Publication Ethics

"Perm Federal Research Center Journal" policy considering ethical standards when publishing articles.

1.GENERAL TERMS

1.1. This policy sets standards of ethical behavior for the parties involved in publication process: authors, editorial boards, reviewer and publisher. The following standards are based on generally accepted and existing policies of Journal and Publisher.

1.2. Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as the founder and the publisher of "Perm Federal Research Center Journal ", assumes obligations to control all the stages of the articles publication process and recognizes its ethical and other obligations related to the publication of articles.

2. ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR THE AUTHORS OF PUBLICATIONS

2.1. Standard for access to the source research data and its storage.
The author is obliged to present the source materials (data) of the research upon request of the editorial board, if the article does not show the original data, and must be prepared to provide public access to them. The author should store this data over a reasonable period of time after the publication to allow its reproduction and verification.

2.2. Standard for originality (inadmissibility of plagiarism)
The author presents the article containing the results of original research to the editorial board for reviewing. If the author of the article used or included into  an article excerpts from other works (citations), such use must be properly referred to by specifying the original source in the references to the article. Plagiarism in any form is unethical and unacceptable behavior of the author.

2.3. Standard for one-time publication
The author presents to the editorial board a manuscript that has not been published or handed in to the editorial board of any other journal. The manuscript submission to several journals simultaneously is unethical and unacceptable. The same applies to the article translation into a foreign language.

2.4. Standard for sources confirmation
The author undertakes to specify the correct scientific and other sources that were used in the research and which have had a significant impact on the results of the study in the references. The information obtained from informal (private) sources should not be used when making a scientific article.

2.5. Standard for manuscript authorship
All the persons who have made significant contributions to the research should be listed as coauthors of the article. The list of the authors should be limited only to those persons.
An author who presents a manuscript to the editorial board, ensures that  all his co-authors have seen and approved the final manuscript and agree to its submission to the editorial board of the scientific journal " Perm Federal Research Center Journal" for publication.

2.6. Conflict of interest policy
Authors must disclose conflicts of interest that may affect the evaluation and interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support of the project (grants, state programs, projects, etc.) should be disclosed and necessarily listed in the manuscript.

 2.7. Standard for error correction in the published works
If the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the article already published, he immediately notifies the editorial board and helps it in correcting the error. If the editorial board or third parties recognize the error in the article, the author is obliged to immediately correct the error or to provide the evidence of its absence.

3. ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR EDITORIAL BOARD

3.1. Standard for the decision on the publication
The editorial board makes a decision on which of submitted articles should be published, based on the results of testing for the requirements fulfillment and the results of peer review. When making the decision on publishing the manuscript the editorial board is guided by the policy of ethical standards and does not permit the publication of articles with signs of libel, slander, plagiarism, copyright violations or conflict of interest. The final decision on the publication of an article or on the refusal is made by the editor-in-chief of the journal.

3.2. Standard for all authors’ equality
Editorial board evaluates submitted manuscripts regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, citizenship, occupation, affiliation and residence of authors, as well as their political, philosophical, religious or other views.

3.3. Privacy standards
The editorial board will not disclose the information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author, the reviewer (with single-blind review), and if necessary - the publisher.

3.4. Conflict of interest policy
The editorial board ensures that the refused manuscripts will not be used in another study of the editorial staff, without the written agreement of the author. The editorial board will refuse to review manuscripts, if it is in competitive relationship with the author or an organization associated with the results of the study, or if there is a conflict of interest. The editors shall require the disclosure of competing interests from all the participants of the publication process.

3.5. Standard for the author unethical behavior claims consideration
The editorial board reviews promptly each claim of unethical behavior of manuscript’s authors regardless of the time of receipt. Editors will take appropriate reasonable steps referring to such claims. If the arguments of the claims are true, then the Editorial board has a right to refuse from publishing the article, to cease further cooperation with the author, to publish a rebuttal and to take other necessary steps to prevent further unethical conduct by the person.

4. ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR REVIEWERS

4.1. Standard for a reviewer’s contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review of the manuscript provided by the reviewer promotes the adoption of editorial decisions and helps the author to improve the manuscript. The decisions to accept the manuscript for publication, to return the manuscript for revision or to reject the publication are accepted by the editorial board based on peer review results.

4.2. Standard for reviewing deadlines
The reviewer must provide a review in time for a date specified by the Editorial board. If the review and the preparation of the manuscript reviews on these dates is not possible, then the reviewer should notify the Editor.

4.3. Standard for privacy by the reviewer
A manuscript submitted for review should be treated as a confidential document, regardless of the form of peer review chosen by the journal. The reviewer may show it or discuss it with others only with the agreement of the editor-in-chief.

 4.4. Standard for review objectivity
The reviewer undertakes to carry out peer review of the manuscript objectively. Reviewer's personal criticism is not valid. All the reviewer’s conclusions should be strictly argumented and supplied with references to authoritative sources.

4.5. Standard for sources confirmation
Reviewers should indicate the presence of sources that have influenced the results of the research but were not given by the author. The reviewer must pay attention to the substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and another previously published work which is known by the reviewer.

4.6. Conflict of interest policy
The reviewer must not use the materials of an unpublished manuscript for his own research without a written agreement of the author. The reviewer must refrain from reviewing a manuscript in connection with which he has a conflict of interest because of competitive, cooperative or other relationship with authors or organizations related to the manuscript.