Publication Ethics
Ethical Obligations of the Editorial Board
1. The Editorial Board bears the responsible for the publication.
2. All materials submitted for publication are carefully selected and reviewed. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject the article or return it for further revision. The author must revise the article according to the comments of the reviewers.
3. The editorial board shall, without prejudice, examine all manuscripts submitted for publication, evaluating each article appropriately, regardless of the race, religion, nationality, or the position or place of work of the author(s). The editorial board shall make fair and impartial decisions, independent of commercial or other interests, and ensure a fair review process.
4. The editorial board may reject a manuscript without reviewing it if it considers that the work does not correspond to the profile of the magazine.
5. The editorial board of the magazine opposes falsification, plagiarism, sending the same work by the author to several magazines, repeatedly copying the content of the manuscript in different articles, misleading the public about the authors' real contribution to the publication.
6. The editorial board has the right to remove even a published article, in case a violation of one's rights or generally accepted norms of scientific ethics has been revealed. The editorial board shall inform the author who submitted the article and the organization under whose auspices the manuscript was written about the fact of the article being removed.
7. The editor and the editorial staff shall not disclose the information related to the content of the manuscript under review to other persons than those involved in the professional evaluation of the manuscript. After a positive decision by the editor, the article is published in the magazine and placed at the appropriate electronic resources.
8. Inaccordance with the international law on the copyright of electronic information resources, the materials of a site, an electronic magazine or a project may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form (soft or hard copies) without the prior written consent of the editorial board. When using published material in the context of other documents, the source shall be referred to.
9. The editors, authors, and reviewers should report on their interests, which may affect their objectivity when editing and reviewing articles (conflict of interest). Those may be intellectual, financial, personal, political or religious interests.
10. Prevention of unlawful publications lies within the responsibility of every author, editor, reviewer, publisher and organization.
Ethical obligations of reviewers
1. The reviewing of manuscripts is an important step in the process of publication.
2. The Editorial Board reserves the right to additionally appoint an independent reviewer.
3. The reviewer should provide an objective assessment of the quality of the manuscript, its exposition, and determine whether the manuscript complies with the high scientific and literary standards. The reviewer should respect the intellectual independence of the authors.
4. All members of the Editorial Board are reviewers.
5. Amanuscript submitted for review is a confidential document.
6. The reviewer must substantiate his or her opinion in a sufficiently convincing manner.
7. The reviewer should draw the editor's attention to any significant similarity between this manuscript and any other published article or manuscript.
8. The reviewer must provide timely feedback on the manuscript.
9. The reviewer shall not use or disclose unpublished information contained in the submitted manuscript unless the author or authors express their consent.
10. The reviewer and the author shall not know the identity of each other.
