Publication Ethics

The journal "Vestnik SGUGiT" adheres to generally accepted standards of scientific publication ethics based on international ethical principles. It supports the Declaration of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers "Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications" (Moscow, May 20, 2016), the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

In the publishing process, the journal's editorial board is guided by the following rules:

  • Not accepting for publication works that there are sufficient grounds to believe contain plagiarism, lack scientific value, or do not comply with the journal's profile and editorial policy;
  • Not permitting discrimination in the evaluation of submitted materials;
  • Preventing and eliminating conflicts of interest when working with articles;
  • Ensure a fair and effective independent peer review process;
  • Maintain the confidentiality of submitted articles: do not use materials received for publication to third parties or for personal purposes without the consent of the authors;
  • Be prepared to publish information about corrections, retractions, and retractions of articles, if necessary.

In the publishing process, reviewers are guided by the following rules:

  • Do not use unpublished data obtained from submitted materials in personal research;
  • Assess their availability before agreeing to review a manuscript and agree to review only if they have sufficient time to do a high-quality job, and adhere to the review deadlines established by the editorial board;
  • Notify the editorial board of any conflicts of interest before working on the article;
  • Treat any material received for review as a confidential document, and do not disclose its contents or discuss it with anyone other than the editorial staff who submitted the material for review;
  • Provide an objective and reasoned assessment of the presented research results, avoid drawing conclusions about the quality of the article based on subjective data (personal attitudes toward the author), and use only correct expressions and explanations regarding the article.

Authors are guided by the following rules in the publishing process:

  • Ensure the novelty, reliability, and originality of the results of independent or collective research; document all borrowings from other sources with precise attribution to the author and original source;
  • Ensure that the article is being published for the first time and has not previously been published or submitted to another journal;
  • Avoid plagiarism in any form—from presenting another person's work as the author's own, to copying or paraphrasing significant parts of another person's work (without attribution), to claiming rights to the results of another person's research;
  • Include as co-authors individuals who have made a significant contribution to the study and to creating the conditions for obtaining a high-quality result;
  • Correspond correctly with the reviewer through the editor and respond to comments and concerns, if any. Cooperate with the journal's editorial staff to improve, shorten, or expand their article in accordance with the reviewer's comments, as well as to correct any inaccuracies;
  • Cooperate with the journal's editorial staff to improve, shorten, or expand their article in accordance with the reviewer's comments, as well as to correct any inaccuracies;
  • Notify the journal's editorial staff if they discover significant errors or omissions in their article during its review or after its publication.