Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal pursuits theoretical and applied research on the processes of population reproduction, fertility and reproductive behavior, mortality and self-preserving behavior of the population, migration behavior and migration trends at the global and regional levels, features of urbanization and transformation of the network of settlements, conceptual approaches, forms of implementation and international mechanisms for the implementation of demographic and migration policy in various regions and countries of the world.

Sections

Demographic and migration theory

Economic demographics

Social demographics

Political demographics

Historical demographics

Demographic regional studies

Demographics of the labor market

Foreign demographics

Population and crises

Adaptation and integration of migrants

Demographic and migration policy

Family and fertility

Health, self-preservation behavior, and mortality

Emigration and diaspora demographics

Urbanization and population distribution

Field studies

Peer Review Process

Type: Double-blind peer review

Number of reviewers: 2

Reviewing is carried out by: members of the editorial board or external experts

Publication Frequency

4 раза в год. Издается с 2021 года

Open Access Policy

The journal provides open access to current and archived issues. Full-text online versions of articles and all other published materials are available for free on the official website of the journal on the Internet from the moment of publication of each new issue. Published materials can be freely read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, or attached to the full texts of relevant articles, used for compiling indexes, entered as data in software, or used for other legitimate purposes in the absence of financial, legal and technical barriers, except for those that regulate access to the Internet itself, but with a mandatory link to the journal’s website.

Author Self-Archiving

The editorial board recognizes the right of authors to independently archive their articles after they are published in the journal by posting them in full or in part on their websites, blogs, social networks, in open repositories of scientific information, and open libraries on around the world provided that they indicate the original source of publication, and an active link to the corresponding page on the journal’s website, or the elibrary.ru website.

Publication Ethics

Ethical principles and responsibilities of the editors:

The editorial team of the scientific journal “DEMIS. Demographic Research / DEMIS. Demograficheskie Issledovaniya” acts on the basis of the Chapter 70 “Copyright” of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as well as ethical principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and generally accepted ethical principles for the publication of scientific materials. Violations of copyright and moral standards are ethically unacceptable and can hinder the development of scientific knowledge, undermining the credibility of demography as a science.
The editorial team presumes that authors and reviewers are familiar with the requirements.
The editorial team and the editorial board make decisions on publication or rejection of the materials based solely on its professional level and quality, regardless of race, gender, nationality, citizenship, religious, ideological, or political position of the author.
When deciding on the publication of an article, the editors of the journal are guided by the reliability of the data presented in the paper, as well as the scientific significance and scientific novelty of the work.
The editors ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between the parties to double-blind peer review. The author or co-author of the peer-reviewed work, a member of the scientific team which includes the authors of the peer-reviewed work, a repeated co-author of any of them, a supervisor (scientific consultant) of any of the authors who seek a scientific degree cannot act as reviewers.

Ethical principles of the authors:

Authors do not submit for publication in the journal their previously published works, as well as works already proposed for publication in other journals.
Authors should indicate the contribution of all persons whose works formed the basis of the study. Persons who did not participate in the study should not be listed as co-authors.
In the manuscript, the authors present the results of an original scientific research. For scientific works that in one way or another influenced the course of the study, bibliographic references should be provided. Borrowed fragments or statements are drawn up according to the rules of citation, indicating the author and the source. Unformatted citations and arrogation of rights to the results of other people’s research are unacceptable.

Ethical principles of the reviewers:

The reviewer is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the presented research results. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable.
The reviewer is to be an expert in the subdisciplinary field within which the research presented in the peer-reviewed manuscript was conducted.
Each submitted manuscript receives feedback from two reviewers.
A member of a long-term scientific team, which includes the authors of the reviewed work, as well as a repeated co-author of any of them cannot be a reviewer.
The scientific adviser (scientific consultant) of any of the authors applying for a scientific degree cannot be a reviewer.
As the result of considering an article, the reviewer makes a conclusion about the possibility of its publication – in the presented form, with revision, after fundamental revision (with re-examination) or its rejection. This conclusion is approved by the editorial board of the journal.

Rules of retraction

Grounds for retracting an article:

detection of plagiarism in the publication;
duplication of the article in several publications;
detection of falsifications or fabrications in the work (for example, manipulation of experimental data);
detection of serious errors in the work (for example, incorrect interpretation of the results) that calls into question its scientific value;
incorrect list of authors (a person who deserves to be an author is not included; persons who do not meet the authorship criteria are included);
hidden conflict of interest (and other violations of publication ethics);
republishing the article without its author’s consent.