Aims and Scope

The Journal Concept: Philosophy, Religion, Culture is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for cultural studies of key aspects of philosophy, religion, arts, and cultural linguistics, focusing on intercultural communication problems. The Journal aims to become a venue for international academic dialogue on theoretical and empirical aspects of research in the field of culture and intercultural processes. We bring together inquiries from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds encompassing both social sciences and humanities. Founded by a team of scholars from a broad range of disciplines, the journal publishes articles related to innovative agendas and approaches likely to mold the future of cultural research. We seek to highlight non-Western cultural studies to balance the West-centred perspectives.

We pursue the following goals:

1. To publish findings of original research on cultural diversity and modern aspects of intercultural relations. Studies of regional issues of both domestic and worldwide cultural importance are welcome.
2. To set up an international multi-language network for an academic dialogue on cultural history and theory and the philosophy of culture. The journal is endorsed by the Russian International Studies Association (RISA) section of Intercultural Communications that regularly brings together leading Russian and international scholars and young international researchers working in the field.
3. To promote intellectual contacts among scholars of culture with diverse political, cultural, and ideological backgrounds; to uphold free scholarly debate on issues critical to understanding or interpreting cultures; to encourage promising new methods of research in the field. Interdisciplinary projects, related to linguistics, art and applied aspects of intercultural communication are welcome.

For readers’ convenience, the journal papers are organized into the following sections: Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, Intercultural Communication, Culture and Art.

Subject Area and Subject Categories

The journal publishes articles in two subject areas of the ASJC international classification Arts and Humanities (Philosophy, Religious Studies) and Social Sciences (Cultural Studies).

The papers of the Concept: Philosophy, Religion, Culture journal should represent such branches of science within the classification of the Russian Higher Attestation Commission: Philosophy and Cultural Studies, in particular

5.7.8. Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture

5.7.9. Philosophy of religion, religious studies

5.10.1. Theory and history of culture, art

Geographical Scope

The authors, editorial board members and reviewers represent such countries as: Russia, UK, Italy, China, Serbia, USA, Japan, Iran, Spain and more. The journal accepts papers written in Russian and English.

Section Policies

MONOLOGUE OF THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

RESEARCH ARTICLES. PHILOSOPHY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

RESEARCH ARTICLES. RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

RESEARCH ARTICLES. CULTUROLOGY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

RESEARCH ARTICLES. INTERCULTURAL COMMNUNICATION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

RESEARCH ARTICLES. CULTURE & ART

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

BOOK REVIEWS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SCIENTIFIC LIFE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

Four times a year

Open Access Policy

Concept: philosophy, religion, culture is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately 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 the BOAI statement.

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Peer-Review

A double-blind peer review method is mandatory for the processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editors of Concept: philosophy, religion, culture Journal. This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author knows the identity of the reviewer.

Members of the editorial board and leading Russian and international experts in corresponding areas of life sciences, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or science editor choose readers for peer review. The anonymous referees are expected to provide their reviews within approximately six weeks, though in some cases the schedule may be adjusted at the reviewer’s request.

The reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript. Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the editorial board with one of the following recommendations:

• To accept the paper in its present state;
• To invite the author to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached;
• To advise that final decision should be reached following further reviewing by another specialist;
• To reject the manuscript outright.

If the reviewer has recommended any refinements, the editorial staff would suggest the author either to implement the corrections, or to dispute them reasonably. Authors are kindly required to limit their revision time to 2 months and resubmit the adapted manuscript within this period for final evaluation.
We politely request that the editor be notified verbally or in writing should the author decide to no longer publish the manuscript. In cases where the author fails to do so within 3 months since receiving a copy of the initial review, the editorial board will take the manuscript off the register and notify the author accordingly.
If the author and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding revision of the manuscript, the editor-in-chief will resolve the conflict under their own authority.
If the editorial board reaches a decision to reject a manuscript on the hearing according to reviewers’ recommendations, and duly notifies the authors of their decision via e-mail it is final. The board does not accept previously rejected manuscripts for re-evaluation.

Upon the decision to accept the manuscript for publishing, the editorial staff notifies the authors of the scheduled date of publication.

Kindly note that positive review does not guarantee the acceptance, as final decision in all cases lies with the editorial board. By their own authority, the editor-in-chief rules final solution of every conflict.

Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 5 years.

Update date: 20.10.2023

Indexation

Articles in "Concept: philosophy, religion, culture are indexed by several systems:

• Journal list of the Russian Higher Attestation Commission (VAK journals) – the list of scientific, peer-reviewed journals where the main results of dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science must be published.
• Russian Index of Science Citations (RISC) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RISC project is under development since 2005 by “Electronic Scientific Library” foundation (elibrary.ru).
• 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 and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Publishing Ethics

The Editorial Board and Editorial Council of the journal Concept: philosophy, religion, culture strive to ensure that accepted manuscripts correspond to high academic standards.  The Journal grounds its editorial ethics on the recommendations of the Committee of Publication Ethics and relies on the experience of international peer reviewed journals and authoritative publishers.

Author's responsibilities. The results of the authors’ independent research study should be relevant and novel and must be presented in the articles submitted for publication. The author of the paper is responsible for its originality. Only articles where the originality is more than 90% may be admitted to publication.  Manuscripts written in any style and type of writing except academic writing should not be submitted to publication.  The author is responsible for proper citing and bibliography, as well as names and titles transcription.

Articles accepted for publication should be presented in strict accordance with the requirements of the Journal. Violation of the requirements for the manuscript design and layout may cause non acceptance.

Publishers and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.  In no case shall a publisher or editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately. The journal has guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed. Publishers and editors are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Any reference to a particular source of information presented in the article should be accompanied by a link to the authoritative source. The article should not contain references to misleading information and doubtful reference sources.

Direct or indirect quotation (without source identification) is considered as a violation of the publication’s ethics including the presentation of previously published or partially published works of the author. Simultaneous submission of one and the same material to several publishers is also ethically unacceptable.

In case of group authored articles all members of the group should be named as its authors.  They should all approve a final version before it is sent to editorial office.

This is required to indicate sources of financial support if an article is prepared within a certain sponsored scientific project (research grant).

Links to the Journal Concept: Philosophy, Religion, Culture must be provided when referring to the articles published within it.

No fee is charged for publication.

Editor-in-chief and editorial board obligations.

These guidelines correspond to the editorial policies of international scientific publications and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

The decision to publish an article submitted to the Journal is made by the Editor-in-Chief and / or those responsible for the issue of the journal Concept: Philosophy, Religion, Culture after verification of its reliability performed at the stage of scientific review and consultations with members of the editorial board and editorial council.

All research articles received are a subject to a blind peer review.  The names of experts are confidential.

Each article is reviewed by at least two experts from among acknowledged specialists in a particular area of expertise. Reviews should be objective, contain reasonable criticism and a clear conclusion: “reject”; “recommend for publication after substantial revision”; “recommend for publication after minor revision” or “recommend for publication as-is”.

The Editorial board has the right not to accept the paper submitted for publication in the case where it does not correspond to the Journal’s theme and profile.  There is no reason for rejection except an academic one.  Researchers who intend to have their papers published in the Journal are required to participate in the review.

Editors are responsible for maintaining confidentiality.

Information on the manuscript submitted for publication is not provided to anybody except the author and those authorized by the Editor: reviewers or potential reviewers, members of the editorial board and editorial council, and the Journal editorial staff.

Founder

Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution for Higher Education “Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation”

Author fees

Publication in Concept: philosophy, religion, culture is free of charge for all 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

Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 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 Concept: philosophy, religion, culture, 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 Concept: philosophy, religion, culture we suggest that the link to the article on 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.