Aim and Scope

The Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) is a monthly scholarly refereed journal that provides a forum for disseminating information about advances in higher education among educational researchers, educators, administrators and policy-makers across Russia. VOVR publishes articles, book reviews and conference reports on issues such as institutional development and management, innovative practices in university curricula, assessment and evaluation, as well as theory and philosophy of higher education. VOVR aims to stimulate interdisciplinary, problem-oriented and critical approach to research. Particular focus is given to training of highly qualified specialists in postgraduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral study programs, improved training of scholars with advanced degrees, additional vocational education of scientific and teaching personnel. The journal welcomes authors to submit articles and research/discussion papers on topics relevant to modernization of tertiary-level education and trends, challenges and opportunities in training highly qualified specialists in specific areas and high-level scientific and pedagogical staff. The journal accepts the papers addressing the role of a teacher in the modern educational process, learning and teaching paradigms and models in higher education (student-centered, blended, flipped learning, individual educational trajectory, digitalization of education etc.), the issues of engineering pedagogy, the international experience in doctoral studies and advanced training.

The audience includes academics, faculty and administrators, university teachers, researchers, practitioners, organizational developers, and policy designers. The papers in VOVR are indexed by Russian Science Citation Index (Science Index system).

Section Policies

AREAS OF EDUCATION MODERNIZATION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

HIGHER EDUCATION: CRITICAL DISCOURSE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SOCIOLOGY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

HIGHER SCHOOL PEDAGOGY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ENGINEERING PEDAGOGY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF EDUCATION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

11 issues per year

Open Access Policy

"Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia)" 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. All the manuscripts submitted to Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) are reviewed by the Editor to assess its suitability for the journal according to the guidelines determined by the editorial policy. On this step of the initial filtering the manuscript can be rejected if the content doesn’t fall within the scope of the journal or it fails to meet sufficiently our basic criteria and the submission requirements.
2. The papers accepted for publication are subjected to the double-blind peer review process which can be accomplished either by the members of Editorial staff (Heads of Departments) or by involved additional reviewers (experts from the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Academy of Education, university professors, members of associations and scientific communities, such as Technical Universities Association, IGIP Russian Monitoring Committee (RMC IGIP), Association for Engineering Education of Russia (AEER), Association of the Classical Universities of Russia (ACUR). The assigned reviewer is an expert within a topic area of the research conducted.
3. The reviewer evaluates the compliance of the manuscript according to the following principles:

• compliance with the thematic scope of the journal;
• relevance to the publication guidelines and journal policy;
• scientific merit (novelty);
• paper evaluation from the point of view of plagiarism (verbatim copying, paraphrasing, re-using parts of a work without attribution) or self-plagiarism using;
• presentation and understandability of the paper on the whole, comprehension of the topic area, and the validity of research results;
• methodology used (paper’s arguments, methods and conclusions);
• adequacy of citations and references to other sources;
• quality of a text including language style, logics, and general readability.

4. The reviewer’s report should provide one of the following recommendations: 1) to accept the paper for publication in the journal Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia), 2) to accept the paper for publication with major or minor revisions according to the reviewer’s commentaries and suggestions; 3) to decline paper.
5. Submission process and peer-review procedure take about 3-6 weeks. Accepted articles are usually published in the order in which they pass the review process, but the editorial board reserves the right to determine the sequence in which articles are published and to publish some papers out of turn.
6. The approved manuscripts are put into the preparation and production process.
7. If the manuscript was declined by the editor or the reviewer didn’t recommend it for publication the associate editor informs the author about the rejection. In case the manuscript requires revision the associate editor sends the reviewer’s report to the author. The revised variant of the paper has to undergo the new peer-review process. The originals of reviews are retained in the editorial office for 5 years.
8. A copy of reviewer’s report is sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on the corresponding request.

Indexation

Articles in Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) 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.
• ErihPlus
• Scopus
• SOCIONET
• WorldCat

Publishing Ethics

Ethical code of the journal Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii

The journal Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii is committed to promoting the standards of publication ethics in accordance with COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. We pursue the principles of transparency and best practices in scholarly publishing and aspire to ensure fair, unbiased, and transparent peer review processes and editorial decisions. Any detected cases of misconduct, whether on the part of authors, reviewers or editors, will be vigorously pursued.

Editors of the journal reserve the right to reject the work from publication in case of revealing any such malpractices.

The obligations of the editorial board

1. A decision to accept the article for the submission.

1.1. The editorial board of the journal Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii is responsible for the scientific contents of the journal. This decision is based on the peer-reviews of the manuscripts.

1.2. The editorial board follows the publication code of the journal and the copyright legal issues. The editor-in-chief may include additional editors during the decision-making process.

2. Confidentiality

2.1. The members of the editorial office and reviewers are prohibited from disclaiming any information about the submitted paper and its content due to confidentiality (except the authors of the article, peer-reviewers, editorial members and publisher).

3. Disclosure and conflict of interests.

3.1. Non-published materials cannot be used by the editorial office or the reviewers for a private use or for a transmission to a third party without a written author`s permission.

The obligations of the peer-reviewers

The peer-reviewers support the scientific editor in decision-making and support the author in improving the paper.

1. Confidentiality.

1.1. The papers submitted to the editorial office are considered confidential matters. The submitted papers must not be disclosed to any third parties, except those confirmed by the editorial office.

2. Confirmation of information sources.

2.1 The papers published or to be published in other journals are not accepted. The description of any methods, scientific facts or discussions must be supported by the correct reference. The peer-reviewers are obliged to inform the editorial office about any plagiarism detected in the paper.

2.2 Peer-reviewers should identify non-referenced research work. Each earlier reported evidence should be accompanied by a reference. Peer-reviewer is obliged to report any plagiarism, multiple, excessive and competitive publications or double publications.

3. Disclosure and conflict of interests.

3.1. Any private information or ideas discussed during the peer-review are confidential and are matters of non-disclosure. The peer-reviewer is prohibited of reviewing the paper in case of any conflict of interest with any of the authors, industry or any other organizations related to the current paper.

The obligations of the authors:

1. Originality of the data and plagiarism.

1.1. The authors are obliged to guarantee the originality of the paper. The submitted work should not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and cannot be construed as plagiarizing any other published work, including their own previously published paper. Any data from the other papers or research works must be noted and referred to.

2. Access to data and its storage.

2.1. The authors are obliged to present the data related to the current paper if possible. The authors must store the data related to the current paper as long as possible after the publication.

3. Multiple, excessive and competitive publications

3.1. Authors are prohibited from publishing the same papers or the papers describing the same data in multiple journals.

3.2. The submission of the same paper to multiple journals is unethical and unacceptable.

4. Confirmation of references.

4.1 The authors are obliged to refer to the research papers they used during the preparation of the paper.

5. Authorship.

5.1 The authorship of the paper must be limited to the persons who made a significant input into the concept, project, creation or interpretation of the data. Any other person who made an input into some parts of the paper can be acknowledged.

5.2 The authors are obliged to guarantee that the list of the authors only contains people who made a significant input into the paper, and also that all the co-authors reviewed the paper, confirmed its final version and agreed to the publication.

6. Disclosure and conflict of interests.

6.1. All authors and co-authors are obliged to disclose any financial or other conflict of interests, which may interfere with the results of the investigation.

7. Errors in the published papers.

7.1 Authors are obliged to immediately address the editorial office in case of the detection of any errors or inaccuracies in the published paper.

Founder

• Moscow Polytechnic University (38,  Bolshaya Semenovskaya str., Moscow, 107023, mospolytech@mospolytech.ru )

• Technical Universities Association (5, 2^nd Baumanskaya str., Moscow, 105005, info@atuniversities.ru,  webpage: http://atuniversities.ru)

Author fees

Publication in Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) 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

Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) 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 Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia), 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 Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia) 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)

Partners

MEPhI National Nuclear University, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russian State University for the Humanities, RosNOU