Publishing ethics

The scientific electronic journal strives to maintain high ethical standards in relation to the publication of articles submitted to the editorial office.

 Ethical obligations of the journal editors

1. All manuscripts submitted to the editorial office are carefully selected and reviewed. The editorial board reserves the right to reject an article or return it for revision.

2. The Editor shall consider all manuscripts submitted for publication without prejudice, evaluating each manuscript on its merits, regardless of the author(s)'s race, religion, nationality, or position or place of employment. However, the Editor may take into account the relationship of the currently under consideration manuscript with other previously submitted works by the same authors.

3. The Editor shall review manuscripts submitted for publication as quickly as possible.

4. The responsibility for accepting or rejecting a manuscript lies with the editor-in-chief. A responsible and balanced approach to fulfilling these responsibilities typically involves the editor considering the reviewer's recommendation regarding the quality and validity of the manuscript submitted for publication. However, manuscripts may be rejected without review if the editor believes that they do not align with the journal's profile.

5. The editor and editorial board members should not disclose any information related to the content of a manuscript under review to anyone other than those involved in the professional evaluation of the manuscript. After the editor's positive decision regarding the manuscript, the article is published in the journal and placed on the relevant electronic resources.

6. It is allowed to distribute any articles from the journal or excerpts from them via electronic networks, but in such cases, a reference to the original source is required. It is prohibited to publish and/or distribute the journal's materials by third parties or organizations on paper or hard electronic media.

7. In accordance with international laws regarding the protection of copyright in electronic information resources, the materials of the website, 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 authors and the editorial board of the journal. When using published materials in the context of other documents, a reference to the original source is required.

8. The editor must respect the intellectual independence of the authors.

9. The editor's responsibility and rights regarding any submitted manuscript authored by the editor themselves must be delegated to someone else

10. Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations disclosed in the submitted manuscript may be used in the editor's own research only with the author's consent. If the manuscript is so closely related to the editor's current or past research that a conflict of interest may arise, the editor should take steps to ensure that another qualified individual assumes editorial responsibility for the manuscript.

11. If the editor is presented with convincing evidence that the main content or conclusions of a work published in the journal are erroneous, the editor should facilitate the publication of an appropriate message indicating the error and, if possible, correcting it. This message can be written by the person who discovered the error or by an independent author.

12. The author may request that the editor does not use some of the reviewers in the review of the manuscript. However, the editor may decide to use one or more of these reviewers if he feels that their opinions are important for an impartial review of the manuscript. Such a decision may be made, for example, in the case where there are serious disagreements between the given manuscript and the previous work of a potential reviewer.

Ethical obligations of authors

1. Authors of articles bear full responsibility for the content of articles and for the very fact of their publication. The editorial board of the journal does not bear any responsibility to the authors and/or to third parties and organizations for possible damage caused by the publication of an article. The editorial board has the right to withdraw an already published article if it turns out that in the process of publishing the article, someone's rights or generally accepted norms of scientific ethics were violated. About the fact of withdrawal of the article, the editorial board informs the author who submitted the article.

2. The initial report on the research results should be comprehensive and include necessary references to available sources of information.

3. The author should cite those publications that have had a defining influence on the substance of the work presented, as well as those that can quickly introduce the reader to earlier works that are essential for understanding the current study. With the exception of reviews, the author should minimize the citation of works that are not directly relevant to the current report. The author is responsible for conducting a literature search to find and cite original publications that describe research closely related to the article.

4. When preparing a manuscript for publication, the author must inform the editor about the author's related manuscripts that have been submitted for publication or accepted for publication. Copies of these manuscripts must be provided to the editor, and their connections to the manuscript submitted for publication must be indicated.

5. An author should not submit manuscripts describing essentially the same results to more than one journal as a primary publication, unless the manuscript has been rejected by the journal or withdrawn by the author. It is acceptable to submit a manuscript of a full article that expands on a previously published brief preliminary report (message) about the same work. However, when submitting such a manuscript, the editor should be notified of the earlier message, and the preliminary message should be cited in the manuscript.

6. The author must clearly identify the sources of all information cited or presented, except for publicly available information. Information obtained in private conversations, correspondence, or discussions with third parties should not be used or reported in the author's work without explicit permission from the researcher from whom the information was obtained. Similarly, information obtained through confidential services, such as reviewing manuscripts or grant applications, should be handled with care.

7. An experimental or theoretical study may sometimes serve as a basis for criticizing the work of another researcher. In such cases, published articles may contain such criticism. However, personal criticism is not appropriate under any circumstances.

8. The co-authors of an article should be all those individuals who have made significant scientific contributions to the work presented and who share responsibility for the results obtained. Other contributions should be noted in the notes or in the "Acknowledgements" section. Administrative relationships with the study are not in themselves a basis for qualifying an individual as a co-author (but in some cases it may be appropriate to note significant administrative assistance in the work). Deceased individuals who meet the criteria outlined above should be included as authors, and their date of death should be noted in the notes. Fictitious names should not be used as an author or co-author. The author who submits the manuscript for publication is responsible for ensuring that only those individuals who meet the criteria for authorship are included in the list of co-authors. In an article written by multiple authors, the author who provides contact information, documents, and correspondence with the editors takes responsibility for ensuring that the other authors of the article agree to its publication in the journal.

9. Authors must inform the editor of any potential conflict of interest, such as consulting or financial interests of any company that could be affected by the publication of the results contained in this manuscript. Authors must ensure that there are no contractual or proprietary considerations that could affect the publication of the information contained in the submitted manuscript.

Ethical obligations of reviewers
1. The reviewer must objectively assess the quality of the manuscript, the experimental and theoretical work presented, its interpretation and presentation, and consider the extent to which the work meets high scientific and literary standards. The reviewer must respect the intellectual independence of the authors.

2. If the selected reviewer is not confident that their qualifications match the level of research presented in the manuscript, they must immediately return the manuscript.

3. The reviewer should consider the possibility of a conflict of interest in cases where the manuscript under review is closely related to the reviewer's current or published work. If there is any doubt, the reviewer should immediately return the manuscript without a review, indicating the conflict of interest. 

 4. The reviewer should not evaluate a manuscript with which the reviewer has personal or professional connections, if such relationships may influence the reviewer's judgment of the manuscript.

5. The reviewer should treat the manuscript submitted for review as a confidential document. They should not show the manuscript to others or discuss it with other colleagues, except in special cases where the reviewer needs special advice from someone else.

6. Reviewers should adequately explain and justify their opinions so that editors and authors can understand the basis for their comments. Any statement that an observation, conclusion, or argument has been previously published should be accompanied by a relevant reference.

7. The reviewer should note any instances of insufficient citation by the authors of the work of other scholars that are directly relevant to the work under review, taking into account that comments on insufficient citation of the reviewer's own research may appear biased. The reviewer should draw the editor's attention to any significant similarities between the manuscript under review and any published article or any manuscript simultaneously submitted to another journal.

8. The reviewer should submit their review in a timely manner.

9. Reviewers should not use or disclose unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations contained in the manuscript under review unless the author has agreed to do so. However, when such information indicates that some of the reviewer's own research may be inconclusive, it is not unethical for the reviewer to stop such work.