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Pedagogy and Psychology

Review procedure

Type of review

All articles submitted to the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" are subject to double-blind peer review. Scientific articles that are designed in strict accordance with the requirements for articles and have been verified in the Anti-Plagiarism system (threshold level of 70%) or another licensed program are allowed to be reviewed.

The reviewers are scientists who have publications on the subject of the reviewed article, who are not members of the editorial board, from among the scientists of Abai KazNPU (internal reviewers) and other universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan, near and far abroad (external reviewers). Reviewers are appointed by the decision of the editorial board from the database of reviewers registered in the online system of the journal.

The review procedure

  1. The author posts his article on the journal's website through the OJS system (Open Journal System).
  2. The editor checks the article for compliance with the directions of the journal, the requirements for the article, checks for borrowing through the anti-plagiarism system.
  3. The editor appoints reviewers for the accepted article by the author.
  4. The reviewer reviews the article sent to him within the established time frame in the OJS online review system, the maximum review period is 2 weeks. At the same time, he uses a review template.
  5. The reviewer submits one of the following decisions to the editorial board of the journal:

- accept for publication;
- conditionally accept (send for revision);
- reject (retract).

  1. Based on the decisions of internal and external reviewers, the editorial council of the journal makes one of the following decisions:

- in case of two positive reviews, the article is published in one of the issues of the journal;
- in case of disagreement between the reviewers, the final decision on the publication of the article is made by the editorial council;
- in case of significant comments, the article is returned to the author for elimination of comments within 1 month, the revised version is sent for re–review - in case of repeated negative review, the article is rejected and is not subject to further consideration.

Note: The editorial council has the right to reject an article at any stage of the workflow. A corresponding notification is sent to the author about the decision in the online system of the journal (OJS).

Requirements for the review

The review should:

- objectively evaluate the scientific article;
- contain a comprehensive analysis of the correspondence of the content of the article to the thematic areas of the journal;
- evaluate the correspondence of the content to the stated topic;
- evaluate the quality of the abstract and keywords;
- evaluate the novelty and practical significance of the research results;
- evaluate the availability of links to Kazakh and foreign bibliographic sources.

The clarity of the presentation of scientific material, the presence of grammatical, punctuation and logical errors are also evaluated.

Confidentiality

The materials submitted for review and unpublished data may not be used by reviewers in personal research without the written consent of the author(s). The results of the review are confidential. Reviewers, in case of a conflict of interest, are not allowed to review the article.