The Editorial Board of the journal does not allow the publication of manuscripts, the content of which is prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
The decision to accept a manuscript for publication is made solely on the basis of the results of reviewing and evaluating the scientific significance of the submitted research.
The ethics of the editor-in-chief, his deputy, and members of the editorial board include ensuring the high quality of published materials, their content integrity, and prompt resolution of emerging issues.
The key criteria for the activities of these participants in the publication process are impartiality, objectivity and two-way anonymity in the matter of reviewing.
The ethics of a reviewer is based on the obligation to review all manuscripts submitted to the editorial board of the journal (with the exception of manuscripts not accepted for review), objectivity, and compliance with the legal regime of intellectual property.
The type of review chosen by the editorial board of the journal is double–blind (the identity of the reviewer is unknown to the author; the identity of the author is unknown to the reviewer).
The reviewer evaluates the correspondence of the title of the manuscript to its content, the quality of the abstract of the article and keywords, scientific novelty, theoretical and practical significance, the literature used, compares the presented research with the subject and scientific direction of the journal, expresses a judgment on the validity of the conclusions of the author(s), reflects the positive characteristics of the manuscript and its shortcomings.
The review period is set depending on the need to ensure high quality of the manuscript, but should not exceed four weeks.
Based on the results of the review, the manuscript may be: 1) rejected; 2) accepted for publication with the requirement to make corrections; 3) accepted for publication without the need for revision.
The ethics of the author(s) should be assessed on the basis of internationally accepted restrictions on plagiarism (regulations adopted at the 2nd World Conference on the Integrity of Scientific Research; regulations developed by the Committee on Ethics of Scientific Publications).
These restrictions include the inadmissibility of infringement of copyrights and related rights as a result of direct (textual) or veiled (meaningful) borrowing of scientific materials, ideas and research results.
Any form of plagiarism is unacceptable. When reviewing a manuscript, the Editorial Board of the journal verifies its material using the Anti-Plagiarism software, the non-exclusive property rights to use of which are granted by the Kuban State University.
The percentage of uniqueness / originality of the verified text of the manuscript should be at least 80%. The percentages (no more than 10) related to self-citation, legal terms, names of normative and judicial acts, and «commonly used expressions» reflected in the search module are excluded.
In case of revealed facts of gross violation by the author(s) of the published manuscript of the rules of publication ethics, the editorial board of the journal reserves the right to conduct a retraction (review) of the manuscript of such author(s). Information about the retraction is reported to the author(s) of the manuscript, posted on the journal’s website and sent to all databases in which it is indexed.