The e-journal follows the Code of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors designed by the Committee on Publication Ethics — COPE. This Code provides a set of standards to which all authors, the editor-in-chief, the editorial board, external reviewers (experts) are expected to adhere. Following are the rules that identify the aspects of journal ethical policy.
E-journal policy
1. Editors decide to accept or reject a paper for publication after the objective evaluation regarding the paper’s importance, originality and clarity based on the scientific review.
Editors must evaluate the scientific validity of the papers regardless of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious views, origin, citizenship, social and political standing.
2. Editors have no right to disclose, copy for personal purposes, and transfer to a third party (except for reviewers) any pre-publication materials without the written consent of the author (co-authors).
The reviewers are warned that the article is an item of intellectual property and that they must handle the submitted material in confidence.
3. Editors do not publish the papers with plagiarism, inappropriate citation and other kinds of breaching the publishing ethical policy. All submitted articles go through the formal (automatic) authenticity check in the system of Antiplagiat. VUZ.
4. Editors together with the founders consider the claims, concerning the submitted papers or the published papers, takes measures to restore the rights.
Policy for the reviewers
1. The reviewers must be objective in their expertise. They are required to disclose any potential competing interests to the editors before agreeing to review a submission.
2. The reviewer has no right to use the submitted material in personal purposes before publication, transfer the paper to a third party without permission of the editor-in-chief or the executive editor.
3. The review must contain explicit criticism and compelling recommendations. Offensive personal criticism is prohibitive.
Policy for the authors
1. Authors (co-authors) are personally responsible for the originality and credibility of their scientific studies, published in the paper.
2. Authors guarantee that the submitted papers are original and have never been published in other journals even as a part of dissertation and dissertation abstract. If some previously published fragments are used in the paper, the references to the publications are required.
3. The fragments of other authors’ works may be cited only with the reference to the primary source according to the rules of citation.
The minimum level of originality of the article is 90%.
Plagiarism, as well as excessive borrowings, including the ones from the previously published materials, are considered as violations of the publication ethical policy.
4. Authors must record all the people, who contributed to the study.
5. Republishing is prohibited.
The application addressed to the editor-in-chief must contain the following assertions:
1) the paper is published for the first time;
2) the paper has not been forwarded to another publishing house.
6. Co-authors are those people, who have made a considerable contribution to the study. Choosing people who haven’t taken any part in the implemented study as co-authors is considered as violation of the publication ethical policy.
7. Each co-author must agree to the publication, by signing the application addressed to the editor-in-chief, and the licensed contract with the university.
8. Both editors and founders bear no third party responsibility for the violation of the author’s guarantees.
9. If the authors found significant errors and inaccuracies in the paper during the period of reviewing or after its publication, they should immediately inform the editors. If the paper with considerable inaccuracies has been published, the editors take measures to correct it.
Competing interests
1. To observe the journal ethical policy the editors try to avoid competing interests caused by different scientific, financial and personal relations between the author, the reviewer or the member of the editorial board.
2. If the violation of the publication ethical policy took place, the investigation is in order, followed by the public clarification of the conflict.
