Publication Ethics

The editorial board is committed to adhering to the principles of publication ethics to promote the development of science and prevent misconduct, in accordance with the quality standards for scholarly work and the dissemination of research results accepted in the academic community.

The editorial board encourages compliance with the principles of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the principles of DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment), and publishes its own “Statement on Publication Ethics and the Prevention of Unethical Publishing Practices.”

The editorial board recognizes research integrity as a fundamental basis of scholarly activity and does not tolerate any forms of misconduct that may affect the reliability, objectivity, and transparency of research results.

Violations of research integrity include, but are not limited to:

Data Fabrication
Making up data, research results, or experiments and presenting them as real.

Falsification
Manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or altering or selectively omitting data in order to distort research results.

Citation Manipulation
Artificially increasing references to specific sources, journals, or authors to boost scientometric indicators; including irrelevant citations; deliberately ignoring significant sources.

Inappropriate Authorship
Including individuals as authors who have not made a significant intellectual contribution to the research or excluding those who have.

Other Violations
Plagiarism, self-plagiarism without proper disclosure, concealment of conflict of interest, duplication of publications, intentional violation of review procedures.

In accordance with DORA principles, the journal:

  • Evaluates manuscripts solely on the basis of their scientific quality, originality, methodological soundness, and contribution to the advancement of science.
  • Does not use journal-based metrics (including the Impact Factor) as a criterion for assessing individual articles or the scientific quality of an author.
  • Does not encourage artificial inflation of citation metrics.
  • Supports the responsible use of scientometric indicators.