ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SERIES
The scientific research series has been published since 2002
The nineteen volumes published so far are the result of the development and realization of various research projects of the Department of Russian Language, , which were supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Habil Damyan Mitev; Prof. Totka Ivanova, PhD; Assoc. Prof. Anna Nikolova, PhD; Prof. Valentina Avramova, PhD; Prof. Elena Stoyanova, PhD; Assoc. Prof. Stefka Kaleva, PhD; Assoc. Prof. Irena Petrova, PhD; Assoc. Prof. Milena Paliy, PhD; Assoc. Prof. Nadezhda Stoykova, PhD, Senior Assist. Prof. Tatyyana Terzieva, PhD, Senior Assist. Prof. Diyana Nikolova, PhD.
The scope of this volume is to study the cognitive and communicative mechanisms and their role in Russian and Bulgarian. The series comprises the scholarly contributions of the Department of Russian Language, and distinguished scholars from Russia, Bulgaria and other countries. Among them are St. Dimitrova, E. V. Klobukov, L. P. Klobukova, V. M. Shacklein, G. D. Figurovska, R. M. Gaisina, E. Y. Ivanova and others, with whom the Department has a long-term and fruitful cooperation. The journal provides a platform where creative ideas are shared by scholars working in various languages, among them are Bulgarian, English, and German. The series accepts papers in Russian, Bulgarian, other Slavic languages, and in English.
The series is indexed and watched in RINZ, ERIHPLUS, CEEOL, SCRIBD, Global index for Continuing Researchers, Google Scholar and is included in the National Reference List of the National Centre for Information and Documentation
REVIEWING
Papers undergo blind peer-review. The editor-in-chief checks if the article meets the technical requirements of the series. Then, taking into consideration the specifics of the submission, the editor-in-chief and the Editorial Board appoint two reviewers for it.
The reviewers evaluate the text according to the following criteria: relevance of the topic, theoretical and applied significance of the research, quality of the publication, originality of research, language and structure of the text. As a result, the reviewers propose the following decisions regarding article publication: to accept it as it is; to accept it after the implementation of the reviewer’s recommendations; to accept it with major revisions and further review; to reject it.
The authors receive the comments and recommendations of the anonymous reviewers by email.
Articles are reviewed within 1 to 3 months after the submission deadline. The final decision regarding article publication is made by the editor-in-chief and the editorial board.
