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Provision on Publishing Ethics

PROVISION ON PUBLISHING ETHICS

Editorial responsibility
The Activity of the publishing house is based on ethical norms and recommendations, published on the website https://publicationethics.org/  (Committee on Publishing Ethics), according to which:
- on the basis of a common approach to examinations the  Editorial Board is solely responsible for the content and quality of published material;
- decision on acceptance of articles for publication is based on objective arguments: the original of the text, the scientific relevance, the novelty of the material, the reliability of the statistical data and the results of the research, on the relevant articles according to the profile of the publishing house; taking into consideration objective reasons.
- Editorial staff is solely responsible and has the authorities to reject or to accept an book for publication and should not have a conflict of interests with the materials that are rejected or accepted for publication;
- Editorial staff must be convinced that all published materials in the publishing house or all research papers correspond to internationally accepted ethical standards;
- Editorial staff continuously monitors the maintenance of ethic rules and the selection of articles by publishing house employees and reviewers; it ensures the confidentiality of materials submitted to the editor till the moment of their publication;
- Editorial staff is constantly working to improve the operation of the publishing house;
- Editorial staff strives for perfection and tries to satisfy the needs of readers and authors, defend freedom of expression and promptly respond to the complaints;
- Editorial staff encourages discussions on different actual topics in science among the authors;
- Editorial staff is ready to publish corrections of texts and notes to them, as well as a retraction and apology, if necessary;
- Editorial staff ensures the anonymity of reviewers and independence of quality of the publication from commercial interests; is strives for nothing like adverts or other commercial interests influence editorial decisions;
- Editorial staff cooperates with other publishers and other industry associations on various problems, including ethical issues, bug tracking and publishing of refutation;
- Editorial staff has constantly updated instructions for authors on various problems related to the terms and conditions of publications and the results of their research in the publishing house.
 
Responsibility Reviewers:
- Take part in the formation of editorial policy;
- Follow the editorial policy providing the maximum transparency and full accountability to the author;
- Make fair and impartial decisions that are independent of commercial interests, and to organize the process of objective review; keep to the terms of reviewing articles and privacy assessments; protect the confidentiality of reviews on books;
- Reviewers are responsible for everything that is published in the publishing house;
- Reviewers formulate an objective and impartial review and if it is necessary, they confirm their opinion, citing a source;
- In the case if the reviewer finds incorrect, erroneous statements or corrupted data he informs the author for eliminating of  the violations and for reporting about it to the editors in the prescribed manner;
- Reviewers defend the rights of third parties from unauthorized use of the materials;
- Reviewers protect the integrity of publications, making corrections if necessary, and give out well-founded refusal for those whose manuscripts do not correspond to the research or publishing ethics;
- Reviewers editorial regulate conflicts of interest, monitor and stop a situation of conflict of interest;
- Reviewers authors provide awareness of the requirements of the research submitted for publication;
- Reviewers monitor and suppress the possibility of conflicts of interest;
- Reviewers are in constant contact with the authors on the relevance of published materials, accuracy and originality of the data reported;
- Reviewers should allocate appropriate published provisions that have not yet cited.
   
Responsibility of the authors:
- The authors should submit to the editor the original works, avoiding unfair citation, false data and parallel publications in other publications;
- To stick to the generally accepted standards of scientific reports;
- To provide the access to the data they received and confirm the sources of their data;
- The authors can use the financial support for the publication of their research
- A statement that all of the data in the article are real and authentic;
- The authors must keep the general requirements, presented by the editorial staff for the registration of publications to their relevance of international publishing standards;
- In the case of incorrect, erroneous statements or falsified data in publications, the author should quickly resolve these infringements and notify the Editor in the prescribed manner;
- The authors have the right to appeal against the decision of the editorial staff in the case of refusal to publish the presented material.
 


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