- » Aim and Scope
- » Section Policies
- » Publication Frequency
- » Archiving
- » Peer Review
- » Indexation
- » Publishing Ethics
- » Founder
- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
Aim and Scope
The journal has the following set of publishing and educational priorities:
– articles on the history of Russian and foreign literature, and literary theory, which deal with contemporary issues of modern Russian literary study;
– letters, diaries, and other materials from writers’ archives, which shed new light on the writers’ identity, their literary process, and the history of their works from creation to publication, etc. (such publications must be submitted together with a commentary);
– articles, reviews, overviews, and conference materials which cover the contemporary Russian literary process;
– reviews of contemporary books on literary studies;
– programs for school teachers and university lecturers designed to help them improve and perfect their professional knowledge of literature.
The journal regularly features hitherto unpublished works, showcasing the findings of the researchers.
Voprosy Literatury invites Russian and foreign academics, researchers, writers, and journalists to submit their work for publication in the journal.
Section Policies
 Open Submissions |
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Publication Frequency
6 issues per year
Archiving
- Russian State Library (RSL)
- National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
Peer Review
The journal accepts only electronic submissions mailed to voplit@mail.ru. Drafts are screened by the managing editor to assess their pertinence to the journal’s scope and audiences.
The managing editor forwards the selected drafts to the editor-in-chief, who distributes the submissions for an expert review to one or two reviewers. Reviews are made by in-house editors, members of the editorial board, as well as highly qualified scholars and experts, who include the journal’s regular contributors. Any of the co-authors, or the author’s academic supervisors, or consultants, may not review the paper.
The reviewing process takes two months.
Review is performed on a single-blind basis: the identity of the reviewer(s) is kept secret from the author. The author receives the review signed on behalf of the journal’s editorial office, while information about the reviewer (their name, academic title, place of employment) remains undisclosed.
The reviewer may not disclose the name of the author and the paper’s main contents to third parties. The reviewer must disclose any conflicts of interest that preclude them from an unbiased review of the paper to the editorial office, and decline the review proposal.
The reviewer can recommend the paper for publication or rejection. Their opinion should be substantiated. The reviewer may point out the defects of the contents, composition or style of the draft. The same applies if the paper fails to reference important research on the subject.
If a review recommends corrections or improvements, an in-house editor contacts the author and sends them the review with a proposal to include the changes in a revised draft or provide justified reasons for rejecting the suggested changes, fully or partially.
If the journal accepts a processed article for publication, the managing editor or any of the in-house editors notify the author of the decision and the anticipated publication timeline.
The reviews of the published papers are kept at the editorial office for five years. The journal will submit copies of the reviews to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science on an official request. A review, complete with the reviewer’s information, can be provided on request from expert board of the Higher Attestation Committee (*Russia’s national authority that oversees awarding of advanced academic titles).
Before the manuscript is sent for in-house production, the editorial board signs a license / copyright transfer agreement with the author.
Accepted papers are published in the order of their submission to the journal. The editor-in-chief may, however, decide on a shorter publication deadline due to the article’s pronounced topicality or novelty. Solicited manuscripts also have a priority for publication.
Indexation
Articles appearing in Voprosy Literatury are indexed by several systems:
– Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database of papers by Russian scholars, published under their original and translated titles. This project has been developed by ‘Electronic Scientific Library’ foundation (elibrary.ru) since 2005.
– 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’s and America’s largest scholarly publishers, scholarly books, and other non-peer reviewed journals.
Publishing Ethics
The chief priority of the editorial office is to reject non-compliant manuscripts during the screening and review process.
If the editorial office receives claims of an author’s unethical methods or infringements of copyright, it conducts an additional examination and requests the author’s explanations.
If factual inaccuracies are revealed by the author after the publication, he/she may put in a corrective statement in the journal’s paper or electronic version. To do that, the author should provide the editor-in-chief with a draft of corrections. The editorial office may examine the corrections before their publication for one year since the original manuscript was printed.
If the editorial office or the author identifies significant but unintentional similarities between the accepted manuscript and the material published after the draft was accepted, the author should provide a comment detailing the reasons of the similarities and referencing the respective papers.
Founder
- Avtonomnaja nekommercheskaja organizacija Redakcija zhurnala kritiki i literaturovedenija Voprosy literatury
Author fees
Publication in Voprosy Literatury is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn't have any Arcticle processing charges.
The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
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 advantage.
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Plagiarism detection
Voprosy Literatury use Antiplagiat, a Russian system for text reuse detection, to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is detected, COPE guidelines will be followed.
Preprint and postprint Policy
Prior to acceptance and publication in Voprosy Literatury, authors may publish their submissions 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, or submitted. Once the manuscript is published in Voprosy Literatury, we suggest that the link to the journal’s website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.
Glossary (by SHERPA)
Preprint – In the context of Open Access, a preprint is a draft of an academic article or other publication before it has been submitted for peer review or other quality assurance procedure as part of the publication process. Preprints cover initial and successive drafts of articles, working papers or draft conference papers.
Postprint – The final version of an academic article or other publication after it has been peer-reviewed and revised into its final form by the author. As a general term this covers both the author’s final version and the version as published, with formatting and copy-editing changes in place.
