Ethical norms

Ethical obligations of editorial board members

The editors are responsible for the publishing process.

All submitted materials are subject to thorough selection and peer review. The editors reserve the right to reject the article or send it back for improvement.

The editors are impartial in analyzing the manuscripts, assessing every article properly regardless of the author’s race, religion, nationality, position, or affiliation. The editors make just and impartial decisions, independent of commercial or other interests, and ensure a fair review process.

The editors may reject the manuscript without peer review if the work does not meet the journal’s scope.

The editors do not favor falsification, plagiarism, submission of the same manuscript to several journals, multiple copying of article content in different works, or misleading the public about the authors’ actual contribution to the publication.

The editors are authorized to withdraw a published article if it violates someone’s rights or generally accepted norms of scientific ethics. The editors notify both the author who submitted the article and the organization where the work was execute about the article’s removal.

The chief editor and editorial board members do not disclose the information about the manuscript under review to the third parties, except persons involved in its professional assessment. After a positive editorial decision, the article is published in the journal and on relevant electronic resources.

According to international legislation on the observance of e-resources copyright, the data from the site, electronic journal, or project cannot be reproduced in whole or in part in any form (electronic or printed) without the prior written consent of the journal editors. When using published materials in the context of other documents, a reference to the original source is required.

The editors, authors and reviewers must declare their interests, which may affect their objectivity when editing and reviewing articles (case of conflict of interests). These can be intellectual, financial, personal, political, and religious interests.

Every author, editor, reviewer, publisher, and organization is responsible for preventing illegal publication.

Ethical obligations of peer reviewers:

Peer review is an important step in the publication process. Each scientist is required to perform relevant work in the peer review process.

All articles submitted for publication must be reviewed by the research supervisor of the Author(s), the scientific institution where the work was performed, and members of the editorial board of the journal.

The editors reserve the right to involve an independent reviewer.

The reviewer must provide an objective assessment of the manuscript’s quality and its presentation, as well as determine whether the manuscript meets good scientific and practice. The reviewer must respect the intellectual independence of the authors.

The manuscript subject to peer review is a confidential document.

The reviewer should persuasively substantiate his/her conclusions s.

The reviewer should bring to the editor’s attention any significant similarities between the manuscript under review and any other published article or manuscript.

The reviewer shall not use or disclose unpublished information contained in the manuscript under review without the author’s consent.

The reviewer does not who know the author, the author –  the reviewer.

Copyright provisions

Authors publishing in the journal agree to the following terms:

1. The author retains the copyright of the manuscript and grants the journal right to first publication under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License, which allows others to freely distribute the published work with mandatory reference to the authors of the original work.
2. The authors are authorized to conclude independent additional agreements on the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form published by this journal (for example, make available in the electronic repository of the institution or publish as part of a monograph) provided that the link to the first publication of the work belongs to this journal.
3. The journal policy permits and encourages authors to post a manuscript on the Internet (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites), both before submitting the manuscript to the editors and during its editorial processing, as it contributes to a productive scientific discussion and positively affects the efficiency and dynamics of citation of the published work.