PUBLICATION PROCEDURE
Initial manuscript assessment (average time - 14 days):
- Preliminary verification of the submitted material by the Editor-in-Chief and Scientific Editors on the basis of compliance with the subject matter of the journal and instructions for Authors, the originality of the work, information on duplicate work and information about non-infringement of copyrights.
- Checking information about the Author/Authors contribution to counteract scientific dishonesty, such as "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship"; verification of publications for the possibility of occurrence of plagiarism.
- Accepting and directing the text to the next stage or rejecting a text incompatible with the subject matter of the journal, duplicated, doesn't conform to the requirements of a scientific paper, prepared in a manner inconsistent with the instructions for Author/Authors, exceeding required volume or violating the principles of ethics in scientific publications by the Editor-in-Chief and Scientific Editors.
- Correspondent Author's notification if the article is rejected.
Manuscript review (average time - 30 days):
- Designation of Reviewers in accordance with the reviewing procedure.
- Developing reviews in accordance with the reviewing procedure.
- Sending the information about the results of the review to the corresponding Author.
- Correction of the text by the Author/Authors and sending it to the Editorial Board.
- If re-evaluation is necessary, sending the amended version of the text to the Reviewers.
- Sending the information about the results of the re-review to the corresponding Author.
Paying the article processing charge (APC) to the bank account.
Language proofreading of the text by a native speaker.
Editorial preparation in the Publishing Office:
- Sending the article to the Publishing Office.
- Editorial work on the article.
- Author's proofreading of texts.
- Preparation of the final version of the article.
Publication of the article on the Journal's website:
- Placing the article on the Journal's website.
- Assignment of DOI numbers.
Preparation of the printed version of the Journal issue by the Publishing Office.
Sending of copies to the Authors.
The average time for an article to be published is 120 days.
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