TRENDS IN THE PUBLICATION PROCESS IN ECONOMIC JOURNALS: FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE

In recent years, scientific periodical literature faces an increased interest to the problem of science-metric assessment of the efficiency of domestic scientists-economists. At the same time, scientific community is concerned with the increased level of labor intensity and the duration of the publication process in national journals on economics. The article aims to specify science-metric effectiveness as a criterion for the efficiency of scientific personnel. The authors attempt to solve the following tasks: to assess the current state of scientific publications in the field of economics, including the results of the research conducted by the authors; to provide a number of practical measures to improve the publishing process. The article systematizes the key modern trends in the publication process in scientific economic journals. It shows that leading foreign economic journals are characterized by an increase in publication time, an increase in requirements for manuscripts, and an increase in the influence of reviewers on the content of articles submitted. Based on the authors’ research among the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, the study identifies the qualitative features in scientific publications process and confirms the hypothesis that the conditions for publications in the leading scientific journals of Russia have become more complex in recent years, the publication time has increased and the requirements for them on the part of Russian publishers have increased. The authors of the study note the existing gap between the publications of Russian researchers in domestic and foreign scientific journals in the field of economics. The article provides recommendations to improve the publication process in economic journals and reduce transaction costs for the authors.

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