THE RULES OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES SENDING, REVIEWING AND PUBLISHING IN THE JOURNAL "RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES REPORTS. MATHEMATICS"

1. The order of sending articles

1.1. The authors give articles, prepared for the publication according to Authors guidelines, established by the editorial board of the journal “Russian Universities Reports. Mathematics”. The manuscript is sent via mail to the editorial board Zhukovskiy Evgeny Semenovich zukovskys@mail.ru or to the editorial office ilina@tsutmb.ru. Via these e-mail addresses and editorial office telephones +7(4752)72-34-34 add. 0440 you can get additional information about sending and reviewing the manuscripts.

1.2. Attached information about all authors of the article (surname, name and patronymic in full), with marking their academic rank, scientific degree, post, place of work (full name of organization, to which the author belongs to, but not the abbreviation, post address of the organization with marking the city, country, e-mail address of the author, ORCID, Scopus ID, Researcher ID), for post-graduates and doctor’s candidates – name of the specialty according to the nomenclature of specialties of research scholars, post address (with the index for delivery of the issues according to subscription). It is necessary to mark the author who is responsible for corresponding with the editorial office, address of his or her e-mail, contact phone number (with area code).

The information about the authors is presented in Russian and English.

1.3. The received manuscript in the editorial office is marked with the date of receiving and the editorial informs the author about this by e-mail.

1.4. The executive editor looks through the manuscript in accordance with the theme of the journal and maintenance to the formal requirements.

If the formal requirements for the materials of publication are not fulfilled, the article is not accepted by the editorial according to “formal requirements”, is not peer-reviewed, the author is informed about it. The editorial has the right to reject the articles in case the author cannot or does not want to follow the rules of the editorial.

The editorial does not discuss the content of scientific articles, the methods of writing and execution and does not bring up the articles to the adequate scientific-methodic level. The journal does not provide services requiring payment.

1.5. The maintenance to the publication ethics of the journal is obligatory for publishing in the journal. All the received manuscripts are checked in the system “Antiplagiat”. Plagiarism is not allowed. In case of multiple derivations the editorial will act in accordance with the rules of COPE.

2. The order of articles’ peer-review

2.1. The editorial necessarily conducts double blind peer-review as the according to the standards of publication ethics. The reviewer is provided with a manuscript without indication of the author’s surname. The author does not know the name of the reviewer. After checking for plagiarism, the editorial board sends the article to two reviewers who are recognized experts on the subject of peer-reviewed materials and have had publications on the subject of the reviewed article for the last 3 years.

All received to the journal manuscripts on the appropriate subject for the purpose of their expert evaluation are reviewed. All reviewers are recognized experts on the subject of peer-reviewed materials and have publications on the subject of the reviewed article within the last three years.

2.2. The reviewers during the two months make conclusion about the possibility of the publishing of the article, the need of its reworking or refusal. The reviewer estimates the accordance of the article to the scientific profile of the journal, its relevance, innovation, theoretical and (or) practical significance, the conclusions, accordance to the established by editorial board rules of registration for the purpose of their expert evaluation.

The reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the manuscripts for their own needs and give a part of the manuscript for reviewing to the other person without allowance of the editorial.

Reviewers agree to post review text in Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI)/eLibrary.

2.3. The copies of the reviews with the motivated conclusion about the article are presented to the author(s) by e-mail. Reviewing is held confidentially, the review is presented to the author of the manuscript without pointing the surname, post, place of work and sign of the reviewer.

In case of positive decision of the reviewers, the editorial board of the journal defines the order of the publications, depending on themes of the issue of the journal, and also taking into consideration the period of receiving the manuscripts by the editorial.

In case the manuscript is given back for reworking, the author may present article again with the covering letter – the answer to the reviewer about the changes made for second reviewing. The date of receiving is the date of returning of the reworked article.

The materials, which had negative review are not published and are not given back, the author receives motivated refusal. The manuscripts being reviewed are not given back. The editorial does not hold the manuscripts which are not received for the publication.

Peer-reviews are kept in the editorial office of the publication for 5 years from the date of their signing by the reviewer.

2.4. The editorial office sends copies of reviews or a reasoned refusal to the authors of the submitted materials, and also undertakes to send copies of reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation upon receipt of the corresponding request to the editorial office of the journal.

2.5. In case of a conflict of interests between the parts involved in the review process, due to joint participation in financial, service, scientific or other activities the author should explain all the possible nuances affecting someone’s interests to the editor-in-chief. Personal interests should not take place when deciding on the submitted publication.

If the publication of the article entailed a violation of author’s copyright or generally accepted norms of scientific publication ethics, then the editorial office of the journal has the right to withdraw (retract) the published article.

3. The order of articles’ publication

3.1. The final decision about publication is taken by editorial board. After the editorial board makes decision about the acceptance of the article the editorial informs the author about the approximate time of publication and places information on the website of the journal in the section “News”.

The articles of the members of the editorial board having the priority in publication in the journal of one article in a year are discussed at the editorial board session.

The works devoted to the most relevant problems of science and containing new information may be published out of turn, according to the decision of the editorial board.

3.2. After the publication the author gets the reprint of his article from the editorial in electronic form.

The publication of the article means Copyright © for the author(s), but they cannot get the fee for it. The authors give the publishing house – FSBEI of HE “Derzhavin Tambov State University” the permission for the use of the transferred materials in the journal in the following ways: publication, reproduction, distribution, bringing the work to the public by posting on the Internet, public display, as well as translation into foreign languages. The authors have the right to use all materials in their subsequent publications provided that it will be made a reference to the publication in the journal “Russian Universities Reports. Mathematics”.

One of the requirements of Higher Attestation Commission – including the publication to the system of Russian index of scientific citing that is connected with the replacement of the materials of the articles in open access on the Internet. Giving materials to the editorial of the journal “Russian Universities Reports. Mathematics”, the author agrees for replacement of his materials in free access on the Internet.

3.3. The authors of the manuscript accepted to publish have to conclude a publishing agreement. The text of the publishing agreement can be found on the website of the journal in the section “Guide for authors”.

Besides, according to the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 no. 152-ФЗ “About personal data” the authors agree to FSBEI of HE “Derzhavin Tambov State University” for working, including collection, systematization, accumulation, keeping, specification (renewal, change), use and abolishment of the personal data. This agreement is given by the author for an uncertain period of time and may be stopped by sending the paper variant of letter.

3.4. Full-text network versions of the issues of scientific journal “Russian Universities Reports. Mathematics”, abstracts and keywords for all scientific articles and reviews can be found in free access on the website of  Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY and at platform of Scientific Electronic Library “CyberLeninka”  and on the journal website http://journals.tsutmb.ru/mathematics/ (In Russian), http://journals.tsutmb.ru/mathematics-en/ (In English) in section “Issues”.

These Rules for the authors of the articles
were discussed, confirmed and approved at the editorial board meeting
of November 27, 2021

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