Type of peer review

The Journal “Extreme Human Activity” requires all perspective authors to submit their manuscripts via e-mail alpfest [at] mail [dot] ru. A peer review process has two-step scenario: firstly, a manuscript is assessed by reviewer who is a member of the editorial board, either Russian or Foreign researches authorized in the selected fields. Then, the peer review is performed by the Editor in Chief. Please note the peer review should also be performed by independent external referee chosen by authors themselves. Degree of the external referee is a level higher than the Candidate of Science or equivalent. Reviewers are guided by a Code of a Publication Ethics (Committee of publishing Ethics, Moscow, Russian Federation), Ethical Guidelines declared by COPE (Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers) and developed by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and Ethical Guidelines developed by Editorial staff of the Journal.