Peer Review Process

All the articles, which are received by the editorial board, are reviewed (double-anonymized peer review). The procedure of reviewing is focused on the most objective assessment of the scientific article’s content, determining its compliance with the requirements of the journal and provides a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the article. Only those articles that are valuable from a scientific point of view and contribute to solve current educational problems and tasks are accepted for publication. Reviewers can be assigned from the Editorial Board or external reviewers can be involved who are experts in the correspondent fields of knowledge.

The editorial board supports the world standards of transparency of the peer review process, so it practices double-anonymized peer review of the manuscript evaluation: the author and the reviewer are not informed in each other's names. Previously, all their personal data is deleted from text articles and files.

Reviewers are selected based on their subject-matter expertise relevant to the manuscript, academic qualifications and publication record, prior peer-review experience, absence of conflicts of interest, adherence to the principles of academic integrity, as well as their ability to provide timely and high-quality reviews.

Articles authored by members of the editorial board and editor-in-chief undergo independent external peer review, and the respective board member is entirely excluded from the decision-making process regarding their own work.

Stages for reviewing:

  1. The author provides an article to the editorial board, the article should meet the requirements of the policy of the journal.
  2. Checking the article for the degree of uniqueness copyright text. For all articles which are provided for reviewing, the degree of uniqueness copyright text is determined using appropriate software .
  3. All manuscripts submitted to Editorial Board are directed to the profile of research to reviewers.
  4. Reviewers conclude the possibility of printing the article (fill out a standardized form, which contains a summary of recommendations).
  5. Reviewing is held in confidence by the principles of double-anonymized reviewing (two-way "anonymous" review, when neither the author nor the reviewer knows each other). Personal data is removed from the article before sending the article for review.
  6. If the reviewers point to the need to make certain article corrections, the article is sent to the author with the offer to consider the comments in the preparation of an updated version of the article or to refute them reasonably. The revised version is given to the reviewers again for the decision and he prepares a reasoned conclusion about the possibility of publication.

The period from the submission deadline to publication takes 5–6 weeks.

To ensure effective communication between authors, editors, and reviewers, the editorial team uses specialized software - the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

The main purpose of the review procedure is to eliminate cases of substandard practice research and to ensure coordination and adherence to balance of the interests of authors, readers, editorial board, reviewers, the institution which carried out the research. Reviewers evaluate the theoretical and methodological level of the article, its practical value and scientific importance. In addition compliance of the article to the principles of ethics in scientific publications and recommendations for eliminating of violations are determined by reviewers.

 

Copyright protection

 Reviewers are informed that the manuscripts submitted by them are the intellectual property of the authors and belong to the information that is not subject to disclosure. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the article submitted for review or use the materials of the article before its publication.

 

Reviewing is based on confidentiality, when information about the article (terms of receipt, content, stages and features of reviewing, reviewers' comments and the final decision on publication) is not disclosed to anyone but the authors and reviewers.