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- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
Aim and Scope
The basic goals of the journal are promotion of the development of fundamental and applied knowledge of mental disorders and disturbances, their clinical manifestations and ethiopathogenetic mechanisms, modern methods of therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation measures.
The aims of the journal include:
- Presentation of the latest results and scientific-practical activities in the field of psychiatry, psychology, and biology.
- Creation of unified scientific ground for integration of knowledge and experience of the leading scientists and experts in these fields.
- Dissemination of actual information on the latest scientific developments and achievements of the clinical psychiatry, medical psychology, and fundamental research work in the field of neurosciences.
- Distribution of results of studies of current methods of diagnostics, drug therapy of mental disorders, other types of therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of patients of various ages (children, adolescents, young adults, people of mature age, and old age patients).
- Approbation of research studies of young scientists and post-graduate students.Section Policies
Systematic reviews and the results of metha-analysis of studies in the basic directions in the field of clinical and biological psychiatry, medical psychology are placed in the section “Scientific reviews”.
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
The sections “Memorable dates” and “Our heritage” include essays about the psychiatrists of the past, who greatly contributed to the development of scientific and clinical psychiatry, and their most important publications.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
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Open Submissions| Open Submissions |
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Publication Frequency
6 issues per year
Archiving
- Russian State Library (RSL)
- National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
Peer-Review
REGULATIONS
on the оrder of peer reviewing papers received for publication in scientific-practical “Psikhiatriya” journal
1. “Psikhiatriya” journal is a peer reviewing edition. A peer reviewing is necessary for attainment and maintenance of high quality of papers. The aim of peer reviewing is expert evaluation of quality and originality of papers, submitted for publication, within the framework of scientific publishing activities.
2. All the papers received by the editorial staff undergo peer reviewing in accordance with existing order. Articles sent by academicians and corresponding members of RAS and RAMS are the exception to the general rule.
3. Peer reviewing papers is carried out by the members of Editorial Board, or by invited outward peer reviewers, Doctors of sciences, or Candidates of sciences. The peer reviewers should be acknowledged specialists in clinical, biological, and organizational psychiatry, as well as fundamental neurosciences. Besides over the last 3 years they must have publications in this research area.
4. Concrete decision of sending to peer reviewing is made by editor-in-chief after discussion with the members of Editorial Board. All the peer reviewers give their consent to reviewing.
5. According to Publishing ethics resource, the peer reviewers are responsible for:
- evaluation of the importance of the offered paper and its correspondence to the current state of the studied problem;
- check of the manuscript for formulation of the aim, solid reasons for the chosen methodology and procedures of examination, including statistical methods of data processing;
- evaluation of solid reasons for conclusions of work, originality of the study and the novelty of the obtained data;
- control of indication of the sources of information;
- assessment of personal contribution of manuscript’s author to the solution of the considered problem is carried out as an obligatory element of review;
- demonstration of objectivity and immediacy;
- observance of confidentiality;
- observance of Code of ethics, exposure of plagiarism and other unethical acts
- conflicts of interests determination;
- making general conclusion choosing one of the three variants: 1) recommend sending to the press; 2) abstain from publication; 3) return the paper as requiring improvement to the authors. As regards points 2 and 3 it is advisable to give additional motivation of corresponding conclusion for the authors and recommendation for revision of the manuscript;
- assistance in making publishing decisions.
6. Open and unilateral blind peer reviewing is used in “Psikhiatriya” journal, when the reviewers know, who the author is, while the authors don’t know who the peer reviewers are. As a rule, two peer reviewers are got involved in the work. Authors are given the opportunity to name undesirable peer reviewers due to conflict of interests.
7. Sending the paper to the reviewer is accompanied with a letter, signed by the executive secretary on the form of the “Psikhiatriya” journal, where the date of presenting the review is given (3 weeks, as a rule).
8. At the editorial board sitting decision is made according to the results of peer reviewing on placing the article in the journal, refusal of publication, or the necessity to introduce changes in accordance with the remarks of the reviewer. The author is given anonymous text of the review with an attached cover letter. After introduction of changes the article is sent to the reviewer once more with a cover letter. The paper sent to the editorial board after completion undergoes careful expert evaluation. If the paper meets all the requirements as a scientific publication, has positive review, receives positive opinion of the editorial board, the paper is included for publication. The author is informed about it. In a case of refusal of publication, the author is informed about the motives of declining. The excluded paper cannot be sent for repeated consideration.
9. The reviews are stored in the publishing house and editorial office not less than 5 years. The copies of the reviewers are sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, if corresponding request is received.
10. The regulations on peer reviewing were considered and approved by the editorial board of “Psikhiatriya” journal sitting June 24, 2015.
Indexation
Articles in “Psikhiatriya” journal are indexed by several systems:
- Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database, accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in native and foreign titles. The RSCI 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.
- EBSCO
- SOCIONET
- NLM Catalog
Publishing Ethics
“Psikhiatriya”journal adheres to the principles of publication ethics in accordance with the Code of professional ethics for psychiatrist (1994) and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, 1997).
In the paper presented for publication the author/authors must specify, that human trial was carried out in accordance with The International Code of Medical Ethics (1949 ) and regulations of Declaration of Helsinki on preclinical and clinical trials on humans and animals (1964) adopted by the World Medical Association. The author/authors must report in the text of the paper about receiving Informed Consent of patients (or their legal representatives) in written form.
Conflict of interests
The authors must expose any actual or potential financial or nonfinancial conflict of interests, concerning the research issue, and to put it up at the end of published material. Recognition of the presence of conflict of interests is accompanied with disclosure of the essence of the conflict. Information of the conflict of interests is given to the peer reviewers and it may be printed according to the decision of Editorial Board.
All the authors are responsible for the accuracy of data presented in the study. The journal exercises its right to refuse the publication, if the fact of falsification of data is confirmed, as well as plagiarism, theft of intellectual property, duplication of paper from another edition, false representation of true authorship, and concealment of the conflict of interests.
Presentation of the paper to the journal presupposes that the article was not published before (but for the summary), that its publication is approved by all the authors and organizations, where it was presented. The papers, which were duplicated in other editions, or were sent for publication to other editorial offices are not allowed sending to editorial office of the journal.
Founder
- FSBSI “The Mental Health Research Centre”
- LLC «Publisher «MIA»
Author fees
Publication in “Psikhiatriya” is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn't have any Arcticle 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
“Psikhiatriya” journal 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 “Psikhiatriya” journal, 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 “Psikhiatriya” journal 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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