Peer Review Process

The editorial board practices double-blind peer review. This process involves the following:

  1. First, the editors consider all manuscripts to assess their compliance with the journal subject matter and requirements.
  2. Following the decision of the editors, the manuscripts submitted are sent to at least two external experts in the corresponding field. Both external experts and specialists from among the members of the editorial board of the journal may be involved in the review. The manuscript passes double-blind peer review, neither the authors nor the reviewers know each other.
  3. Reviewers' comments are transmitted to the authors, together with possible recommendations for the manuscript revision. The editor informs the authors, whether the manuscript is adopted without revision or authors are given the opportunity to review the manuscript and submit it again, or the manuscript is rejected.

Before submitting an article, please read the Author Guidelines.

In case of disagreement with the conclusions of the reviewers, the authors may provide the editorial office with a scientifically substantiated response to the comments provided, which will be considered by the reviewers.

Deadline double-blind peer review 20-30 days

Reviewers should refrain from uploading manuscripts to the LLM software or using other LLM technologies that could lead to a breach of confidentiality.

With regard to reviewers, the editorial board asks to confirm the absence of a conflict of interest at the stage of selection of manuscripts for review or at the time of receipt of the manuscript by the reviewer. If such a conflict is detected at the stage of reviewing, the reviewer is obliged to inform the editorial office of this and refuse to review this manuscript. The editorial in such a situation are guided by the recommendations These recommendations are based on the COPE schemes: "Undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript" and "Undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article".

Procedure for reviewing manuscripts submitted by the editor-in-chief, editors and/or members of the editorial board

If the authors of a manuscript submitted to the journal are members of the editorial board or the editor-in-chief, its scientific quality is assessed with the involvement of independent external experts in order to prevent a possible conflict of interest. Double-blind review is carried out by specialists who are not members of the editorial board of the journal and do not work in the same institution as the authors.

The review period in this case is not shortened. The procedure for finalizing the manuscript by the authors follows the general review rules specified in the journal policy. The manuscript may be rejected in the event of a negative review or if the authors refuse to make changes in accordance with the reviewers' comments without sufficient scientific justification for this refusal.