Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal of the Economy of Industry is a specialized scientific and practical periodical, which provides scholars, researchers, government representatives and enterprise practitioners, opportunity to present the results of their research and practical experience in the press and thus acquaint the public with them.

The Journal of the Economy of Industry is included in the List of specialized scientific editions of Ukraine (Presidium Decree № 1-05/03 of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine dated 08.07.2009).

The mission of the journal is to bring the economy of industry and industrial policy problems research to a leading edge level, encouraging the publication of the authors engaged in research and practice in these areas of economics.

Main principles of editorial policy:

1. The Editorial Board of “Economy of Industry” journal will not accept for publication any materials containing offensive language, aggression or ethnic, religious, racial or any other discrimination, inciting ethnic and racial hatred, or violating international legal norms and laws.

2. The journal accepts for publication papers that reflect the results of scientific studies that bring new and important contribution to our understanding of economic problems, economy of the industry in particular, explore the relationship and mutual influence of social and environmental drivers, as well as scientific progress on the economy in general and the economy of industry in particular.

3. The journal aims at broaden the scope of scientific research by publishing authors working at the intersection of disciplines: economics and ecology, economics and social sciences etc.

4. The journal provides access to research results through the timely release of our issues, publishing details about the new issues of the journal and its contents on the website of the journal in order to make the published information available to the scientific community, government representatives, students and graduate students.

“Economy of Industry” journal publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts that were previously reviewed and evaluated by our editorial board and our external reviewers. Editorial Board will not review negative decisions in respect to materials received for review, and will not disclose review contents to contributors.

The main criteria for selecting and accepting manuscripts for publication in the “Economy of Industry” journal are originality, innovative and scientific importance, practical interest.

The editorial board of the Journal of the Economy of Industry seeks to ensure that the issue was of interest to readers not only in Ukraine but also internationally. Therefore, the editorial board is encouraging publications by foreign authors and teams of authors consisting of both Ukrainian and foreign scientists.

The editorial board of the Journal of the Economy of Industry is not responsible for the views, opinions, results and conclusions made by authors of articles published in our journal.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

In order to ensure a competitive scientific level of content of the scientific professional edition “Economy of Industry”,  (double-blind peer review) has been introduced: the personal data of the reviewer is not disclosed to the author(s). Reviewers adhere to the ethical principles set out in the section  “Ethical obligations of reviewers”.

Reviewers are appointed by the editor-in-chief of the Journal or their deputies. Members of the Journal's Editorial Board or external experts who have deep professional knowledge and experience in specific scientific areas are involved in the peer review process. In some cases, the matter of selecting reviewers is decided at a meeting of the Editorial Board.

The results of the research and the method of their obtaining should be presented in a form that enables an independent analysis of the conclusions.

To publish an article in the Journal, it must receive at least two positive reviews. When the manuscript is received by the Editorial Board, it is reviewed by the secretary of the Editorial Board in order to confirm the compliance with formal requirements. After the manuscript is registered with the Editorial Board, it is sent to reviewers whose scientific interests match the content of the article. Reviewers evaluate the materials provided to them in terms of their relevance to the Journal's topic, their novelty, the logic of the research conducted, the consistency of the presentation of results, the justification of the conclusions, and the layout of the manuscript.

After passing the blind review, a peer review conclusion is prepared, which is evaluated by the editor-in-chief of the Journal and other members of the Editorial Board. After this, the author is notified of the decision of the editor-in-chief and the Editorial Board regarding acceptance or rejection of the manuscript for publication. Additionally, the author may be notified of reviewers' comments without specifying their names or any other information that would allow the reviewers to be identified. Peer reviewing of articles is carried out free of charge.

The final decision on the possibility and appropriateness of publication is made by the editor-in-chief or, on his behalf, by a member of the Editorial Board, and if necessary, at a meeting of the Editorial Board as a whole.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate, open access to its content, based on the following principle: free, open access to research results helps to increase global knowledge sharing.

 

Journal rubrics

The Journal covers a wide range of theoretical and applied economic problems on the following topics:

Economic and theoretical problems of the manufacturing sector:

manufacturing sector from the standpoint of schools of economic theory, history of economic thought in the context of production, factors of production, cyclicality of economic development, waves of innovation, industrial revolutions, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, economic and theoretical problems of digitalization of manufacturing, robotization of manufacturing, environmental problems of manufacturing.

                                

International, macroeconomic and regional problems of manufacturing sector:

spatial problems of industrial development, macroeconomic aspects of industrial development, globalization and international competition, regional aspects of industrial development, territorial-production and scientific and technical complexes, industrial clusters.

 

Economic problems of industrial enterprise development:

economics of enterprises, investment and innovation activities of enterprises, problems of capitalization of enterprises and integrated industrial structures, economics of industrial enterprises, organization of manufacturing, corporatization of the activities of industrial enterprises, digitalization and robotization of the activities of industrial enterprises, modeling of the development of individual enterprises and production clusters.

 

Strategizing and regulating the development of industry:

state industrial policy, sectoral aspects of industrial development, regulation of entrepreneurial activity, financial and economic regulation of industry, budget, tax and monetary regulation of industrial development, antitrust policy, investment and innovation policy, modeling of industrial development.

 

Social and labor issues of the manufacturing sector:

management of the socio-economic development of the manufacturing sector and industrial regions;

labor resources of industrial enterprises, regions and countries; social and labor relations in the manufacturing sector, social protection of workers, social partnership, sociological research in the manufacturing sector and industrial regions; occupational safety management in the manufacturing sector.

 

Ethical commitments

Editorial Board

The Editorial Board of the Journal consists of leading national and international scientists who are specialists in the fields of science that correspond to the thematic focus of the journal. It is formed of leading national and international scientists who are recognized experts in the field of industrial economics and related matters. The composition of the Editorial Board, with the indication of academic degrees and affiliations, is posted on the Journal's website. The Editorial Board and the secretary of the Editorial Board of the Journal regularly inform the members of the Editorial Board about the key matters of preparing the edition, consult with them, involve them in reviewing articles, and mail them issues of the Journal.

  • The Editorial Board is responsible for the edition, forming editorial policy, carefully selecting and reviewing author manuscripts, and reserving the right to reject or return an article for revision.
  • When evaluating manuscripts, the Editorial Board is guided only by the scientific and intellectual value of the work, regardless of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, origin, citizenship, affiliation, political preferences, or social status of the author(s). The Editorial Board grants authors an opportunity to respond to any comments in a reasoned manner.
  • The Editorial Board does not provide information related to the content of the manuscript under review to other persons, except for persons participating in the professional evaluation of this manuscript. Unpublished data are not used for personal purposes and are not transferred to third parties without a written consent of the author. Information or ideas gained during the editing process and related to possible benefits are confidential and will not be used for personal gain.
  • The Editorial Board does not allow an article to be published if there is sufficient reason to believe that it is plagiarized, and also opposes falsification, plagiarism, as well as parallel submissions of the same manuscript to more than one Journal. In cases of suspected violations, the Editorial Board uses COPE flowcharts, available at: http://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20flowcharts.pdf

The editorial board reserves the right to reject manuscripts without review when: 

  • the uniqueness of the manuscript text is less than 75% of its total volume;
  • the author(s) is (are) affiliated with an organization or institution located in the territory of an aggressor state or a state sponsor of terrorism;
  • the research was funded by an organization or institution located in the territory of an aggressor state or a state sponsor of terrorism;
  • the manuscripts contain calls for human rights violations, terrorism, and are aimed at spreading ideological positions and/or politicized ideas. 

authors

  • The authors are responsible for the novelty and reliability of the results of their scientific research. Knowingly false or falsified data is unacceptable. 
  • Authors must guarantee the originality of the research results presented in the submitted manuscripts. Borrowed fragments or statements must be appropriately formatted with highlighting and mandatory indication of the author and source. Excessive borrowing, as well as plagiarism in any form, is unethical and unacceptable. The authors bear full responsibility for the content of the articles.
  • Authors should acknowledge the contributions of all individuals who have influenced the course of the study in some way. In particular, the article should provide references to works that were important in carrying out the research. 
  • All individuals who have made a significant contribution to the research should be listed as co-authors of the article. It is unacceptable to list persons who did not participate in the research among co-authors.
  • The submitting author must ensure the inclusion of all co-authors in the list of authors of the manuscript, as well as the full consent of the co-authors to approve the final version of the article and its submission for publication.
  • Authors should not submit for publication articles that are under consideration or review in other editions, as well as articles that have already been published previously.
  • If the author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in their article, they must notify the Journal's Editorial Board as soon as possible.
    • Authors must clearly indicate the sources of funding used to produce their manuscript, including research and/or publication. Information about financial support of the research by specific organizations is indicated by the responsible author (the submitting author) on behalf of all authors when submitting the article. Other sources of publication support should be clearly indicated in the manuscript, usually in the form of an acknowledgement.

reviewers

  • An article received for review is considered a confidential document that cannot be shared or discussed with third parties.
  • The reviewer carries out scientific examination of the author's materials impartially. Comments should be clearly formulated with supporting arguments so that authors can use them to improve the article. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable.
  • The reviewer is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the presented research results, determine the manuscript's compliance with scientific standards, and warn the editor about any published or submitted material that is essentially similar to the material under review. 
  • Unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for review may not be used by the reviewer for personal purposes. 
  • A reviewer who, in their opinion, does not have sufficient qualifications to evaluate the article or cannot be objective, for example, in the case of a conflict of interest with the author or organization, must notify the Editorial Board with a request to be excluded from the peer review process of this article.

 

Journal’s policies as to anti-plagiarism

Materials submitted by authors are checked by the Editorial Board for plagiarism using the StrikePlagiarism software package.

Authors submitting materials for publication in “Economy of Industry" Journal declare that the article was written by them personally, has not been published anywhere before, and was prepared specifically for this edition.

For all submitted materials, the level of uniqueness of the author's text is determined using special software. The minimum allowable level of uniqueness of the text is 75%, and if this criterion is not met, the article is returned to the author along with a verification report.

Forms of plagiarism include:

- the use (literal quoting) of any materials in any volume without indicating the source;

- the use of borrowed images, figures, photographs, tables, graphs, diagrams or any other forms of graphical presentation of information without reference to the source;

- the use without written permission of materials whose authors or copyright holders prohibit the use of their materials without an explicit consent.

Forms of incorrect borrowing include:

- lack of graphic highlighting (in quotation marks) of word-by-word quoted text even if references to the source are present;

- incorrect reference to the source or incomplete bibliographic description, which prevents its identification;

- reference to a source other than the first source of the borrowed text without explicitly indicating this fact (error in determining the primary source);

- lack of references in the text to sources given in the article list;

- excessive citation (with references to sources and graphic highlighting of quoted text), the amount of which is not justified by the purpose of the article.

If there are incorrect borrowings, each such case is considered individually.

In the event of a proven fact of plagiarism being discovered in an article that has already been published, it is removed from the archive of the edition's official website and from other places of public electronic publishing, and its authors face a lifelong ban on publishing in any editions of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the NAS of Ukraine, and are punished with public and professional censure.

 

Open access and licensing

The Editorial Board of “Economy of Industry” journal supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative which promotes the accelerated development of science, supports the principles of the free flow of scientific information and global knowledge exchange for the sake of general social progress. The Editorial Board provides immediate open access to published articles, which is free of charge for the user and their institution.

All materials, including printed articles, are published on the website under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. This license allows sharing, copying, and distributing the material in any form or format for any purpose, even a commercial one; remix, transform, and create derived materials for any purpose, even commercial ones.

When using the material, it is mandatory to indicate the author(s), a reference to the license, and information about whether changes have been made to the material.  This can be done in any reasonable manner, but in a way that does not create the impression that the licensor endorses or approves you or your use of the work.

The Editorial Board does not impose additional conditions, does not apply technological means of protection that limit the rights to actions permitted by the license. For example, distribution of an article or a part of an article in the form in which it was published by this Journal (posting the article in the institution's electronic repository or publication as part of a monograph), provided that the reference to the first publication in the “Economy of Industry" is preserved.