Peer review

All the scientific articles submitted to the editorial board of the journal "Journal of Public and Municipal Administration" must undergo a two-way "blind" review procedure. In this case, the authors of the manuscripts do not know who the reviewers of their work are. If the opinions of the two reviewers differ significantly, a third expert is involved in the evaluation of the article.

  1. Articles are reviewed by invited experts who are leading specialists in the field of national and universal history.

    The choice of a specific reviewer for evaluating an article is made by the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, and scientific editor. The reviewer must have published articles on the subject of the reviewed article within the last 3 years.

    If the review contains recommendations for correcting and improving the article, the author is sent the text of the review with a suggestion to consider the recommendations when preparing a new version of the article or to refute them in an аргументированный manner. The revised article is submitted for review again.

    The review period varies from 2 to 4 weeks, but the reviewer may request an extension if necessary.

  1. Each reviewer has the right to refuse to review if he has an obvious conflict of interest that may affect his perception and interpretation of the contents of the manuscript. Based on the results of the manuscript analysis, the reviewer provides recommendations on the further process of publishing and the reviewer’s each decision is accompanied by a justification:
  • the article is recommended for publication in its current form;
  • the article is recommended for publication after the deficiencies noted by the reviewer have been corrected;
  • the article requires additional review by another specialist;
  • the article cannot be published in the journal.
  1. If the review contains advice on correcting and revising the article, the editorial board sends the text of the review to the author with a request to take these recommendations into account when preparing a new version of the article or to justify why they may be rejected (in part or in full). The process of revising the article should not exceed two months from the moment the notification of the need to make changes is sent to the authors. After revision, the article is returned for re-review.
  2. If the authors decide not to revise the materials, they must notify the editors of their refusal to publish the article in writing or orally. If within 3 months from the moment the review is sent, the authors do not return the corrected version of the article and do not provide information about their refusal to revise, the editors remove the article from the register. In such cases, the authors are notified that their manuscript has been excluded from registration due to the expiration of the period allotted for making edits.
  3. If irresolvable disagreements arise between the author and the reviewers regarding the manuscript, the editorial board has the right to send the manuscript for additional review. The final decision on the possibility of publication is made by the editor-in-chief,.
  4. After a decision has been made on the possibility of publishing the article, the editors notify the author of this and inform him of the date of publication of the article.
  5. The original reviews are kept by the editorial board for 5 years and are provided to the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia upon request.

The journal's policy regarding the transfer of reviews to the RSCI

The editorial board of the journal informs reviewers that since September 2019, it has been transferring information about the reviewer and the texts of reviews (which are closed to all RSCI users, but open to RSCI experts), completed reviews to Scientific Electronic Library LLC for their placement/accounting and analysis along with the texts of articles on the eLIBRARY.RU platform.

Reviewers have the right to express their CONSENT/REFUSAL to the transfer of review texts; as well as to the disclosure of their personal data and information about the completed review to external users of the eLIBRARY.RU platform, using the appropriate forms.

When submitting new reviews to the journal since September 2019, reviewers are asked to send a signed and scanned version of CONSENT or REFUSAL.