Reviewing articles

All materials submitted for publication in the journal "Folium" must be reviewed by specialists in the relevant specialty. There is a system of a double “blind” peer-review in the journal. 

Steps of peer-review:

1. The author submits the article that meets the requirements to the editorial board.

2. Check of the article for anti-plagiarism. For all articles submitted for review, the degree of uniqueness of the author’s text is determined by means of the appropriate software.

3. All manuscripts submitted to the journal's editorial board are sent to 2 reviewers. The reviewers are appointed by the editor-in-chief.

4. To review articles, internal (members of the journal's editorial board) and external reviewers act as reviewers.

5. Reviewers, as a rule, within 15-20 days conclude on the possibility of publishing the article (fill out a standardized form containing final recommendations):

- recommend the article for publication,
- send the article to the author for revision,
- do not recommend the article for publication.

6. The review is carried out confidentially according to the principle of double-blind review (neither the author nor the reviewer know each other). The interaction between the author and the reviewer is performed through executive editor.

7. If the reviewer indicates the necessity to make certain adjustments to the article, the article is sent to the author with the suggestion to take into account the comments when preparing the improved version of the article or to confute them justifiably. To the revised article, the author adds a letter that contains answers to all comments and explains all changes that were made in the article. The amended version is re-submitted to the reviewer for making a decision and preparing a motivated conclusion on the possibility of publication.

8. In the event of receiving one positive opinion and one negative opinion from the reviewers, the final decision on the possibility of publishing the article in the journal is made by the journal's scientific editor, and if necessary, a meeting of the editorial board is held.