Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The subject of the journal

The journal "Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics" serves as a platform for highlighting new directions in the modern linguistics, literary criticism and methodology of Philology teaching development at the end of the XXth - beginning of the XXIst century in the aspect of a crossdisciplinary scientific paradigm that combines Russian and foreign experience of cognition. The journal publishes articles that reflect the latest scientific views, relevant results and achievements of fundamental, theoretical, applied and interdisciplinary research in Philology.

 The mission of the peer reviewed scientific journal "Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics" is to provide an opportunity for the scientific community in our country and abroad to present the results of their original research in  actively developing new areas of humanities and to draw attention to promising and relevant areas of philological science and methodology.

The aim of the journal is to provide an opportunity for the scientific community in our country and abroad to present the results of their original research in the actively developed humanitarian areas of modern science, integrating philological knowledge, to draw attention to promising and relevant areas of philological science and methodology.

The scope of the journal:

• to promote scientific exchange and collaboration among the Russian and foreign philologists and specialists in related fields;
• to present the results of scientific research and constructive ideas for the development of the philological sciences, as well as innovative methods of teaching them that are relevant to the Russian and to the international scientific community;
• to acquaint readers with the latest trends and theories in the field of philological research, developed both in Russia and abroad and with their practical application;
• to publish the results of original scientific research on a wide range of actual philological problems of an interdisciplinary nature, revealing the interaction of language, culture, consciousness and communication.

Sections

Статьи

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Studies in theoretical linguistics

Communication and discourse studies

Concepts in cultural studies

Semantic-grammar linguistic and cognitive studies

Text linguistic studies

Literary studies

Methodology in philology teaching

Peer Review Process

All scientific articles submitted to the editors of our journal are subject to mandatory review. The decision to publish is made by the editorial board of the journal only based on reviews containing expert evaluations of reviewers.

The journal uses double-sided blind review (the reviewer does not who the author of the article is, the author of the article does not know who the reviewer is).This review is carried out by members of the editorial board of the journal, or by third-party experts from the expert base of experts (reviewers), on behalf of the editorial board.

The reviewer makes recommendations. After receiving the recommendation, the status of the article will change in the author’s personal account on the journal’s website.

Statuses can be:

To accept manuscript. The reviewers have no principal comments. Corrector, editor and coder start working with the article.

Need fixes. The article needs methodological revisions. The author is sent an e-mail with a notification about the status of the article and the comments of the reviewers without specifying any personalities.

To reject manuscript. The authors are sent a motivated refusal.

Peer review deadline

The deadline for the preparation of the review is set in agreement with the reviewer, but may not exceed two weeks from the time the manuscript is received by the reviewer. The reviewer has the right to refuse from reviewing within one week from the moment of receipt of the manuscript to him, to notify the editorial board of the Journal about it.

Expert assessment of the manuscript is carried out within 2-4 weeks.

The reviewer is notified that the manuscript sent to him for review is an object of copyright and refers to information that is not subject to disclosure prior to its publication. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the manuscript and transfer it to third parties. The review is carried out confidentially. Violation of confidentiality is possible only if the reviewer claims that the materials contained in the manuscript are unreliable or falsified. The review is of a closed nature and is provided to the author of the manuscript through his Personal Account without a signature and without indicating the name, position, place of work of the reviewer. The review must be done in accordance with the requirements and contain a qualified analysis of the article material, an objective and reasoned assessment of its material and reasonable recommendations for improving the quality of work. The reviewer assesses the main advantages and disadvantages of the manuscript, guided by the following criteria: correspondence of the content of the article to the profile of the journal, the relevance of the selected topic; scientific and methodological level; the use of the necessary research methods; scientific style of presentation of the material; the quality and / or quantity of the assessment of the material given in the article: factual and illustrative; compliance with the requirements for the design of the article material: compliance with the volume of the article, the presence of annotations in Russian and English, the presence of a list of references and references to it in the text; novelty and originality of the main provisions and conclusions, practical significance.

All materials which are not rejected after preliminary review are subject to obligatory independent scientific peer-review by not less than two specialists with specialization close to the topic of the article. Specialists should be Ph. D., Assoc. Prof. PhD., Prof. Dr. habil. or have similar science degrees, assigned by leading Russian or foreign Universities.

Peer review decision

By the decision of editor-in-chief of the journal the second and additional can be performed (by previous or new reviewers) and also in case of resubmission by the author after its improvement.

Scientific peer-review can be performed by any qualified specialists (mainly – external), as well as members of editorial board of the journal in case of no conflicts of interests (official subordination of author and reviewer, academic supervision or co-authorship, etc.).

Reviewer has to notify editorial board about the conflict of interests and refuse to perform peer-review, the author can name undesirable reviewers.

Positive peer-review report isn’t sufficient for publication the article. The final decision of publication is taken by editorial board of the journal and recorded during the meeting of the editorial board.

Publication Frequency

Please use the Journal online submission system to submit papers. Follow the instructions on Guidelines for Contributors to log in and register.

Journal is issued 4 times per year

Open Access Policy

The main purpose of the Archives policy is to select, preserve and make available the archives of "Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics". The three main objectives are to comply with recognized national standards for the archives preservation; to register and publish archives according to professional standards;to provide access to archival material in accordance with publishing practice. The Archive contains texts of reviewed articles, abstracts and references. These materials present major academic results of research work.

The Science Journal of "Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics" stores its full-text archives on the Journal's and Publisher's websites, as well as on the platforms of Russian Scientific Electronic Libraries (eLIBRARY.RU) and CyberLeninka, etc.

Periodicity

Journal is issued 4 times per year