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Editorial Ethics

Basic Provisions

• Reviewers and editors are obligated to conduct an unbiased review of manuscripts, maintaining confidentiality, and declaring any conflicts of interest in advance.
• The editorial board carefully considers all contentious situations and violations, making corrections or removing materials as necessary.

General Responsibilities and Accountability of the Editorial Board

• The editorial board bases its work on the developments of the Committee on Publication Ethics (UK) and other foreign editorial associations.
• Guarantees the confidentiality of materials submitted for publication throughout the entire editorial and publishing process, taking into account the provisions of the Law of Ukraine \"On the Protection of Personal Data\".
• Considers the comments and suggestions of readers, authors, and reviewers regarding ways to improve the publication's work.
• The editorial board promptly responds to any complaints regarding the journal's work and guarantees the resolution of all problematic situations.

Collaboration with Authors

• The editorial board provides authors with detailed instructions regarding the editorial and publishing process, informs them about deadlines for accepting materials and publication dates of issues.
• The editorial board defines the criteria for evaluating materials and selects reviewers for each individual manuscript.
• Sends detailed reviewer comments to authors.
• The editorial board reserves the right to make minor literary editing and corrections to texts while preserving the author's style.
• The decision to accept/reject a manuscript is based on its relevance, novelty, compliance with the scientific focus and requirements of the journal.
• If the manuscript contains many controversial points (for example, negative reviews about the quality of the article from both reviewers, the article is not revised by the author taking into account the reviewers' comments), the editorial board may refuse to publish such materials.
• At the author's request, the manuscript can be withdrawn from consideration (with the possibility of resubmission later). To do this, the author needs to contact the editor with a corresponding request.

Collaboration with Reviewers

• The editorial board provides reviewers with detailed instructions regarding their work.
• The editorial board asks reviewers to report all cases of plagiarism.
• Sends thank-you messages to reviewers for their contribution to the publication.
• Guarantees that the qualifications of all reviewers meet the level of a professional publication and adjusts their composition if necessary.
• Terminates cooperation with reviewers who provide poor quality reviews or consistently late reviews.
• Guarantees that the review process is fair, objective, unbiased, and timely.
• Adapts the review process to the needs of users and provides each reviewer with the opportunity to review submissions in the most convenient way for them.
• Reviewers do not have the right to disclose data presented in manuscripts before their publication.

Collaboration with Editors

• The editorial board is committed to providing new editors with detailed instructions on working with the specifics of the editorial and publishing process.
• Provides continuous information to members of the editorial board about innovations.
• Periodically conducts consultations with members of the editorial board, informs them about changes in the publication's policy, technical innovations, and exchanges proposals for the further functioning of the collection of scientific papers.
• Editors do not have the right to disclose data presented in manuscripts before their publication.

For Authors

• The list of authors should include individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the scientific research presented in the article. Academic status, position, or other seniority indicator should not determine the order in this list; the order of authors should indicate the relative leadership and the magnitude of the researchers' contributions to this scientific work.
• The author of the manuscript is considered to be the researcher who participated in all of the following stages of article preparation: formulating the idea of the research and setting the problem and objectives of the research; developing the concept and design of the manuscript, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting them;
• compiling the article or its critical scientific review and correction; interpreting the results.
• Each author is responsible for the content of the article. If the work is performed by a large group of scientists, the list of authors should include individuals who meet the above criteria and add the name of the group.
• Funding the research or general supervision of the group's work is not authorship.
• If, for any reason, changes need to be made to the list of authors between the submission of the manuscript and its publication, the author submitting the manuscript should contact the editorial board and indicate the reason for the changes.

Conflict of Interest

• A conflict of interest is the presence of factors that negatively affect objectivity or can be perceived as interference in the process of reviewing, making editorial decisions, publishing, and presenting a manuscript.
• Personal relationships (e.g., friends, family members, current or former supervisors, opponents) with individuals involved in submitting or reviewing manuscripts (authors, reviewers, editors, or editorial board members).
• Personal beliefs (political, religious, ideological, or other) related to the topic of the manuscript that may interfere with the objective publication process (at the stage of submission, review, editorial decision-making, or publication).
• The reviewer or editor is a colleague of the author who participated in or observed the conduct of this research.
• Membership in organizations that lobby the author's interests.
• Research grants from any sponsoring organizations: governmental, non-governmental, research, or charitable institutions.
• Patent applications (existing or pending), including applications from institutions to which the author is related and from which they may profit.
• Royalties, gifts, and rewards of any kind.
• All individuals related to the manuscript, including authors and reviewers who comment on and evaluate the material, must disclose any conflicts of interest.
• If, in the opinion of the editors, there are circumstances that may affect an unbiased review, the editorial board will not involve such a reviewer.

Corrections and additions

• If necessary, the editorial board makes the necessary corrections and clarifications, publishes refutations and apologies.
• Editors can make minor edits (correcting minor errors) and clarifications to the content of the article that improve its content, but do not significantly change its overall structure.

Manuscript submitted to multiple publications

• When submitting, authors must confirm that the submitted manuscript (or another similar to it) is not currently submitted for consideration and publication to another publication. If similar work has already been submitted or published in another journal, the editors will not consider such manuscripts.

Intellectual property

• The editors respond to signals related to intellectual property issues and work to prevent potential violations of current Ukrainian legislation regarding intellectual property and copyright.

Plagiarism

• The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the information in the articles, the accuracy of names, surnames and citations.
• In cases of plagiarism, the authors of the submitted materials are responsible.