Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

An research journal “Economic Bulletin“ was established in 2022 with the aim of:

• develop the fundamental and applied research in Economics;
• receive and disseminate advanced knowledge and information in these areas;
• integrate the intellectual capacity among the leading Russian and foreign authors and centers of higher education, science and high technologies;
• support and to expound the Economics scientific schools.

Peer Review Process

All papers submitted to the «Economic Bulletin» journal pass the procedure of reviewing according to the order established by editorial board.

Peer-Reviewing order

1. Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or science editor choose readers for peer review.
2. Reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript. Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the editorial board with one of the following recommendations: – to accept the paper in its present state; – to invited the author to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before final decision is reached; – that final decision be reached following further reviewing by another specialist; – to reject the manuscript outright.
3. Primary examination is conducted by the editors of the editorial and publishing department of the «Economic Bulletin» journal. During the primary examination only supporting documents are considered, the relevance of the scientific article to the journal profile, rules and requirements is evaluated, set by the editorial board of the journal, the inspection of scientific article on uniqueness is carried out. If in the reviewing, “checking for plagiarism” and editing processes reveal instances of plagiarism or false references, the article will be rejected for reviewing, nor will this author’s other articles be accepted for further reviewing process.
4. In the case of the manuscript relevance to the journal profile, established rules and requirements, it is accepted by the editorial board and is sent for the reviewing. Otherwise the article is rejected without further reviewing.
5. A bilateral anonymous (“blind”) peer review method is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff. This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer.
6. The reviewer is chosen among the members of the editorial board as well as invited reviewers or the leading experts in the profile of the given article. The decision to select a reviewer for the examination of the article is made by the editor-in-chief of the journal or the editor in charge.
7. Reviewers prepare reviews of journal articles on a voluntary basis. Reviewers have the right to decline invitations to review a particular article at their discretion, including manuscripts in which they feel unqualified. Reviewers should submit their reviews in a scanned form.
8. The deadline for writing the review is established by the agreement with the reviewer in accordance with the reviewing contract, but should not exceed 2 months.
9. The information or ideas obtained by reviewers in the course of peer review of articles should be confidential and may not be used for their personal interests. Expert assessment should be objective and clear with specific arguments and suggestions for improving the article, even if the manuscript, in their opinion, cannot be published.
10. Reviewers in their reviews have to determine the possible borrowing or a repeat of previously presented research findings according to the author and to draw the editor-in-chief’s attention to any significant similarity between the considered articles and other publications, and official papers which they know.
11. The reviewer makes a conclusion about the possibility of publishing an article:

• “recommended for publication”;
• “recommended taking into account the correction of the comments made by the reviewer”;
• “article must be sent for revision”;
• “not recommended for publication”.

12. The review should reveal the relevance of the presented material, the degree of scientific novelty of the research; determine the compliance with the proposed publication of the text with the general profile of the publication and artistic level of presentation (style, narrative literacy, linguistic culture, etc.).
13. If the review contains recommendations to revise or modify the manuscript, the Associate Editor sends the text of the review to the Author and suggests considering them when preparing a new version of the manuscript or refute them (in part or in whole) with reason. The revised paper should be returned within 30-60 days (depending on the number of recommendations and their complexity). It should be accompanied by a cover letter containing replies to all comments and clarifying all revisions in the manuscript (as a separate file, highlighting all modifications). The finalized manuscript is resent for peer reviewing, an answer to the Reviewer being attached (e.g. “Dear Reviewer…. Thank you for your careful reading of my/our paper…I/we tried to consider all the comments… but at the same time…”). The receipt date will be the date when the revised manuscript is returned. All manuscripts are sent to Reviewers for re-review and approval.
14. In case of a refusal by authors from article correction, they should in written or oral form report to the editorial board about the refusal to publish an article. If authors do not return the corrected version for 3 months since the opinion being sent, editorial board annuls the article from publication reserve even if there is no refusal from correction from the authors. In such cases authors are reported that their article is removed from the register due to the correction period expiration. Decision about the refusal of publication of an article is made at the conference of the editorial board based on the reviewers’ recommendations. Article which is not recommended by the decision of editorial board is not accepted for the second review. Information about the refusal of publication is sent to the author via e-mail.
15. If an author and reviewers have insolvable contradictions about the article, the editorial board has a right to send the article for the additional review. In case of conflict the editor-in-chief makes a decision on the editorial board conference.
16. The articles are reviewed and accepted only after at least two positive reviews of three reviewers
17. After making a decision by the chief editorial board to admit the article for publication, the author is informed about it.
18. Kindly note that positive review does not guarantee the acceptance, as final decision in all cases lies with the editorial board. By his authority, editor-in-chief rules final solution of every conflict.
19. The editorial board reviews all manuscripts to offer an expert judgement. All reviewers are recognized scholars who have published their own papers with the same subject matter within the last three years. The reviews are kept by editorial staff for five years.
20. Publishing Edition sends to the authors copies of reviews or a reasoned refusal.
21. The content of each issue is approved at the meeting of the chief editorial board of the journal, where taking into account all the reviewers’ opinions the question of acceptance for publication of each article is settled.
22. The originals of reviews are kept in editorial office of the journal for 3 years, including to provide the competent authorities on request.

Publication Frequency

The journal is a peer-reviewed publication with a frequency of release 6 times a year.

Open Access Policy

“Economic Bulletin” is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition – it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, 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 editorial board uses the Open Access Policy – the dissemination of knowledge on the open access model (free, fast, permanent, full-text access to scientific materials in real time). The editors do not charge readers for access to the full text of published manuscripts, for electronic subscription and for downloading articles posted on the website or in scientific information repositories.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

Journal Code of Ethics

5.2.1. Economic theory (economic sciences),
5.2.2. Mathematical, statistical and instrumental methods in economics (economic sciences),
5.2.4. Finance (economic sciences),
5.2.5. World Economy (economic sciences).

Indexation

The «Economic Bulletin» journal is indexed in:

     Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) list of the Russian Federationis

     Elibrary.ru

Journal Code of Ethics

«Economic Bulletin» complies with the ethical standards adopted by the scientific community, in particular, with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

1. Journal Editorial Ethics

1.1 The editor-in-chief and editors in their activity are guided by Journal policy. Editor reserves an exceptional right to either accept or reject a manuscript for publication.

1.2 Editor may reject a manuscript prior to peer review thereof on a well-reasoned grounds (e.g. the article is not consistent with the subject matter of the Journal; the article is of a low scientific quality; the article was published earlier by another publishing house; the contents of the article was found contradictory to the ethical basics followed by the Journal).

1.3 Editor-in-Chief accepts an article for publication according to his/her confidence that such article is consistent with the Journal basics. The editor-in-chief can consult with other members of the editorial office, associate editors and also with reviewers in the course of making decision on the publication of article. He promotes respect for the principle of “blind” reviewing of articles.

1.4 Editors shall guarantee that all materials published are consistent with the international scientific standards and basics.

1.5 In the event of conflicting interests between an author and an Editor, such material shall be transferred to another Editor. An Editor transfers all eligible manuscripts for review by peer reviewers having related competences on the subject matter of such manuscripts. The Editors ensure confidentiality and non-disclosure of the names of peer reviewers.

1.6 The Editors guarantee the highest quality and integrity of publications in the Journal, as well as publish updates, explanatory notes and apologies when needed.

1.7 An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

1.8 Full text of all archived files and current issues of the journal are in open access on the website. Electronic version of the journal is a publication of open access for readers. When using materials it is necessary to refer to the journal and the authors of articles (to publication in the journal). Archiving of preprints (before peer-review) and postprint (prepared to publication but not yet published) articles is not allowed. For archiving the authors and other users can only use publishing version of pdf files of articles immediately after the publication of the next issue of the journal, without embargo.

1.9 Allowed free use of the materials for personal use and free use for informational, scientific, educational or cultural purposes in accordance with article 1273 and 1274 Chapter 70 of part IV of the Civil code of the Russian Federation. Other uses are possible only after the conclusion of the relevant written agreements with the rightholder.

2. Peer Review Ethics

2.1 The Peer Review process being the most important part of the scientific information exchange, the Editorial Office requests that the peer reviewers maintain:

• Confidentiality: no provided manuscript information shall be disclosed except to the Editor;
• Neutrality: entire manuscript assessment with no personal approach to criticising the author; any potential conflict of interests between a peer reviewer and a study peer reviewed, including the authors and/or such study financing institution shall be immediately communicated;
• Impartiality: assessing the manuscript intellectual content regardless of the author’s race, sex, sexual orientation, religious commitment, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political views of the author;
• Clear and well-grounded opinion; source acknowledgement basics – references to the subject matter in the publications not mentioned in the manuscript; references to essential similarity and/or coincidence with the reviewed manuscript or to any other publication, which may be known to the Editor.

2.2 Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. Publisher shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.

2.3 Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible because not having enough time for it should notify the editor of the Journal and excuse himself from the review process.

2.4 Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

2.5 Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

2.6 Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

3. Authorship Ethics

3.1 All rights to articles belong to their authors. The right to use the article the author transfers to the publisher of journals based on a non-exclusive license, retaining exclusive rights (including the right to publish the article in other journals, but only after its first publication in the journal).

3.2 The exclusive right to use materials of the International Scientific Research Journal belongs to the editorial board of the journal.

3.3 The Author refers to all persons (authors) who participated in the research and creation of the manuscript and responsible for its content. The person (the author) presented the manuscript to the editor is responsible for the completeness of a group of authors and agreement with them all the changes made to the text of the manuscript on the results of its review and editing.

3.4 The editorial board expects the authors submitting their articles for publication in the journal to observe the following principles:

– originality of the research;

– providing reliable results of the accomplished work, lack of false statements, correctness of data presentation;

– objective discussion of research significance;

– inadmissibility of personal, critical or disparaging remarks and accusations against other researchers, complete elimination of plagiarism;

– recognition of other people contribution, mandatory availability of bibliographic references to all external sources of information, all publications relevant to the articles (including his own previously published articles and scientific papers) avoiding herewith self-plagiarism (repetetive, duplicate publication).

3.5 The author must inform the editorial board about all his works and the works of his co-authors, on topics intersecting with the submitted article and those that are under consideration in other publications.

3.6 Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

3.7 The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

3.8 Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

3.9 All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

3.10 When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editor of the Journal and cooperate with Publisher to retract or correct the paper, If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper.

3.11 Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

3.12 All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

3.13 When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editor of the Journal and cooperate with Publisher to retract or correct the paper, If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper.

4. Journal Editorial Board Ethics

4.1 Publisher should adopt policies and procedures that support editors, reviewers and authors of the Journal in performing their ethical duties under these ethics guidelines. The publisher should ensure that the potential for advertising or reprint revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

4.2 Publisher should develop codes of practice and inculcate industry standards for best practice on ethical matters, errors and retractions.

4.3 Publisher should provide specialized legal review and counsel if necessary.

5. Use of Artificial Intelligence Policy

5.1 The editorial board of «Economic Bulletin»  journal recognizes the widespread adoption of generative AI (ChatGPT chatbots and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools) which demonstrates its unlimited capabilities for creating scientific manuscripts. The editors of the journal believe that this is unacceptable.

5.2 In line with the guidelines adopted by the scholarly publishing community to regulate the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in research and academic writing (see Chatbots, Generative AI and Scholarly Manuscripts, Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making for more information), we establish the following policies for authors, reviewers, and members of the Editorial Board.

For authors:

1. According to the Civil Code Article 1257 of the Russian Federation, the author of a science work, literature or art is recognized as the citizen who created this work. Artificial Intelligence cannot qualify for authorship, since it cannot assume responsibility for the submitted work, declare any/no conflict of interest or manage copyrights. Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies therefore cannot be listed as an author or co-author of a manuscript. As algorithmic tools cannot critically assess the quality and validity of their outputs, the sole responsibility for providing accurate, reliable, and verifiable information rests with the authors.
2. Authors are permitted to use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the writing process for example, to compose the Abstract or search for additonal references, but in such a case, the authors must open the contribution made by the generative artificial intelligence tools and must indicate the name, version and scope of the program’s intervention, the query criteria and describe the specific tasks for which artificial intelligence was used (study design, data analysis, data visualization, text editing, literature search, etc.). Moreover, the authors must provide a clear statement disclosing the use of generative AI tools (as a footnote within either the Methods or the Acknowledgment section).
3. Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies may be used for editing and translating the text as well as for processing reliable data. However, all AI-generated content should be carefully verified by the authors.
4. The use of AI-assisted tools to create tables, figure or data arrays is prohibited. The only exception are papers where generative AI or AI-assisted technologies are the specific subject of the study or part of the research design/methods.
5. Authors should be aware that AI-assisted technologies often provide false information, which requires its additional verification.
6. To protect privacy, when interacting with AI and AI-assisted technologies, authors are advised not to upload sensitive personal information about real people.
7. Please note that we use the Antiplagiat system to detect AI-generated text. Manuscripts that do not contain references to the use of generative AI tools or found to contain undisclosed AI-generated content will be rejected.

For reviewers and editorial board members:

1. Editors, Editorial Board Members and Reviewers must not use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies to prepare reviews because uploading text, images or any information from submitted manuscripts into AI software violates the authors’ intellectual proprietary rights and confidentiality.
2. If the reviewers suspect that any AI-assisted tools have been used in the manuscript under review (without a clear disclosure statement), they are encouraged to report the matter to the Editorial Office.

5.3 The work of the editorial board of the journal is aimed at publishing the scientific results of the authors. In case of violation of the ethical principles of publication of a scientific manuscript, all reputational and other risks are borne by the persons who have proposed the material for publication and declared themselves as authors.