Editorial Board:
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Natalia N. Alevras, D. Sc. (History), Professor at Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk);
Natalia A. Berseneva, D. Sc. (History), Leading Researcher at South Ural Archaeological Center, Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the RAS (Yekaterinburg);
Vladimir V. Grudzinsky, D. Sc. (History), Professor at Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk);
Saule А. Zhakisheva, D. Sc. (History), Associated Professor, Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan);
Vladimir N. Zemtsov, D. Sc. (History), Professor, Head of the Chair of World History and Historical Studies Teaching Methodology, Ural State Pedagogical University (Yekaterinburg);
Vladimir A. Ivanov, D. Sc. (History), Professor at Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla, Chief Researcher at the Academic laboratory of patriotic education of the youth and the history of Kozakdom (Ufa);
Valentina P. Korzun, D. Sc. (History), Professor, Leading Researcher at the Research department, Omsk State Pedagogical University (Omsk);
German P. Myagkov, D. Sc. (History), Professor, Professor at Kazan Innovative University named after V. G. Timiryasov (IEML) (Kazan);
Igor V. Narskiy, D. Sc. (History), Professor, Professor at Perm State National Research University (Perm);
Leonid V. Nikitin, D. Sc. (History), Associate Professor, Professor at South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University (Chelyabinsk);
Andrey A. Pass, D. Sc. (History), Professor at Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk);
Igor V. Poberezhnikov, D. Sc. (History), Associate Member of the RAS, Director of Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Вranch of the RAS, Russia (Yekaterinburg);
Lorina P. Repina, D. Sc. (History), Professor, Associate Member of the RAS, Chief Researcher at the Institute of World History of the RAS (Moscow);
Vitaliy V. Tikhonov, D. Sc. (History), Leading Researcher in the Institute of Russian History of the RAS, Leading Researcher at the Archive of the RAS (Moscow).
Tatiana A. Chumachenko, D. Sc. (History), Associate Professor, Head of the Research Center South Ural Scientific Center of RAE, South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University (Chelyabinsk)
Sergey A. Yatsenko, D. Sc. (History), Professor, Professor at Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow).
Editorial Policy
The mission of the journal is:
- to publish research results in historical studies and archeology;
- to establish and consolidate scientific communication of researchers from Russian regions and other countries.
The journal aims to cover the problems of Russian and world history, historiography and archeology. It particularly notes regional processes issues in the context of global history and pays special attention to historiography and source studies.
The journal provides a genre diversity of manuscripts, including articles, reports (for archeologist), reviews, materials of panel discussions, publication of source texts, problematic surveys, etc.
Open Access And Copyright
Submitting the manuscript, the authors confirm that the materials have not been published before and agree to the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution License which allows others to distribute the manuscript with obligatory linking to the authors and the original in the journal.
The copyright is preserved.
Publishing Ethics
The Editorial Board of “Magistra Vitae”: Electronic Journal of Historical Sciences and Archeology adheres to the norms generally accepted by the international academic community and represented in the recommendation of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and takes into account the experience of international journals and publishers. To guarantee the high quality of scientific publications and public acknowledgment of the author’s results the Editorial Board, author, reviewer, founder and editor are obliged to adhere the ethic standards, norms, regulations and prevent any violation of them. The abidance by rules facilitates the securing authors’ rights on intellectual properly, higher quality of publications and excludes any possibility of illegal exploitation of materials.
The editorial policy is based on the principal of scientific objectivity and impartiality. The materials are reviewed in terms of novelty and topicality, regardless of race, sex, nationality, citizenship, religious, ideological or political position of the authors.
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The Editor excludes the violation of generally recognized principles of scientific ethics as plagiarism, submitting of published materials, illegal conversion of borrowed research results and falsification of facts. All submitted manuscripts are checked in the system “Antiplagiarism”.
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The Editor takes responsibility to hold the acquired information safe before it is published and not to hand it over to third parties (except for reviewers).
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The Editor is obliged to publish the research financial support if the author mentions it.
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The Editor is obliged to agree any alterations in the text with the author.
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The Editor is obliged to take measures to prevent publishing informative, grammar, stylistic and other mistakes.
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The Editor is obliged not to delay the journal issue.
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The publication is free of charge. Any financial or non-financial rewards to the Editorial Board by the author are prohibited.
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The materials published in the journal may not reflect the point of view of the Founders, the Editorial Board and the Editorial Staff.
Ethical Principles of the Authors
Submitting manuscripts to “Magistra Vitae”: Electronic Journal of Historical Sciences and Archeology, the authors take primary responsibility for the novelty and reliability of the research.
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The authors take responsibility for the content of their materials.
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The authors are obliged to provide reliable research results. Knowingly false and fabricated claims are impossible.
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The publication should name all the individuals who have contributed considerably to the research. It is not allowable to mention people who are not involved in the research as authors.
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The manuscript should be the result of individual research. All borrowings and quotations from other sources must have references formated according to the rules of reference apparatus.
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The authors should adhere to ethic norms criticizing other’s research.
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The authors should submit manuscripts according to the journal regulations.
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The authors should respect the work of the editor and reviewers and correct inaccuracy or clarify it.
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If the authors find out mistakes or inaccuracy while the manuscript being reviewed or after it having been published, they are obliged immediately to inform the editor about it.
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The author takes responsibility for the fact that the materials have not been published before and are submitted only to one journal.
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There is no author's fee.
If the ethical principles are violated, the materials are refused to be published and it will be impossible to work with the author in the future.
Expert Qualification
The Editor Staff consists of qualified specialists: the reviewers are Russian and foreign researchers with a scientific degree and publications in the field of a pre-reviewed manuscript. The English papers are corrected by a professional translator.
Manuscripts Peer-Review Regulations
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The reviewer cannot be a member of a long-term research team, which the authors of the manuscript belong to, as well as a co-author of other works.
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The reviewer cannot be a research advisor (consultant) of one of the authors – candidates for a degree.
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The reviewer is a specialist in the scientific area stated in the peer-reviewed paper.
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The review has to evaluate the manuscript objectively and contain a full analysis of its scientific and methodical advantages and disadvantages.
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It is prohibited to use the information about the article content for the benefit of a reviewer before its publication.
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The peer-reviewed paper is a confidential document, it is not allowed to hand it over to third parties to make them acquainted with the article content and discuss it. In case of a conflict of interests the editorial staff should be informed about it.
All articles submitted to the journal are subject to two “blind” peer reviews. It means that the reviewer is not familiar with the name of an author and the author does not know the name of a reviewer. After the manuscript is submitted, it undergoes initial examination (the relevance of the scientific article to the journal profile, the presence of the meta data, formatting requirements, the quality of illustrations), then it gets anonymous (all references to the authorship are removed from the manuscript). After that the manuscript is reviewed by the members of the editorial staff and Editorial Board who are experts in the given field. If necessary, the Editorial Board may ask third-party experts, specialized in the given field, to review the manuscript. The reviewer evaluates the relevance of the article to the content and formal requirements of the journal, to the common scientific rules of publishing ethics. The manuscript can be accepted for publication without amendment; accepted on condition that it will be corrected; rejected. If the article is rejected, the author gets a substantiated refusal. The journal reserves the right not to show full reviews to the authors. The personality of the reviewer is confidential.
If the manuscript is accepted for publication with correction and additions, the author gets the list of necessary amendments. After the author revises his/her article, he/she may submit it once again. As a rule it will be evaluated by the same reviewers.