Reviewing

All articles are submitted to the editorial office of the journal in electronic form and are transmitted to the members of the editorial board for review. The requirements for materials submitted for publication are regulated by the information posted on the official website of the journal.
Before being submitted for review, the editorial board checks the uniqueness of the text of articles for the presence of incorrect borrowings (plagiarism) using the "Anti-Plagiarism" system.
All materials corresponding to the subject of the journal, the rules of design and uniqueness of at least 75% are reviewed by specialists in the relevant field in the order of two-sided blind review (the author does not know the reviewer, the reviewer does not know the author). The following aspects are taken into account when reviewing:

Correspondence of the title and annotation of the article to its content

Relevance of the topic, compliance with the latest research in this field

Relevance of the research methodology

The depth of the analysis of the problems and the quality of the results obtained

The quality of the language and style of presentation, the consistency of the structure of the text, etc.

Positive and negative aspects of the article, which can be corrected or refined by the author

Recommendations for publication or rejection of the article

The number of reviewers working with one material (article) is at least two.

All reviewers are recognized experts on the subject of peer-reviewed materials and have had publications on the subject of the reviewed article for the last 3 years.

The right to choose a reviewer/reviewers belongs to the editorial board of the journal.

If the reviewer refuses to evaluate the article (including those related to a conflict of interest), the editorial board selects another expert. The Editorial Board has the right to appoint additional experts and/or conduct an independent examination.

The manuscript is accepted for publication, rejected or returned to the author for revision only by the decision of the editorial board. The decision of the editorial board is considered final.

When evaluating the material, experts use a single electronic form of the review, which necessarily indicates one of the 4 variants of the expert decision:

to accept the article

to accept after minor corrections

to accept after major corrections

to resubmit for another review after major corrections

to reject the article

If the reviewer indicates the need to make serious changes to the article with repeated review, the manuscript is returned to the author for revision without consideration by the editorial board. After completion, the new version of the manuscript is sent for re-review by the same / the expert who made the appropriate conclusion.

The submitted materials are transferred to the editorial archive and are not returned to the author. The reviews are kept in the editorial office of the publication for 5 years, copies of them are provided upon request to the authors of the manuscripts.

More information about the provisions of the journal can be found at the link.

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