About the Journal

Central-European Studies is an interdisciplinary yearbook devoted to Central Europe and neighbouring regions viewed from a comparative perspective. Olga V. Khavanova is the editor-in-chief.

The Central-European Studies series was founded in 1999 at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Tofik. M. Islamov and Aleksandr S. Stykalin. The early issues of the series contained the proceedings of conferences devoted to Central-European history and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day or were festschrifts in honour of Russian historians who had made a significant contribution to the research of the region. In total, 9 issues were published between 1999 and 2017. In 2018, the publication was transformed into a yearbook intended to publish both the proceedings of conferences held under the auspices of the Interdisciplinary Central-European Seminar and articles complying with the scope of the yearbook.

The journal's aim is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the Central European region and neighbouring regions from a comparative perspective.

The journal goals at creating space for dialogue between humanities scholars from different countries studying the history, languages, and culture of Central Europe in the past and present.

The periodical publishes papers on the following topics:

• political, social and cultural history of Central European countries and nations;
• languages and literatures of Central European nations;
• memory studies in the region;
• history of political, cultural and linguistic contacts in Central Europe and neighbouring regions.

The editorial board accepts texts in Slavic languages, as well as in English, German, and Hungarian and publishes their Russian-language translations complemented with the summaries and keywords in English. The journal accepts only original texts that have not been published before. All articles are subject to mandatory double-blind peer review.

According to the international standard of scientific periodicals, each article receives its own unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier) code after publication.

Open Access Policy

The journal provides open access to all materials under licence  Creative Commons | Attribution-NoDerivatives licence. At the same time, copyright remains the authors’ in full.

There is no publication fee.

Indexing

The Journal is included and indexed in the databases:

• Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI)
• CyberLeninka

The editorial board of the journal Central-European Studies follows the ethical norms developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (СОРЕ) and Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP).

The editorial board of the journal Central-European Studiesis uses native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Ethical principles in the editors’ activity

The editorial office (including the editor-in-chief, deputy editors, and executive editor), the editorial board, and the international editorial council bear responsibility for promulgation of the authors’ works, which implies that the activities of the former comply with the following fundamental principles:

• While making a decision on publication, the editors consider all materials submitted for publication and evaluate the manuscripts irrespective of the authors’ race, sex, origin, citizenship, religious beliefs, social status, ideological and political views; absence of a completed higher education, academic degree, or affiliation cannot be a reason for a formal rejection.
• The editorial office guarantees that the unpublished data or ideas which the manuscript contains will not be used for personal purposes and will not be passed to third parties.
• The editor-in-chief is obliged to ensure the absence of any conflict of interest between the author and the reviewers during double-blind peer reviewing; controversial issues which arise while the manuscript is under consideration are resolved by the editorial office collectively, with the involvement of the members of the editorial board who specialize in the subject area of the manuscript in question.
• The editors promise to submit all corrections and revisions of the manuscript to the author for approval; in case of disagreement over the corrections and revisions, both parties have the right to cancel publication.

Ethical principles in the reviewer’s activity

While conducting a scholarly review of a manuscript, the reviewers should be guided by the following principles:

• The reviewer guarantees that he will provide an objective and well-reasoned assessment of the research results presented in the manuscript; if the reviewer is not qualified enough to assess the manuscript or if the reviewer cannot be impartial, he should inform the editor-in-chief or the managing editor of this within the established time and request to be withdrawn from the process of reviewing the manuscript in question;
• The reviewer guarantees that he will not use the unpublished data or ideas he obtained from the unpublished manuscripts submitted for review for personal purposes and will not pass them to third parties for familiarization and/or discussion.

Ethical principles in the author’s activity

• The author guarantees that the manuscript submitted to the editorial office contains valid and completely original research results, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• The author guarantees that all participants who made a significant contribution to the research have been notified, have given their consent to the submission of the manuscript to the journal, and are listed as co-authors; and those persons who did not contribute to the research are not listed as co-authors of the publication.
• The author guarantees that the article contains no materials which cannot be published in the open press under current legislative acts of the Russian Federation.
• The author guarantees that all borrowed texts, both published and unpublished, including lectures and presentations, figures, tables, and other material downloaded from the web or taken from manuscripts or other mass media have proper references to their author(s) or primary source and that the author has obtained all necessary permissions for using materials of which he is not the copyright holder.
• The editorial board does not encourage duplicate publication or self-plagiarism which happens when an article or article fragments of considerable length are published more than once. This applies to texts in the same language and to translations into other languages. If the author is convinced that duplication is necessary, he is obliged to notify the editorial board, justify this fact in the manuscript, and provide a proper reference.
• If the author finds significant mistakes or inaccuracies in the text (both before and after publication), he should notify the editor-in-chief as soon as possible.

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