Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The journal's policy is to create conditions for publishing, reviewing, discussing scientific research, expanding scientific relations, and attracting young specialists to scientific work. Editorial policy is based on the principles of science, reliability, objectivity, professionalism, compliance with the norms of publishing ethics.

Target audience: professors, graduate students and doctoral candidates engaged in the study of culture, artistic text and artistic creation; practitioners focused on the creation of creative and innovative events, projects, developments.

The goals of the publication are:

  • To promote the results of scientific research;
  • Activation of interaction between representatives of different scientific fields and communities;
  • Popularization of scientific achievements of recognized and young scientists in various spheres of culture and art.

Scientific directions:

  • Theory and history of culture, art;
  • Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture;
  • Russian literature and literature of Russian peoples. Literature of foreign countries nations.
  • Russian language. Slavonic languages. Languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

 
 

Peer Review Process

Organization of scientific peer review

  1. A review is an evaluative analysis of a scientific article. Reviewing is carried out by specialists in the same subject area to which the author of the reviewed text belongs.
  2. The review determines the quality and compliance of the article with the scientific and thematic areas of the journal.

3 The Journal reviews all articles received by the Editorial Board.

  1. Leading experts with publications on the subject of the article under review for the last three years are involved in reviewing articles.
  2. The reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of the article under review. The reviewer cannot be an employee of the organization where the author of the article works or studies. 6.
  3. The Journal conducts a double-blind review of manuscripts. If there is a first positive review, the second review may not be required. The reviewer receives the manuscript for review without information about the authors. The author also has no information about the reviewer. Correspondence between the author and the reviewer occurs via the e-mail address in the electronic editorial office on the Journal's website.
  4. Sending the article for review is accompanied by a letter signed by the Head of the Editorial Board, which specifies the deadline for submission of the review.
  5. The reviewer makes a decision: a) to recommend the manuscript for publication without or with modification; b) to send it for additional review; c) to reject it. The review is submitted to the Editorial Board; the conclusions are recorded in the electronic version.
  6. The Editorial Board sends to the authors of manuscripts the results of the review.
  7. If the author of the article disagrees with the reviewer's comments, his motivated statement is considered by the Editorial Board of the Journal.
  8. A revised article may be sent for a second review.
  9. Reviews are stored in the Editorial Board of the Journal for five years. The reviews shall be sent to the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon request.

 

Publication Frequency

Frequency - 4 times a year

 

Open Access Policy

The journal adheres to the principle of providing open access to published materials. The publication of articles in the journal is free of charge.

The authors retain the copyright to the work, agree with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY. 4.0) license and grant the journal the right of first publication of the work.

The authors have the right to enter into contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work in its published form with reference to its original publication in Sphere of Culture magazine.

Authors have the right to post their work on the Internet prior to the review and publication process by the journal and during the review and publication process.

The original article in electronic form is submitted to the editorial board.

The authors guarantee the compliance of the material with the following points:

  • the material has not been previously published;
  • the material has not been submitted for review and publication by another journal;
  • all co-authors agree with the publication in the journal;
  • there is no conflict of interest;
  • the material does not contain improper borrowings;
  • full Internet addresses (URL) for references are given where it is possible;
  • the consent of the organization (explicit or implicit) in which the study was conducted is obtained;
  • all citations are correct.

The Editorial Board checks the original article for compliance with the requirements for publication. If a discrepancy is detected, the author is invited to prepare the article according to the current rules. The editorial board reserves the right to reject publications and does not enter into discussion with the authors of the rejected articles.

Registration of the author's original article is performed in the electronic editorial office.

If the article meets the requirements, the Editorial Board gives the original to the reviewer.

The editorial board cannot modify the article in such a way that any damage to the honor or reputation of the author is done. The editorial board reserves the right to subject the article to literary editing.

 

Archiving

The journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve all the published articles. The PKP PN is a part of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.

Also, the journal makes full-text archives on the Russian Science Electronic Library (http://elibrary.ru/) platform.

 

Indexation

The journal articles are indexing in:

The journal is integrated in CrossRef.

The issue details are publishing in ULRICH’S Periodical Directory.

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