Topic Areas:

• economic theory
• econometrics
• global and regional economy
• international relations
• competitiveness in the empirical research
• global competitiveness
• national competitiveness
• regional competitiveness
• industry competitiveness

Content type: academic/scholarly

Format: online

Subject: business and economics

Audience: professional economists, researchers and analysts, lecturers and students, public officials, business community

Dewey Number: 330

Country: Russian Federation

Status: active

“Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is an open access journal and is subject to the CC BY-NC license.

Journal 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.

A full-text version is available for free on the website of the Journal, the electronic archive of Yaroslavl State Technical University, and on the platform of the Scientific Electronic Library (e-Library).

INDEXING

The journal is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: e-Library, CyberLeninka, Google Scholar, OpenAlex, Dimensions AI.

FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER

Founder and Publisher: Yaroslavl State Technical University | 150023, Russia, Yaroslavl, Moskovsky prospect, 88

Founded: 2020

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

4 issues per year

PRIVACY STATEMENT

All names and addresses provided by the authors on the website of the Journal shall only be used for technical purposes in the publication process to contact authors and reviewers. Under no circumstances shall they be disclosed to third parties or organisations.

Policies

• Publishing Ethics
• Peer Review Policy
• Authorship Policy
• Retraction Policy
• Policy of disclosure and conflicts of interest
• Open Access Policy
• Financial Policy
• Advertising Policy
• Preprints Policy
• Archiving Policy

PUBLISHING ETHICS

The journal's publisher, Yaroslavl State Technical University, is a member of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP), Russia.

The actual standards relied on by the “Journal of regional and international competitiveness” are those developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the declaration of "Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications", adopted by ASEP: https://rassep.ru/sovet-po-etike/manifesty/deklaratsiya/

1. Responsibility of the editors of the Journal

1.1 Editors are personally and independently responsible for the content of the materials published and recognize that responsibility. The reliability of the work in question and its scientific significance should always be the basis in the decision to publish.

1.2 Editors make fair and objective decisions, regardless of any commercial considerations and provide a fair and efficient process for the independent review.

1.3 Editors evaluate manuscripts intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, origin, nationality, and/or the political preferences of the authors.

1.4 Editors do not work with articles for which they have a conflict of interest.

1.5 Editors publish corrections, clarifications and retractions when needed.

2. Responsibility of the reviewers of the Journal

2.1 Reviewer accepts materials for review only if the reviewer can ensure the quality of his/her work. A reviewer should decline to review a manuscript if she/he feels technically unqualified, if a timely review can't be done.

2.2 Reviewer notifies the Editorial Team of any conflict of interest (if one exists) before the start of the review of the materials.

2.3 Reviewer does not send information about the manuscript and or any of the data contained within the materials to any third party. Reviewer should treat the manuscript as confidential.

2.4 Reviewer does not use the information obtained from the manuscript for any personal and or commercial purposes.

2.5 Reviewer does not make conclusions about the quality of the manuscript on the basis of subjective data, e.g. the personal relationship to the author, gender, age, religion, etc.

2.6 Reviewer should clearly support and justify the basis for their review analysis.

2.7 All reviewers work on a voluntary basis and are not paid for their work.

3. Responsibility of the authors of the manuscript

3.1 Author are expected to adhere to the following ethical guidelines. When submitting the manuscript to the Journal the author accepts these standards of publication ethics.

3.2 Author submits materials for review, which have not been previously published. If the materials has been published, the author must provide the permission letter of the copyright holder to reprint the article.

3.3 Author does not submit the same article to different journals for review.

3.4 All co-authors consent to the submission of their articles to the journal.

3.5 Author informs the Editorial Team of a potential conflict of interest.

3.6 Author takes all the necessary steps to ensure the correctness of citations in the submitted materials. Author correctly cites his/her previous work as to avoid self-plagerism in the manuscript.

3.7 Author's central obligation is to present an accurate and complete account of the research performed, absolutely avoiding deception, including the data collected or used, as well as an objective discussion of the significance of the research. Plagiarism is not acceptable in the Journal.

3.8 Author may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data. Author properly corresponds with the reviewer through contact with the Chief Editor and responds to comments and observations if they arise.

3.9 Author, who is acting as the contact with Journal, informs all other co-authors of all changes and suggestions from the Editorial Team, and does not make decisions regarding the article alone without the written consent of all co-authors.

4. The responsibility of the publisher of the Journal

4.1 Publisher of the “Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is Yaroslavl State Technical University.

4.2 Publisher does not affect the editorial policy of the Journal.

5. Intellectual property

The intellectual property issues are regulated by legislation of Russian Federation and relevant international norms and agreements. Editorial Team should be sensitive to intellectual property issues and have to collaborate with the juridical department of University to avoid any violence of intellectual property laws and conventions.

PEER REVIEW POLICY

Manuscripts are selected for publication in the Journal according to the below procedure.

1. An incoming manuscript is registered and subjected to primary evaluation against the following formal and qualitative criteria: consistency with the general subjects of the Journal; compliance with content and layout requirements; logical and literate writing in English; presence of borrowings from open sources (verification is performed using plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat). Articles failing to meet these requirements will not be accepted for review, and the editors will notify the author accordingly, usually within 10 days of receiving the manuscript by the Editorial Team.

2. A manuscript accepted for review will be assigned to a member of the Editorial Team, who will communicate with the author regarding all further matters.

3. The review is organized by the Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor, who sends the article to at least two reviewers who are specialists in the relevant subject matter of the manuscript. A reviewer may be either a member of the editorial board or an external expert. Evaluation of articles is carried out according to the principle of “double blind” peer-review. The reviewer reviews the manuscript without knowledge of the authors' names. Likewise, the author does not know the name of the reviewer. Reviews usually take four to six weeks on average to complete.

4. Each review should:

• evaluate the essence of the paper and its chances of being published
• list of specific errors (if any)
• suggest revisions (if any)

5. A reviewed article may be accepted for publication (5.1), returned to the author for revision (5.2), or rejected (5.3). The copies of the reviews are sent to the authors if needed.

• 5.1 In case of a positive review, the editors will include the article in the portfolio for the final editorial preparation for publication (see point 6).
• 5.2 Revised articles should be re-submitted to the reviewers, who will evaluate whether the revisions are consistent with their comments and/or whether the author’s refusal to revise on certain comments is reasonable. If the author declines revision, the manuscript will be withdrawn from consideration and rejected.
• 5.3 In case of a negative review, the article will be considered by the Editorial Board’s working group, who will either decide on rejecting the article or on obtaining an additional review from an independent expert. The author will be notified if his/her article is rejected.

6. The authors have the right to argue the decision of reviewer to reject the manuscript and to remove it from consideration. To do this, they should send an appeal to the editorial board, addressed to the Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor. The appeal should include detailed reasons for the authors' disagreement with the decision of the reviewer, give reasons in favor of revising the decision, and send the revised manuscript (if such revision is appropriate). If authors and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding revision of the manuscript, the Chief Editor resolves the conflict by his own authority. The decisions made by the Chief Editor are not subject to challenge.

7. The Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor will make and approve the final decision on the article publication date according to the usual work procedure, when compiling and structuring issues for publication. The author is informed of the final editorial decision.

8. Reviews are being kept in the editorial office for 5 years. Editors are obliged to send the copies of the reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in case a relevant query comes in.

9. Manuscript reviews since 2023 are published on the platform of the Scientific Electronic Library (e-Library).

10. To conduct editorial review, authors may be requested to provide intermediate (raw) data relevant to the manuscript. Authors should be prepared to make such information freely available in accordance with ALPSP-STM Statementon Data and Databases where feasible. In any case, authors should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

AUTHORSHIP POLICY

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported article. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain aspects of the article, they should be acknowledged.

RETRACTION POLICY

The article will be officially retracted at any stage of review or after publication if the editors or readers reveal a violation of the requirements of publication ethics.

The reasons for retraction may be the following:

• plagiarism
• third party expresses claims concerning copyrights for the article or its parts
• published article has serious errors, which place its scientific value in question
• author's request

In such cases the Editorial Team should initiate the revision, after which the article may be retracted. The Act on retraction is complied, which is signed by the Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor. The copy of the Act is being sent to the author of the article.

Notices of retraction appear in the next issue of the Journal. Retracted articles must be removed from the reference lists. The paper is retracted from all bibliographic databases, where the Journal is indexed and abstracted.

POLICY OF DISCLOSURE AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Unpublished data from manuscripts submitted for consideration can’t be used for any personal research. Any information obtained through peer review and related process, which potentially can be beneficial to any party other than the author, must be kept confidential and not be used for personal gain.

Reviewers should not participate in the examination of manuscripts in the event of a conflict of interest that is a result of any competitive, cooperative, and or other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies, and or other organizations involved in the creation or presentation of the works.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

“Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is an open access journal and is subject to the CC BY-NC license.

Journal 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.

All papers are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (doi).

FINANCIAL POLICY

“Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is funded by Yaroslavl State Technical University (founder and publisher of the Journal).

ADVERTISING POLICY

The Journal does not publish materials to accompany the advertising and does not sell advertising. All decisions on advertising placement are only accepted by the publisher. The Editorial Team reserve the right not to accept advertising materials, placement does not meet the publication policy.

PREPRINTS POLICY

Articles, which have been previously posted by the author on personal and or public websites that have no relationship to any other publishers, are allowed to be submitted to the journal.

ARCHIVING POLICY

All articles from the journal are placed or (and) indexed:

• in the scientific electronic library ELIBRARY.RU
• in the open library CyberLeninka.ru
• in the electronic archive of Yaroslavl State Technical University

In accordance with the Federal Law (77-FZ, 1994) "On the mandatory copies of documents", all issues of the journal (mandatory copies) are archived in the following storages:

• Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (1 copy);
• Russian State Library (16 copies and 2 copies in electronic form).

For Authors

• Author Guidelines
• Publication Fee
• Copyright and Publication Rights
• Derivation and Plagiarism

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Preparing the manuscript, authors are kindly requested to adhere to the following guidelines.

These guidelines prepared in accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and EASE (European Association of Science Editors) guidelines.

By submitting the manuscript, the author warrants that the paper is an original work that has not been previously published in Russian or other languages. If the paper has already been published, the author must inform the Editorial Team about the previous publication and provide written consent of the copyright holder to republish the paper. If the manuscript was written by more than one author, filling the author contributions is needed.

We do not accept:

• previously published works or simultaneous submissions
• submissions not meeting the below content and layout requirements

An eligible article should have the following structure:

A. Article details

B. Article text

C. Acknowledgements

D. Information about the conflict of interest

E. References

A. Article details

The following information should precede the article text (both in Russian and English languages):

• initial letter of the given name and surname of the author (names of multiple authors should be separated by commas), academic degree and title, official place of work and position (full official name of the organization), contact e-mail address (to be published in the journal) for each author, ORCID iD or e-library SPIN-code
• article title
• abstract (200-250 words; the abstract should outline the contents of the article: goals, objective and methods of research, and a short conclusion)
• keywords (up to 10)
• JEL codes

B. Article text

General Requirements

The editorial office accepts manuscripts not exceeding 20 pages (format settings: Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.15 line spacing, page layout: 2 cm margins on all sides, standard tab (1.27 cm)), i.e. 40,000 characters (including spaces). We only accept articles submitted as .doc/docx files.

The translation from native languages should be made by professional translators or edited by proof-readers. Machine translations will be rejected. English-language papers should be written in accordance with the rules of punctuation, spelling and syntax.

The manuscript should be structured:  

• For research articles, the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) format is preferred.
• For theoretical articles and reviews, the sections "Introduction", "Methods" or “Main part” and "Results" or "Conclusion" are required.

Unstructured manuscripts are not accepted for consideration.

Tables. Tables should be formatted as MS Word tables. The text and numbers within cells should be aligned using standard tools rather than spaces or empty lines. All tables should be numbered (consecutive numbering). The author should indicate the sources of the data given in the tables. All tables should be referenced in the text of the article.

Figures. The figures should be created in a format that allows editing and configuration changes without further recourse to the author. The figures created by other means than MS Word should have *jpeg (*jpg), or *tiff extension, with a resolution not less than 300 dpi. Graphs generated using specialized software should be saved or exported as PDF-document. All figures should be numbered (consecutive numbering). If the figure is not original the author’s obligation is to indicate the authorship.

Formulas. All formulas presented in the article should be numbered. The formulas should be editable and typed in MS Equation Editor or MathType. The automatic formula numbering and cross-references to the formulas or the reference list are unacceptable.

Citation. The Journal uses the Vancouver citation style. All sources referred to by the author should be mentioned in the text of the article. When creating a list of references, the author should refer to works available to reviewers and readers. Self-citation (inclusion the authors' works in the list of references) is allowed (however, no more than 10% of all references).

Links to Internet sources (news, reports, forums, videos), legal documents (laws, regulations, acts, etc.), statistical collections, newspaper publications, study guides should be put in footnotes (not in the list of sources). It is accepted to refer to dissertations/theses if these texts are available to the reader. Unpublished sources should not be referenced. For all Internet sources, including in footnotes, the date of access should be indicated.

C. Acknowledgements

The section includes all sources of external funding influencing the results, as well as information on people who contributed to the study but was not an author.

D. Information about the conflict of interest

The article should include any actual or potential conflict of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, author should write that "the author declares no conflict of interest".

E. References

The list of references in Latin script should be formatted according to the APA standard.

The reference list should include only the sources you refer to in the article. References should be arranged in alphabetical order.

All titles in Russian should be accompanied with their translations into English, with the words “(In Russian)”, enclosed in parentheses, at the end.

PUBLICATION FEE

Publication in “Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any article processing or submission charges.

COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICATION RIGHTS

All articles are published under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC). This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

It includes the following elements:

• BY – Credit must be given to the creator
• NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

The author retains copyright and reserves the right to use the paper and its parts in their scientific research by including reference to the original publication in the Journal. Once published, a paper may only be republished after obtaining the written consent of the Journal, indicating copyright and referencing the publication in the Journal.

By submitting an article for publication to the Editorial Team, the author grants the Journal the following rights:

• the right to reproduce, publish, distribute and archive the paper or its parts in any form. Each copy of the paper must contain the name of the author (authors) of the Paper, copyright and license type (CC BY-NC 4.0);
• the right to put it into the public domain;
• the right to use metadata of the paper by distributing them and putting in the public domain and including them in various databases and information systems;
• to store and process personal data.

By submitting the article for review to the journal, the authors confirm their authorship. When a manuscript is written by a group of authors, one of them handles the manuscript submission process, acknowledging all co-authors. Each co-author must have participated sufficiently in the study to be listed as a co-author.

In accordance with CRediT authorship is based on significant intellectual contribution at any of the following stages of research: conceptualization; methodology; software; validation; formal analysis; investigation; resources; data curation; writing – original draft; writing – review & editing; visualization; supervision; project administration; funding acquisition.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship, including specific intellectual contribution, preparation and critical revision of the manuscript, approval of the final version of the manuscript, and agreement to be accountable for the work as a whole, cannot be listed as authors. Their contributions should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgments” section of the article.

DERIVATION AND PLAGIARISM

“Journal of regional and international competitiveness” use plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to check the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

The Journal does not publish materials to accompany the advertising and does not sell advertising. All decisions on advertising placement are only accepted by the publisher. The Editorial Team reserve the right not to accept advertising materials, placement does not meet the publication policy.

Manuscripts are selected for publication in the Journal according to the below procedure.

1. An incoming manuscript is registered and subjected to primary evaluation against the following formal and qualitative criteria: consistency with the general subjects of the Journal; compliance with content and layout requirements; logical and literate writing in English; presence of borrowings from open sources (verification is performed using plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat). Articles failing to meet these requirements will not be accepted for review, and the editors will notify the author accordingly, usually within 10 days of receiving the manuscript by the Editorial Team.

2. A manuscript accepted for review will be assigned to a member of the Editorial Team, who will communicate with the author regarding all further matters.

3. The review is organized by the Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor, who sends the article to at least two reviewers who are specialists in the relevant subject matter of the manuscript. A reviewer may be either a member of the editorial board or an external expert. Evaluation of articles is carried out according to the principle of “double blind” peer-review. The reviewer reviews the manuscript without knowledge of the authors' names. Likewise, the author does not know the name of the reviewer. Reviews usually take four to six weeks on average to complete.

4. Each review should:

• evaluate the essence of the paper and its chances of being published
• list of specific errors (if any)
• suggest revisions (if any)

5. A reviewed article may be accepted for publication (5.1), returned to the author for revision (5.2), or rejected (5.3). The copies of the reviews are sent to the authors if needed.

• 5.1 In case of a positive review, the editors will include the article in the portfolio for the final editorial preparation for publication (see point 6).
• 5.2 Revised articles should be re-submitted to the reviewers, who will evaluate whether the revisions are consistent with their comments and/or whether the author’s refusal to revise on certain comments is reasonable. If the author declines revision, the manuscript will be withdrawn from consideration and rejected.
• 5.3 In case of a negative review, the article will be considered by the Editorial Board’s working group, who will either decide on rejecting the article or on obtaining an additional review from an independent expert. The author will be notified if his/her article is rejected.

6. The authors have the right to argue the decision of reviewer to reject the manuscript and to remove it from consideration. To do this, they should send an appeal to the editorial board, addressed to the Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor. The appeal should include detailed reasons for the authors' disagreement with the decision of the reviewer, give reasons in favor of revising the decision, and send the revised manuscript (if such revision is appropriate). If authors and reviewers meet insoluble contradictions regarding revision of the manuscript, the Chief Editor resolves the conflict by his own authority. The decisions made by the Chief Editor are not subject to challenge.

7. The Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor will make and approve the final decision on the article publication date according to the usual work procedure, when compiling and structuring issues for publication. The author is informed of the final editorial decision.

8. Reviews are being kept in the editorial office for 5 years. Editors are obliged to send the copies of the reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in case a relevant query comes in.

9. Manuscript reviews since 2023 are published on the platform of the Scientific Electronic Library (e-Library).

10. To conduct editorial review, authors may be requested to provide intermediate (raw) data relevant to the manuscript. Authors should be prepared to make such information freely available in accordance with ALPSP-STM Statementon Data and Databases where feasible. In any case, authors should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

The article will be officially retracted at any stage of review or after publication if the editors or readers reveal a violation of the requirements of publication ethics.

The reasons for retraction may be the following:

• plagiarism
• third party expresses claims concerning copyrights for the article or its parts
• published article has serious errors, which place its scientific value in question
• author's request

In such cases the Editorial Team should initiate the revision, after which the article may be retracted. The Act on retraction is complied, which is signed by the Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor. The copy of the Act is being sent to the author of the article.

Notices of retraction appear in the next issue of the Journal. Retracted articles must be removed from the reference lists. The paper is retracted from all bibliographic databases, where the Journal is indexed and abstracted.

Publication in “Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any article processing or submission charges.

4 issues per year

All articles are published under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC). This license allows reuses to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

It includes the following elements:

• BY – Credit must be given to the creator
• NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

The author retains copyright and reserves the right to use the paper and its parts in their scientific research by including reference to the original publication in the Journal. Once published, a paper may only be republished after obtaining the written consent of the Journal, indicating copyright and referencing the publication in the Journal.

By submitting an article for publication to the Editorial Team, the author grants the Journal the following rights:

• the right to reproduce, publish, distribute and archive the paper or its parts in any form. Each copy of the paper must contain the name of the author (authors) of the Paper, copyright and license type (CC BY-NC 4.0);
• the right to put it into the public domain;
• the right to use metadata of the paper by distributing them and putting in the public domain and including them in various databases and information systems;
• to store and process personal data.

By submitting the article for review to the journal, the authors confirm their authorship. When a manuscript is written by a group of authors, one of them handles the manuscript submission process, acknowledging all co-authors. Each co-author must have participated sufficiently in the study to be listed as a co-author.

In accordance with CRediT authorship is based on significant intellectual contribution at any of the following stages of research: conceptualization; methodology; software; validation; formal analysis; investigation; resources; data curation; writing – original draft; writing – review & editing; visualization; supervision; project administration; funding acquisition.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship, including specific intellectual contribution, preparation and critical revision of the manuscript, approval of the final version of the manuscript, and agreement to be accountable for the work as a whole, cannot be listed as authors. Their contributions should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgments” section of the article.

“Journal of regional and international competitiveness” is an open access journal and is subject to the CC BY-NC license.

Journal 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.

All papers are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (doi).

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