Compliance with the principles and recommendations of COPE, WAME, DORA, etc.
Compliance with the principles and recommendations of COPE, WAME, DORA, etc.
The editorial board of the collection adheres to the following principles and recommendations of international organizations:
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics):
• Transparency in the process of submission, review, and publication of articles.
• Impartiality and independence of editors and reviewers.
• Academic integrity – avoidance of plagiarism, falsification, double publications.
• Correct authorship is a clear definition of the contribution of each of the authors.
• Work with complaints – the presence of open and clear procedures for considering appeals and complaints regarding ethics.
• Article retraction and correction is a clear procedure for retraction, corrections, and error reporting.
WAME (World Association of Medical Editors, principles for editors of all sciences):
• Editorial independence – the editor's decisions are made without pressure from sponsors, institutions or commercial interests.
• Conflicts of interest – all authors, reviewers, and editors are required to declare them.
• Peer review is the provision of objective, fair and timely expert assessment.
• Transparency of funding – disclosure of information about grants, sponsors and sources of research funding.
• Support for young scientists – facilitating the publications of researchers at the initial stage of their careers.
DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment):
• Do not limit yourself to bibliometric indicators (impact factor, h-index), but evaluate studies by their quality, novelty and contribution to science.
• Value different types of research results – software, data, algorithms, technical solutions, not just articles.
• Recognition of interdisciplinary research as equivalent to classical publications. • Encouraging open science – publishing preprints, open access to data and codes.
ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, General Principles for All Sciences):
• Authorship criteria. The author is only the one who has made a significant contribution to the work.
• Research ethics. Compliance with regulations regarding working with data, human participants and experiments.
• Data openness. Encouraging authors to preserve and provide access to research data.
Other modern principles (Open Science, Plan S, FAIR Data)
• Open Access – promoting open access to scientific results.
• FAIR principles for data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) – ensuring the ability to find, access, interoperability and reuse of data.
• Plan S – support for the policy of publications in open journals and archives.
Ethical use of AI – compliance with transparency and responsibility in the case of the use of artificial intelligence in research.
