Publication ethics

The editorial board keeps to the ethical principles of COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct), conventional ethical standards of scientific publishing.

Editors accountable for all the materials published in the journal. This means the editors are strive to meet the needs of readers and authors; strive to constantly improve their journal; have processes in place to assure the quality of the material they publish; champion freedom of expression; maintain the integrity of the academic record; preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards; always are willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

The editorial board takes as a premise that the authors and peer reviewers are familiar with the requirements to them. The editorial board and the editorial team take unbiased decisions based solely on the professional level and quality of the submitted manuscripts regardless of the race, gender, nationality, citizenship, religious and political views of the authors.

The editorial board, taking a decision on the publication of articles guided by the following rules: reliability of the data; scientific significance and scientific novelty of the work presented. The editorial board is obliged to provide for excluding any conflict of interests between the sides of the double-blind peer review process.

Author or co-author of the reviewed work, as well as scientific supervisors of author, cannot act as reviewers.

The editorial board discontinues preparation of the manuscript for publication in the detection of denounces of publication ethics, such as plagiarism, duplicate submission, misappropriation of research results and fraud.

The editorial board is avoid using the data from submitted manuscripts and not pass them to the third parties (excluding peer reviewers) before publishing.

Any essential correctives to the manuscript are made solely after the author’s authorization. Should the author or the editorial team disagree with these amendments, they both possess the right to withdraw the article.

The publications in Journal are free from payments; any attempt to offer such payment could result in rejection of the submitted manuscript.

Published articles may not represent the point of view of the founders, editorial board or editorial team. However, the editors bears full responsibility for all published articles.

Plagiarism
The Editorial Board of the journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. All submissions we receive are checked for plagiarism by using https://fnisc.antiplagiat.ru. Any suspected misconduct ends up with a quick rejection.

Ethical principles of the author

The authors do not provide previously published and proposed for publication works in other journals for publication in the journal.

If authors correctly use their own previously published materials (formatted with appropriate references), the share of new (original) text should be at least 70%.

The authors should indicate the contribution of all persons whose works are the basis for research. Those people, who do not participate in research as co-authors, shall not be stated.

Manuscript reflects results of an original scientific study.

Bibliographic references must be given for all academic works which influenced the research in some way. All borrowed content must be quoted according to rules of citing with reference to author and source. Manuscript does not contain any unformatted quotes. Unformed quotes and assignment of rights to other people's research results are unacceptable.

The authors must rely on representative results of the conducted research. It is forbidden to use and disclose invalid data deliberately.

Graphic material in a manuscript is original; author’s rights to it either belong to authors of the manuscript, or it was prepared by the authors on the basis of literature data, which is proved by comprehensive bibliographic references.

The authors attach their personal information to the article (place of work, address, position, e-mail, etc.), which are permitted for publication in the journal.

The authors agree that their article is sent for review (the reviewer's name is not revealed) and they are undertaking to collaborate with editors to improve, reduce or supplement their articles according to the reviewers' comments, as well as to correct all inaccuracies. In the event of errors or inaccuracies in the article, which is under consideration or has already been published, the authors must promptly notify the journal’s editors.

Author expects no author’s fee.

Violation of these ethical principles leads to rejection of manuscript and further interaction with the author.

Ethical principles of the reviewer

Manuscripts are reviewed only by experts in corresponding subdisciplines. Two reviewers provides a review to each of submitted manuscripts.

Reviewer cannot be a member of an established scientific team, which authors of a reviewed manuscript (or their frequent co-author in other works) belong to.

Reviewer cannot be a scientific adviser (scientific consultant) of any of the authors.

The reviewer, who is not well-qualified to evaluate the manuscript or cannot be objective, must inform the editor and ask to exclude him from the process of reviewing this manuscript.

The reviewer is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment to research results. Personal criticism of the author is not acceptable. Review should contain an objective and profound analysis of scientific article, its academic and methodological strong and weak points.

Compliance of the manuscript with the requirements of the journal on the subject and scope is analyzed in the review, as well as the scientific innovation, persuasion of experimental data, literacy, logicality and clarity of text, and representativeness of bibliography are evaluated.

The result of the consideration of the manuscript by the reviewer is the conclusion about its publication possibility as presented, with completion, after critical revision (re-examination), or its rejection. This conclusion is approved by the editorial team of the journal.

Reviewer must not use information on manuscript’s content before its publication in his own interests. Reviewed manuscript is a confidential document which cannot be distributed to third parties for consideration or discussion.