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- » Author fees
- » Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
- » Plagiarism detection
- » Preprint and postprint Policy
Aim and Scope
The "Vavilov Journal of genetics and breeding" publishes original research and review articles in all key areas of modern plant, animal and human genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and biotechnology. One of the main objectives of the journal is integration of theoretical and applied research in the field of genetics. Special attention is paid to the most topical areas in modern genetics dealing with global concerns such as food security and human health.
Section Policies
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Publication Frequency
8 issues per year
Open Access Policy
Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding 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
- Scientific library of National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON), Russia;
- Russian State Library (Moscow);
Peer-Review
All scientific manuscripts submitted to the editors of Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding shall be subject to a mandatory single-blind peer review (the authors of the manuscript are not informed on the identity and contact details of the reviewers).
- Peer reviewing is performed by the members of the Editorial Council and Editorial Board, and also by invited reviewers – leading experts in the topics of the reviewed manuscripts. The choice of readers for peer reviewing is vested in the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or scientific editor. The reviewing period is limited to 2–4 weeks.
- Each manuscript is forwarded to two reviewers. The editors are authorized to make their own review with recommendations concerning the structure and format of the manuscript.
- Each reviewer has an option to abnegate the assessment should any conflict of interests arise that may affect perception or interpretation of the manuscript’s contents. Upon the scrutiny, the reviewer is expected to present the following recommendations together with the justification of his or her decision:
• the paper is accepted for publication in its present state;
• the paper is accepted for publication after the author has addressed specific concerns identified by the reviewer;
• the paper need additional peer reviewing by another expert; or
• the paper cannot be published in the journal. - If the reviewer has recommended any refinements or amendments, the editorial staff returns the text of the manuscript to the author suggesting that he or she should take these recommendations into account or dispute them reasonably (in whole or in part). Authors are expected to limit their revision to two months from the date when the request to address specific concerns was e-mailed to them. The manuscript amended by its author(s) is once again submitted for peer reviewing.
- Should the authors refuse to make the required amendments to the manuscript, they should inform the editors by written notice on their decision to cancel its publication. In case the authors fail to return the amended version of the paper within two months since receiving the initial peer review, the editors take the manuscript off the register, even if there has been no notice of the authors’ refusal to amend the paper. In such event, the authors are duly notified that their manuscript is cancelled from the register because the deadline for amendments has not been met.
- If the authors and reviewers have faced insoluble contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editors may send it for additional peer assessment. The editor-in-chief has the final authority to resolve such conflicts at the Editorial Board’s meetings.
- The Editorial Board reaches final decision to reject a manuscript at its meeting in accordance with the reviewers’ recommendations. The paper rejected by the Editorial Board’s decision will not be accepted for re-evaluation. The authors are notified on the refusal to publish their manuscript via e-mail.
- If the Editorial Board decides to accept the manuscript for publishing, the editors notify the authors on the decision taken and on the scheduled date of publication.
- A positive peer review does not necessarily guarantee the acceptance of the manuscript for publication. Final decision on publication lies with the Editorial Board. If the editor-in-chief, the Editorial Board, the editors and the reviewers fail to share the same opinion, the manuscript is submitted for additional peer reviewing.
- The original copies of peer reviews are kept by the journal’s editorial staff for three years.
Indexation
Articles in Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding are indexed by several systems:
- Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI),
- WoS CC – Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI),
- Scopus,
- PubMed Central (PMC),
- Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory,
- Google Scholar,
- EBSCO,
- DOAJ,
- WorldCat.
The journal enters the List of Russian Scientific Journals Peer-Reviewed by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles, where major scientific results of theses for the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences can be published. The journal is a member of CrossRef, each article has a DOI index.
Publishing Ethics
Editorial ethics
All papers submitted for publication in the Journal should meet ethical and statutory requirements with respect to humans and animals. In the protection of personal medical records of patients and their disclosure, the Editorial Board follows the International Standards for Editors, recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (Journals’ Best Practices for Ensuring Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports: guidance from COPE), recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Protection of Research Participants), the editorial policy of The BMJ (Patient consent and confidentiality), and the Declaration of Helsinki (the Informed Consent section).
The results of studies involving human subjects should be presented:
- in compliance with the WMA Declaration of Helsinki (Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects) as in force in 2013 (for Russian translation see http://rostgmu.ru/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/WMA_Helsinki.pdf) and
- in compliance with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals originated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Protection of Research Participants); for Russian translation see http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/translations/russian2016.pdf, section 2E.
The research protocol must be approved by the local ethics committee. If necessary, the authors should provide a copy of the protocol to the Editorial Board. In other cases, the authors should confirm that such approval was not required and explain why.
All patients should give voluntary informed consent to participate in the study before enrollment, preferably in written form. Ethical aspects of the study should be described in detail at the end of the METHODS section.
Research involving animals
All material submitted for publication in the journal must adhere to ethical standards concerning animal welfare (Consensus Author Guidelines for Animal Use, International Association of Veterinary Editors). In the cover letter the authors must state that legal and ethical requirements have been met with regards to the humane treatment of animals.
The study must be approved by the ethics committee of the institution where it was conducted. If no ethics approval was required, the authors should explicitly state it and explain why.
All experiments involving animals should be conducted in compliance with international standards and Russian regulatory documents:
- The European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes: EST No. 123 of March 18, 1986, Strasbourg;
- Decree No. 199n of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of April 1, 2016 "On approval of the Code of Good Laboratory Practice (Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 43232 of August 15, 2016);
- GOST 33044-2014 Interstate standard "Principles of good laboratory practice" (put into execution by the Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology, Decree 1700st, November 20, 2014).
The METHODS section should specify the standards and regulations adhered to in the treatment of experimental animals. Data on the approval by the local or national ethics committee (name of the institution, protocol no., and date) should be provided. The authors reporting animal research must provide detailed information on the animal welfare: maintenance conditions, diet, and efforts to minimize pain, including methods of anesthesia used and the assessment of the adequacy of anesthesia.
Professional conduct of the editor and publisher
The publisher and Editorial Board are responsible for the disclosure of copyrighted materials. Therefore, basic ethical rules should be obeyed.
The Editor makes an unbiased conclusion as to the publication on the base of reliability of provided data and academic significance of a work under consideration.
In making the decision of publication, the Editor may consult other editors or experts.
Editorial decisions should not be influenced by the origins of the manuscript, including the nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, or religion of the authors.
Decisions to edit and publish should not be determined by the policies of governments or other agencies outside of the journal itself.
Unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts should not be traded on or transmitted to third persons without written consent of the author(s). Information obtained in the reviewing process should be handled as confidential.
The Editor should not accept a manuscript for publication where there are sufficient grounds to suspect plagiarism.
The Editor and Publisher should not disregard claims concerning reviewed manuscripts or published materials. In case of conflicts, they should make reasonable best efforts for restoration of violated rights.
Reviewers' ethics
Peer reviewers make an expert review of a manuscript, and their conduct should be impartial, according to the following principles.
The manuscript received for reviewing should be considered confidential. It may not be given for information or discussion to third persons not authorized by the Editor.
Reviewers must provide an unbiased and substantiated estimation of results presented in the manuscript. Personal criticism of the author(s) is not allowed.
Unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts should not be traded on.
Reviewers should notify the Editor if they find they do not have the expertise to assess all aspects of the manuscript or cannot be impartial because of conflict of interest. They should ask the Editor to dispense him/her from the reviewing of the manuscript.
Authors' conduct
Author(s) are aware that they bear primary responsibility for the novelty and validity of research results and for the abidance by biological and medical ethic standards in doing experiments presented in the manuscript.
Authors should provide reliable data of their study. Misleading or falsified statements are unacceptable.
Authors should ensure that the research results presented in their manuscript are fully original. Borrowed quotations or statements should be accompanied by references to their authors and sources. Overquoting and plagiarism of any kind are unethical and unacceptable.
The contributions of all persons involved in the study to any extent should be acknowledged. In particular, all publications significant for the study should be referred to.
Submission of a paper implies that the results reported have not been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. The cover letter should contain the statement that the work is published for the first time. If some fragments of the manuscript have been published, the authors should refer to the earlier paper and indicate differences between the new and earlier papers.
Intentional submission or re-submission of a work for duplicate publication is considered a breach of publishing ethics.
All persons who made significant contributions to the work should be included to the list of authors. It is unacceptable to indicate persons not participating in the study as co-authors.
All co-authors should confirm the consent to the publication by signing either the license to publish or the manuscript itself.
The Editor is not liable to responsibility before third persons for the breach of warranties provided by authors.
If an author finds significant errors or inaccuracies in the manuscript in the course of its reviewing or after publication, he/she should immediately notify the Editor.
Conflict of interests
To avoid publication misconduct, conflicts of interests of all participants of the editorial process should be eliminated. A conflict of interests may arise if an author, reviewer, or member of the Editorial Board is involved in financial, scientific, or personal relationships that may affect their actions. Authors are obliged to settle all claims on their own account.
In cases of suspected publication misconduct by any participant of the editorial process, public investigation must be pursued.
If a paper containing significant inaccuracies has been published, it should be revised so that the revisions should be accessible for readers and indexing systems.
Founder
- Federal State Budget Scientific Institution “The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
- The Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders
- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author fees
Publication in journal 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
Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breedings 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 Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breedings, 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 Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breedings 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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