The Journal “BENEFICIUM” only publishes the articles recommended by the reviewers.

The Editorial team a “double-blind” review of the article is organized (during the process of reviewing, personal data of reviewers and authors shall be withheld). The term for the article consideration not exceeds 30 days from the date of starting the reviewing process.

The reviewer is appointed by the Editor-in-Chief or the Deputy Editor. The peer review process is carried out by members of the Editorial Board / Editorial Council or other by reputable academic scholars and experts who have in-depth expertise and work experience in a particular research area in the last 3 years.

The articles are reviewed based on the following criteria:

• correspondence between the article title and the article content;
• relevance of the topic of the article for the scientific community;
• scientific novelty, originality, scholarly and practical significance of the article;
• reliability of the results of the researching;
• adherence to the scientific style of expression of thought;
• quality of the abstract;
• compliance with citation rules, analysis and correctness of the list References design.

Reviewer undertakes to conduct peer-review of the article objectively. All the conclusions of the reviewer should be strictly provided with links to authoritative sources. Personal criticism of author by the reviewer is unacceptable. In such cases, the Editorial team follows The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.

Based on the results, the reviewer produces a reasoned opinion:

• the article can be recommended for publication (upon request, a copy of the review is sent to the author);
• the article can be recommended for publication after some improvement according to the reviewer’s commentaries and suggestions (a copy of the review is sent to the author);
• the article cannot be recommended for publication (reasons for rejection) (a copy of the review is sent to the author).

If the reviewer points out, that improvement is necessary the article is sent to the author for follow-on revision.  If, on the recommendation of the reviewer, the article underwent a considerable revision by the author, it is again sent to the reviewer who gave the critical remarks. The Editorial team reserves the right to reject the articles in case of the author's inability or unwillingness to take into account the editor's recommendations.

After reviewing the possibility of publication is decided upon by the Editor-in-Chief.

Reviews' originals are kept by the Editorial team during five years since the publication. The Editorial team sends copies of the reviews to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation upon receipt of the relevant request.

If you would like to become a reviewer of Journal “BENEFICIUM”, please inform Editorial team by beneficium-se@mail.ru, indicating your full name, academic degree, academic title, research area and personal identifiers in Russian and international scientific databases (SPIN RSCI, ResearcherID, Scopus ID, ORCID).