Peer-review process

Reviewers are appointed by the editor-in-chief or, under certain circumstances, a member of the editorial board. Also, highly qualified specialists with experience in a particular scientific field, as a rule, associate professors, candidates of sciences, professors, doctors of sciences, can be involved in the review.

Within week, the reviewer prepares his conclusion on the compliance of the article with all editorial requirements and the possibility of its publication.

The review is carried out confidentially according to the principles of double-blind review (double-blind review, when neither the author nor the reviewer know about each other).

The editors inform the author by e-mail of the results of the review.

Ethical principles of reviewer

Reviewer provides scientific expertise of copyright material, so that his actions should be impartial in nature and are expressed in the following principles:

Manuscripts for review must be treated as a confidential document that cannot be transferred for review or discussion of the third parties who do not have that authority from the publisher;

Reviewer is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the findings of the study;

Unpublished data from manuscripts submitted for consideration should not be used for reviewer’s personal purposes;

Reviewer who is not, in his opinion, so qualified to assess the manuscript, or cannot be objective, should notify the editor with a request to exclude him from the review process of this manuscript.