Editorial board code of ethics

Editorial board helps the authors to improve the quality of the submitted manuscripts through reviewing and literary editing of the manuscripts.

Editorial board promises to pass just and impartial decision about the publication of the manuscripts and to perform fair reviewing regardless of commercial interest.

Editorial board:

• complies with confidentiality requirements and sends the submitted manuscripts to the reviewers only. Correspondence with the author is of confidential nature;
• assures the reviewers are aware of the rules of reviewing;
• adopts an editorial policy, providing maximum clarity and complete reporting to the author; if the referee process takes much time, the author is informed about it by e-mail;
• protects the rights of the third parties from illegal use of the materials (piracy) – the manuscripts of the persons, caught in piracy, are not accepted for publication in the academic periodical. Editorial board has a right to give publicity the leak out cases of piracy on the pages of its periodical;
• gives the authors grounds for the decision if the manuscript is not accepted for publication or if returned for revision;
• does not accept for publication the manuscripts with invalid references and citation.