Ethical principles

The policy of the Editorial Board of the journal is based on respect of the personal rights of the authors and the right to intellectual property. The Editorial Board guarantees independent and conscientious consideration of all presented article manuscripts independent of the national or religious provenance of authors, their job title, commercial interests and relationships to the founding parties of the Journal. There is no financial reward or payment for publishing materials in the Journal.

By signing the manuscript and sending it to the Editorial Board the authors transfer the publishing rights of the article to the Founders of the Journal. Materials presented without following the requirements for authors, including technical ones, are returned without consideration. The Journal does not publish papers containing suppositions that do not flow directly from the published original factual material; serial papers and papers representing individual stages of a research project; containing materials that are obviously divided into several subsequent publications; articles on mundane studies, not interesting for the Journal, as well as short communications. The Board does not accept for publication general audience popular science articles, or research results from authors that do not have affiliation with a scientific or research-and-development organizations that endorse the research.

The authors must avoid fabrication and falsification of data, plagiarism in scientific texts, simultaneous presentation of the same materials in several journals, duplication of publications. The authors must respect the rights of coauthors. The Journal reserves the right to refuse to accept further manuscripts from authors who have broken these rules.

The Board guarantees a confidential, independent and objective review of the manuscripts. The Board chooses reviewers who have no connectionto the materials of the article, have sufficient experience and no conflicts of interest. The reviewers guarantee an objective evaluation of the manuscript in the timeline specified by the Board. The reviewers are required to notify the Board if consideration of the manuscript and preparation of the review in time is not possible. Personal criticism of the authors by the reviewers is not tolerated. All conclusions of the reviewers must be well-argued and supplemented with references to reliable sources. We care for the confidentiality of the reviewers, therefore their names can be disclosed to the authors only with their permission. Depending of the decision of the Board, the reviews can be presented to the authors in part or in full.

If the Board decides that the presented manuscript should undergo revisions, the authors must make the revisions in accordance to all remarks noted in the presentation of the responsible editor or the reactions of the reviewers. If the necessary revisions clash with the intentions/message of the authors or cannot be implemented for other objective reasons, the authors should present an argued response detailing these reasons. The time of revisions should not exceed three months.

The Board reserves the right to decline to publish a manuscript without performing an independent review in case the manuscript is deemed of low quality, does not correspond to the thematic fields of the Journal, does not correspond to the formal requirement, or for other objective reasons. The Board reserves the right to withhold the reason for the refusal.

The decision to publish an article is taken collectively following a recommendation from a responsible editor (a Board member) based on two or more reviews. The expert evaluation of the manuscript presented by the reviewers is aimed at its betterment and is not used as the basis for the decision to publish or not.