The Editor / Editor-in-Chief / Section Editor / Editorial Board (hereinafter the Editorial Board) is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the Journal will be published. The Editorial Board follows the editorial policy and is limited by the current legal requirements regarding the observance of copyright.
The Editorial Board reserves the right to refuse publication of submitted manuscripts if it is determined that they do not meet the content and formal features standards. The editorial team informs the authors whether the manuscript corresponds to the topic of the publication within two months from the date of submission of the manuscript. And according to the results of the review, the editorial team informs the authors if the article was accepted for publication no more than a year from the date of the article submission to the editorial office.
The Editorial Board should not have a conflict of interest concerning the articles they are considering for publication. If the editor believes that there is a possibility of a conflict of interest in connection with the materials processing, the selection of reviewers and all decisions regarding the manuscript should be made by the Editorial Board (if one or more members of the Editorial Board have a conflict of interest regarding the submitted manuscript, these Editorial Board members must withdraw from the reviewer’s selection and do not participate in decision-making related to the manuscript).
The Editorial Board evaluates manuscripts for their scientific content without any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political discrimination.
The Editorial Board may not use unpublished material disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the written consent of the authors. Information and ideas contained in submitted manuscripts must be kept confidential and cannot be used for self-interest.
All materials submitted to the editorial office are reviewed by independent experts/reviewers selected and appointed at regular meetings of the Editorial Board or either by members of the Journal section or by the editor-in-chief. Journals choose a review model, indicate it on the website, and specify the review deadlines. “Blind review” is preferred—the editors and Editorial Board take all reasonable steps to ensure the anonymity of reviewers before, during, and after the review process.