Publishung Ethics
The editorial board of Ethnopsycholinguistics abides by the principles introduced by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/). The publication ethics implies a set of ethical norms which are stringently followed by the editorial board of the journal, reviewers and authors.
Editorial responsibilities
Editors have sole responsibility for acceptance or rejection of a manuscript. The manuscript may be rejected by the editor on the stage prior to peer-review for a solid reason (inappropriate topic for journal, clearly of poor scientific quality, the article was previously published elsewhere, essential contradiction to ethical principles of the Journal was detected). Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain. Editors should guarantee that the quality of the papers conforms to internationally accepted scientific and publication ethical guidelines. If there is conflict of interest of the editor with the author of the article, the article should be transmitted to another editor.
The editor transmits all the submitted manuscripts, which were not rejected according to the reasons stated below, for peer-review. The editor chooses the reviewers out of the most competent specialists on the topic of the article.
Editors should preserve anonymity of reviewers and should not tell the reviewers the names of the authors.
Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record and be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
The manuscript is accepted for publication or rejected through unbiased analysis of its originality and relevance of the findings presented. There is no discrimination based on gender, race, ethnical background, religion or political sentiment. The decision is taken regardless of business or political interests. The editorial board has adopted a respectful and unbiased attitude towards the authors.
The copyright claims of the authors of the manuscripts submitted for publication are stringently observed. The editorial board abides by the ethics principles: does not inform any third parties of the manuscript review process, of the review process results. Rejected papers are not passed on to the third parties without a written consent of the author.
Before passing on the manuscript to the reviewer the editorial board certifies that there is no conflict of interests between the author and the reviewer. It allows for no personal or family relations between the author and the reviewer.
In case there are legal or ethical claims concerning the content of the paper or copyright violation to the author before or after its publication, the editorial board considers these claims and authorizes additional review process, if needed, and takes legal action. The finalized decision is taken by the editorial board. The editorial board certifies that all the steps to restore the violated rights are taken.
The editorial board doesn’t publish papers which feature incorrect citation including citation of the papers the author him/herself published earlier. When reviewed, the manuscript is always checked for originality through the antiplagiarism databases (www.antiplagiat.ru, www.eLibrary.ru, Russian State Library thesis collection).
In case of plagiarism, the manuscript is rejected at any stage of the review process. In case the instance of plagiarism is revealed upon publication of the paper, there is a written notice published in the next issue of the journal. The editorial board apologizes to the readers and to the author of the original paper and stops any further collaboration with the copyright violator.
The editorial board doesn’t publish papers which have already been published or submitted to other journals and should appear in print before the issue of Ethnopsycholinguistics.
In case the author of the published paper has found grave flaws or imperfections in it, the editorial board undertakes to publish amendments to this paper within one year after the publication.
The finalized decision about publishing or rejecting the paper is taken by the editorial board given the outcome of the review process and the editors’ opinion.
Reporting standarts
Authors of reports of original research 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. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial opinion works should be clearly identified as such.
Advertising Policies
The editorial board adheres to ethical standards in its work and, above all, defending the right to editorial independence. Placement of promotional materials and sponsorship can not influence in any way on editorial decisions and editorial content. The journal does not publish materials to accompany the advertising and does not sell advertising for specific articles. Advertising and information materials is not mixed with the editorial content.
All decisions on advertising placement are only accepted by the publisher. The editors reserve the right not to accept advertising materials, placement does not meet the publication policy.
Data Access and Retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and Plagiarism
Plagiarism takes many forms, from passing off another paper as the author(s) own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another(s) paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
The Editorial Board considers the following to be the forms plagiarism:
Use (word for word citing) of any materials in any value without indicating the source;
use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information presentation without indicating the source;
use of images, pictures, photographs, tables, diagrams, schemes or any other forms of graphical information presentation published in scientific and popular issues without approving by copyright holder;
use of the materials without written permission, the authors or copyright holders of which don’t permit use of their materials without special approvement.
The Editorial Board considers the following to be the forms of incorrect borrowing:
Absence of graphical highlighting of literal text citation when there are references to the source;
incorrect references (incomplete bibliographic description of the sources, which prevents their identification;
reference not to the first source of the borrowed text without clear indication of this fact (mistake in primary source determination);
absence of references from the text to the sources enumerated in the list below the article;
excessive citation (in case there are references to the sources and graphical highlighting of the cited text), the volume of which is not justified by the genre and aims of the article.
Only original works are acceptable for publication in journal. The journal does not allow any forms of plagiarism.
If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
The journal is using "ANTIPLAGIAT" software for plagiarism detection in all Russian-language manuscripts. The Google Scholar is used for English-language manuscripts. Papers will be rejected from any stage of the publication process (even if the article was published already) if plagiarism will be fined.
Papers will be rejected from any stage of the publication process (even if the article were published already) if plagiarism will be fined.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper. Publication of some kinds of articles (eg, clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. 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. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.
Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
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.
Hazards and Human Subjects
Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
Statement of Human Rights
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose (declare in the corresponding section of the manuscript) any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to affect the results or the conclusions of their manuscript.
Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include:
receiving funding in support of the research or the preparation of the manuscript, any connection (employment, consultancies, stock ownership, royalties, providing expert opinions) with organizations that have a direct interest in the subject of research or review;
application or registration of patents for research results (copyright, etc.);
obtaining financial support for any of the stages of research or the preparation of the manuscript (including grants and other financial support).
Explicit and potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed as early as possible.
Information on conflicts of interest received from the authors of the manuscripts is not provided to the reviewers and is available only to the editorial board when deciding on the publication of the manuscript. Also, information on conflicts of interest is published as part of the full text of the article.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the authors obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor 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 correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.
Editorial Policy for Corrections to Published Articles
If inaccuracies and factual errors are made in the article that do not require retraction of the article, the editorial carries out the procedure for publishing the corrections.
The purpose of corrections made to a scientific article after publication is to convey truthful, accurate information to the reader, help avoid illegal borrowing, and eliminate erroneous data.
Any necessary changes will be accompanied with a post-publication notice which will be permanently linked to the original article so that readers will be fully informed of any necessary changes. This can be in the form of a Correction notice, an Expression of Concern, a Retraction and in rare circumstances a Removal.
Authors should notify us as soon as possible if they find errors in their published article, especially errors that could affect the interpretation of data or reliability of information presented. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure consensus has been reached between all listed co-authors prior to putting forward any requests for corrections or retractions to an article.
Any minor errors will not be accompanied by a separate correction notice. Instead a footnote will be added to the article detailing to the reader that the article has been corrected. Minor errors do not impact the reliability of, or the reader’s understanding of, the scholarly content.
The reprint of the article with corrections is carried out simultaneously with the retraction of the previous publication in case of multiple typos, incorrect citation, incorrect wording, incorrect facts, the need for corrections to the team of authors and other cases where changes are required that affect the interpretation of the article and at the same time the scientific integrity of the article does not remain unchanged.
Reprint of the corrected article may be initiated by the author (s), readers or the editors of the journal.
The procedure for correcting errors when reprinting an article
If the editorial board has received information about the need to make corrections from third parties, the editor or the Editor-in-Chief will politely send the authors a notification about the need to analyze the identified errors.
After an analysis of the identified errors, the editorial representatives report the need to reprint the article with corrections to the author (s) to agree on the corrections.
The printed issue of the journal publishes an error message indicating the number / year and pages of the issue with the article in which the error was made, a description of the error and text with the corrected error, and retractions of the previous version of the article containing errors.
It is also indicated on whose initiative the retraction and reprint procedure is carried out.
In the online version of the journal, an error message is posted on the site page and / or PDF file with the article.
Readers are given the opportunity to work with the revised version of the article by posting it on the site next to the previous retracted version, in which the retraction was noted.
Information about the corrections, retractions and republishing is transferred to the Russian Index of Science Citation (elibrary.ru) and other databases in which the journal is indexed.
Retraction guidelines
In some cases the Editorial Board may consider retracting a publication.
The reasons for retraction may be the following:
it constitutes plagiarism, including borrowed pictures, tables, diagrams, etc. If plagiarism was detected after publication (see Plagiarism Policy);
third party expresses claims concerning copyrights for the article or its parts;
the findings have previously been published elsewhere before the date of its publication in the journal.
The published article has serious errors, which place its scientific value in question.
In such cases the Editor should initiate the revision, after which the article may be retracted. The Act on retraction is complied, which is signed by the editor-in-chief. The copy of the Act is being sent to the author of the article.
In this case the article is not physically withdrawn from the published edition and the file of the issue on web site. The Editorial Office publishes the notification on retraction of the article on the corresponding page of the issue content on the official site of the Journal. The Editorial Office should attentively consider issuing an expression of concern about the revealed problems in the published materials.
The Editorial Board considers it a responsibility of authors and reviewers to promptly inform about the missed mistakes and breaches revealed after the publication of the article.
Privacy Statement
Information about the authors (surname, name, family name, affiliation, e-mail, contact number), which is provided by them for publication in the journal, is becoming available for indefinite range of persons, for which the authors give their permission by providing his article in the online system on the website of the journal.
The following data is published for the convenience of the authors with the aim of the full and correct account of publications and their citation by the corresponding bibliography companies and providing the possibility of contacting the authors ans the scientific society.
Personal information provided by the authors in addition to the enumerated below include additional e-mails and phones. These will be used only for contacting the authors in the process of preparing the publication. The Editorial Board may not transmit this information to the third party, who can use in for some other purposes.
Ethics Policy of the Reviewers
Reviewers act as unbiased qualified assessors.
Reviewers undertake to abide by the ethics principles: they do not pass on manuscripts to the third parties, do not inform any third parties of the manuscript review process and of the review process results.
Reviewers provide an unbiased and grounded assessment to the manuscripts submitted, no critical remarks concerning the author of the manuscript are allowed.
During the review process reviewers don’t rely on unpublished sources.
On receiving the manuscript reviewers inform the editorial board if there is a conflict of interests with the author. In case there is such a conflict the manuscript is offered to another reviewer.
The authors who submit their articles for publication in the journal should abide by the ethical principles to follow:
– They undertake to conform to the academic standards in their papers, they are responsible for the reliability and the originality of the findings, they undertake not to falsify any sources.
– They undertake to submit only unpublished new papers, they undertake not to submit the same paper to several journals.
– They undertake to avoid incorrect citation. Citation of other authors’ works should be done correctly without allowing for rendering other works without proper reference.
– They undertake to respect third parties’ contributions by listing those who have contributed to the research and the paper as co-authors and not mentioning those unrelated to the research and the writing process.
– They undertake to mention any sources of financing including grants, subsidies, etc.
– They undertake to inform the editorial board – at any stage of the review process and publication as well as upon publication – about the flaws and imperfections identified.
In case of disagreements relating to the ethics policy, they are resolved by the editorial board. If the editorial board members are unavailable, the editor-in-chief alone.