Impact of peer review institute on scientific maturity of Russian journals

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development of the institute of peer review considered in the context of influencing the scientific maturity of periodicals. The choice of this topic is due, on the one hand, to new scientific and technological trends in the sustainable development of the national economy, on the other, to the upcoming information isolation, the onset of which has a high probabilistic character and serious negative consequences for Russian magazines. Therefore, Russian periodicals should be ready for any development of events and have an adaptation potential for new economic realities, i.e. to be scientifically mature. The article proposed an author’s understanding of the definition “scientific maturity” of the journal and revealed the peculiarities of peer review that determine it. The article also presents the results of a survey conducted by Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of RAS and the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers, among representatives of Russian journals of economic, social, technical, humanitarian, medical sciences, which make it possible to identify general trends and patterns of formation of the peer review institute in Russia. The author’s rapid analysis of respondents’ responses made it possible to form a fundamental basis for the development of fundamentally new options for improving the work of publishers with reviewers, including the selection of experts based on a single database of reviewers. It gives the process of assessing the quality of the content of articles an interdisciplinary nature, as well as flexibility and higher performance.