ENSURING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Academic integrity in the writing of scientific articles is ensured by adhering to the following basic rules:
● The article must be written by the person indicated as the author (one of the co-authors) based on the results of research conducted by that person. Providing consultations, technical or financial assistance, literary editing, translating information from a foreign language, and any other assistance that does not constitute conducting research and writing the manuscript does not constitute authorship. Generating the text of an article in whole or in part using artificial intelligence technologies does not constitute authorship. The inclusion of a person who did not participate in the research and writing of the manuscript as an author is unacceptable.
● The article should be the result of new research that does not reproduce the content of scientific knowledge previously published by the author(s). The author(s) of the article may use their previous publications for the further development of research and the formation of new conclusions. Duplication of the same scientific knowledge, including complete rewriting of previously published material or its translation into another language, is unacceptable.
● Each borrowing from any source must be accompanied by a reference to that source. The use of borrowings, both in unchanged and paraphrased form, without reference to the source, is unacceptable.
● All sources of information must be reliable, including reliable data about the source. References to fictitious sources, as well as incorrect information about the source (incorrect indication of the author’s name, title of the work, publisher, year of publication; data on judgments or regulatory legal acts, etc.) are unacceptable.
● All data must be presented accurately and without any alteration of its content. Modification or fabrication of data, removal of selected fragments from context that alters the perception of content, and any other manipulation of data for “adapting” it to the purpose of the article is unacceptable.
Each article is checked for similarities with other texts using specialized software. If several matches are found in an article that do not contain references to the relevant sources, the editorial board asks the author to provide such references. If the article contains significant borrowings from the works of other authors without references to the relevant sources, such an article is rejected.
The editorial board checks the sources of information cited in the article. If incomplete data is found in the sources, the editorial board informs the author of the need to clarify the relevant sources. If the article contains references to non-existent sources, depending on the number of such sources, the editorial board either asks the author to provide references to correct sources or rejects the article.
PROCEDURE FOR CONSIDERING COMPLAINTS OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY INFRINGEMENT
Any person may submit a complaint to the journal’s email address regarding an academic integrity infringement in a published article.
A complaint may be accepted for consideration if it contains the following information:
● the article to which the complaint relates
● detailed description of the academic integrity infringement
● references to evidence confirming the infringement; if the evidence is a work or document that is not freely available on the Internet,
a copy of such work (document) shall be attached to the complaint
● name, position, place of work, academic degree (if any), academic title (if any), and contact details of the complainant.
Within five working days of receiving the complaint, the editor-in-chief shall verify the information contained in the complaint. If there are grounds for considering the complaint, the editor-in-chief shall form a commission of three independent experts.
The Commission shall consider the complaint within 20 working days.
When considering a complaint, the commission has the right to request additional materials and/or explanations from the complainant and explanations from the author(s) of the article that is the subject of the complaint.
If the case is complex and requires additional materials and/or consultations with other experts, the period for considering the complaint may be extended.
Based on the results of the complaint review, the commission adopts a decision on the absence or presence of signs in the article that indicate an academic integrity infringement.
The commission’s decision shall be immediately communicated to the editor-in-chief.
The editorial board sends a copy of the decision to the complainant and the author(s) of the article in question.
If signs of academic misconduct are found in an article, the editorial board has the right to initiate the procedure for retracting the article.
If the infringement consists in the fact that a significant part of the article contains borrowings from another work or works without references, or the data presented in the article is fabricated and/or falsified, or artificial intelligence technologies generate the article or its individual parts, the editorial board has the right to decide to reject without consideration future articles by the author (each of the co-authors) for a period of 3 years.
In the event of repeated detection of any of the above infringements in another article by the same author or in another article involving the same co-author, the editorial board has the right to decide to reject permanently any future articles by such author (co-author) without consideration.