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- » Publication Frequency
- » Open Access Policy
- » Archiving
- » Peer-Review
- » Publishing Ethics
- » Founder
- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Revenue Sources
- » Policy for processing and use of personal data
- » Open Access Policy
- » Licensing Policy
- » Copyright Policy
- » Authorship Policy
- » Consideration of appeals and complaints
- » Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
- » Preprint and Postprint Policy
Aim and Scope
The aim of the Journal of Modern competition is consolidation of scientific and educational community on the platform of development of modern theories of competition and entrepreneurship, Consolidation of professional approaches to the practice of professional entrepreneurship in a competitive environment and training of young entrepreneurs.
Goals of the journal:
- implementation of the above-mentioned target settings of the journal through the conduct of a column, integrated around the competition issues of micro- and macroeconomics, competitiveness, evolution of modern professional entrepreneurship, State anti-trust and entrepreneurship policy, entrepreneurship training at a competitive level on higher and secondary professional programs, as well as additional education
- providing opportunities for academics, experienced and novice researchers, teachers, as well as representatives of the business community and state authorities to express their opinions freely, to propose scientific ideas on the basis of pluralism, competitiveness of research schools and directions, scientific dialogue, attentive to the opponent’s point of view
- familiarizing readers with modern cases in the field of conducting business activity in a competitive environment in various types of economic activities, with approaches to the development and refinement of regulatory documents in the field of competition and entrepreneurship, as well as with modern educational practices in the field of competition and entrepreneurship education.
Section Policies
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Publication Frequency
6 issues per year (bimonthly)
Open Access Policy
The content is available under a simple (non-exclusive) license, which is free of charge, granted for the term of the exclusive right, and is valid worldwide. This license grants anyone the right to copy and distribute the material in any medium and in any format and to create derivative works, modify and transform the material, provided that the authorship is indicated as follows:
- author(s) (name(s) provided by the Publisher/Journal in the publication);
- title of the Article;
- title of the Journal;
- year and number (volume) of the publication.
Archiving
The journal's materials are posted by the journal's editorial board:
- on the magazine's website;
- in the scientific electronic library ELIBRARY.RU.
In accordance with the Federal Law of 29.12.1994 No. 77-FZ "On Mandatory Copy of Documents", all issues of the journal (mandatory copies) are archived in the following repositories:
- Federal State Budgetary Institution “Russian State Library” (16 copies in printed form and 2 copies in electronic form);
- Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (1 copy).
Peer-Review
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" adheres to the recommendations prepared by foreign specialized organizations, associations and publishing houses, the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ANRI) of Russia, when working with manuscripts, reviewers and when organizing the review process.
Type of review
All manuscripts submitted to the editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" undergo mandatory double-blind review. This means that neither the author nor the reviewer knows each other's names and places of work, and all correspondence is conducted through the editor of the journal "Modern Competition". Each manuscript is sent to at least two experts.
Review deadline
The review process in the journal "Modern Competition" takes on average from 1 to 2 months. In this period, the editorial board of the journal includes time for the initial review of the manuscript, selection of reviewers, time for preparing the review, time for the author to revise the article and re-review, and the involvement of additional experts.
Progress of the review
The decision to select a reviewer for the journal "Modern Competition" is made by the editor-in-chief. Each article is sent to at least two experts. If different opinions are received about the manuscript, a third expert may be involved in the work. The editor of the journal "Modern Competition" may convey to the author one of the following decisions about the manuscript:
- Accept for publication. In this case, the manuscript will be included in one of the regular issues of the journal and will be transferred to the editor for further work. The author will be notified of the publication date.
- Accept for publication after correction of the deficiencies noted by the reviewer. In this case, the author will be asked to make the changes indicated by the reviewer to the manuscript within a week. If the deficiencies are corrected or if there is a justified refusal to make changes, the manuscript is accepted for publication.
- Accept for publication after correction of the deficiencies noted by the reviewer and re-review. In this case, the author will be asked to make the changes indicated by the reviewer to the manuscript within two weeks. The manuscript will be sent for re-review. Within 30 days, the author will receive a final decision on the fate of the manuscript.
- Reject. In this case, the author will be sent a reasoned refusal to publish the manuscript. A refusal to publish does not prohibit authors from sending manuscripts to the journal "Modern Competition" in the future, but if publication is refused due to gross violations on the part of the author, the editor-in-chief may decide to include the author in the blacklist. In this case, other articles by this author will not be considered.
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" provides for three rounds of reviewing - this means that after the first decision to revise the article, the author has two attempts to make changes based on the reviewer's recommendation or a reasoned refusal. If after the third round of review the expert sends comments again, the editor of the journal will offer the author to consider the possibility of publication in another journal or to re-submit the article for review with the changes made in six months.
If the author does not plan to revise the article, he/she must notify the editorial board of the journal. Work on the article will be stopped.
If the author has a conflict of interest with an expert who could potentially become a reviewer of the manuscript, he/she should notify the editor of the journal. The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" will select another reviewer if necessary.
During the review process of a manuscript, a conflict may arise between the author and the reviewer. In such a case, the editor of the journal "Modern Competition" has the right to appoint a new reviewer for the manuscript and involve the editor-in-chief to resolve the dispute.
The journal "Modern Competition" may publish articles by the editor-in-chief, his deputy, executive secretary and members of the editorial board, however, there should be no abuse of office. Manuscripts of the journal's employees are sent for double-blind review only to those experts who are not members of the editorial board or other employees of the journal's editorial staff (external experts). Only external experts are involved in resolving contradictions and conflict situations. In the event of a conflict regarding the fate of the editor-in-chief's manuscript, the final decision on the possibility of publishing the article is made by members of the editorial board.
When publishing articles by members of the editorial board, the editor-in-chief and his deputy, the section “Conflict of Interest” indicates information about the authors’ affiliation with the journal.
The journal "Modern Competition" does not exempt scientists from reviewing manuscripts, regardless of their status.
Copies of reviews are kept in the editorial office of the journal “Modern Competition” for at least 5 years.
Composition of reviewers
All incoming manuscripts are reviewed by experts with experience in the relevant subject area and publications on the topic of the manuscript being reviewed over the past several years.
If the topic of the article is very narrow, or the author declares a potential conflict of interest during the review, or the topic of the article relates to little-studied and little-researched areas of science, members of the editorial board, and in exceptional cases, the editor-in-chief, may be involved in the review.
Principles for selecting reviewers and actions of the journal editorial board to ensure high quality of expertise
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" regularly works to attract recognized experts in the field of economics to work on the journal, as well as to ensure timely rotation of reviewers.
Reviewers are invited to work with the journal on the recommendation of the editor-in-chief, his deputy, members of the editorial board, and authors.
The first review by new reviewers is assessed according to the following algorithm:
- Did the reviewer comment on the importance of the issue raised by the study?
- Did the reviewer comment on the originality of the manuscript?
- Did the reviewer identify the strengths and weaknesses of the study (study design, data collection and analysis)?
- Did the reviewer provide helpful comments regarding the language and structure of the article, tables, and figures?
- Were the reviewer's comments constructive?
- Did the reviewer provide arguments using examples from the article to support his or her comments?
- Did the reviewer comment on the author's interpretation of the results?
- Overall quality of the review.
Each item can be assigned from 1 to 5 points, where 1 is the minimum score and 5 is the maximum.
If the quality of the review does not satisfy the editors, cooperation with the reviewer is terminated.
The editors of the journal “Modern Competition” have the right to evaluate, according to the presented algorithm, an unlimited number of reviews from all experts involved in working with the journal.
Confidentiality
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" does not transfer personal data of reviewers and personal data of authors. Any manuscript is considered by the editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" as a confidential document. The editorial board of the journal expects that reviewers will not transfer to third parties and discuss the texts of manuscripts without the consent of the editor.
Reviewers may involve third parties in the work on the review only with the consent of the editorial board of the journal.
Responsibilities of the reviewer
By agreeing to review manuscripts for the journal "Modern Competition", the reviewer agrees to follow the journal's policies in evaluating the manuscript, preparing the review, as well as in terms of reviewer conduct and compliance with ethical requirements.
A reviewer should strive to ensure high quality of published material in the journal "Modern Competition" and therefore should review a manuscript only if he or she has sufficient experience in the field under consideration and sufficient time to carefully and comprehensively check the article.
The reviewer must disclose to the editor any conflict of interest (personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political or religious) that may exist. If in doubt, the situation should be discussed with the editor.
The reviewer is obliged to refuse to review if:
- is the author's supervisor or subordinate, and is also the holder of joint grants;
- does not plan to prepare a review, but only wants to familiarize himself with the text of the article;
- is preparing his own article on a similar topic for publication;
- reviews an article on a similar topic.
The reviewer is obliged to inform the editor of his/her intention to review the article, and to complete the work within the timeframe specified by the editor. If it is impossible to conduct the review for a number of reasons, it is advisable to recommend another expert to the editor.
A reviewer cannot use his status for personal purposes and impose links to his works on authors.
All materials received from the editor of the journal are strictly confidential. The reviewer should not transfer materials to third parties or involve other specialists in reviewing the manuscript without the consent of the editor of the journal "Modern Competition".
Recommendations for reviewers
The editors of the journal request that the reviewer devote significant attention to the consideration of the manuscript in order to help the authors improve their current and subsequent work.
Content and structure of the review
- originality;
- logical rigor;
- statistical rigor;
- clarity and conciseness of writing style;
- theoretical significance;
- reliable results;
- relevance to contemporary areas of research;
- reproducibility of results;
- literature coverage;
- application of results.
The editors of the journal "Modern Competition" recommend that reviewers adhere to the following review structure.
Comments for the editor
Conflict of Interest – describes any actual or potential conflict of interest related to the content of the manuscript or its authors that may lead to biased conclusions.
Confidential comments – This section is for comments that will not be shared with the authors. It includes the reviewer’s final conclusion about the fate of the manuscript, the reviewer’s suggestions, concerns about possible ethical violations, and recommendations and accompanying comments (for example, the reviewer may advise the editor to request additional information from the author). Proposed decision – usually a short conclusion about the fate of the manuscript (accept for publication, accept for publication with minor revision, accept for publication with major revision, reject, reject and invite the author to resubmit the article).
Comments for authors
Introduction – This section describes the main findings and value of the article to readers. Key comments – This section describes the relevance to the aims and objectives of the journal, the level of reliability, and ethical conduct.
Special comments – the reviewer provides an assessment of sections of the article (abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion) or comments on specific pages, paragraphs, or lines.
Recommendations to the author - the reviewer makes recommendations to the author to improve the quality of the manuscript and, possibly, future research.
The final comment is a brief description of the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript without any additional recommendations.
Manuscript Evaluation Criteria
- Subject area relevance
Time should not be wasted reviewing an irrelevant manuscript, regardless of its quality. The first step is to determine whether the manuscript is relevant to the subject area of the journal and the interests of its audience.
- Validity
Does the study meet all the necessary requirements in terms of research design, scientific methods, structure and content, and depth of analysis, does it comply with the principles of impartial scientific research, are the results of the study reproducible? Is the study sample selected properly? Is it analyzed in sufficient detail to generalize the results of the study?
- Novelty
Did the research contribute anything new to the relevant subject area?
- Ethics
Does the research meet the requirements of originality, has it been approved by the review board (if required), and is it unbiased in terms of conflicts of interest? No matter how great the supposed significance of the manuscript, it cannot be accepted for publication if it is redundant, contains plagiarism, or violates the basic ethical principles of scientific research: legality, benefit, and respect for people.
- Evaluation of manuscript elements
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" suggests using the following questions to speed up the process of preparing an expert opinion and providing the most complete information about the article to the editor and author.
Name
Does the title accurately reflect the content of the manuscript? Will the title grab readers' attention?
Annotation
Is the abstract presenting the manuscript content appropriately (is the abstract structured, describing the aims, methods, results, and significance)? Are there any discrepancies between the abstract and the manuscript sections? Can the abstract be understood without reading the manuscript?
Introduction
Is the introduction brief? Is the purpose of the study clearly defined and the objective stated? Does the author justify the relevance and significance of the study based on the literature review? If so, does this section meet the length requirements? Does the author provide definitions of terms that appear in the manuscript? If the manuscript is submitted to the Original Research section, does it contain a clearly formulated hypothesis?
Literature Review
How comprehensive is the literature review?
Methods
Would another researcher be able to reproduce the study results using the proposed methods, or are the methods unclear?
Do the authors justify their choices when describing their research methods (e.g. choice of visualization methods, analytical tools, or statistical methods)?
If the authors state a hypothesis, have they developed methods that allow the hypothesis to be validly tested?
How is the study design presented?
How does data analysis help in achieving the set goal?
Results
Are the results explained clearly? Is the order of results presented consistent with the order of the methods? Are the results reasonable and expected or unexpected? Are there any results that are not preceded by an appropriate description in the Methods section? How accurate is the presentation of the results?
Discussion
Is the discussion brief? If not, how can it be shortened? If a hypothesis is stated, do the authors report whether it was supported or refuted? If the hypothesis is not supported, do the authors report whether the study question was answered? Are the authors’ conclusions consistent with the results obtained during the study? If unexpected results are obtained, do the authors adequately analyze them? What potential contribution does the study make to the field and to global science?
Conclusions
Do the authors note the limitations of the study? Are there any additional limitations that should be noted? What are the authors' views on these limitations? What are the authors' views on the direction of future research?
References
Does the bibliography follow the format of the journal? Are there any bibliographic errors in the bibliography? Are the references to the articles in the bibliography in the text of the article correct? Are there important works that are not mentioned but should be noted? Are there more references in the article than necessary? Are the cited references up to date?
Tables
If the article contains tables, do they accurately describe the results? Should one or more tables be added to the article? Are the data presented in tables processed appropriately and do they make the information easier to understand rather than more difficult?
Drawings
Are tables and figures appropriate for the purpose of the paper? Can the results be illustrated in other ways? Do the figures and graphs accurately depict important results? Do the figures and graphs need to be modified to present the results more accurately and clearly? Do the figure and graph legends allow the information to be understood without referring to the manuscript itself?
Disclosure of conflicts of interest
Is funding and conflict of interest information clearly stated?
Editing reviews
The editors of the journal "Modern Competition" expect that reviews will be written in a friendly tone and in accordance with the rules of the Russian language. Personal attacks, insults to the author and pointless criticism of any aspect of the research, language and style of the manuscript, etc. are prohibited.
The editors of the journal "Modern Competition" try to transfer reviews to authors in their original form, however, in some cases it may be necessary to change the text of the review without losing its meaning (for example, when combining comments from several experts on one issue or in the case of confidential comments in the section of the review intended for the author).
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" has the right to send a review to an expert for revision in the event of a large number of errors or an unacceptable tone of the review.
Publishing Ethics
The requirements for compliance with publication ethics in the preparation and publication of the journal "Modern Competition" apply to all participants in the editorial and publishing process - authors, editors, reviewers and the publisher. The editorial board of the journal monitors compliance with ethical requirements, relying on guidelines prepared by foreign specialized organizations, associations and publishing houses, the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP) of Russia, as well as the declaration "Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications" adopted by ASEP.
Publisher's Responsibility
- Preservation of the scientific archive. The publisher plays an important role in supporting the work of editors and reviewers to maintain the integrity of the scientific archive of the journal. The role of the publisher is to support, invest resources, and ensure that the editorial board follows best practices in publishing.
- Protecting editorial independence. We undertake not to allow any factors (financial or otherwise) to influence editorial decisions.
Editors' Responsibility
- Publication decisions. The editor-in-chief has overall responsibility for the decision to publish articles, based on the significance and scientific value of the work for researchers and readers.
- The review process. The editor ensures a fair, objective and timely review process, inviting reviewers with appropriate expertise and striving for inclusivity and diversity.
- Fairness and transparency. The editor evaluates manuscripts solely on their scientific content and ensures transparency of editorial policy.
- The editor protects the confidentiality of all materials submitted to the journal and all correspondence with reviewers.
- Conflict of Interest: All potential conflicts of interest must be declared and taken into account when making editorial decisions.
Responsibilities of reviewers
- Assistance to editorial decisions. The opinions of reviewers are intended to assist editors in making editorial decisions and to contribute to the improvement of authors' work through constructive recommendations.
- Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents and will not be disclosed to third parties.
- Ethical Standards and Independence. Reviewers should evaluate the work objectively, avoiding personal bias and conflicts of interest.
Authors' Responsibility
- Reporting and Standards. Authors have the responsibility to present an accurate account of their work, faithfully representing the original data and sufficient detail to permit reproduction.
- Access to data and their storage. Upon request of the editors, authors must be ready to provide data for verification and ensure their storage.
- Originality and references. Authors must guarantee the originality of their work, due acknowledgement of other people's research, and the complete absence of plagiarism. Authors should not publish manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal. The journal "Modern Competition" does not consider the following forms of use of the work as prior publication: publication in the form of an abstract, publication in the form of an academic dissertation, publication in the form of an electronic preprint.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest. All manuscripts submitted to the journal must contain a disclosure of all relationships that could be considered a potential conflict of interest.
- Reporting Errors in Published Articles. If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published work, he/she has the responsibility to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the article.
Founder
- Non-state private educational institution of higher education «Moscow University «Synergy»
Author fees
Articles are published free of charge. Publication in the journal is free at all stages of manuscript review. The editorial board of the journal does not charge for editorial and publishing services.
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
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" checks the material using the "Antiplagiat" system when reviewing manuscripts. English-language manuscripts are additionally checked using the plagiarism checking program " iThenticate ". Any form of plagiarism is considered unethical behavior on the part of the authors' collective and is grounds for refusing to review the manuscript. Unauthorized borrowing means citing:
- without providing a link or footnote to the original source, i.e. without an exact indication of the author’s full name, place and year of publication, and publisher;
- with incorrect indication of the author in a link or footnote;
- unjustified borrowing of a quote from someone else's scientific text in one's work;
- illegally published text;
- with the use of indirect borrowing without indicating the original source;
- in situations where the volume of citation is not justified by the scope of the scientific article.
Revenue Sources
The publication of the journal is financed by the funds of the parent organization, at the expense of the publisher, publication of advertising materials, publication of reprints.
Policy for processing and use of personal data
The Author (an individual), by submitting the Application and the Article materials, gives the Publisher their consent to the processing of the following personal data: last name, first name, patronymic; academic degree, academic title; place of work, its name, position; place of study, address of the educational institution, student status (student, postgraduate student, etc.); postal address for correspondence; telephone number at the place of work; telephone number at the place of study; telephone number: home, mobile; e-mail address for communication with the editorial board, e-mail address for publication in the Journal (hereinafter referred to as PD).
The processing of personal data is carried out by the Publisher solely for the purposes of fulfilling this Offer, namely: to review the Application, organize reviewing, editing, publishing the Article in the Journal, informing the Author about the progress of the Application review and the release of the Journal, including information about the Author in the publication and the Journal database, and fulfilling the requirements of the Russian Federation legislation.
Processing of personal data means actions (operations) with personal data , including collection, recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, modification), extraction, use, distribution (including transfer for placement in scientific citation databases, on partner websites), depersonalization, blocking, deletion, destruction of personal data using automation tools and without using such tools.
The period of processing personal data : during the term of the Agreement and after its termination during the periods established by the legislation of the Russian Federation for storing editorial documentation and published materials (at least 5 years), or until the Author revokes consent.
The Author has the right to revoke this consent by sending a written notice to the Publisher. Revocation of consent entails the deletion of PD from the editorial systems, but does not require the deletion of information about the Author from already published issues of the Journal and archives, as well as from scientific citation databases to which the Journal has been transferred.
The Publisher guarantees the confidentiality of personal data and takes the necessary measures to protect them.
Open Access Policy
The journal "Modern Competition" adheres to the open access policy (Open Access). All articles are posted indefinitely and free of charge immediately after the release of the journal issue. Full-text access in real time to the scientific articles of the journal is provided on the official website of the journal in the "Archive of Issues" section , on the platform of the Scientific Electronic Library ELIBRARY.RU , as well as on the websites of scientific information aggregators ( RePEc , EBS "Lan", etc.). In accordance with the Open Access initiative ,articles are available to everyone, based on the principle that free open access to research results contributes to the increase of general knowledge.
Licensing Policy
All materials published in the journal "Modern Competition" are available under the terms of a simple (non-exclusive) license, which is free of charge, extends for the duration of the exclusive right and is valid worldwide. This license grants any person the right to copy and distribute the material on any medium and in any format and to create derivative materials, modify and transform the material, provided that the authorship is indicated as follows:
– indication of the Author( s ) (name/names provided by the Publisher/Journal in the publication);
– indication of the title of the Article;
– indication of the title of the Journal;
– indication of the year and number (volume) of publication.
Copyright Policy
By submitting their work to the editors, authors confirm their authorship. In the case of a manuscript prepared by a group of authors, one of them is responsible for submitting the manuscript, while acknowledging all co-authors. Each co-author must have participated in the research sufficiently to be listed as a co-author.
According to CRediT , authorship is based on a substantial intellectual contribution to any of the following stages of the research:
- development of ideas and concepts;
- data collection and processing;
- data analysis;
- conducting research;
- development of methodology;
- project administration;
- provision of resources;
- software;
- general management;
- verification of authenticity;
- visualization;
- attracting financing;
- manuscript preparation;
- revision at the pre- or post-publication stage.
Participants who do not meet the criteria for authorship (including making some intellectual contribution, preparing and critically reviewing the manuscript, and approving the final version of the manuscript) and who are not prepared to take responsibility for the work as a whole cannot be listed as authors. Their contributions should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.
The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right to the first publication of the research results; further distribution of the publication is carried out with the indication of the authorship and a link to the original publication in the journal “Modern Competition”.
Authorship Policy
The copyright for published texts belongs to the authors. The publisher has the right to place published articles on the Internet on the journal's website and on the website of its founder, including in open access, and also to transfer them for placement in scientific citation databases. Publication of the text in another publication in whole or in part is possible provided that all re-publications contain an indication of the authors and the title of the original publication, the name of the journal "Modern Competition", the year and issue number. If it is discovered that the author has already published his work in another publication, the editors will carry out the procedure of retraction of the article.
Consideration of appeals and complaints
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" carefully considers complaints about the behavior of editors and reviewers, which may concern such issues as breach of confidentiality, undisclosed conflicts of interest, misuse of confidential information obtained during the review process. Authors may also disagree with decisions regarding the expression of doubts on certain articles or complain about violations of editorial processes.
Complaints can be sent to e-mail evlasova @ synergy . ru , they will be considered in the usual manner. The complaint review process takes no more than 10 working days. The person who sent the complaint receives information about the decision, as well as about the measures that will be taken and the time frame for their implementation. When considering complaints, the editors rely on the COPE recommendations in each of the following cases:
- working with post-publication criticism ;
- post-publication discussions and revisions ;
- suspicion of post-publication peer review manipulation ;
- manipulation of images in a published article ;
- fabrication of data in a published article .
Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
The use of artificial intelligence technologies is permitted for the purpose of increasing the efficiency and quality of scientific research results.
Scientific research is carried out by the authors independently, artificial intelligence technologies (including generative artificial intelligence systems, for example, ChatGPT , Sber GigaChat , YandexGPT , ScholarAI , PerplexityAI , DeepSeek , etc.) can be used as auxiliary tools for solving specific problems of scientific research, namely: for collecting and studying scientific information, analyzing the results of previously conducted fundamental and applied scientific research, collecting, processing and analyzing data, carrying out scientific forecasting, formalizing the obtained scientific results in terms of editing, visualization, compiling annotations, bibliographic lists.
The use of artificial intelligence technologies is permitted subject to the following basic principles and conditions:
- responsibility for the conduct and results of scientific research rests entirely with the authors (the AI cannot be recognized as the author of the research in any case);
- all results of the AI work (including bibliographic data, citations of other sources, etc.) must be verified, critically assessed and revised by the author. When using AI, the author of the study must take into account the risk of generating hallucinated – incorrect, distorted, fictitious – data;
- responsibility for violation of ethical standards - discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, gender, political views, religious beliefs, age, social and economic status, for allowing statements that cause offense, as well as for failure to comply with the principle of academic honesty (excluding plagiarism, deception, fraud or intentional misrepresentation, bias in assessments and judgments) - is assigned to the author of the study; the use of technical means and techniques, including generative AI technologies, for the purpose of concealing plagiarism is not permitted;
- The authors of the study are required to reflect the fact of using AI systems in the presentation of the results of the study, indicating the parts of the scientific study prepared using AI, the goals, methods and results of using AI, information on the models and versions of the AI systems used, on the queries ( prompts ) used, on the dates of access or use of AI systems.
Preprint and Postprint Policy
The journal "Modern Competition" adheres to an open access policy, allows and even encourages authors to post their articles published in the journal on their own personal websites or in other repositories, indicating a link to the article in the journal in the bibliographic description.
The journal may accept for consideration versions of articles published on the personal websites of authors or in repositories, but not previously sent to any scientific publications (preprints). When sending such a publication to the journal "Modern Competition", the authors must provide a link to the preprint. Violation of this condition may serve as grounds for refusal to further consider the manuscript.
The editors of the journal do not allow authors to place their articles accepted for publication after review and making all changes (postprints) on any resources before the official publication on the journal's website. Violation of this condition may also serve as grounds for refusal to publish the manuscript.
Third party materials
Before publishing online for self-archiving purposes, authors should ensure that they have all necessary rights and permissions to publish all components of the article. When publishing (self-archiving) an article, the author must have the rights to place all borrowed elements in the published article. The copyright holders of the borrowed elements of the published article must always be clearly indicated, as well as information that the use of these elements of the article without the separate permission of the copyright holders is impossible.
Closed repositories and embargo period
Articles can be placed in closed repositories only after official publication on the journal's website. A closed repository is one in which only its administrators have access to the content.
Descriptions of articles (titles, abstracts, information about authors and links) can be made available both before and after the article is published as part of an issue on the journal's website. However, full texts of published articles can be made available on third-party websites only after official publication and only with the obligatory indication of a link to the publication on the journal's website (including via DOI).
Placing content in repositories
The editorial board of the journal "Modern Competition" allows and even recommends that authors place articles published in the journal on their pages on the Internet, on the websites of their organizations and public repositories (such as ResearchGate, SSRN, RePEc, etc.). The editorial board requires that authors indicate the following information:
- link to the article on the journal's website (including via DOI);
- a clear statement of the terms of the license under which the published version of the article is posted.
Citing articles in repositories
When citing a version of an article accepted for publication, you must provide a link to the final version of the article and use the DOI.
