Terms of publication

Dear author! You can get acquainted with a brief version of the publication conditions in order to get a general sense of the article publication in the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies».

The full version of the publication conditions contains the detailed information on the issues of reviewing incoming manuscripts, copyright, publication ethics and other important points. In the event you decided to publish an article in our journal, it is necessary to become acquainted with the full version of the publication conditions.

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Brief publication conditions:

Themes of articles

The journal publishes articles on the following specialties:

Sociology

5.4.1. Theory, Methodology and History of Sociology
5.4.2. Economic Sociology
5.4.4. Social Structure, Social Institutions and Processes
5.4.5. Political Sociology
5.4.6. Sociology of Culture
5.4.7. Sociology of Management

Philology

5.9.1. Russian Literature and Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation
5.9.2. Literatures of the Peoples of the World
5.9.3. Theory of Literature
5.9.5. Russian Language. Languages of the Peoples of Russia
5.9.6. Languages of the Peoples of Foreign Countries
5.9.8. Theoretical, Applied and Comparative-Contrastive Linguistics

Cultural Studies

5.10.1. Theory and History of Culture, Art

Who is allowed to publish an article?

We pay your attention that journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» does not publish articles, where the sole author is a student or a graduate student. The works of students and graduate students can be published only under condition of the co-authorship with the candidate or doctor of sciences.

Features of the journal

The journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» is an open access journal.

Our journal is exclusively a network publication, we do not produce a printed version.

In the journal is applied article based publishing.

Authors’ rights

Our journal publishes the articles under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC -BY) license.

Publication ethics

The editorial staff and the editorial board of the Journal are guided in their work by the norms developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the norms prescribed in the Declaration of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) “Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications”.

Reviewing

Articles published in the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies», undergo double-blind peer review.

Anti-plagiarism

Prior to publication in the Journal, all articles are checked for inappropriate borrowings.

Duplicate publications

The articles submitted for publication in the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» should not be published earlier, and at the time of accession to the editorial office should not be under consideration in other journals.

Policy of the article retraction

In case of violation of the norms of publication ethics by the author, detection of inappropriate or unattributed borrowing, duplicate publications, as well as in various other cases, the editorial board may resort to recall (retraction) of the article.

Indexing in the scientific repositories and bibliographic systems

journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» is indexed in Russian Science Citation Index.

The materials published in the journal are transferred to the Scientific Technical Centre «Informregistr» for registration and storage.

Publication Fees

The activity of the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» is financed at the expense of authors wishing to publish the results of scientific research. Get to know publication fees, listed below.

The full version of the publication conditions

Revision of May 06, 2025

Dear author, if you publish in our journal for the first time, we ask you to carefully read the texts below.

Open access journal

The «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» is an open access journal (as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative). This means that all of its content is publicly available and is provided free of charge to users and their organisations. Users may read, download, distribute, copy, print, search or link the full texts of documents, as well as use for any other legitimate purpose without obtaining prior permission from the publisher or author.

In accordance with the open access policy, a charge is made to authors for preparing an article for publication.

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Article based publishing

The Journal publishes on an article-by-article basis. An article is considered to be published from the moment it is posted on the Journal’s website.

Articles are published as they become available in the issue for which they have been accepted. If work with the article is delayed for any reason, publication can be transferred to the next issue by the decision of the publisher.

When all articles of the issue are ready for publishing, the issue is transferred for placement at the RSCI.

Each article is available as a separate document on the Internet and has its own unique URL. In accordance with this logic, page numbering commences with the FIRST page of each article.

For citation purposes, Journal page numbers are substituted by a unique article URL.

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Author’s rights

The authors, in retaining the copyright of the work, agree with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY) and grant the Journal the right of first publication. Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation and the eponymous family of public licenses. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

All authors are invited to read the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY) at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or its full text at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

The Publisher acts in accordance with Ch. 70, Part 4 of the RF Civil Code (http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_64629/).

According to this law, the following items are NOT eligible for copyright protection:

ideas, methods, processes, systems, techniques, concepts, principles, discoveries;
official documents;
state symbols and signs;
works of folk art;
messages about events and facts of an informational character.

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Publication ethics

Ethical principles of the publishing company World of Science LLC

The Publisher must adhere to the relevant principles and procedures governing ethical responsibilities of the Editors, Reviewers and Authors of its Journals. In particular, the Publisher must ensure that the decisions of Editors are unaffected by a profit motive.

The Publisher should support the Editors of its Journals in reviewing complaints concerning ethical aspects of published materials, facilitating interaction with other journals and/or publishers to assist the Editors in fulfilling their responsibilities.

The Publisher should promote good research practice and implement industry standards in order to improve ethical guidelines, retrieval procedures and correction of errors.

The Publisher must provide appropriate specialised legal support (report or consulting) if necessary.

Ethical principles of the Editorial Board and its members

Publication Decisions

When evaluating submitted scientific texts, the Editors of the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» shall analyse the reliability of the work in question and its compliance with the publishing requirements for the form and content of submitted works.

The Editor may consult with other Editors and Reviewers (or representatives of the Publisher) during the process of publication decision.

If any discrepancies are found in the Publisher’s requirements concerning the form and content of submitted works, the Editor shall send rationally-justified comments to the Author expressing the need to make corrections to the work.

Impartiality

The Editor shall evaluate the intellectual content of submitted manuscripts without reference to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, origin, citizenship or political alignments of the Authors.

Confidentiality

The Editors and the Editorial Boards of the Journals of the publishing company World of Science LLC shall not unnecessarily disclose information about the accepted manuscript to any persons, with the exception of the Authors, Reviewers, potential Reviewers, other scientific consultants and the Publisher.

Disclosure policy and conflicts of interest

No unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for consideration may be used in personal research without the written consent of the Author. Information or ideas obtained during peer review and connected with any potential benefit must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.

In the case of a possible conflict of interest arising between an Editor and the Authors of works submitted for publication, the Editor must declare this conflict of interest to the Publisher. The manuscript will then be allocated to another Editor for analysis and evaluation.

Editors must adhere to the rules of the Privacy Policy (processing of personal data) of the publishing company World of Science LLC – https://izd-mn.com/politika-konfidentsialnosti.html (only available in Russian).

Ethical rules for authors

Published research results must be obtained in accordance with ethical standards and without violating any laws or rights.

Authors should use reliable and proven methods for analysing and processing data, as well as generally accepted methods for displaying results (if necessary, they should consult with specialists).

Researchers are collectively responsible for the content of their publications. At each stage of their work, researchers should carefully check that all methods and results are described correctly, paying particular attention to calculations, formulas, tabular and graphic material.

Researchers should publish their results honestly, without falsification or distortion of the results. Images obtained as a result of research (x-rays, photographs, etc.) should not be modified.

Researchers should strive for the most complete and unambiguous description of the methods and results used using generally accepted styles of presentation. Publications should contain sufficient information to allow other researchers to repeat the described experiments. Any limitations inherent in the studies should be fully described in the article reporting on them.

Authors should not refer to literature from other publications if they have not used this literature as a source of information for their research.

In taking full responsibility for the originality of the work presented, the Authors guarantee that this work has not published in another publication in any language.

Authors must comply with applicable laws and generally-accepted conventions. Material protected by copyright may be used only with the permission of the copyright holder and with the appropriate acknowledgement.

All data, text, images or ideas created and developed by other Authors should be presented with appropriate references. Original text taken from third-party works should be presented in quotation marks. For more information, see Anti-Plagiarism Policy.

Authors should inform Publishers if the presented results have been published previously or there are works devoted to another type of analysis of the same data, etc., which are currently under consideration by other journals. Copies of these works should be attached to the article.

Publications that comprise a continuation of any prior work should refer to this work. Any translations or adaptations of the work for different audiences, which should also refer to the original work, should also be indicated. In the case of doubt, the Author should apply to the author of the original work for permission to incorporate it.

All sources of funding for research, equipment and materials should be indicated in the work. Authors should indicate the role of any sponsors in the process of developing a study, as well as those involved in its conduct, analysis and the publication of results pertaining thereto.

Researchers must include ensure in the list of Authors only those who have made a significant contribution to the development of the work, as well as ensuring that contributors who deserve this right are not deprived of it.

All Authors must agree to their inclusion in the list of Authors, as well as consent to the most recent version of the published work. Any changes to the list of Authors must be approved by all Authors. The corresponding Author serves only as an intermediate link between the Editorial Board of the journal and other Authors and must keep other co-Authors informed regarding the various stages of publication.

Authors should work in collaboration with the Editorial Board to correct any errors or omissions found in the article.

Authors must comply with the requirement that a work submitted to the Editorial Board can only be considered by one journal (publishing house) at any one time.

Authors should respond to Reviewers’ comments correctly and in a timely manner.

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Reviewing

Articles published in the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies», undergo double-blind peer review.

Rules of reviewing

The decision to publish is made by the Journal’s editors on the basis of expert evaluations performed by Reviewers, which consider the correspondence of the presented materials with the Journal’s requirements, as well as their thematic focus and scientific relevance.

The Journal uses double-blind peer review (the Reviewer does not know the identity of the Author of the article and the Author does not know the Reviewer). This review is carried out on behalf of the Publisher by third-party experts (Reviewers) held in its database. Members of the Editorial Council of the Journal may additionally be involved in peer review.

The review period is defined in each specific case by the Editorial Board, taking the most efficient publishing of articles into account. The approximate review period is 20-30 business days.

The review should contain a qualified analysis of the material presented in the article along with its objective assessment. The Reviewer either makes a recommendation (positive or negative) regarding the possibility of publishing the article and / or makes recommendations for bringing the article into a publishable state.

The Editorial Board communicates the recommendations contained in reviews to the Author with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or to make a reasoned refutation of them. Following revision by the Author, the article is then resubmitted for review. In the case of a positive opinion of the Reviewer, the article is placed in the queue for publication.

An Author (co-Author) of a peer-reviewed article cannot be the Reviewer of that article.

Ethical rules for reviewers

1. The review of manuscripts should take place in a confidential setting. Reviewers are notified that the submitted manuscripts are the private property of the Authors and include confidential information. In presenting a manuscript for review, the Authors entrust the reviewers with the results of their scientific work and creative efforts, on which their reputation and career may depend.

2. The rights of Authors include protection against violation by disclosure of confidential details of manuscript review. Reviewers must not disclose information regarding the manuscript (including information about its submission, content, review process, critical comments of Reviewers and the final decision) to anyone other except the Editorial Board. Violation of confidentiality is permissible only in the case of a statement of inaccuracy or falsification of materials to the Editorial Board; in all other cases its preservation is mandatory.

3. Reviewers may not make copies of articles for their own purposes or use knowledge of the content of the work for their own purposes prior to its publication.

4. If a Reviewer is not sure of the adequacy of his or her qualifications for the analysis of the manuscript, or does not have time for the rapid execution of the review, he or she should notify the Editor of the journal and request to be excluded from the review process of the corresponding manuscript.

5. Any manuscript received for review should be treated as a confidential document. This document may not be disclosed or discussed with any persons not authorised by the Editor.

6. The Reviewer must give an objective assessment. No personal criticism of the Author is acceptable.

7. Reviewers should express their opinions clearly and reasonably.

8. In the case of potential conflicts of interest due to competitive, joint and other interactions and relationships with any of the Authors, companies or other organisations associated with the submitted manuscript, Reviewers so affected must recuse themselves from examination of the corresponding manuscripts.

The review content requirements

1. The review should contain a qualified analysis of the material of the article, its objective and reasoned assessment, as well as clearly-justified recommendations.

2. The review should pay particular attention to the following issues:

analysis of the topical relevance and scientific interest of the article;
correspondence of the article’s content to its title;
assessment of an article’s state of preparedness for publication in terms of language and style, as well its compliance with the established requirements for the presentation of article materials.
the scientific nature of the presentation, including the correspondence of the methods, methodology, recommendations and research results described by the Author with contemporary norms in theoretical science and research practice;
the general adequacy and rationality of the manuscript content and elements thereof (e.g. text, illustrative materials, bibliographic references), including the arrangement of illustrative elements in the article and their relevance to the subject;
the position of the peer-reviewed manuscript in historiography: whether it duplicates the works of other Authors or previously published works by the same Author (both in general and in parts).
The comments and suggestions of the Reviewer should be objective, principled and aimed at improving the scientific level of the manuscript.

3. The final part of the review should contain reasoned conclusions about the article in general along with a clear and unambiguous recommendation on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of its publication or comments to which the Author may respond when making corrections.

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Policy of anti-plagiarism

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal undergo mandatory anti-plagiarism check.

The Publisher considers the following to be forms of plagiarism:

use (verbatim quoting) of any materials in any volume without indicating the source;
use of images, drawings, photographs, tables, graphs, diagrams and any other forms of graphical presentation of information without indicating the source;
use of images, drawings, photographs, tables, graphs, diagrams and any other forms of graphical presentation of information published in scientific and popular publications without the consent of the copyright holder;
use without written permission of materials, whose authors or copyright holders prohibit the use of their materials without formal consent.

The Publisher does not welcome excessive citation that may obscure the most valuable information. Reviews and other article types, which require a greater number of citations for objective reasons, are considered on an individual basis.

Self-citation is permissible only when references to all the sources are correctly indicated. If the Author intends to publish the material already published elsewhere, a clear indication should be provided about the source and the motivating reasons.

Self-citation is allowed in the following order: conference proceedings → scientific article → monograph.

Self-citation is allowed within reasonable limits in the introduction (literature review), as well as in the description of research methods and obtained results.

Self-citation is NOT allowed in the concluding part of the article containing discussion of the obtained results and conclusions.

Citation of the Author’s dissertation research. Articles may be based on the authors’ dissertation research in cases where the text of the dissertation research has not been published before. Such a publication should have the structure, logic and all the attributes of a scientific article. Articles based on dissertation research cannot be published in co-authorship. At the end of the abstract of such articles, an indication should be given that the author’s dissertation research was used as a basis for the article (alongside the place and year of defence).

Borrowing сheck of materials

Manuscripts submitted to the journals of the Publishing company «World of science», LLC, undergo a multi-step anti-plagiarism check using a methodology developed by the Publisher. The originality of manuscripts is verified using two systems: Antiplagiat.ru and AntiPlagiarism.NET.

Manuscripts submitted in English are checked using PlagiarismCheckerX.

In case of detection of borrowings, their detail assessment is carried out. Such assessment considers the authorship of the borrowed text, the presence or absence of references and the type of source text (scientific article, monograph, dissertation, book, study book, or a text derived from the Internet without an explicit indication of the authorship). Following the analysis, a decision is made about the possibility or impossibility of publishing the article.

Author(s) are notified about negative decisions via email providing the list of unauthorized borrowings.

Discovery of techniques artificially increasing the text uniqueness

The Publisher strongly discourages the use of any techniques that can increase the text originality. The Publisher employs specifically developed software packages to identify all such techniques.

Manuscripts with the signs of using techniques for increasing their originality cannot be accepted for publication in the Publisher’s journals (even in the case of revision). If the publication has already been paid, the money will not be returned.

Duplicate publications

Authors must not submit a manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. In cases where the material presented in the submitted manuscript has been fully or partially published elsewhere, the Author(s) must inform the Editors about this fact and justify the reasons. The final decision is taken on an individual basis. In the event of discovered multiple submissions or publications, the Editors reserve the right to withdraw (retract) such articles.

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Policy of the article retraction

A retraction procedure is applied whenever the Editorial Board:

receives evidence of the fraudulence of the published information as a result of either the Authors’ conscious actions or bona fide errors (e.g., non-intentional errors in calculations or experiments);
receives evidence of multiple (duplicate) publications, i.e. when the same intellectual material is published more than once;
receives evidence of the large amount of unauthorized borrowings (plagiarism);
the article describes unethical research.

Retraction is aimed at correcting errors in publications and informing the readership about those papers comprising erroneous data. Data inaccuracy may result from good faith or deliberate misconduct.

Retraction is also used to warn readers about cases of duplicate publications (i.e. when Authors present the same data in several publications), plagiarism and concealment of conflicts of interest that may affect the interpretation of the data or recommendations for their use.

Retraction is aimed at correcting published information and ensuring its integrity, rather than punishing the Authors for committed violations.

Retraction can be initiated either by Authors or Journal Editors.

The article publishing charge (APC) paid for the articles subject to retraction will not be returned.

Dear Authors! According to international publication standards, retraction does not imply deletion of the publication from the Journal website. We expect our authors to demonstrate responsible scientific behaviour.

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Indexing in the scientific repositories and bibliographic systems

journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» is indexed in the following scientific databases and directories:

Russian Science Citation Index is a bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian. It accumulates more than 2 million publications of Russian authors, as well as information about citing these publications from more than 2000 Russian journals. The Russian Science Citation Index has been developed since 2005 by the Scientific Electronic Library. The page of the journal in the Russian Science Citation Index…

НТЦ "Информрегистр"

The materials published in the journal are transferred to the Scientific Technical Centre «Informregistr» for registration and storage. The purpose of this pilot project is a collection, bibliographic control, as well as registration and storage of electronic publications publishing on the territory of the Russian Federation.

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Publication Fees

In accordance with the open access policy, the activities of the journal «World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies» are funded by authors who wish to publish the results of a scientific study.

Payment for editorial and publishing services is made only after the article is accepted for publication. There is no fee for submitting, checking or reviewing an article.

The money received from the provision of editorial and publishing services is spent on maintaining the Journal’s website, ensuring uninterrupted access to published articles, paying for the transfer of published articles to the RSCI, as well as covering editorial expenses associated with the publication of research results provided by the authors.

The cost of publication is calculated entirely on the basis of the article.

Publication Fees

With the volume of publication from 10-12 (without considering metadata) to 50-60 thousand characters with spaces:

cost of publication — 9 900 rubles;

Publication period – approximately 40 working days (10 working days for preliminary review, 20 working days for peer reviewing, 10 working days for typesetting and publishing on the website of the Journal). The period is calculated in working days from the day the article was recorded as received by the editor.

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