Publication Information

The monthly publication “World Economy and International Relations” has been established in 1956 and its first issue appeared in January 1957. Now it is the leading multidisciplinary serial in Russia and CIS on the current theoretical and practical issues of the international policy, world economic relations, developments in the particular countries and macro-regions. “MEMO Journal” is published by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The co-founders of the Journal are the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

ISSN 0131-2227

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Editorial Board

RYABOV Andrei Vilenovich – Editor-in-Chief

MATVEEVA Irina Eduardovna – Executive Secretary

“World Eñonomy and International Relations”Journal adheres to the norms generally accepted by the international academic community, including the editors’ and publishers’ ethics, the ethics of academic peer-reviewing, the authors’ ethics, and also the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation.We act in in conjunction with the following fundamental documents:

- Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications of non-profit partnership “Committee on ethics of scientific publications”
- Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics)
- Declaration of the Association of scientific editors and publishers “Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications”
- Provisions of Chapter 70th “Copyright” of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation

General Requirements

The manuscripts submitted for publishing in the "World Economy and International Relations" Journal must comply with the followinggeneral requirements:

• to correspond with the remit of the Journal (theoretical and practical issues of the present day world economy, of world politics and international relations, of social development of foreign countries, Russian problems in the light of international practices) (see About the Journal);
• to be self-sufficient (that is to reflect the author(s) personal contribution to formulation and research of the chosen scientific topic). The use of someone else's texts, already published in other titles or in the Internet, without reference (plagiary) is prohibited and may lead to penalty, according to the current copyright and neighboring rights protection legislation of the Russian Federation (see Basic ethical principles of authors of scientific articles);
• to be funded (that is to rest upon other scientists' and specialists' works, notably not only domestic, but also foreign, and to contain the correct references);
• to be currently important (that is to contain the elements of scientific and informational novelty);
• to correspond with the technical requirements to the manuscripts adopted by the Journal (see Standards of manuscript formatting).

Reviewing

“World Eñonomy and International Relations” Journal is mainly practicing the "double-blind" (anonymous) reviewingmethod, i.e. the reviewer and the author do not know each other.

The reviewing process takes between 2 to 8 weeks and consists of several stages. The newly received manuscript is firstly reviewed internally by the editorial experts, including Chief Editor. At this stage, the manuscript is tentatively evaluated and it may be rejected for the following reasons:

• the manuscript does not fit the editorial policy and Journal’s topics (the editorial office has the priority in determining this);
• the manuscript’s content does not correspond to its announced topic;
• notoriously poor quality of the manuscript (ignorance of key sources and literature on the subject, poor empirical base, reproduction of findings and theses on the subject that are widely known and already available in the academic literature, journalistic nature of the text, etc.);
• the submitted manuscript does not comply with the current formatting standards.

While the manuscript has passed the preliminary stage it is sent for an external peer-reviewing by an authoritative specialist in this subject area.

Ethical Principles of authors of scientific articles

Author of a scientific article is the person who participate (to a considerable extent – in case if there are several authors) in is writing the work, namely, in formulating its concept, in its scientific designing, in collecting the background materials, their analysis and interpretation of received results. In case of collaborative article, all participants must meet these criteria. The consent of all authors for the publication is required.

Information for Authors

Manuscript Formatting Standarts for "World Eñonomy and International Relations"