Aim and Scope

Moscow University Economic Bulletin is the leading peer-reviewed academic journal published by Lomonosov Moscow State University that is dedicated to fundamental and applied research on economics and management. 

Section Policies

ECONOMIC THEORY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

WORLD ECONOMY STUDIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

FINANCIAL STUDIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

BRANCH AND REGIONAL ECONOMY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MANAGEMENT ISSUES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

DEMOGRAPHIC STUDIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SOCIAL POLICY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SUSTAINABLE ISSUES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

PROFESSOR’S TRIBUNE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ACADEMIC LIFE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MANAGEMENT ISSUES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

6 issues per year

Open Access Policy

Our journal is available on the open access terms. According to the Budapest Open Access Initiative https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/russian , since free open access to research results increases the global exchange of knowledge, the editors of the journal provide direct open access to all materials immediately after their publication. All rights reserved. Open access provides the opportunity to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or create links to the full text of articles.

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

After submission: editorial criteria and processes

Submitted manuscripts are assigned an identification number (ID), that is sent to the author per email. The editorial office of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin uses the ID number of the manuscript during all three steps of the consideration process. The steps are as follows:

1. Initial quality check

The editorial office performs an initial quality check on the manuscript to ensure that: (1) the paper is within the Journal's scope, (2) the paper is formatted correctly, it should completely match the author guidelines (3) the information about the authors is uploaded as a separate document, (4)  plagiarism check using the Antiplagiat system and open sources.

If the submitted manuscript does not fit the requirements, the contacts the author with the desk-reject decision and provide some remarks on the reason. If the paper was rejected due to wrong/inaccurate formatting or lack of information about the authors document, the authors are encouraged to submit the paper again when they ensure proper formatting (see Author Guidelines).

The Editorial Board assesses the manuscript for its scope. The decision on whether the manuscript matches the scope of the journal can be given without additional explanations and reviewing. An initial quality check is held within 15 days.

Only the manuscripts that fit all basic requirements of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin proceed to the second stage of consideration: peer reviewing.

 2. Double-blind peer review procedure

The independent experts or members of the editorial board can become reviewers. Reviewers provide their expert opinion on a voluntary and gratuitous basis.

Reviewing of the manuscripts is carried out by the following provisions:

1. The editors invite recognized experts in corresponding areas to evaluate manuscripts. Only a scholar who has published at least one academic article or monograph during the last three years on the research area of the submitted manuscript can become a reviewer.
2. The Moscow University Economics Bulletin uses a "double-blind" peer-review approach. This means reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers.
3. Every manuscript should be evaluated by at least two reviewers.
4. It is the editor’s discretion to choose reviewers. The editorial office sends a letter of invitation to a potential reviewer, providing the title and abstract of the manuscript.
5. Reviewers get access to the full text of the manuscript after they have confirmed their readiness to perform a review at the personal account at ElPub. To ensure the double-blind review procedure, the file of the manuscript should not contain information about the author or any element of the text that allows identifying the authorship.
6. The editorial office asks the reviewers to provide their expert opinion on the manuscript within 4 weeks.
7. As a result of the evaluation, the reviewers send their comments and recommendations to the editorial office. They can provide one of the following recommendations: (1) Provisional acceptance (the manuscript is provisionally recommended to accepted); (2) Minor revision (the authors should address the reviewers’ concerns and improve the manuscript, the re-review is not needed); (3) Major revision (the authors should revise to the manuscript in regard with reviewers’ comments, the revised version will be sent back to some or all of the original reviewers); (4) Reject (in case, in the reviewer’s opinion, the manuscript does not correspond to the academic level or the scope of the journal, the quality of work is low, and the manuscript cannot be sufficiently improved).
8. Once two reviews are received, the editorial office sends the results of the review round with the anonymized reviews attached.   
9. The corresponding author should notify the editorial office whether the authors are going to revise the manuscript or prefer to withdraw it.
10. The corresponding author should upload the revised manuscript at the personal account at ElPub under the same paper ID (see. slides 16-17 of the ElPub author manual). 
11. If the reviewers recommend the major revision, the editorial office sends the revised manuscript to the original reviewers who have requested the re-review and asks them to provide their expert opinion within 4 weeks.
12. If the reviewers recommend the minor revision, the revised manuscript does not need to be re-reviewed. The editor delivers it to the editorial board for the final decision.

If the manuscript is rejected at the peer review stage the editorial office notifies authors attaching the anonymized reviews.

The editorial office is obliged to provide the reviews on published articles when an expert committee of the Higher Attestation Commission and Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation. The editorial office shall keep the reviews for 5 years.

 3. The editorial board decision

Kindly note that a positive review does not guarantee acceptance. The final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript for publication in the Moscow University Economics Bulletin is made at the editorial board meeting. The decision is based on the reviews as well as the opinions of the editorial board members. 

Upon the board's decision on the manuscript, the editorial office notifies the authors. In the case of acceptance, the authors should sign the license agreement and provide it to the editorial office.

Abstracting and Indexing

Articles in Moscow University Economics Bulletin are indexed by several systems:

• Russian Index for Science Citation (RISC) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI project is under development since 2005 by “Electronic Scientific Library” foundation (elibrary.ru).
• Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. 

The Moscow University Economics Bulletin has an embargo period of 24 months. The full text of the recent issues could be assessed:

1. At elibrary.ru (articles can be purchased separated)
2. Through subscription to EastView

Publishing Ethics Statement

The Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct guidelines, and requirements for peer-reviewed journals, elaborated by the "Elsevier" Publishing House.

Duties of Editors

1. The editorial board of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always underwrite such decisions. The editors are guided by the editorial policies (incl. scope and goals of the journal, author guidelines, peer-review policy), the decisions of the journal's editorial board, and constrained by legal requirements.
2. 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.
3. The editor and the editorial staff of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
4. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’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 benefit.
5. Editors must not approve the paper if there is sufficient reason to believe that it represents a plagiarism case or redundant self-citation.
6. An editor presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should coordinate with the publisher (and/or society) to promote the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant.

Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or another member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

1. Authors of reports of original research submitted to the Moscow University Economics Bulletin should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work.
2. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works and this manuscript has not been already published or submitted to any other journal. The authors should contact the editors of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin and withdraw their paper if they intend to submit it to another journal publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
3. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. 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.
4. References should be limited to the sources which have been actually used for the research. Each entry in the reference list must be cited (or quoted) in text.
5. Authors should form the information basis of the research with respectful and official sources which they should reference in the paper.
6. 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.
7. Plagiarism in all its form is ethically unacceptable (such practices as copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper without attribution and claiming results from research conducted by others are recognized as plagiarism).
8. In case of discovering a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editor of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin and cooperate with the 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.

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

Duties of Reviewers

1. The Moscow University Economics Bulletin uses a "double-blind" peer-review approach. This means reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers.
2. Reviewers should express an expert opinion on the validity, quality and originality of the research, and the value of the findings. Peer review aims to assist the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
3. Reviewers provide their expert opinion on a voluntary and gratuitous basis.
4. The reviewer should evaluate only manuscripts that correspond to their area of scientific and professional interests.
5. Any manuscript received for review must be treated as confidential documents. 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 benefit.
6. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Criticism on the authors’ personalities is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
7. The expert opinion must be fair: the difference in scientific positions of the author and the reviewer could be the basis for a scientific discussion, but it cannot be a substantial reason for rejecting the paper.
8. Reviewers should call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper that has not been properly cited by the authors.
9. Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the manuscript should notify the editor of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin and excuse themself from the review process.
10. If the reviewers cannot provide their review in time, they should contact the editor to excuse themselves from the review process or arrange a new review date.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in case they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. Reviewers should notify the editor about the conflict of interest as soon as the relevant circumstances became known.

Violations and liability:

1. A violation of the publication ethics by an author at and stage of the manuscript revealed is a sufficient reason for rejecting the paper at any stage of the consideration.
2. A violation of the publication ethics by a reviewer or editor is a sufficient reason for the journal to stop the cooperation.
3. In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, it is the authors’ responsibility to get the rights to use the data for open publication.
4. A violation of the publication ethics revealed in a published paper should be examined following the recommendations of the editorial board. Minor violations can be corrected with the prompt publication of retraction, explanation, or other relevant notes. Hard violations lead to the withdrawal of the paper with notification at the journal webpage.

Any ethical complaint should be investigated with the participation of all parties involved. Until such a violation of the publication ethics has confirmed, any case should be considered as a suspected violation. Each case must be considered by the editorial board of the journal.

Founder

• Moscow University Press

• Faculty of Economics Lomonosov Moscow State University

Publication fees

Publication in the Moscow University Economics Bulletin is completely free of charge for authors.

The journal doesn't have any paper processing or publishing fee.

The journal doesn't have any paper submission fee.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

The editor and the editorial staff of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’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 benefit.

Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or another member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.

The manuscript received for review must be treated as confidential documents. 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 benefit.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in case they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. Reviewers should notify the editor about the conflict of interest as soon as the relevant circumstances became known.

Plagiarism detection

Plagiarism in all its form is ethically unacceptable. Practices such as copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper without attribution and claiming results from research conducted by others are recognized as plagiarism.

Self-citation should not exceed 10%.

The editorial office of the Moscow University Economics Bulletin system the Antiplagiat system and open sources to detect plagiarism. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Editors must not approve the paper for the Moscow University Economics Bulletin if there is sufficient reason to believe that it represents a plagiarism case or redundant self-citation.

Preprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in the Moscow University Economics Bulletin, authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in Moscow University Economics Bulletin we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

In case of using any material published in the Moscow University Economics Bulletin, the reference to the journal is obligatory. Please include the article metadata, DOI or URL.

Glossary (by SHERPA)

Templates vand user manuals

1. The manuscript formatting:

• Template for a manuscript
• An example for a manuscript to be submitted 

2. The information about the authors document:

• Template for information about the authors
• Sample file of the information about the authors

3. ElPub user manuals:

• How to submit the manuscript using ElPub (in Russian)
• How to perform a review at the ElPub platform (in Russian)