Review rules

Review

Articles submitted to the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" undergo double-blind review. Scientific articles are allowed for reviewing, which are designed in strict accordance with the requirements for articles and have been checked in the system "Anti-Plagiarism" (threshold level of 75%).

Reviewers are scientists who have publications on the subject of the reviewed article, not included in the editorial board, from among 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 editorial board decision from the database of reviewers registered in the online system of the journal.

Review procedure

The author places the article on the journal's website through the OJS (Open Journal System).

The editor checks the article for compliance with the direction and sections of the journal, the requirements for the design of the article, checks for borrowings through the "Anti-Plagiarism" system.

The editor appoints reviewers for the article accepted by the author.

The reviewer considers the article sent to him/her within the established terms in the OJS online reviewing system, the maximum reviewing term is 2 weeks. A review template is used.

The reviewer submits one of the following decisions to the editorial board of the journal:

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

Based on the conclusions of internal and external reviewers, the Editorial Board 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 disagreements between reviewers, the final decision on the publication of the article is made by the editorial board;
- in case of significant comments, the article is returned to the author for elimination of comments (the deadline is set by the responsible editor), the finalised version is sent for a second review; - in case of a repeated negative review, the article is rejected and is not subject to further consideration.

Note: The Editorial Board has the right to reject an article at any stage of work on the article. The author is notified of the decision in the journal's online journal system (OJS).

Review requirements:

- objectively evaluate the scientific article;
- contain a comprehensive analysis of the compliance of the content of the article with the thematic areas of the journal;
- assess the compliance of the content with the declared topic;
- assess the quality of the abstract and keywords;
- assess the novelty and practical significance of the research results;
- assess the presence of references to Kazakhstani and foreign bibliographic sources.

Clarity of presentation of scientific material, grammatical, punctuation and logical errors are also evaluated.

Confidentiality

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