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Review rules

Articles submitted to the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" undergo double-blind peer review. Scientific articles that strictly comply with the requirements for articles and have passed verification in the "Antiplagiat" system (threshold level 75%) are eligible for review.

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 electronic system of the journal.

Review Procedure

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

The editor checks the article for compliance with the direction and sections of the journal, requirements for article formatting, and checks for plagiarism through the "Antiplagiat" system.

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

The reviewer examines the article directed to them within the established timeframes in the OJS online review system; the maximum review period is 2 weeks. A review template is used.

The reviewer presents 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 receiving two positive reviews, the article is published in one of the journal issues;

- in case of disagreements between reviewers, the final decision on the publication of the article is made by the editorial board;

- if there are significant comments, the article is returned to the author for elimination of comments (the deadline is set by the responsible editor), the revised version is sent for re-review;

- in case of receiving a repeated negative review, the article is rejected and is not subject to further consideration.

The editorial board has the right to reject the article at any stage of work on the article. The author is notified of the decision in the electronic journal system (OJS).

Requirements for review:

  • objectively evaluate the scientific article;
  • contain a comprehensive analysis of the correspondence of the article's content to the thematic areas of the journal;
  • assess the correspondence of the content to the stated topic;
  • evaluate the quality of the abstract and keywords;
  • assess the novelty and practical significance of the research results;
  • evaluate the presence of references to Kazakhstani and foreign bibliographic sources.

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

Confidentiality 

Materials submitted for review and unpublished data cannot 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 a conflict of interest, have no right to review the article.