Code of ethics of editor-in-chief

Editor-in-chief:

• makes decision on publication of a manuscript solely on the basis of expert evaluation of a group of independent reviewers and the opinion of the members of the editorial board;
• sends confidential information about the submitted manuscript to the authors and the reviewers only;
• excludes the submitted manuscript from consideration in case of the conflict of interest;
• assumes the appropriate response measures in case of a complaint of ethic nature to the submitted manuscript or the published paper (informs the author, discusses the complaint with the editorial board, publishes the corrections);
• citation recommendations are based on the scientific importance of the cited papers, and pursue the goal to improve the submitted manuscript.