General Information

Academic Profile and Scope

The International Interdisciplinary Scientific Journal “Expert” provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly research within the broad fields of social, economic, and legal sciences.

The Journal promotes rigorous, ethically grounded, and socially relevant research that contributes to the advancement of knowledge and supports informed academic and professional discussion across disciplines.

Particular attention is given to research that integrates perspectives, methods, or concepts from multiple disciplines in order to address complex contemporary economic, managerial, legal, political, psychological, institutional, and social challenges.

Subject Areas: Social, Economic and Legal Sciences

Disciplines:

• Economics and Economic Policy;
• Administration and Management;
• Business and Entrepreneurship;
• Tourism and Hospitality;
• Political Science and Public Administration;
• Sociology and Social Studies;
• Psychology;
• Law and Legal Studies;
• Public Communications and Information Sciences.

The Journal welcomes both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarly contributions that demonstrate originality, scientific relevance, appropriate methodology, and a clear contribution to knowledge.

Interdisciplinary research connecting these areas or extending across conventional disciplinary boundaries is welcomed where it falls within the Journal’s overall academic profile.

Indexing Information

Information on the Journal’s indexing and abstracting services is provided on a dedicated webpage and is subject to periodic updates.

The most current and authoritative indexing information is available at Databases and Indexing.

Publisher Responsibility

ASPECT-PRO LTD acts as the legal publisher of the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Journal “Expert” and is responsible for the Journal’s administrative, publishing, contractual, technical, production, metadata, dissemination, and preservation functions.

These functions include, as applicable:

• management of the Journal’s publishing platform;
• technical hosting and online publication of scholarly content;
• publication administration;
• DOI registration and metadata management;
• production and technical preparation of published content;
• support for indexing and discoverability;
• administrative support for the editorial workflow;
• long-term digital preservation and archiving of Journal content.

Scholarly evaluation and editorial decision-making remain separate from the Publisher’s administrative and technical responsibilities.

Editorial Independence

Editorial assessment and decision-making are conducted independently from the Publisher.

Where the Editor-in-Chief has a relevant conflict of interest, the Editor-in-Chief is excluded from the handling and decision-making process, and decision-making authority is transferred to a qualified non-conflicted member of the Editorial Board or another appropriately designated independent editor, in accordance with the Journal’s Editorial Policies.

Editorial decisions are based on scholarly and editorial considerations and are made independently of commercial, administrative, institutional, or other inappropriate external influence.

The Publisher does not influence editorial decisions concerning the evaluation, acceptance, revision, or rejection of manuscripts.

Open Access Policy

The Journal provides immediate open access to its published scholarly content.

All articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access fees.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, which permits use, sharing, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction provided that appropriate attribution is given to the original work.

Submission Policy

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must constitute original, previously unpublished scholarly work, fall within the Journal’s thematic scope, and comply with the applicable requirements concerning authorship, citation and attribution, academic integrity, publication ethics, manuscript preparation, Article Declarations, submission, and publication conditions.

Detailed requirements concerning author eligibility, manuscript preparation, submission, Article Declarations, and publication conditions are governed by the Journal’s Publication Conditions and related author guidance.

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation and throughout the scholarly publishing process must comply with the Journal’s Generative AI Policy.

Submission of a manuscript does not itself guarantee external peer review or publication.

Initial editorial assessment precedes external peer review and is governed by the Journal’s applicable editorial policies.

Editorial Board and Academic Expertise

The Editorial Board comprises scholars and academic professionals whose expertise corresponds to the disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields relevant to the Journal’s academic profile.

Information concerning Editorial Board members, their institutional affiliations, countries, and available academic identifiers is provided on the dedicated Editorial Board page.

Editorial Board members contribute, within their respective roles and subject to applicable conflict-of-interest requirements, to the Journal’s editorial governance, scholarly standards, and academic development.

Peer Review

Initial editorial assessment precedes external peer review and is used to determine whether a submitted manuscript falls within the Journal’s scope and satisfies the essential scholarly and editorial requirements for further consideration.

Manuscripts that do not proceed beyond the initial editorial assessment may be declined before external peer review in accordance with the Journal’s applicable editorial policies.

Under the double-blind model, the identities of authors and reviewers are not disclosed to each other during the review process.

Peer review is conducted in accordance with the Journal’s Peer Review Process.

Reviewer responsibilities, confidentiality requirements, independence, conflicts of interest, and ethical standards are governed by Review Ethics and the Guidelines for Reviewers.

Peer-review reports are advisory. Final editorial decisions are made in accordance with the Journal’s established editorial governance and conflict-of-interest framework.