Publication ethics
The editorial board of the journal adheres to the rules of scientific ethics in its work. The editorial board of the journal strives to comply with the accepted ethical standards and avoid violations.
Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief
- directs the Journal;
- coordinates the Journal's publishing activities;
- prepares a plan and report on the Journal's publishing activities;
- resolves issues related to the Journal's artistic and technical design;
- makes suggestions for improving the Journal's activities and enhancing its efficiency.
- Coordinates the work on conducting external and internal expertise of articles;
- Signs manuscripts into production and checks the prototypes before release;
Responsibilities of the Deputy Editor-in-Chief
- carries out planning and general management of the editorial board;
- ensures that the Journal is published at a level that allows it to maintain a leading position among similar journals;
- constantly works to attract as many vacancies as possible to the publication;
- controls the preparation and publication of the Journal's materials;
- determines the necessity and effectiveness of information cooperation with various governmental, commercial, and public organizations;
- participates in the preparation of each issue of the Journal, making decisions on its content and scope.
- works with related departments and divisions to develop and promote the Journal;
- checks whether the authors have implemented the reviewers' comments and requirements for manuscripts during their revision, the completeness of the submitted material, and the correspondence between the title of the manuscript and its content.
Responsibilities of the scientific editor
- reviews the materials accepted for publication and the reviews on them, prepares conclusions on the possibility of publishing the materials in the submitted form or after revision, taking into account the proposed changes and/or additions;
- in cases of material rejection, prepares substantiated written refusals within the established timeframe;
- advises the editors of his thematic area on the latest domestic and foreign achievements in science and technology in the relevant field of knowledge;
- edits the materials accepted for publication, providing the authors with the necessary assistance (to improve the structure of the manuscripts, choose the terms, design the illustrations, etc.), and coordinates the recommended changes with them;
- during the process of scientific editing, checks whether the works being prepared for publication reflect the latest achievements in science, technology, and advanced production practices, as well as whether the authors have taken into account the reviewers' comments and the requirements for the material.
Responsibilities of the Executive Secretary
- organizes and controls the work on planning, timely and high-quality preparation of materials for publication;
- selects materials for the Journal, controls the implementation of the schedule for receiving materials;
- participates in the development of work plans and the preparation of reports;
- reviews the materials accepted for publication, providing the authors with the necessary assistance (to improve the structure, choose the terms, design the illustrations, etc.), and coordinates the recommended changes with them;
- checks whether the authors have implemented the reviewers' comments and the requirements for manuscripts during their revision, as well as the completeness of the submitted material and the correspondence between the titles of the manuscript and their content;
- submits the journal layout to the printing house.
Responsibilities of the Technical Secretary
- collects information about the authors;
- places the electronic version of the Journal on the website;
- collects and provides reports (payment receipts for article publication, DOI identifier, and author registration in the Crossref system) to the Society's supervisory department.
Responsibilities of the Reviewers
- enters the online journal system with consent or a motivated refusal before reviewing;
- adheres to the principle of confidentiality during the review process;
- gives an objective assessment of the scientific work without personal criticism of the author, and expresses its opinion clearly and reasonably;
- cannot use the data submitted for review and unpublished data for personal purposes without the written consent of the author(s).
The authors' responsibilities:
- Submit previously unpublished materials that are formatted in strict accordance with the requirements and have been carefully edited to the editorial office;
- Take responsibility for the accuracy of the facts presented in the article;
- Provide additional information about the article if necessary;
- Take immediate action to correct any errors that may be discovered.
Copyrights
The authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who were directly involved in the creation of the manuscript, in the formation of the idea, in the writing of the article, in the interpretation of the results, and who made a significant contribution to the scientific results. The authors retain the rights to their manuscripts, while allowing anyone to freely download, distribute, or copy them, with the mandatory indication of the authorship of this work and a reference to the unique publication in this journal.
Conflict of interest
Editors and reviewers may not use unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts in their personal research without the Author's written consent. Information or ideas obtained during the review process related to potential benefits should be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes. Reviewers should not participate in the review of manuscripts if they have a conflict of interest due to competitive, collaborative, or other interactions and relationships with any of the Authors.
Privacy Policy
The editorial board of the journal does not disclose to third parties, with the exception of the designated reviewers, information about the manuscript accepted for review before its publication. The editorial board also does not disclose information about reviewers to authors and other persons. These and other norms of behavior of participants in the publication process, namely the principles, norms and standards of behavior of authors, members of the editorial board, the publisher and reviewers, are based on the ethics of publication.
The procedure for correcting and finalizing articles
If the review of an article contains a conclusion about the need to correct it, the article is sent to the author for revision. If the review contains recommendations for correcting and refining the article, the executive secretary sends the author the text of the review with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or to refute them (partially or completely). The article, which has been revised (refined) by the author, is submitted for review again and is considered in the general order. The article, which is not recommended by the reviewer for publication