Open Access Policy

The open-access model allows authors to retain copyright over their articles while ensuring immediate and unrestricted publication. This enables the immediate deposit of published papers in other repositories without restrictions on reuse.

Research results

We strongly condemn fabrication, falsification or selective reporting of data with the intent to mislead or deceive. We consider this as the theft of data or research results from other authors. The results of research should be recorded clearly and should allow to analysis and review.

Authorship

All persons made a significant contribution should be recorded as authors. The persons contributed to the work should be acknowledged. We encourage the authors to insert full list of the current institutional affiliations.

Competing interests

We strongly recommend the authors, referees and editors to declare any conflicting or competing interests relating to a given article. Competing interests through their potential influence on the publication decision on the given paper that can lead to the wrong value of publication.

Plagiarism

Any kind of plagiarism as well as reproducing text from other papers without properly crediting the source or producing many papers with almost the same content by the same authors is strongly not acceptable. Authors may present results obtained only by themselves. Authors should cite the publications that have been used in obtaining the results presented in the paper.

Duplicate submission

Simultaneous submissions of the same manuscript to different journals is not acceptable. Such papers will be immediately removed from the list of the papers under evaluation.

Corrections and retractions

Submitting their paper the authors undertake an obligation to provide prompt retractions or correction of errors in published works. The reviewers’ remarks should be clearly answered and inserted in the paper if acceptable. The authors should submit the final version of the paper prepared in the journal format and style.

Peer Review Policy

Aiming to publish only high-quality papers, we evaluate them through strong peer review process that mainly considers:

  • The manuscript should not be submitted to the different journals at the same time.
  • Manuscripts should be in the scope of the journal.
  • The manuscripts are reviewed by 2 experts as suggested by the editorial board.
  • In some cases Editors can invite additional reviews.
  • Editors-in-Chief makes main decision on the manuscript basing on the referees' reports. The Authors are notified promptly about the decision made.
  • The submitted manuscripts are considered as confidential documents. We inform all our editors and reviewers that they should treat manuscripts as a confidential documents.
  • We inform our Editors and Reviewers that they should declare if they have any conflicts of interest resulting from direct competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors. In the cases above they are removed from the process of evaluation.
  • The review process is confidential and we do not disclose the names of the persons involving this process.