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Publication ethics

The editorial board of the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" adheres to the Code of Ethics for Scientific Workers in Education of Kazakhstan in its work. The journal's editorial staff strives to comply with the ethical standards accepted in the international scientific community, preventing violations of these standards both in their work and in relationships.

Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief:

  • Provides direct management of the journal;
  • Coordinates publishing activities of the journal;
  • Resolves issues related to artistic and technical design of the journal;
  • Makes proposals for improving the journal's activities and increasing its efficiency;
  • Organizes professional development for journal staff;
  • Ensures optimal working conditions for high-productivity and quality work;
  • Controls compliance of journal employees with University statutes and regulations, including Internal Labor Regulations, occupational safety rules, and fire safety;
  • Performs other duties stipulated by the job description.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Responsibilities:

  • Directly organizes the journal's activities;
  • Coordinates the publishing activities of the journal;
  • Reviews manuscripts and article reviews;
  • Examines manuscripts accepted for publication, providing necessary assistance to authors (improving structure, selecting terms, formatting illustrations, etc.), coordinating recommended changes with them;
  • Verifies authors' compliance with reviewers' comments and manuscript requirements during revisions, completeness of submitted materials, correspondence of manuscript titles to their content;
  • Coordinates article review work;
  • Consults authors of scientific articles and structural units on journal publication issues;
  • Participates in resolving issues related to artistic and technical design of the journal;
  • Controls compliance of journal employees with University statutes and regulations, including Internal Labor Regulations, occupational safety rules, and fire safety.

Responsibilities of the Executive Secretary:

  • Conducts scientific examination of incoming materials;
  • Evaluates the correspondence of articles to the journal's theme and scientific level;
  • Checks the relevance and novelty of the presented research;
  • Analyzes methodological validity of articles;
  • Evaluates quality and relevance of sources used;
  • Verifies correctness of quotations and references;
  • Provides recommendations for improving scientific content of articles;
  • Participates in forming thematic issues of the journal;
  • Consults the editorial staff on scientific matters;
  • Promotes enhancement of scientific level of publications;
  • Monitors compliance with scientific ethics in published materials;
  • Collaborates with authors on scientific content of articles;
  • Participates in developing the journal's development strategy;
  • Performs other duties stipulated by the job description.

Executive Secretary:

  • Organizes and controls planning, timely and high-quality preparation of materials for publication;
  • Selects materials for the journal, controls publication schedule implementation;
  • Reviews manuscripts accepted for publication, provides necessary assistance to authors (improving structure, selecting terms, formatting illustrations, etc.), coordinates recommended changes with them;
  • Verifies authors' compliance with reviewers' comments and manuscript requirements during revisions, completeness of submitted materials, correspondence of manuscript titles to their content;
  • Checks correct formatting of references and numerical data, correct use and spelling of names, terms, units of measurement, correspondence of symbols used to designations established by standards or accepted journal requirements.

Reviewer responsibilities (internal and external):

  • Enters the journal's online system with consent or reasoned refusal before reviewing;
  • Observes the principle of confidentiality during review;
  • Provides objective evaluation of scientific work without personal criticism of the author, clearly and argumentatively expresses their opinion;
  • Identifies significant similarities or coincidences between the manuscript of the reviewed article and published works;
  • Cannot use for personal purposes the submitted and unpublished data without written consent of the author(s).

Authors' Responsibilities:

  • Submit previously unpublished materials for scientific articles, formatted in strict accordance with requirements and carefully edited;
  • Bear responsibility for the accuracy of facts presented in the article;
  • Provide, when necessary, additional data related to article materials;
  • Indicate in the article the contribution of other persons to the research, express gratitude, etc.;
  • Take measures for prompt correction if errors are discovered.

Copyright

Authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who directly participated in creating the manuscript, forming the idea, writing the article, interpreting results, and made a significant contribution to the scientific results. Authors retain rights to their manuscripts, while allowing everyone to freely download, distribute, or copy them, with mandatory attribution of authorship and reference to the unique publication in this journal. No permission from authors or publisher is required for these actions when referencing the journal. Authors retain the right to distribute their article in other sources with mandatory reference to its original publication in this journal.

Conflict of Interest

Editors and reviewers cannot use unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts in their personal research without the written consent of the Author. Information or ideas obtained during the review process related to possible benefits must be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes. Reviewers should not participate in reviewing manuscripts in case of conflict of interest due to competitive, collaborative, and other interactions and relationships with any of the Authors, companies, or other organizations associated with the submitted work.

Confidentiality Policy

The editorial office of the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" does not disclose to third parties, except for appointed reviewers, information about manuscripts accepted for consideration until their publication. The editorial office also does not disclose information about reviewers to authors and other persons. These and other norms of behavior of participants in the publication process, namely principles, norms, and standards of behavior of authors, editorial board members, publisher, and reviewers, are based on publication ethics.

Procedure for Correction and Revision of Articles

If the review of an article contains a conclusion about the need for its correction, the article is sent to the author for revision. If the review contains recommendations for correction and revision of the article, the executive secretary sends the author the text of the review with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or to refute them (partially or completely). A revised article submitted by the author is re-submitted for review and considered in the general procedure. An article not recommended by the reviewer for publication is not accepted for reconsideration. In case of disagreement with the reviewer's opinion, the author of the article has the right to apply to the editorial office with a motivated request to send the manuscript for review to another reviewer, stating the relevant arguments in the appeal. In this case, the journal's editorial office sends the manuscript for re-review or provides the author with a motivated refusal.

Retraction

Retraction of a text from publication is the process of withdrawing an already published scientific article from a journal or database. This is a serious measure applied in cases of discovering significant problems with the publication. The main reasons for retraction include: discovery of data falsification or fabrication, plagiarism, serious methodological errors that call into question the research results, duplication of publication, violation of ethical standards in conducting research, as well as undisclosed conflict of interest. Retraction serves as a mechanism of self-correction in science, helping to maintain the integrity of scientific literature and trust in the scientific publication process.

The publisher carries out retraction based on an official statement from the author/team of authors of the article, justifying the reason for their decision, as well as by decision of the journal's editorial board based on its own expertise or information received by the editorial office. The editorial office is obliged to inform the author (corresponding author in case of collective authorship) about the retraction of the article and justify its reasons. Mechanical removal of articles from the electronic version of the journal and from the archive is not carried out; the texts of retracted articles remain where they were previously, but in the electronic version of the text, there will be a note "RETRACTED" and the date of retraction.

In case of retraction of an article, the fee paid by authors for publication is not refunded. Publication costs and review costs are not compensated, regardless of the reasons for the retraction.