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- » Open Access Policy
- » Archiving
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- » Indexation
- » Publishing Ethics
- » Founder
- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
Aim and Scope
The main mission of the magazine is to keep the level of information on the achievements in the industry science and enterprises.
Plastics sector is a multi-facet industry which covers such important issues as polymers synthesis and processing, physical chemistry and mechanics of plastic-based composite materials. All this makes the editorial office unite a wide circle of specialists amongst authors, editorial staff and readers.
The latest years magazine’s activity shows that, despite the sharp decrease in the volume of scientific research, the spectrum of authors remains broad.
Closure of industry R&D institutes was compensated by extended participation of the specialists from higher education establishments and industrial enterprises. The major R&D development on composites and various aspects of plastics recycling are extensively covered in the magazine.
We plan to expand the coverage of industry economic analysis. In line with the representation of the Russian science, the magazine makes an effort in keeping an insight on the former Soviet Republics, in particular Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic countries.Section Policies
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Publication Frequency
6 issues per year
Open Access Policy
"Plasticheskie massy" 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
An unilateral anonymous ("blind") peer review method is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of "Plasticheskie massy" (authors don’t know the reviewers and receive a letter with comments from the responsible editorial secretary).
Members of the editorial board and leading specialists of the polymer science, invited as independent readers, perform peer reviews. Title editor chooses readers for peer review. We aim to limit the review process to one month.
Reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript.
The reviewer assesses the scientific content and quality of the design of the scientific work.
Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer presents one of the following recommendations:
- The article can be published without changes.
- Minor changes to the article are required. The article can be published in the journal after revision.
- Substantial revision of the article is required. The issue of publication should be reconsidered after processing the article and new peer review.
- It is not recommended to publish this article in the journal "Plasticheskie massy".
If the reviewer has recommended any refinements, the editorial staff would suggest the author either to implement the corrections, or to dispute them reasonably. Authors are kindly required to limit their revision to 2 months and resubmit the adapted article within this period for final evaluation.
In case the author fails to do so within 2 months since receiving a copy of the initial review, the editorial board takes the article off the register and notifies the author accordingly.
If it is recommended to publish this article, the editors inform the author and indicate the approximate publication dates.
An article that is not recommended for publication is not accepted again for publication. The message about the refusal to publish is sent to the author by e-mail.
Original reviews of submitted manuscripts remain deposited for 5 years.Indexation
Articles in "Plasticheskie massy" are indexed by several systems:
- Russian Index for Science Citation (RISC) – 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.
Publishing Ethics
The editor of the scientific journal “Plasticheskie massy” is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The decision to publish should be based on the validation of the work in question and its scientific significance. For decision, relevant legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright, legality and plagiarism should be taken into account.
The editor should evaluate the intellectual content of the manuscripts, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, origin, citizenship or political preferences of the Authors.
The editor and the Editorial Board of the journal are obliged to maintain confidentiality regarding both the content of the work and the personal data of the authors.
Unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts cannot be used in personal research without the written consent of the authors. Information or ideas should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.
The reviewer is obliged to give an objective assessment. Personal criticism of the Author is unacceptable. Reviewers should clearly and convincingly express their opinions.
Reviewers should not participate in the review of article in case of conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative and other interactions and relationships with any of the Authors, companies or other organizations related to the submitted work.
Any article received for review should be treated as a confidential document. This work cannot be opened and discussed with any persons not authorized to do so by the Editor.
Submitting an article to the journal “Plasticheskie massy”, Authors should guarantee in writing the originality of the article. Plagiarism in all forms is unethical and unacceptable. In the case of using the works or statements of other Authors, it is necessary to indicate in the article the corresponding bibliographic references or extracts.
The author of the article should also confirm in writing that all participants who have made significant contributions to the study are presented as Co-authors and are not listed as Co-authors, those who did not participate in the study, that all Co-authors saw and approved the final version of the work and agreed to submit it to publications. All possible conflicts of interest in this case are the responsibility of the Author, who represents the article.
In the case that the Author finds significant errors or inaccuracies in the publication, the Author must inform the editorial office of the journal for the purpose of promptly removing the publication or correcting errors.Founder
Kovriga Vladislav
- Burenko Mikhail
Author fees
Publication in “Plasticheskie massy" 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
“Plasticheskie massy" 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 “Plasticheskie massy", 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 “Plasticheskie massy" 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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