The Editorial Board of the journal guarantees compliance with the ethics of publication, authorship, review, and editing of scientific publications.
General Provisions
This section is developed based on the Declaration of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) "Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications," international standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as standards adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity (Singapore, 2010). The provisions of these documents apply to relations not regulated by these norms.
Ethics of Publishing Scientific Publications
The publisher of the journal must adhere to ethical principles and encourage members of the editorial board and reviewers of the journal to follow these principles.
The Publisher:
- defines the relationship between the publisher, editorial council, editorial board, and other participants in contractual relations;
- respects the right to confidentiality and privacy of personal information (e.g., for research participants, authors, reviewers);
- protects intellectual property and copyright;
- helps ensure the independence of the editorial board;
- jointly with the editorial council and editorial board, forms an effective journal policy and mechanisms for its implementation;
- ensures the dissemination of information about the journal's policy (e.g., to authors, readers, reviewers);
- adheres to the principles of scientific honesty;
- undertakes to publish corrections, explanations, and retract fraudulent articles;
- ensures the timely release of journal issues;
- ensures transparency of financial relations: full information about the presence or absence of Article Processing Charges (APC) is published on the journal's official website.
The Ethics of Authorship of Scientific Publications
Authors must:
- submit a quality research study for publication;
- present research results honestly and without fabrication, falsification, or fraudulent manipulation of facts, citations, sociological, criminological, statistical data, and other information;
- avoid using data not intended for open publication;
- notify the editorial board if an error is found in any work they have submitted for publication, accepted for publication, or already published;
- cooperate with the editorial board and reviewers when corrections or abridgements of the work are necessary;
- accurately and carefully format citations and references to other works;
- include in the article only references to those other publications with which they themselves are familiar;
- present new results of the work in the context of previous research;
- reflect the work of other scientists appropriately: as fully and balanced as possible;
- include information regardless of whether it supports the hypotheses and interpretations of the author of the publication;
- comply with publication requirements regarding the fact that the proposed work is original and has not been previously published anywhere in any language nor submitted simultaneously to multiple publications, unless publishers agree to co-publication. Articles previously posted by authors on personal or public websites not related to other publishers are eligible for consideration;
- comply with international norms and Russian legislation regarding copyright. Copyrighted materials may only be reproduced with the permission of their owners;
- without distortion, cite previous works relevant to the publication, both of other researchers and of the author themselves. In all possible cases, indicate links to the original source. Direct quotations from the works of other researchers should be highlighted with quotation marks and an appropriate reference;
- notify publishers if the data they propose for publication have been published elsewhere previously, or if any interpretations of this data have been submitted to other publishers. In this case, authors must provide copies of such publications or works submitted for consideration to other journals;
- indicate all sources of research funding, including direct and indirect financial support, provision of equipment or materials, and other types of support (e.g., assistance from statistical data processing specialists);
- follow the requirements and standards of the journal and the institution;
- guarantee that the work complies with ethical principles and norms;
- respond appropriately to comments after publication, published correspondence, as well as to questions from reviewers and provide necessary explanations and additional information if required.
Ethics of Reviewing Scientific Publications
Reviewers must:
- respond promptly to an invitation to write a review;
- state directly if they lack sufficient knowledge of the research subject;
- declare all possible conflicts of interest (related, for example, to personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political, or religious interests);
- decline to prepare a review if they feel they cannot make an impartial and fair assessment;
- promptly notify the journal if errors are found in the work, if there are doubts about the ethics of the work, if there is similarity between the manuscript and another document, or if there is suspicion of misconduct during the research or submission of the manuscript to the journal;
- carry out the review process within a reasonable timeframe;
- communicate with authors directly only with the prior permission of the journal's editorial board;
- prepare an objective and constructive review that can help authors improve their manuscript;
- refrain from derogatory personal comments or unfounded accusations;
- be specific in their criticism and support their general conclusions with strong evidence and appropriate references;
- upon request from the journal's editorial board, review the changes made to the manuscript or a new version of the manuscript.
Ethics of Editing Scientific Publications
The Editorial Board:
- is responsible for all published materials and takes measures to ensure the high quality and reliability of published materials;
- in case of detection of multiple fraudulent borrowings, the editorial board acts in accordance with the rules of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE);
- informs the organization (institution) with which the author has an employment relationship at their primary place of work about repeated publications by the author of the full or partial text of an article in the same or different scientific journals;
- makes decisions solely based on the scientific merits of the articles and assumes full responsibility for its decisions;
- ensures that the review of materials occurs exclusively on scientific grounds, and that authors are not pressured to cite certain publications for non-scientific reasons;
- undertakes to maintain the confidentiality of reviewers' personal data. However, if reviewers wish to disclose their names, they are not prohibited from doing so;
- ensures that it is inadmissible to use for personal purposes data obtained from submitted manuscripts without the written consent of the author;
- follows a policy of openness regarding information about financial and non-financial conflicts of interest and requires authors to include in the article a mention of at least those that could affect the reader's perception of the content;
- strives to ensure the journal's compliance with common standards accepted in scientific literature;
- encourages scientific debate on the pages of the journal;
- ensures the retraction of a published work or its correction in the event of detection of fraudulent borrowings, violations of publication ethics, or honest error on the part of the authors;
- responds to any statements or suspicions of misconduct regarding a published article coming from readers, reviewers, or other editors.