Ethical principles of scientific publications

5.1. Basic ethical principles

5.1.1. The NaSoM strives to follow the principles of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP), as well as the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and other international associations of editors and publishers.

5.1.2. Ethical norms of the editorial board:

The editorial team of the NaSoM is guided by the principles of science, objectivity, professionalism, and impartiality.

5.1.3. Responsibility for compliance with ethical standards:

Researchers, authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers have an ethical obligation to publish and disseminate the results of scientific research.

5.1.4. Rules of communication with authors:

Interaction with authors is based on the principles of fairness, courtesy, objectivity, honesty and transparency.

5.1.5. Review institute:

All content of the journal, except for advertising and editorial materials, is subject to mandatory review by independent experts (double-blind peer review).

5.1.6. Access to publications:

The journal guarantees access to publications, ensuring the storage of materials in the leading libraries and repositories of scientific information in the country. All publications of the journal are freely available on the journal’s website.

5.1.7. Information openness:

The NaSoM website present provisions of publication ethics and peer review, clearly articulates the journal’s policy, rules for submitting manuscripts, instructions for authors and information on the availability of materials, indicates the ISSN, and the address of the publisher.

5.1.8. Information about paid services:

The NaSoM does not provide paid services.

5.1.9. Compliance with the ethical criteria of authorship:

(a) The author is only a person who was significantly involved in the writing of the manuscript, in the development of its concept, in scientific design, collection of material, analysis and interpretation;

(b) Obligatory is the consent of all authors to the publication. All co-authors must meet these criteria.

5.1.10. Coordination of the final text of the article with the author:

The publication of an article under the name of the author implies the emergence of copyright. The publication of a text not agreed with the author, as well as the inclusion of third parties as co-authors, is a violation of copyright.

5.1.11. Terms of decision-making by the editors:

Editorial decisions are made within a limited time frame and are set out in a clear and constructive form on the publication’s website in the instructions for authors.

5.1.12. Interaction with scientific and professional associations:

The editorial board of the NaSoM seek to interact with professional scientific associations and industry communities in order to ensure the high quality of the work of scientists.

5.1.13. Prevention and correction of violations of ethics:

The duty of scientific editors is to prevent situations when authors, reviewers or other entities involved in the production of scientific texts engage in unethical behavior, as well as to ensure the removal of unscrupulous publications from the scientific space, to cooperate with the ethics council and scientific associations.

5.1.14. Conflict of interests:

The editors encourage authors to disclose relationships with industrial and financial organizations that could lead to a conflict of interest. All sources of funding must be indicated by the authors in the Title page of the article.

5.2. Signs of unethical behavior

The NaSom recognizes the following as unethical behavior in the field of scientific publications:

• The requirement for authors to independently provide reviews of their own articles, as well as contractual and pseudo-reviewing.
• Proposal of agency services: “turnkey publication”, correspondence with the editors on behalf of the author, revision of articles by the agent on the recommendations of the reviewer, preparation of paid reviews.
• Sale of co-authorship, gift co-authorship, change of composition of authors.
• Transfer of texts of articles to other journals without the consent of the authors.
• Transfer of materials of authors to third parties.
• Artificial increase in scientometric indices, excessive self-citation and friendly citation, irrelevant links.
• Plagiarism, falsification and fabrication.