Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal "Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences” is a regular publication of research and scientific-practical orientation, publishing original research on topics from the pedagogical and psychological fields of knowledge, as well as on the development and modernization of education in general.

The purpose of the journal "Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences” is the development of research activities, support for leading scientific schools and training of highly qualified personnel in the field of pedagogics and psychology by creating a space of scientific communication for the free exchange of information, experience, results of theoretical and applied research.

The main tasks of the scientific publication “Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences" are:

  • ensuring open interaction for the exchange of views and practical experience among representatives of the scientific and professional community in order to develop and promote scientific ideas in the field of pedagogy and psychology;
  • promoting the magazine to the international space and attracting international author and readership on the subject of the magazine;
  • optimization of scientific communication and strengthening of links between researchers;
  • improving the quality of scientific research in the field of pedagogics and psychology;
  • involvement of young researchers in the professional scientific community.

The journal is focused on the vast geography of the authors, subject to the originality and novelty of their work, as well as their compliance with Russian legislation on the media and the standards of scientific ethics. The journal’s policy is based on the principle of an interdisciplinary approach that promotes the integration of research results of research teams and individual authors in different fields of science, united by one goal - the solution of actual problems of science and education.

The journal is not commercially oriented. The main criteria for publishing a scientific paper in the journal are the relevance of the issues considered in it and the compliance of the paper with the profile of the journal. Teamwork in the analysis of educational trajectories, processes of adaptation of existing knowledge in the sphere of pedagogics and psychology to modern trends in social development allows finding the best ways to solve the inevitable difficulties and contradictions caused by the constantly changing conditions of modern society. The journal is open to reputable scientists as well as to young researchers and provides opportunities for cooperation in solving these problems.

 
 

Peer Review Process

The journal ’Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences’ publishes only articles successfully passed true evaluation process. All the research and review manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal are object for obligatory evaluation procedure based on double-blinded peer-review. The evaluation procedure includes the following steps.

  1. General evaluation of the manuscripts

1.1. Within 10 working days from receipt of the manuscript its initial assessment for compliance with the topic and requirements of the journal is performed by an Executive editor.

1.2. Executive Editor of the journal is responsible for acceptance and preliminary evaluation of a submitted manuscript. He/she determines if the manuscript complies with the journal’s profile and requirements for authors. All submitted articles are subject to plagiarism control (anti-plagiarism program “AntiPlagiat”, Russia).

1.3. If any discrepancies with the requirements are found, the author(s) will be notified and given the reasons for the rejection. Articles rejected at this stage are not peer-reviewed.

  1. Peer-review

2.1. If the manuscript is considered relevant to the topic of the Journal and its requirements, it is sent for peer-review to several external peer-reviewers.

2.2. The decision on peer-reviewers assignment is made by the editor-in-chief or deputy editor-in-chief, or by Science Editor.

2.3. Reviewing is done by members of the journal’s editorial board, the journal's editorial council and external reviewers from leading experts in the field working in areas of research that correspond to main topic of a manuscript.

2.4. Each invited peer-reviewer has the right to withdraw from the peer-review. Peer review is free of charge and performed on a voluntary and gratuitous basis. The peer-reviewer should withdraw invitation if there is a clear conflict of interest that affects the perception and interpretation of the manuscript materials (peer-reviewers should report the scientific, financial or any other relationship with the potential authors and editors of the journal.

2.5. The manuscript is sent to external reviewers without mentioning authors and their organizations ("double blind" peer-review).

2.6. “Single-blind” peer review is applied for manuscripts submitted by Editorial Board members (reviewers do not know the authors' identity, including their affiliations).

2.7. Peer-reviewers are informed that manuscripts sent to them are the property of authors and are classified as confidential information. Peer-reviewers must refrain from illegal use (including copying) of the materials sent to them for peer-review.

2.8. Within 14 days from receipt of the manuscript peer-reviewers should render a reasoned opinion on the possibility of its publication in the present form, and present any claims about the manuscript in writing.

2.9. The purpose of reviewing is to determine the compliance of manuscripts with the stated aims and scope and the subject area of the Journal. Manuscripts are reviewed for scientific novelty and relevance, clarity and comprehensibility, as well as compliance with all ethical standards in the appropriate field of research. Other objectives include supporting transparency, reproducibility and data sharing (including proper registration of trials).

2.10. The peer-review should highlight the consistency of the article content with the topic stated in the title, the consistency of the article with the modern achievements of science and theoretical knowledge, evaluating language, style, arrangement of the material, clarity and informativeness of tables, charts, figures and completeness and correctness of literature citations, and advantages and disadvantages of the article. The peer-reviewer also should indicate any amendments that should be made by the author.

2.11. Peer-reviewer's possible conclusion:

  • the article can be published and does not require serious revision;
  • the article should be sent to other experts for peer-review;
  • the article should be revised by authors and should be re-valuated on the next round of peer-review before a final decision;
  • the article cannot be published owing to poor quality, inconsistency with the requirements of article design or topic of the journal, ethical violations, signs of falsification of results or other reasons.

2.12. We provide all authors the access for peer-reviews texts (no peer-reviewers’ data are available for authors). Executive editor sends an Editorial decision to the authors by e-mail, the letter should contains the text of the peer-review and recommendations from the Editorial team.

2.13. In case of a negative decision, the executive editor sends to the author a message with the peer-reviews and the reasons for rejection of a manuscript. The article, which has been rejected for publication, is not accepted for reconsideration.

2.14. If the peer-review indicates that revisions are need, the manuscript is returned to the author(s) with the peer-reviews attached and a request to take into account the peer-reviewers’ comments when preparing a revised version of the manuscript. Within the revision author(s) should provide responses to all the peer-reviewers’ questions, comments and suggestions. In a case of any disagreements with a peer-reviewer's suggestions, the author(s) should clearly justify their point of view. The revised manuscript should be submitted to the editor within 2 months from receipt of the editorial decision. In case of absence after this time, the manuscript will be rejected. Revised manuscript and the response to a peer-review are sent to peer-reviewers for the next step of evaluation.

2.15. If the authors refuse to revise the manuscript they should notify the Editorial Board about the withdrawal of the article from the journal.

2.16. If the author and the reviewer have irresolvable contradictions regarding the article, the editorial board has the right to send the article to another peer-reviewer. In conflict situations, the author has the right to appeal against the decision of the editorial board. The appeal is submitted to the Editor-in-Chief, who makes the final decision. An appeal can be filed only once.

  1. Editorial board evaluation and final decision

3.1. The presence of a positive review is not a sufficient basis for the publication of an article. The final editorial decision is made by the Editorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief, and in controversial situations - only by the Editor-in-Chief. The Executive editor sends all manuscripts with positive peer-reviews to the editorial board and the editor-in-chief for consideration.

3.2. After the editorial board approved an article for publication, the executive editor informs the author on the decision and indicates the potential issue of the journal to be published in. The text of reviews is the obligate part of these massages.

3.3. All approved manuscripts are objects for scientific editing, copyediting, layout preparation and proofreading before publication. The Editorial Board reserves the right to edit the submitted articles (including their titles). Before publication the layout of the article is sent to corresponding author in *.pdf format by email to proofread for misprints in the text, tables, and figures.

3.4. Aссepted articles are distributed in the nearest issues of the journal in the order of their receipt. The Editorial Board has the right to change the order of publication of articles.

  1. Peer-reviews history and distribution

4.1 Reviews are kept in the editorial office for five years.

4.2. The editors send the author(s) of submitted manuscripts copies of reviews and also assure to send copies of reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receiving a relevant request.

4.3. 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.

4.4. All rejected and withdrawn manuscripts are placed in the Editorial Board archive, to which the reviewers have no access.

 

Publication Frequency

The journal publish quarterly, 4 issues per year.

 

Open Access Policy

By «open access» to the journal content we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these papers, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. (BOAI statement)

The journal content is licensed according to Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

 

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/) and Cyberleninka platforms.

 

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-commercialCommercial 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
web page

Department or institutional repository

Non-commercial subject repository
(e.g. PubMed Central)

Commercial repository or social media site
(e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SSRN)

Preprint,
SMUR

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://vestnik-pp.samgtu.ru/.
  • For all published articles, a link to the article’s Version of Record in https://vestnik-pp.samgtu.ru/ – 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 Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences [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 Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences [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 Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences [http://doi.org/XXX].

 

 

Indexation

  • Papers in the journal “Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences” are indexed by The Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database which accumulates information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI project has been under development by the Electronic Scientific Library foundation since 2005. elibrary.ru
  • Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scientific publications of all formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers.
  • Cyberleninka is a scientific electronic library based on the Open Science paradigm. Its main objectives are to popularize science and research, to provide public quality control of scientific publications, to develop interdisciplinary research and the modern institute of scientific review, to increase the citation of Russian science and design the knowledge infrastructure.
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
  • WorldCat

 

Publication Ethic Policy

The editorial staff of the journal “Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences" focuses on international standards of editorial ethics proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics, (COPE) and believes that following its principles of publication ethics is one of the main points of peer review and publication.

  1. Ethical principles for authors

The integrity of scientific research is ensured by the authors' following the international standards for the scientific publications preparation. The editors reserve the right to refuse to publish the paper in case of violation of the rules below.

1.1. The author submitting the manuscript for publication in the journal “Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences” ensures that it has neither been published earlier nor is currently being reviewed by the editors of other publications and possible conflicts of interest related to the copyright and publication of the manuscript in question have been resolved.

1.2. The author must make sure that the manuscript is completely original, and in case of using the works of other authors, the corresponding bibliographic references should be provided. Literal copying of more than 10 percent of other person’s work without reference to the source and use of quotation marks is not allowed.

1.3 The author guarantees the absence of self-plagiarism. If the elements of the manuscript were previously published in another paper, the author is obliged to refer to the earlier work, indicate what is the significant difference between the new research from the previous one and identify the connection with the research results and conclusions presented in the previous work. Literal copying of one’s own works and their paraphrasing are unacceptable, they can only be used as a basis for new conclusions.

1.4. The author must provide reliable results of the work done and an objective discussion of the research significance. The study should contain enough details and references for possible reproduction.

1.5. The authors of the publication can be those who have made a significant contribution to the work concept, 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 to a research project, they should be listed as individuals who have made significant contributions to this research.

1.6. In case of revealing significant errors in the published work, the author should notify the editorial board and take a joint decision about admitting the error or correcting it.

1.7. All authors are required to reveal in their manuscripts financial or other existing conflicts of interest that may be recognized as having influenced the results or conclusions presented in the work. Potential conflicts of interest to be revealed include employment, advising, stock ownership, receiving fees, providing expert opinions, a patent application or patent registration, grants, and other financial support.

1.8. For ease of distribution and ensuring the implementation of the policy of materials use, the author transfers the publisher the property in the manuscript, unless otherwise stated.

  1. Ethical principles for reviewers

Peer review of scientific papers by other researchers is an integral part of scientific communication, which allows to improve the quality and to ensure the objectivity of the research, helps make a decision on publishing the paper. All reviewers must adhere to generally accepted principles and standards in the review process.

2.1. The reviewer should agree to review only those manuscripts for the evaluation of which he has sufficient knowledge and competencies, and who can review within the time limit set.

2.2. The reviewer guarantees presenting an objective and fair review, the absence of unethical statements and personal criticism.

2.3. The reviewer must ensure the confidentiality of the review – non-disclosure of the manuscript details or review during or after reviewing to anyone except those authorized by the editor.

2.4 Unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts cannot be used in personal research without the written consent of the author. Information or ideas obtained during the review process and related to possible benefits should be kept confidential and not used for the personal gain.

2.5. The reviewer should declare all possible conflicts of interest and seek for the advice from the editors of the journal in case of doubt whether the situation is a conflict of interest or not. Reviewers should not participate in the review of manuscripts if there is a conflicts of interest due to the competitive, collaborative and other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies or other organizations related to the submitted work.

  1. Ethical principles for editorial stuff

Editorial staff of the journal “Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences" follows the rules of editorial policy that contributes to the objective and high-quality research.

3.1. The editorial board implements an independent policy for the selection and publication of scientific research materials and guarantees the compliance of published materials with the accepted international standards and ethical principles.

3.2. The editorial board makes a decision on publishing or rejecting the work based on its intellectual content, relevance, reliability of the information contained and its compliance with the subject of the journal, regardless of race, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship or political views of the author.

3.3. The editors of the journal can make changes to the materials and give refutations (up to the withdrawal of papers), when necessary, and also do not disregard cases of illegal behavior in conducting research and publishing their results.

3.4. The editorial board makes honest and objective decisions regardless of commercial considerations, provides a qualified and objective review of the manuscript and ensures the confidentiality of the review process.

3.5. The editors protect the authors' reputation and consider all cases of plagiarism and other facts of unacceptable behavior during publication. In cases of detection of plagiarism facts and other facts of unacceptable behavior when publishing scientific materials, the editors of the journal have the right to refuse to publish the manuscript provided and to withdraw the publication.

The editors reserve the right not to respond to accusations of plagiarism, if the prosecutor provides false personal information (for example, seems to be a fictitious name) or acts in an unethical form. The editors are not obliged to discuss cases of alleged plagiarism with persons who are not directly related to it.

When reviewing papers, the native Russian-language plagiarism detection software “Antiplagiat” is used to screen the submissions.

  1. The order of papers retraction from the journal

In the case of situations involving violations of publication ethics, the editors of the journal act in accordance with the Guidelines for Papers Retraction of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE Retraction Guidelines) and the Rules of Papers Retraction from publication ASEP.

The paper retraction is carried out according to the official appeal of the editors or the author. Anonymous appeals, as well as appeals of persons who are not directly related to the issue, are not considered. The reasons for the paper retraction are: 1) the presence of plagiarism in the paper (including borrowing drawings, graphs, tables, etc.), if the fact of plagiarism was discovered after the publication of the paper; the emergence of claims concerning the copyright to the paper or its individual parts by third parties; 2) publication of the paper in other edition before the date of its publication in the journal; 3) the presence of serious errors in the published paper that puts its scientific value in  doubt.

Under such circumstances, the editorial board of the journal arrange the control procedure, on the results of which the paper can be withdrawn. The author of the paper is sent a letter with the information about the reasons for the paper retraction.

The paper is not physically removed from the published edition or from the site of the journal. The editors publish a statement on the paper retraction and place it on the appropriate content page of the issue on the official journal website.

Information about retracted papers is sent to the National Electronic Library (elibrary.ru), to the Council on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (to put information into the unified database of retracted papers).

The editorial staff will pay close attention to all reasonable appeals about the violations found in the published materials. The editors consider the author and the reviewer to be responsible for informing the editorial staff as soon as possible about the missed errors and violations that they discovered after the paper publication.

  1. Privacy Statement

5.1. The following information about the authors, including their names, affiliation, contact information, information about the position and academic degree, links to author profiles, is placed in the in the section “Information about the author”.

5.2. The passport data and place of residence of the authors, submitted to the editorial board of the journal, are used exclusively for licensing agreements and forwarding correspondence and are not transferred to third parties.

5.3. Names of reviewers are not reported to authors and third parties.

 

Publication Fees

Publication in "Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences" journal is free for all authors.

The "Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Series: Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences" journal charge no publication fees from authors — including those of peer-review management, manuscript processing, journal production, Open-Access, online hosting and archiving.


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