Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), has been publishing the international peer-reviewed journal Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia since 2000. Each issue is published in parallel Russian and English versions. Each quarterly issue of the journal contains 160 pages of 290 × 205 mm format, including numerous black-and-white and color illustrations.
This periodical is devoted to presentation and analysis of fundamental materials relating to the Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, including North and Central Asia, Europe, the Pacific Rim, and other regions. The journal is conceived as multidisciplinary. It publishes papers, and maintains discussions on a wide range of research problems, such as Quaternary geology; Pleistocene and Holocene paleoecology; the methodology of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic studies; information technology; studies of migrations of early populations; paleosociological and paleoeconomic reconstruction; the evolution of the human physical type; modern methods of paleopopulation genetics; prehistoric art; astroarchaeology; studies of the cultures of indigenous populations; and studies of ethnocultural processes. The journal also accepts the results of recent field-investigations conducted by archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnologists, as well as announcements of symposia and professional meetings.
Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia provides authors with the opportunity to share their ideas and materials with a broad spectrum of professionals, and allows readers to stay current with the most recent issues in the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and anthropology.
The Editorial Council and Editorial Board of the journal include leading scientists from Russia, Asia, Europe, and America.
The Journal is included in:
- the List of peer-reviewed journals, where the main results of doctoral and post-doctoral dissertations are published;
- the Russian Science Citation Index (RISC);
- the Russian Science Citation Index at the Web of Science citations indexing service;
- the Scopus bibliographic database.
The Journal Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia is a member of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA).
The Journal publisher IAET of SB RAS is a member of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP).
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Publication ethics
The Editorial Council and Editorial Board of Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia follow the Copyright law of the Russian Federation (Chapter 70), international standards of publication ethics elaborated by the Committee on Publication Ethics, and the regulations that were worked out at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity (Singapore, July 22–24, 2010), which set out international standards for responsible research publication. They also take into consideration the experience of the leading scientific journals and publishers.
The Editorial Council and Editorial Board adhere strictly to these ethical standards in their activities and relationships with all participants in the publication process: authors, reviewers, editors, publishing houses, distributors, and readers. Below please find the list of ethical standards that should be followed by authors, reviewers, and editors involved in publication of the research materials.
Ethical standards for authors
• The author has a responsibility to ensure that the reported research results are accurate. Authors should avoid making knowingly and willfully false or fraudulent statements. The basic data should not contain any mistakes.
• Authors should adhere to publication requirements that the submitted work is original and has not been published, either totally or in part, elsewhere. The work should not be submitted concurrently to more than one journal until the end of its consideration.
• Authors should not submit the paper that has been published in the present journal to another publication.
• Plagiarism of any kind is impermissible. Direct citations and wording of any text or the essence of a concept should be properly acknowledged and referenced. Data obtained through oral and written communications with third persons should be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement.
• Authors should declare any potential conflicts of interest (employment, consulting, honorarium acceptance, or others that might be perceived as influencing research results or inferences proposed in the work) and indicate the funding source of the research (if available).
• Researchers who made a substantial contribution to the design and execution of the work, as well as interpretation of the obtained results, should be listed as authors. All authors should have read, and be familiar with, the reported work, and should approve the submission of the paper and the accepted version of the publication. Other contributors to the research, or to preparation of the publication, should be listed in an acknowledgement section.
• Authors should alert the editor promptly if they discover an error in any submitted work. Authors should cooperate with editors in issuing corrections or retractions when required.
• Authors should alert the editor or publisher promptly if significant errors are discovered in any paper after publication, and work with the editor to correct the paper.
• Authors should work with the editor during reviewing and preparation of the manuscript for publication. They should respond to reviewer comment in a professional and timely manner. In case of disagreement with reviewer comment, authors should forward their objections to the editor, together with the grounds for them. Improvements should be made within two months upon sending reviewer comment to the author by e-mail. Authors should inform the editor if they choose not to improve the manuscript.
Reviewer ethics
• The reviewer should consider the work submitted for publication objectively. Criticism of the author’s personality is impermissible. Reviewer comment should be clear and well-grounded.
• The identities of the reviewers are confidential.
• A reviewer who is unsure of his or her objectivity in assessment of the work, because of any potential competing interests with those of the author or funding organizations, should decline the invitation to review the submission.
• Unpublished data from the reviewed paper cannot be used by the reviewer without the appropriate written permission of the author.
• The reviewer should point to the absence of references to the published works that are significant to the content of the analyzed paper in the manuscript and bibliographic list. The reviewer should attract the editor’s attention to any noted coincidences of the analyzed manuscript with any other publication or submission to another journal.
Editor ethics
Editors are responsible for the publication of authors’ works. The decision to accept or decline a submission rests on an assessment of the integrity and scientific significance of the presented work, its compliance with the journal’s subject area, and effective legal standards concerning copyright and plagiarism.
• Editors should ensure a fair and appropriate peer-review of submitted scientific works. By the decision of the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board, a manuscript may be subject to additional peer review.
• The content of the works is assessed independently of the racial, ethnic, national, gender or religious background of the author, as well as of sexual orientation or political views.
• The submitted manuscript is regarded as confidential. The Executive Secretary will authorize the people who have access to the manuscript.
• Unpublished data from the submitted paper cannot be used by the editorial staff, reviewers or members of the Editorial Board in their research, nor transmitted to third persons without the author’s written permission.
• Editors should not permit plagiarized work to be published.
• Editors should reconcile corrections to the manuscript with the author.
• Editors should respond to any complaint concerning consideration or publication of submissions. In case of conflict, an editor should ensure restoration of the infringed rights.
• Editors should ensure publication of corrections (errata), with apologies, when genuine errors in published work are pointed out by the author or third persons.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Dr., Prof. A.P. Derevianko, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Dr., Prof. V.I. Molodin, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Executive Secretaries:
Dr. A.V. Baulo, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Dr. S.V. Markin, Division Head at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Dr. S.P. Nesterov, Division Head at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Cand. Sc. (hist.) D.V. Pozdnyakov, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
H.A. Amirkhanov (Russia);
A.P. Buzhilova (Russia);
T.A. Chikisheva (Russia);
J. Chochorowski (Poland);
H.-P. Francfort (France);
P.G. Gaidukov (Russia);
Gao Xing (People’s Republic of China);
A.V. Golovnev (Russia);
S. Hansen (Germany);
E. Jacobson-Tepfer (USA);
J. Jaubert (France);
A.G. Kozintsev (Russia);
N.N. Kradin (Russia);
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (USA);
N.A. Makarov (Russia);
J.W. Olsen (USA);
G. Parzinger (Germany);
S. Pääbo (Germany);
A. Ronen (Israel);
D.G. Savinov (Russia);
Akira Sekiya (Japan);
M.V. Shunkov (Russia);
A.I. Soloviev (Russia);
V.A. Tishkov (Russia);
N.A. Tomilov (Russia);
S.A. Vasiliev (Russia);
Wang Wei (China);
V.S. Zykin (Russia).
Editorial Council
O. Bar-Yosef (USA);
V.V. Bobrov (Russia);
V.P. Chabai (Ukraine);
E.N. Chernykh (Russia);
N.I. Drozdov (Russia);
A.V. Epimakhov (Russia);
Y.S. Hudiakov (Russia);
Kang In Uk (Republic of Korea);
Y.F. Kiryushin (Russia);
Lee Heon-jong (Republic of Korea);
Lee Yung-jo (Republic of Korea);
D.O. Lordkipanidze (Georgia);
V.E. Medvedev (Russia);
R.M. Munchaev (Russia);
A. Nagler (Germany);
V.V. Napolskikh (Russia);
E.N. Nosov (Russia);
Akira Ono (Japan);
M.B. Piotrovsky (Russia);
N.V. Polosmak (Russia);
Z.S. Samashev (Republic of Kazakhstan);
A.F. Shorin (Russia);
Z.K. Taimagambetov (Republic of Kazakhstan);
A.A. Tishkin (Russia);
D. Tseveendorj (Mongolia).
Subscriptions
You can subscribe to the Russian version of Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia through the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation (Rospechat) catalog (subscription index 79213).
You can order current and out-of-print issues through:
Fax: (383) 330-11-91
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Notes to contributors
• By submitting a manuscript to Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, the author assigns to the publisher without charge the exclusive right, for the duration of copyright under the current RF legislation, to use the paper (in case of acceptance of the paper for publication by the Editorial Board) on the territories of all states where the copyright is protected by the international agreements of the Russian Federation; including the following rights: to publish the final version of the article in the above journal; to distribute it and/or communicate it to the public; to make translations and edits of the article, and to distribute them to the public (with an exclusive right to use the translated and/or edited article in the aforesaid ways); and to authorize or grant licenses to third parties to do any of the above.
• The author (or authors) should forward the editors the signed license agreement on the right to publish the scientific article in the journal document link.
• Authors should submit the complete text in English. English common names of plants and animals should be supplemented with Latin taxonomic equivalents.
• Please also supply the names of authors’ titles, positions, and affiliations; postal addresses in English; and e-mail, fax, and telephone numbers.
• All submitted papers are recommended to be organized as follows: introduction, data presentation, discussion, and conclusion. The paper should be accompanied by an abstract (not less than 230 words in total) and key words. The title of the paper should be adequate to the content.
• The submitted paper should be dated and signed by the author (or authors).
• The Editors reserve the right to make any necessary revisions, and to accept or reject manuscripts depending on the comment of the reviewers.
• Manuscripts should not exceed 40,000 characters, including spaces (20–22 double-spaced pages, approximately 28 lines per page) and illustrations. One illustration of 270 × 190 mm corresponds approximately to 6700 characters.
• The publication of papers is free of charge.
Technical requirements
• The manuscript (including the main text, reference list, figures and tables captions) should be provided in a Microsoft Word™ file (Windows version).
• Please use the Times New Roman 14-point font (approximately 28 lines per page). All pages should be numbered. Please avoid tabs; automatic hyphenation; spaces within words; blank lines between paragraphs; automatic word-processing commands (e.g. auto-numbering of references, paragraphs, footnotes and endnotes, etc.); macros; saving text as a document template; and read-only files.
• Measurements should be given only in the metric system.
• Text citations should include the author’s last name; date of publication; and page numbers (in cases of direct quotation, or references to dates). Full bibliographic references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. A bibliographic entry should include: author’s names and initials; full title of work; full title of the relevant edition; place of publication; publisher; date of publication; volume (number); and the first and last pages (for periodicals).
For instance:
Author’s monograph:
Alekseev V.P. 1974
Geography of Human Races. Moscow: Nauka.
Monograph by a group of authors (names of all authors should be mentioned):
Archaeological Studies at the N Cave. 1999
V.V. Vasin, I.I. Ivanov, P.P. Petrov, S.S. Sidorov. Novosibirsk: Izd. IAE SO RAN.
Chapter in a monograph:
Ivanov I.I. 1999
Pollen analysis of the sediments of the N Cave. In Archaeological Studies at the N Cave, Ch. 3. Novosibirsk: Izd. IAE SO RAN, pp. 777–888.
Paper in a collection of papers:
Ivanov P.I. 1999
Pollen analysis of the sediments of the Detsky Sad II site. In The Stone Age in the Altai. Moscow: Artims, pp. 77–99.
Paper in a journal:
Ivanov P.I. 1966
Pollen analysis of the sediments of the N Cave. Journal of Archaeology, No. 1: 12–34.
Dissertation:
Bobrov V.V. 1973
Deer images in the Scythian art. Cand. Sc. (History) Dissertation. Novosibirsk.
Review:
Isaev M.I. 1986
Review of R.P. Ivanov. The Bear Feast. Moscow: Izd. Mosc. Gos. Univ., 1986. Izvestia AN SSSR. Ser. literatura i yazyk, No. 3: 30–31.
• Footnotes should be given in square brackets within the text and marked with an asterisk (*).
• A list of figure captions should be provided at the end of the paper, after the bibliography.
• Electronic copies of drawings and photographs should be provided in .tif or .cdr formats (in CorelDraw, and special symbols should be converted to curves).
• When using drawings scanned from reproductions from other publications, authors should submit documents confirming that the rights of original publications are not infringed.
• Scanned images of color and grayscale drawings, or black-and-white and color photographs (300 dpi), and line-drawings (not less than 600 dpi) are acceptable. Resolution should be set during scanning or shooting, and the size of photographs and drawings should be as expected in the journal.
• Black-and-white graphs, maps, and diagrams are acceptable. Scanned images of maps from cartographic editions are not accepted.
• The editors reserve the right to publish color illustrations in a black-and-white version.
• Graphs may be provided in Microsoft Word™ and Excel™.
• Tables should be provided in Microsoft Word™. Each table may not exceed 270 mm in width and contain no breaks when continued on the next page.
Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:
E-mail:
eurasia@archaeology.nsc.ru