About the Journal

"Public Administration. E-journal (Russia)" was first published online in 2003. It is officially registered with the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. 

Founding organization: Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Professional Education “Lomonosov Moscow State University”.

Publisher: School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

International serial number of the journal is ISSN 2070-1381.

Frequency: 6 issues per year.

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1. RISC (Russian Index of Scientific Citation).
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The journal accepts polemic articles. Opinions expressed by the authors do not represent opinions of publishing organization or the Board of Editors.

Board of Editors will only accept original, previously unpublished articles written in Russian, English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

All articles submitted for publication are first reviewed for compliance with the guidelines for article formatting and content. If an article is formatted according to the journal’s guidelines and its subject falls within the journal’s subject area, the paper undergoes a double blind peer review by recognized experts on the article’s subject matter and in corresponding fields. The Board of Editors makes a final decision about publication based on two reviews by recognized experts in corresponding fields.

Copyright status of articles, published in the journal is determined by the current laws of the Russian Federation. Reproduction of articles online is permitted, but a link to the original source must be provided. Any reproduction in print or on electronic storage devices, of materials published in the journal, without an express permission from the Board of Editors, is forbidden.

The authors are responsible for authenticity of facts, quotes, statistical data, names, geographical denominations and other data provided in the articles, and for using materials not intended for open publication.

“Public Administration. E-journal” does not provide monetary compensation or royalties for publications. Publication is free for all authors, including postgraduate students.

Manuscript Preparation:

1. Postgraduate students must provide their supervisor and Department recommendations. Bachelor’s articles are not accepted.
2. The article must be original, previously unpublished and not submitted for publication in any other printed and/or electronic publications (journals and magazines). The journal does not accept articles containing large parts of the author’s previously published works (self-plagiarizing). All articles are checked for plagiarism. In case of detection of numerous borrowings, the editorial board acts in accordance with the COPE rules. Self-citation is not included in originality
3. The editorial staff will contact the author via e-mail submitted in the “information about the authors” section of the manuscript. The editorial staff will maintain correspondence only with the author personally, not with deputies, secretaries, assistants etc. After the submission the editorial staff will contact the corresponding author within 7 days.
4. If the author refuses to make changes to the manuscript requested by the editor or does not respond to the editor for more than 30 days the article is rejected. The editorial board does not enter into discussions with the authors regarding the rejection of submitted articles.
5. The editorial board reserves the right to make editorial changes to the author’s materials.
6. The article must be at least 25 000 symbols.
7. The article must be arranged according to the journal’s Guidelines.
8. The article must clearly state the goals of the author’s research, and demonstrate the research’s timeliness and significance. The article must have a clear and obvious structure, a discernible connection between the initial thesis and the conclusion through a chain of logical of arguments. The article must contain a validation of the choice of methodology used by the author. The author must show a familiarity with scientific literature on his/her chosen subject, including most recent publications.
9. The article must include references to the original sources of all the data presented; all illustrations and tables must be numbered and titled.
10. The article must be written to be comprehensible not only to specialists, but to casual readers as well. Special terms must be clearly explained.

Please note that manuscripts not prepared according to the Guidelines cannot be accepted for publication, and will be rejected without reviewing.

To publish an article, the author must submit the following:

• The article prepared according to the journal’s Guidelines 
• The supervisor recommendation (for postgraduate students)
• The Department recommendation (for postgraduate students)
• License agreement 

 

Articles and the required documents (scans) are accepted via  e-journal@spa.msu.ru