Publication ethics

The journal's publication ethics define the standards of conduct for members of the publication process (editorial board, authors, reviewers, and publisher), unethical behavior, measures for identifying conflicts of interest and resolving them, as well as guidelines for retracting and correcting articles, publishing corrections, and retractions. The editorial board, reviewers, and authors must adhere to the principles, norms, and standards of publication ethics. The editorial board is responsible for all published manuscripts: for their high quality and accuracy. The editorial board must follow the journal's policy regarding defamation, copyright, legality, and plagiarism.

The editorial board must adhere to the principles of independence and integrity, evaluating the intellectual content of manuscripts without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious views, origin, citizenship, or political preferences of the authors.

Authors of a manuscript may only include those who have made a significant contribution to the research and writing of the manuscript. All authors who have made a significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. The authors of the manuscript must ensure that those who have made significant contributions and meet the authorship criteria are included in the author list, and that these authors will not be removed from the list. If the author list changes, all authors must consent to the changes.

Authors must respond promptly to inquiries from the editorial board regarding the review process. Authors may contest the reviewer’s evaluation if it is deemed unobjective and unconstructive, or if unethical behavior by the reviewer is identified. In such cases, the authors should report this to the editorial board for review and, if necessary, for assigning a new reviewer. Authors must inform the editorial board if they refuse to have their manuscript reviewed.

TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

Ethics of scientific publications is a system of norms of professional behavior in the relationships between authors, reviewers, editorial board, publishers and readers in the process of creating, distributing and using scientific publications.

A conflict of interest is a situation in which a person's personal interest, scientific or financial, can influence the decision–making process when publishing a manuscript.

The editorial board is representatives of a scientific journal or publishing house who prepare materials for publication, as well as maintain communication with authors and readers of scientific publications.

The author(s) is a person or group of persons (a team of authors) involved in the creation of the publication of the results of scientific research.

A reviewer is an expert acting on behalf of a scientific journal or publishing house and conducting a scientific examination of manuscripts in order to determine the possibility of their publication.

Publisher is a legal entity or an individual who publishes a scientific publication.

COMPLIANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES, NORMS AND STANDARDS OF PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MEASURES TAKEN IN CASE OF VIOLATION OF PUBLICATION ETHICS

In case of violation of norms and standards of publication ethics, it is necessary to understand the situation in detail and, when considering the issue of unethical behavior of participants in the publication process, it is necessary to adhere to the principle of confidentiality.

In case of violation of publication ethics, the following measures may be taken:

1) By the authors:

– Investigation and investigation: If serious allegations of ethics violations arise, an investigation may be conducted to clarify the circumstances and take appropriate measures.

– Rejection of the publication: The editorial board may reject the manuscript if serious ethical violations on the part of the author(s) are found.

– Review of already published articles: If it becomes known that the manuscript was published on the basis of falsified data or other ethical violations, the journal may withdraw the manuscript.

– Warning and/or remark: The editorial board of the journal may contact the authors and express their disagreement with the violation of ethics, pointing out specific problems or errors in their publication. In some cases, this may be enough to correct the situation.

– Prohibition of publication: In case of serious violation of publication ethics, authors may be deprived of the right to publish manuscripts in the journal for a certain period of time.

2) Reviewers:

– Resending the article for review: If the editorial board finds that the reviewer has violated ethical standards, it can forward the article to other reviewers for additional evaluation. This reduces the possibility of a biased decision and ensures the objectivity of the review process.

– Change or cancellation of the decision: In case of serious ethical violations, the editorial board has the right to change the decision to publish the article, up to its complete rejection. This can happen if the reviewer is found to have deliberately or unprofessionally violated the ethics of the publication. The editorial board will conduct additional investigations and take appropriate measures.

– Revocation of the reviewer's status: If the reviewer's behavior does not comply with ethical standards on an ongoing basis, the editorial board may decide to revoke his reviewer status.

3) The Editorial Board:

– Warning: a warning may be issued to a member of the editorial board who has violated ethics. This may be a warning aimed at specifying problematic behavior, explaining ethical principles and publication requirements.

– Review of an article: If serious violations of the publication ethics of a member of the editorial board are found, decisions may be made to withdraw an article that was published with violations of the publication ethics.

– Termination of cooperation: In case of repeated or serious violations of ethics, it may be decided to terminate cooperation with a member of the editorial board.

Members of the editorial board are responsible for publishing articles that show clear signs of unethical behavior, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation by authors, or conflicts of interest. If the principles of publication and/or scientific ethics were violated during the writing of an article, the journal's scientific editor, based on the editorial board's decision, must retract the publication. Articles may be retracted by the author(s) or the journal's editorial board.