Peer Review Process

1. General provisions

1.1. Publication of ms submitted to the Russian-Asian Law Journal includes a mandatory double blind peer review.

1.2. This regulation defines the procedure and terms of ms peer review.

1.3. The regulations meet the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission and interntional standards.

2. Peer Review Procedure

2.1. Manuscripts are accepted for consideration provided that it complies with the Author Guideliens of  "Russian-Asian Law Journal"

2.2. The ms is registered by the editor with indication of receipt date, author/s name(s) and affiliations. Ms is assigned a unique registration number. These data are entered and stored in the electronic database.

3. Review Process

3.1. Peer review is required for all manuscripts submitted to the journal.

3.2. Reviewing manuscripts is carried out in 2 stages:

Stage 1 – rapid assessment of the manuscript in accordance with the Authors Guidelines and Plagiarism Policy (check with the system AntiPlagiat.ru). A rapid assessment of the manuscript is carried out by the Editor within 10 working days after ms receipt, and the author/s are notified about the results of the rapid assessment of the manuscript (rejected or forwarded for peer review).

Stage 2 – Double Blind Peer Review.

Responsible Editor send ms for peer review to two leading experts. Reviewers are notified that the manuscripts are private property of the authors. Reviewing is carried out anonymously: the reviewers do not know the author(s) of the resulting article, the author(s) does/do not know the assigned reviewers.

The reviewer should review the ms within two weeks and send a reasoned opinion on a scientific publication to the editorial office (by e-mail).

Editor sends to the author(s) the review with the proposal to consider the recommendations when preparing the new version of the manuscript. 

3.3. The Editorial Board takes final decision about the ms publication and notifies the author/s on behalf of the Editor-in-Chief. This notification provides an overall assessment of the article: if the article can be published after minor/major revisions, the recommendations for the improvement/correction are supplied; if the manuscript is not accepted for publication, the reasons for such decision are provided. The editorial office sends the author/s of article the review copy.

3.4. Ms could be published in the order of priority recommended by the editorial Board.

3.5. Further work with the ms, accepted for publication, is made by the editorial staff. The Editorial Board assumes no obligations in terms of ms publication.

3.6. The original reviews are kept for 5 years in the Editorial Board and sent to Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

3.8. The editors reserve the right to not accept copyrighted material for publication in the following cases:

- non-compliance by the authors of the rules of manuscript preparation;

- identify the elements of plagiarism;

- inconsistency of the material the subject of a scientific journal;

- availability of negative evaluation of the reviewer on the obtained copyrighted material.