Review
1. All articles submitted to the editors of The Regional Economy. South of Russia undergo peer review.
2. Executive Secretary review the article according to profile magazine, design requirements and submit it for review to the editorial Board, which defines the scientific value of the manuscript.
3. If the submitted article meets the aforementioned criteria, the Editor-in-Chief appoints a reviewer who can evaluate professionally the submitted article and who shares similar research interests.
4. Review process is external. The reviewer cannot be represented by the author or co-author of the peer-reviewed manuscripts, as well as an employee of the organization where they are affiliated.
The review period - 4 weeks.
5. There is a “double blind” review system for the manuscript. The submitted article is assigned to the reviewers without identifying the author’s names and information about him/her, reviewers’ names and their institutional affiliations are not provided to the author.
6. The reviewer evaluates the topicality and scientific novelty of the research results submitted, their theoretical and practical significance, references to data in other papers. On the basis of the analysis the reviewer provides the editor with an overall recommendation:
a) the article is accepted
b) the article needs revisions in accordance with the reviewer’s observations
c) the article is rejected (mentioning the reasons).
7. The author of the submitted article is given an opportunity to read the text of the review which is e-mailed to the author and the expert remains anonymous.
8. If the reviewer recommends major or minor revisions, the editor sends a decision letter to the author suggesting that recommendations should be accepted for a revised variant of the article or rejected argumentatively. A list of the reviewers ' comments, which are subject to unconditional acceptance by the author:
- the absence of references;
- material reduplication (publishing the material or its major part in other journals)
- the absence or scientific uncertainty based on unambiguous findings;
- the absence of the abstract, key words and other obligatory parts within the structure of the article.
9. If the article is rejected in case of a negative review, the information containing corresponding motivation comments is e-mailed to the author.
10. The final decision on publication is made by the editorial board taking into consideration the reviewer’s recommendations, scientific significance of the paper and its correspondence to the journal content. The rejected article is not resubmitted by the editorial team.
11. The editorial board’s decision on publication made, the executive editor informs the author about the adopted decision and states the date of publication.
Original reviews are kept in the editorial office and publisher of the journal for 5 years.
The procedure of appeal against the decision of the editorial Board
The author has the right to appeal the decision of the editorial Board to reject the article or the corrections of the text at the direction of the reviewer. In the event of such a situation, the author must send a request with the statement of the problem and proof of their position in the name of the chief editor of the magazine. Chief editor, after reviewing the complaint, send the article for additional review or inform the author about the fairness of the reviewers ' comments and the need to correct the article.
If there is proven evidence of plagiarism or falsification of data, the article is rejected without any new supply.
The procedure for receiving , reviewing and incorporating research articles in the journal