Declaration of compliance by the journal with the principles and recommendations of COPE and other international standards

Declaration of compliance by the journal with the principles and recommendations of COPE and other international standards

The journal is committed to the highest standards of transparency in all aspects of the publishing process and regularly reviews its policy in accordance with updated international recommendations COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), WAME (World Association of Medical Editors), FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability), DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment), ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors), Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines.

The journal adheres to the COPE principles and is guided in its activities by recommendations on publication ethics for editors, authors and reviewers, procedures for considering cases of ethical violations, retraction and correction policies, prevention of plagiarism and academic misconduct. The practical implementation of these provisions is based on a number of COPE documents, including such as Core Practices, Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, and Flowcharts for handling misconduct.

The journal applies relevant WAME recommendations on authorship ethics, conflict of interest, protection of personal data of research participants (for biomedical and interdisciplinary research), transparency of research funding, conflict of interest. Regarding authorship, the journal is guided by ICMJE recommendations.

The journal supports the basic principles of FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, reusability of data) and TOR (openness of data, research materials and analytical methods). The official registration agency for digital object identifiers, CrossRef, provides the infrastructure (including DOIs) that makes scientific printed works accessible, cited, and FAIR-compliant.

When assessing the level of scientific publications, the journal is guided by the principles of DORA, in particular, it does not use the journal's impact factor as the sole criterion for assessing the quality of an article, evaluates articles based on their scientific quality, not the prestige of the publication, does not promote the practice of improper manipulation of citation indicators, and encourages authors to disclose a wide range of scientific achievements. The journal encourages authors to deposit research data in open depositories.