (visible only for the RSCI experts) done in LLC “Scientific Electonic Library” to the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU) for storage and analysis alongside article texts.

Reviewers may consent or refuse to transfer their reviews/personal data using designated forms.

Signed consent/refusal forms must be submitted with new reviews.
Authors submitting manuscripts confirm adherence to authorship ethics and agree to participate in authorship dispute investigations.

Complaints and Appeals

The editorial board commits to investigating complaints regarding:

• Breaches of confidentiality;
• Undisclosed conflicts of interest;
• Misuse of confidential information obtained during peer review.
  Authors may appeal editorial decisions or report procedural violations. Complaints should be emailed to the editorial office and will be addressed within ≤14 days. Exceptions are allowed. Complainants will be notified of decisions and corrective actions, guided by COPE.

Preprint & Postprint Policy

The journal follows Platinum OA, permitting and encouraging authors to deposit accepted manuscripts on personal websites or repositories (ResearchGate, institutional repositories, SSRN, SocArXiv, etc.) before or after publication without embargo. The final published version must be cited, including DOI. Authors must declare prior deposition upon submission.

Author Self-Archiving:

• Preprint/review version: Anytime.
• Accepted manuscript: After official editorial acceptance.
• Final version: After publication in an issue on the journal’s website.

Creative Commons and other licenses

Authors may publish (self-archive) preprints and reviewed versions of manuscripts under any license of their choice. We recommend Creative Commons CC-BY or any other Creative Commons family license.

Accepted versions of articles can be published under the terms of an open Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license or its equivalent, but not a free version. We do not allow the publication of accepted versions of articles on such free terms as the Creative Commons CC-BY license.

Third-party materials

Before publishing online (self-archiving), authors should ensure that they have all the necessary rights and permissions to publish all the components of the article. When an article is published (self-archived) under a Creative Commons license, the author must have the right to post all the borrowed elements in the published article under the appropriate license. In all cases, the copyright holders of the borrowed elements of the article must be indicated, as well as information that the using these elements of the article is impossible without the separate permission of copyright holders.

Closed repositories and the embargo period

Articles can be placed in closed repositories both before and after the official publication on the journal's website. In closed repositories only the administrators of the website have access to the content.

Metadata (titles, annotations, author info, links) can be available both before and after the publication of the article on the journal's website. The full texts of the final versions of articles can be available on other websites with mandatory links to the publication on the journal's website (via DOI).

Posting content in repositories

The editorial board of the journal allows authors to post accepted versions of articles (preprints) on their web-pages, on the websites of their organizations and public repositories (such as ResearchGate, SSRN, RePEc, etc.). After the publication of the article, the editorial board requires the authors to provide a link to the final version of the article on the journal's website.

It is important that the following information is provided when posting articles in third-party repositories:

if the article has not yet been published, a clear statement stating that the manuscript has been accepted for publication or submitted for review, with a link to the journal's website.;

For all published articles— there should be a link to the final version of the article on the journal's website (including through the DOI);

a clear statement of the license terms under which the published version of the article is posted.

Quoting articles in repositories

When quoting an accepted version of an article or an earlier version, we ask readers and authors to provide a link to the final version of the article and use the DOI.