Peer-review process

All the articles submitted to the Editorial Board of the Journal shall be reviewed.

While reviewing the referees shall follow the requirements of the Journal Code of Conduct specified and recommended by the Committee of Scientific Publication Ethics. Referees shall be objective and non-biased.

The author submits to the Editorial Board of the Journal an article that complies with all the requirements of the Journal. Any article which does not comply with the requirements mentioned above shall not be registered and allowed for publication. The author will be informed of that.

Before the reviewing the Managing editor/secretary of the Journal:

Examines the manuscript for compliance with the remit of the Journal with general requirements for specialty publications.

Determines the level of originality of the author’s text with the help of the program (StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl). 

Encoded article via email is sent to referees who were chosen by the Managing editor of the Journal.

The article is examined by one of the members of the Editorial Board (double-blind review – a reviewer does not know an author, an author does not know a reviewer).

Within 20 consecutive days starting from the day when the article was received referee should present a conclusion on whether the article can be published in the Journal. 

Based on the results of reviewing the referee draws one of the following conclusions:

to recommend the article for publication
to send the article back to the author for correcting and finalizing
not to recommend the article for publication.

The Managing editor/secretary informs the author of the results of the peer review via email.

If a referee draws a conclusion on correcting sends the article to the author with the list of the referee’s critical remarks, questions, and comments. The term finalizing is determined by the Editor-in-chief and should not exceed 5 consecutive days beginning from the day when the author receives the article.

If the article receives one positive and one negative conclusion from the referees, the final decision on publication is made by the Science editor.

Insignificant stylistic corrections which do not affect the contents of the article can be made by the editor without the author’s prior consent. 

Successfully refereed articles would be elaborated by the Managing editor and form the next issue of the Journal. It is signed by Editor-in-Chief and recommended for publication by the decision of the Academic Board.