Aim and Scope

Scientific and review articles, as well as other publications in the Journal refer to developments in transport and transportation sectors, theoretical foundations, fundamental and applied researches, innovations, information and industrial technology advancements in Russia and worldwide in the field of transports, in engineering and economic sciences.

Section Policies

THEORY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ECONOMICS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MANAGEMENT, CONTROL AND ECONOMICS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SAFETY AND SECURITY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

BIBLIO-DIRECTIONS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

HISTORY WHEEL

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

EDUCATION AND HRM

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MEMORABLE DATES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SAFETY, SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SAFETY, SUSTAINABILITY, ECOLOGY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SUSTAINABILITY, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

6 itemes per year

Open Access Policy

Mir Transporta (World of Transport and Transportation) Journal 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

All article, preliminary accepted for consideration by the editorial board, are subject to mandatory reviewing, which is double-blind review process by peer reviewers who are not affiliated with the authors (reviewer doesn’t know the identity of the author (-s) and his (their) affiliation; the article is submitted for review in anonymized form; to do so the editorial board uses special version of the article removing names, affiliations, eventually geographic details, references, other details that can result in identification of the author (-s). The author (-s) is not informed about the reviewer’s identity). Editorial board tries to have more than 1 peer review if available. Normally reviewing process can take up to 2-3 months. The author is informed (e.g. by e-mail) about the main contents of a review (or summary of 2 and more reviews) if it is negative or suggests revisions. The editorial board resends revised article to previous reviewer or addresses a new one. In case of doubts of editorial board about the impartiality of received review editorial board can address another reviewer. If two received reviews are contradictory, then the decision is made at discretion of the editorial board. The article is deemed to be finally accepted and the editorial board starts planning its publication in a given issue if the review (taking into account above mentioned process) is generally positive.

Indexation

Articles in Mir Transporta (World of Transport and Transportation) Journal  are indexed by several systems:

• Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – 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.
• SOCIONET

Publishing Ethics

Publication of all accepted scientific, research articles, reviews in Mir Transporta Journal is free of charge for all the authors, including Ph.D. students and candidates. Meanwhile no author’s royalties are paid by editorial board, except for specially ordered reviews and other publications.

Editorial board draws authors’ attention to mandatory requirement that suggested articles should be original. Previously published articles as well as publications of the same authors, having same title, identical contents, major duplications of the text from previously published articles of the same authors, reproduction of their own texts without necessary references, are not acceptable. The submitted articles should not be submitted by the authors at the same time to other editions. If cases of that kind will be revealed, the editorial board will reject publication. An author from his part is free to recall an article and withdraw publication.

Research articles should be focused on revealing of the results of original, independent researches, conducted by the authors, on presenting new fundamentals, new solutions of scientific and practical problems, but should not be limited to survey of existing bibliography, finished researches of third parties, research approaches, play a role of reviews. New character of a problem or of an approach to its study, conclusions and proposals, suggested guidelines of implementation of results of research should be based on argumentation, eventually supported by approbation of results and by their implementation.

Reviews (survey articles) should be based on a range of sources and references, that should be as wide and up-to-date as possible and selected on the basis of unbiased criteria. Reviews should reflect modern spectrum of national and international researches in a given field, offer their analysis, contain author’s opinion on outlook for different vectors of research and other conclusions. Discriminative approach to selection of sources and references, rejection of inclusion of analysis of results that contradict scientific positions of an author or proposed conclusions, are not admissible.

All articles should contain references to the authors of works, articles, and researches, used during editing of an article. The sources should be cited. The use of fragments of the texts borrowed from other works, of references to the opinions of other authors and previous researches, of tables, figures, illustrations, can’t be made without reference to initial works that contained them. The authors should use maximum spectrum of available up-to-date scientific data relevant for the research topic. Editorial board and reviewers of the articles pays particular attention to conformity of the number of references to the contents of an article, to their updated character (number of recently published works among cited references), range of international sources.

Editorial board asks authors to specially mention if any particular ideas or developments described in the articles were achieved through teamwork or co-authorship.

Editorial board asks authors to submit exact data for publication, acknowledgements and mentions if the researches (fully or partially) have been realized in the frame of grants or funding awarded on competitive basis, accorded to the authors. The relevant acknowledgments are published on the demand of the authors as well as at discretion of the editorial board.

Regardless of reasonable describing of a new technology applied at industrial sites, research and scientific article, reviews should not contain elements of commercial publicity, advertisement, and either commercial offers. The editorial board reserves the right to remove such fragments out of the text.

The editorial board reserves the right to edit texts of the articles, to modify, change and abridge them, to address authors while editing texts to get necessary explanations, to accompany articles with editorial comments, to determine at its own discretion sections of the Journal where an article will be published.

The editorial board does its best to publish articles in reasonable time, but taking into account reviewing process, and great number of submitted texts, terms of editing could not be shortened. The exact time of publication depends on necessity to revise article according to review’s results, number of articles awaiting publication within a given section of the Journal. This process is common for all submitted articles, and the editorial board can't proceed with any exceptions following special demands of some authors. Thus editorial board asks potential authors to take time factors in consideration and to submit articles in due time, well ahead of possible publication.

Full-text open-accessed version of the Journal is transmitted to Russian scientific electronic library, other systems of open accessed journals, is processed by the systems of scientific citation indexes.

Founder

• Russian University of Transport (RUT)

Author fees

Publication in Mir Transporta (World of Transport and Transportation) 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

Mir Transporta (World of Transport and Transportation) Journal  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 Mir Transporta (World of Transport and Transportation) Journal , 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 Mir Transporta (World of Transport and Transportation) Journal  we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Glossary (by SHERPA)