The conference was organized by the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. This was the 12th conference and it was devoted to finding ways to further development and improving the quality of academic publications in Russia, CIS countries and other non-English-speaking countries.
The conference was attended by more than 220 participants, including science editors and publishers, owners and operators of information resources, academic community experts and representatives of the public science management. There were speakers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Tyumen, Yakutsk, Saratov, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, Chelyabinsk and other Russian cities, as well as from Kazakhstan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, India and Brazil. The participants’ reports discussed the issues of editorial and publishing preparation of academic journals, application of AI tools in scientific communication, issues of academic literacy and content quality, ethics of scientific communications and publication process, and many others.
Evgenia Khabirova, Head of the Academic Writing Office, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications, spoke at the section Academic Literacy and Content Quality: Competences of Authors, Editors, Reviewers. Her report Communicative strategies of authors in interaction with the editorial board of a scientific journal: keys to successful publication was devoted to different aspects of interaction between authors and the editorial board: the choice of linguistic means according to the communicative task, the structure of typical requests, and also the importance of authors’ professional experience in choosing communicative strategies.
Tikhon Podshivalov, Head of the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure, Deputy Director for Research, Law Institute, SUSU, spoke at the section Ethics of Scientific Communications and Publication Process. He told about his experience of dealing with authors’ appeals on violation of their rights to the ASEP Council on Ethics of Scientific Publications during the past year.
The conference was organized at a high level, so that the participants had an opportunity to discuss many topical issues with their colleagues, to outline the ways to promote Russian scientific publications and improve their quality.