Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Concept, Goal, and Objectives
The Core Concept of the almanac is the publication of cutting-edge Ukrainian studies research by scholars from Ukraine and abroad. Each issue is themed, with the scope of publications formed on a thematic principle that addresses the most pressing issues in Ukrainian socio-humanitarian discourse and research projects conducted by the Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The journal is intended for researchers, university professors, students, and anyone interested in Ukrainian studies. It is published in both print and online versions and is included in the List of Scientific Specialized Publications of Ukraine in History and Philosophy (Category "B").
The Goal of the "Ukrainoznavchyi Almanakh" (Ukrainian Studies Almanac) is to publish peer-reviewed research articles containing original scientific results in the specialties 033 "Philosophy" and 032 "History and Archaeology" within the field of "Humanities."
Types of publications: research articles, review articles, and book reviews.
Objectives of the journal:
• Development of academic Ukrainian studies as a modern integrative socio-humanitarian discipline;
• Development of Ukrainian scientific potential and its integration into the global research space;
• Facilitating effective public communication among scholars, ensuring high-quality dissemination, official recognition, and popularization of research results in the field of philosophical and historical Ukrainian studies.

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Reviews

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HRYHORIY SKOVORODA IN THE CULTURE OF UKRAINE: PAST AND PRESENT

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CURRENT UKRAINIAN STUDIES

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CURRENT PROBLEMS IN THE HUMANITIES: UKRAINIAN CONTEXT

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RELIGION AND THE CHURCH IN UKRAINE

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Peer Review Process

Internal review (preliminary assessment by the editorial board)
All manuscripts submitted to the editorial board are reviewed by the editor-in-chief for compliance with the journal's purpose, subject matter, and editorial policy. Manuscripts that do not correspond to the subject matter and editorial policy of the journal or the editorial standards of the journal are rejected for review. The editor's introductory remarks, documents and materials, reviews and overviews, chronicles, translations, and the block with information about corrections are not subject to review.
Manuscripts that do not meet the journal's requirements for structure and formatting are returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. If the author does not respond to the editor's request within 30 calendar days, the manuscript is considered not to be under consideration by the journal's editorial board.
Manuscripts of articles in which a significant percentage of text borrowing is detected after checking for plagiarism in the Strikeplagiarism system are returned to the authors for revision. If signs of plagiarism are detected, the article is returned to the author without the right to resubmit it.
The editorial board gives preference to articles with qualitative and/or quantitative data, although the journal publishes in-depth review articles.
After all internal checks, the author's original article is sent for external review (expert evaluation).

External review (evaluated by independent experts)
All articles submitted for publication are subject to double-blind review on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform by at least two external reviewers who are experts in the scientific field of the specific article.
Members of the editorial board recommend reviewers who are experts in the scientific field of a particular article and have publications on the subject of the article. Members of the editorial board may also be reviewers.
Reviewers must adhere to best international review practices, including the Recommendations for Reviewers from the European Association of Science Editors, the Web of Science Academy, and the requirements of this publication.
Reviewers are required to notify the editor and/or editorial board as soon as possible of any potential conflicts of interest. They must also adhere to the principle of confidentiality when working with a manuscript, in particular, not to use and/or reproduce it in whole or in part anywhere, and not to disclose information about the editorial board's request for review.

When preparing a review, the reviewer must answer ‘yes’, ‘no, minor revisions are needed’, or ‘no, major revisions are needed’ to the following questions (the questions are listed in the reviewer template on the OJS platform):
Does the title of the article correspond to its content and purpose?
Does the abstract reflect the main content of the article and correspond to the IMRAD structure?
Are the key ideas of the article original, scientifically significant and interesting to the readership?
Are the main results of the article scientifically sound and significant?
Do the article and its key parts correspond to the IMRAD structure and technical requirements of the journal?
Are the tables and figures justified, relevant, and consistent with the journal's requirements?
Is the research methodology relevant and adequately justified?
Is the language of the article scientific, grammatically correct, and understandable to the readership?
Does the ‘Discussion’ section demonstrate knowledge of the relevant literature on the topic of the article?
Are the conclusions clear and well-reasoned?
If reviewers select ‘no, needs minor revision’ or ‘no, needs major revision’ for any item, they must write substantiated comments and explain to the authors how to improve the article.

Editors have the right not to disclose to the author comments that contain subjective assessments of the manuscript, insults, or do not meet the established requirements and criteria specified above.
Editors are mediators in all discussions between authors and reviewers during the review of an article prior to publication. If agreement cannot be reached, editors may invite additional reviewers.
The editor-in-chief has the right to return the review for revision if the reviewer has not complied with the requirements set out in the Recommendations for Reviewers, or if the review contains ambiguous comments. In the event of significant comments to the reviewer, the editor has the right to exclude the reviewer from the list of persons to whom the publication refers and/or report his actions to his place of affiliation.

Reviewers do not perform structural or linguistic editing of the manuscript, but, if necessary, report editorial issues to the authors and editors of the journal in the appropriate section of the review.
Reviewers' decisions may be as follows:
accept;
accept after minor revisions (authors have 5 days to make minor changes in accordance with the reviewers' comments);
accept after substantial revisions (authors have two weeks to substantially revise the manuscript);
reject with a proposal for resubmission (the manuscript will be rejected, and the authors will be asked to resubmit the article after substantial revision of the content if, in the opinion of the reviewers, the article requires additional experiments or other empirical research to confirm the conclusions);
reject (the article is rejected without the right to resubmit the same article if it has serious shortcomings and/or does not contain original scientific results).
If the article can be accepted subject to revision, it is returned to the author(s) together with the reviewers' comments and suggestions for improving the article and the editors' recommendations, if any.

The author resubmits a revised version of the article together with clear responses to the reviewers' comments. All changes must be highlighted in the text of the article.
The editor-in-chief directly evaluates the quality of the changes or sends the article to reviewers for re-evaluation. In the case of a second round of review, the reviewer may be asked to evaluate the revised version of the manuscript in light of the reviewer's recommendations submitted during the first round of review.
Reviewers should express their opinions clearly and reasonably, and be polite and constructive in their recommendations.
The author should respond to all reviewer comments in accordance with the review points.
The total review period cannot exceed 3 months from the date the article is received by the reviewer.
The journal allows a maximum of two rounds of manuscript review.
The editorial board takes reviewers' comments into account, but the final decision on whether to publish an article is made by the editor-in-chief of the journal.

Author appeals
Authors may appeal against a refusal to publish. The procedure for such an appeal is described in the section ‘Retraction of articles and statements and appeals’ of the journal's editorial policy.

 

Publication Frequency

INFORMATION TO AUTHORS

Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University

Dear Scholars,
We invite you to submit articles for publication in Issue 38 of the journal "Ukrainian Studies Almanac".
By the decision of the Attestation Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated July 2, 2020, "Ukrainian Studies Almanac" has been recognized as a professional journal in Category “B” in the fields of Philosophy (Order No. 886 of July 2, 2020) and History (Order No. 1471 of November 26, 2020).

Thematic areas:

Topic 1: Ukrainian studies practices in the sphere of establishing national identity among young people as a factor in the consolidation of Ukrainian society.
Topic 2: The Russian-Ukrainian war from a gender perspective.
Topic 3: Pro-Western and anti-Western attitudes in historical retrospect and today.
Topic 4: Practices of Russification of Ukrainians: history and modernity.

The editorial board is also open to original proposals that fall within the scope of Issue 38's theme but are not explicitly listed among the thematic areas above.

Deadline for submissions for Issue 38: May 1, 2026.
Publication fee: 85 UAH per page. The minimum number of pages is 10.
Article formatting requirements and payment details are available on the journal’s website: Author Guidelines.
Payment is made after peer review and a positive editorial decision.

Article submissions should be sent to: grabovskai@ukr.net
Contact person: Iryna Mykolaivna Hrabovska (grabovskai@ukr.net; tel. +38(050)4101608)

 

Open Access Policy

This magazine practices a policy of immediate open access to published content, supporting the principles of the free dissemination of scientific information and the global exchange of knowledge for the sake of universal social progress.

 

Archiving

Archiving and long-term storage policy in open access

1) Archiving
The editorial board of the scientific periodical ‘Almanac of Ukrainian Studies’ strives to ensure long-term access to all publications and takes all necessary technical measures to ensure backup copying and open access to the journal's content.

Storage locations
Each issue of the publication is available in print and electronic form. The electronic version must be made freely available on the journal's website and deposited in the institutional repository of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, eKNUTSHIR, which is integrated with the National Repository of Academic Texts.

Electronic copies of all issues of the publication are also transferred for storage on the ‘Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine’ platform of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Archiving frequency
The content of our journal is archived after the publication of each issue, ensuring the continuous and timely preservation of our scientific works.

Licences and permissions
All archived content retains its original licence terms. This guarantees readers and researchers the ability to use the materials under the same conditions as when they were first published.

Archiving policy updates
Our archiving policy is reviewed every two years to ensure it complies with best practices in scientific publishing and content preservation. Any updates or changes will be announced on the journal's official website.

2) Self-archiving
Preprint
The author may deposit a preprint (a version of the publication that has not been peer-reviewed) in any repository, provided that the publisher and journal are cited in the following format: ‘This is a preprint of material submitted for publication in the journal ’Almanac of Ukrainian Studies,‘ published by Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.’

Postprint
The author may deposit a postprint (the final version of the article in the form of a PDF file created by the publisher) in any thematic national or international repository, indicating the publisher, the name of the journal, and the DOI of the article.

 

Publication Ethics

The publication ethics of the journal “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies” comply with the best international practices and standards for scientific periodicals, in particular the EASE Guidelines, Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, Publishing Ethics Resource Kit for Editors, COPE Guidelines, ICMJE, as well as the criteria and recommendations of DOAJ, Web of Science, and Scopus.

The publication ethics of the journal include the following sections:
• Open access policy
• Open science support policy
• Policy on the use of artificial intelligence
• Copyright provisions (Licensing and copyright; Authorship and co-authorship)
• Conflict of interest policy
• Policy on academic misconduct, plagiarism, and duplicate publication
• Review process
• APC financial policy
• Post-publication discussion and changes
• Archiving (Archiving and long-term preservation policy in open access)
• Article retraction and statement and appeals

Publication ethics consists of the following parts:
• Publication and sharing of open data.
• General issues of submission, review and editorial processes.
• Responsibility of authors.
• Responsibility of reviewers.
• Responsibility of editors.
• Privacy and confidentiality statement.
• Policy on funding sources.
• Neutrality in geopolitical disputes.
• Gender policy.
• Policy on obtaining mandatory ethical approval.
• Disclaimer

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Open Science Support Policy

Publication and exchange of open data
The “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies” supports the principles of open science, which encompass the following practices:
• Early and open dissemination of research
• Management of research results
• Ensuring the reproducibility of results
• Open access to research results

The editorial board encourages authors to adhere to ethical principles in the collection and use of data and to use proper citation.
The journal implements the principles of open science by adhering to fair review practices, conducting transparent editorial processes, and promoting openness and reproducibility of research results.

Principles of responsible assessment
The editorial practices of the “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies” embody the recommendations and approaches set out in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Therefore, the editorial board adheres to the general recommendation of DORA:
Do not use journal metrics, such as impact factor, as an auxiliary indicator of the quality of individual scientific articles.

Compliance with FAIR principles
The editorial board of the Political Science Bulletin is convinced that all research-related data should be searchable, open, compliant with generally accepted standards, and reusable (FAIR — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
We ask authors to store the data underlying their research in appropriate repositories.

We encourage authors to evaluate research data using the following tools:
FAIRAware
Fair Data Self-Assessment Tool

The editorial board advises authors to manage their research data, in particular to draw up a Data Management Plan and adhere to it in order to avoid data distortion in the research process.

Scientific data deposit policy
The “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies” encourages open access to scientific data related to publications.
The “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies” recommends that authors deposit data related to their research in the institutional repository eKNUTSHIR, in the KNU community in Zenodo, or in any other subject-specific or general repository (repository registry), as placing data sets in a repository ensures long-term storage and the assignment of permanent identifiers (e.g., DOI).
References to all published datasets should be included in the article metadata.
The editorial board encourages authors to describe research datasets in accordance with the principles and, where possible, to make them available under open licences (e.g. CC BY or CC0).

 

Artificial Intelligence Use Policy

Policy on the use of artificial intelligence in the editorial activities of the scientific periodical “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies”

Introduction
This document defines the principles and rules for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the preparation, review and publication of materials in the scientific periodical “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies” (hereinafter referred to as the Journal). We recognise the potential benefits of using AI to improve the efficiency and quality of scientific publications, but emphasise the need for its ethical, responsible and transparent application in compliance with academic integrity and scientific ethics standards.

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Conflict of Interest Policy

A conflict of interest means anything that interferes or may interfere with a full, proper, and objective review and decision-making procedure regarding the publication of research articles or other materials.
A conflict of interest is considered to exist if the persons involved in the editorial process are in a relationship with each other that could potentially compromise them or interfere with objectivity or affect the resolution of issues related to the publication.

During the editorial process, conflicts of interest include the following relationships between the main and/or responsible editors, reviewers, and authors:
the author and the responsible editor and/or reviewer work at the same department or in the same research group;
the author is a student, and the reviewer is a teacher or supervisor;
the author is a student, and the reviewer and/or editor is the supervisor of the student's research work.
If the author of the article is the Chief Editor or the member of the editorial board of the “Almanac of Ukrainian Studies”, they do not participate in the review and decision-making process regarding the publication of this article.

When submitting an article, the author must disclose all possible conflicts of interest to the editors of the journal. Once manuscripts are assigned for review, reviewers are asked to notify the editor of any conflicts that may arise.
The corresponding author designated by the co-authors as responsible for correspondence with the editors must declare any conflicts of interest on behalf of all authors.
Conflicts of interest may also be related to employment, sources of funding, personal financial interests, membership in relevant organizations, or other circumstances that may cause bias and influence decision-making.
Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any authors, companies, or institutions associated with the manuscript.
Editors should not edit/manage manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or affiliations with any of the authors, or companies or institutions associated with the research.
Any declarations of conflicts of interest made by authors, reviewers, or editors are reviewed by the managing editor and/or editor-in-chief of the Journal. In the case of justified statements about the existence of a conflict of interests with the editor-in-chief of the publication, such statements are considered by participation of two members of the editorial board.

 

Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, and Duplicate Publication Policy

Academic Integrity Violations Policy
Academic integrity is very important for the development of science, scientific publications and universities. Authors' compliance with the requirements of academic integrity is the key to the successful development of the journal, increasing of its impact and reputation, and expanding the circle of readers.

In its policy on academic integrity violations, the editorial board is guided by the Law of Ukraine "On Education", the Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education", the Law of Ukraine "On Academic Integrity", the Code of Ethics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv as well as "Regulations on the System of Detecting and Preventing Academic Plagiarism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv" (2020).

According to the provision of subsection 31, paragraph 1 of Article 58 of the Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education", faculty and staff are obliged to: "observe academic integrity in the educational process and scientific (creative) activity and ensure its observance by higher education students".

According to the Code of Ethics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the of the university community are obliged to:

- uphold the values of academic integrity and adhere to its rules in all activities within and outside the university environment (paragraph 2.15);

- take care of personal and university scientific reputation when organising and conducting scientific and technical activities (paragraph 2.18);

- consider it unacceptable to provide false information about one's educational, scientific, creative activities and their results, to appropriate authorship of texts, in particular academic ones, written by other persons (paragraph 2.19).

According to Article 42 of the Law of Ukraine "On Education", "academic integrity is a set of ethical principles and rules defined by law, which should be guided by the participants of the educational process during learning, teaching and carrying out scientific (creative) activities in order to ensure trust in the results of studies and/ or scientific (creative) achievements".

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APC Financial Policy

ATTENTION! Payment is accepted only after successful review and acceptance of the article for publication in the journal.

The cost of editorial and publishing preparation of the article is 1600 UAH per 1 printed sheet (40,000 characters with spaces). The approximate length of the article is 0.5–1.5 printed sheets (i.e. 20,000–60,000 characters with spaces).

The following are exempt from payment:
• third-level higher education students of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv who have prepared an article independently (without co-authors) starting from 01.06.2026;
• scientific, pedagogical and research staff of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and employees of other scientific institutions, higher education institutions with which Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has concluded relevant cooperation agreements, provided that these employees actively cooperate with the editorial board of the journal as reviewers and/or members of the editorial board (there is a submission from the editorial board regarding participation in reviewing and/or as part of the editorial board).
Members of the editorial board and reviewers of the journal who work in scientific institutions and higher education establishments with which Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has not concluded relevant cooperation agreements have the right to publish one article per year free of charge upon the recommendation of the editor-in-chief.
If the article was prepared by employees of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv or a partner institution in co-authorship with scientists from scientific institutions, higher education institutions with which Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has not concluded relevant cooperation agreements, the co-author who is not an employee of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv or a partner institution shall pay 1/2 or 1/3 of the cost of the article, depending on the number of authors.
Authors may order a printed copy of the journal for an additional fee. The cost of one copy for each journal is calculated individually.

 

Post-publication discussion and amendments

The editors encourage and hope for academic debate and constructive criticism in discussions after the publication of scientific articles. During discussions, shortcomings of already published articles may be revealed, among which there may be significant and non-significant errors that were not detected or that could not have been detected during the editorial process.
In order to reduce the risks of such concerns, the editors are obliged to coordinate any changes to the manuscript's text in the process of editorial and publishing preparation with the authors, in particular, the responsible author. As an exception, minor editorial corrections of the text regarding spelling and/or grammar are allowed for publication without agreement with the authors.
At the same time, the editors encourage authors and readers to engage in active post-publication communication, constructive discussion about the results of published research, identifying prospects for its application, or expressing doubts about the argumentation or significance of the article for the development of science.
When discussing articles (publication of open opinions, articles on the forum, corrections, critical comments to the published article and the author's responses to criticism, etc.), no comment may contain personal images of any of the authors or editors, reviewers, discriminatory remarks, subjective evaluation and/or performance characteristics of the publication.

Changes and corrections
The journal adheres to the generally accepted rules and recommendations of Elsevier regarding the correction of minor and major errors in published materials.

Minor changes
Acceptable and minor errors in a published article that do not affect its content or the scientific integrity of the study (eg, typographical errors, incorrect citations, incorrect page numbers in article titles, etc.) can be corrected by publishing changes.
This is done by replacing the original PDF with the corrected one, along with a correction message in the "Changes" tab detailing the errors and changes made to the original PDF.
The original PDF file will be marked with a correction note and a reference to the corrected version of the article with the corrections. The original PDF will also be archived and available on call under the same Erratum (Changed) tab.

Correction of significant errors
Corrections are published in the event that already after the publication of the article, significant errors are discovered that significantly affect the research integrity and content of the article.
The main reasons for publishing corrections are changes in authorship, unintended errors in research results, errors in labeling tables and figures, etc.
Corrections are published as a separate publication and registered in their own DOI.
The decision to publish errors or corrections is made by the editor-in-chief after consulting with the authors and the managing editor.

 

Article retraction, statements, and appeals

Article retraction and statement of concern
According to the COPE Retraction Guidelines that our journal adheres to, an article may be retracted for the following reasons:
Unreliable conclusions based on clear evidence of misconduct (e.g., fraudulent use of data) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error).
Redundant publication, such as findings that have previously been published elsewhere without appropriate cross-referencing, permission, or justification.
Plagiarism or other unethical research misconduct.

Withdrawal procedure
We use the EASE Retraction Form for the withdrawal procedure.
Retractions should occur after the journal's editors have carefully considered appeals received from the editor(s), author(s), or reader(s) (For more details on the procedure for handling appeals, see the section "Complaints and appeals").

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