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Aim and Scope
Reflexio publishes articles in psychological science and provides a venue for research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches, and topics. The aim of the journal is to be a forum for discussion between psychologists and representatives of other disciplines and to foster interdisciplinary research. Reflexio welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions from all the major areas of psychology. Manuscripts that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries are especially welcomed. We are ready to accept for consideration works of different formats. We are talking about opportunities to go beyond strict academicism. The proposed manuscripts should, of course, be intelligent, but at the same time exciting and interesting.
Section Policies
Open Submissions
IndexedPublication Frequency
2 issues per year
Open Access Policy
"Reflexio" is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
For more information please read BOAI statement.
Archiving
- Russian State Library (RSL)
- National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
Peer-Review
1. The editorial board determines whether the article meets the journal’s profile and requirements for articles.
2. The executive secretary appoints the reviewer and sends him the article. Peer review is a double-blind peer review, neither the authors nor the reviewers do not know each other. The average review period is four weeks and can be extended at the request of the reviewer. All reviewers in their work rely on the principles formulated by the Committee on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (Committee on Publication Ethics).
3. After writing the review, the author gets the opportunity to read it. If the review contains recommendations for refinement, the author is invited to prepare a new version of the article or to reasonably refute the recommendations. The revised article is resubmitted for review.
4. In the event of intractable contradictions between the author of the article and the reviewer, the editorial board has the right to send the article to another reviewer. The final decision in conflict situations is made by the Editor-in-Chief.
5. In the case of a negative review, the editorial board has the right (at the reasonable request of the author) to send the article to another reviewer. An article that has received two negative reviews is not accepted for resubmission.
6. The positive review is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for publication in a journal. The final decision is made by the editorial board.
7. After making a decision on the publication of the article, the executive secretary informs the author and let him know the issue of the journal in which the article will be published.
8. Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 5 years.Publishing Ethics
1. General provisions
Editorial policy of scientific psychological journal Reflexio is based on the ethical principles, and particularly on academic publication guidance by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) (http://www.icmje.org).
The general principles of manuscripts selections are credibility and scientific significance. Decisions of editorial board should not be influenced by commercial interests, personal relationships, or findings that are negative or that credibly challenge accepted wisdom. Scientific discussions and letter to the editorial board are also welcome.
2. Duties of Authors
2.1. Authorship
Reflexio follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed:
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work;
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
Provide approval for publication of the content;
Agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Contributors, who do not meet these criteria, but nonetheless provided important contributions to the final manuscript should be included in the acknowledgements section.
The corresponding author takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal and editorial office during the submission process, throughout peer review and during publication.
2.2. Main Criteria of Research Quality
Material submitted to Reflexio must met the following criteria:
Original content and plagiarism absence: the authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted and permission has been obtained where necessary.
Fabrication and falsification: Reflexio opposes both the fabrication of data or the falsification of data. Authors have a responsibility to respond appropriately and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: Reflexio considers as unethical the following cases: (a) multiple publications; (b) the submission of very similar articles based on the same empirical study. Reflexio considers that publishing the same intellectual material more than once is a form of scientific misconduct. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is also unacceptable. Publication of some kinds of articles (e.g., 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. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.
2.3. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that could be perceived as influencing their work. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
According to ICJME, a conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, honoraria, paid expert testimony, grants or other funding.
3. Duties of Editors
3.1. When deciding on publication, the editor shall be guided by reliability and scientific significance of the manuscript.
3.2. An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to gender, race, religious belief, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
3.3. The editor and any editorial staff of Reflexio must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
3.4. Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts should recuse themselves from editorial decisions if they have conflicts of interest or relationships that pose potential conflicts related to articles under consideration.
4. Duties of Reviewers
4.1. According to the criteria of ICJME followed by Reflexio, reviewers must disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that could bias their opinions of the manuscript, and should recuse themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists.
4.2. Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor of Reflexio and excuse himself from the review process.
4.3. The manuscript received for reviewing is a confidential document which cannot be passed for discussion or examination to the third parties. The manuscripts are the intellectual property of authors and should not to be disclosed.
4.4. Reviewers shall give an objective and well-reasoned assessment of the manuscript, as well as justified recommendations. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
4.5. 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.
4.6. Reviewers must not retain the manuscript for their personal use and should destroy paper copies of manuscripts and delete electronic copies after submitting their reviews.Founder
Novosibirsk State University
Author fees
Publication in "Reflexio" is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn't have any Article 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
"Reflexio" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.
Preprint and postprint Policy
Prior to acceptance and publication in "Reflexio", authors may make their submissions available 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, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in "Reflexio" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.
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