Publication ethics

General Provisions

The editors of the journal "Pedagogy and psychology " in their work adhere to international standards of ethics of scientific publications, developed and approved by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and takes into account the valuable experience of reputable international journals and publishers. The editorial staff of the journal does everything possible to comply with the ethical standards adopted by the international scientific community and to prevent any violations of these standards, both in their own work and in relationships.

Duties

2.1 Chief Editor:

- directly manages the journal;

- coordinates the issues of the journal’s publishing activities;

- solves issues related to the artistic and technical design of the journal;

- makes suggestions on improving the journal’s activities, increasing the efficiency of its work; - organizes professional development of the journal’s staff;

- ensures the creation at workplaces of optimal conditions for high-perfomance, high-quality work;

- controls еhe observance by the staff of the journal of the charter and regulations of the University, including the Internal Regulations, labor protection and safety rules, fire safety;

- performs other duties stipulated by the job description.

2.2 Duties of Deputy Editor

Deputy Editor:

- directly organizes the activities of the journal;

- coordinates the journal’s publishing activities;

- considers manuscripts of articles and reviews of them;

- reviews the manuscripts accepted for publication, while providing the authors with the necessary assistance (to improve the structure, the choice of terms, the design of illustrations, etc.), agrees with them on the recommended changes;

- checks the authors’ compliance with reviewers’ comments, the requirements for manuscripts during their revision, the completeness of the submitted material, the correspondence of the manuscripts titles to their content;

- coordinates the work on reviewing articles;

- advises authors of scientific articles, structural divisions for publishing journal;

- participates in solving issues related to the art and technical design of the journal;

- controls еhe observance by the staff of the journal of the charter and regulations of the University, including the Internal Regulations, labor protection and safety rules, fire safety;

- performs other duties stipulated by the job description.

2.3 Duties of Executive Secretary

Executive Secretary:

- organizes and controls the planning, timely and high-quality preparation of materials for printing;

- selects materials for the journal, controls the implementation of the schedule for the receipt of publications; - reviews the manuscripts accepted for publication, while providing the authors with the necessary assistance (to improve the structure, the choice of terms, the design of illustrations, etc.), agrees with them on the recommended changes;

- checks the spelling of cited citations and digital data, the correctness of the use and spelling of names, terms, units of measurement, the conformity of the characters provided to the designations established by standards or accepted requirements of the journal;

- organizes and controls the conduct of scientific and educational projects, competitions and other scientific events;

- performs other duties stipulated by the job description.

2.4 Duties of Reviewers

Reviewer (internal and external):

- before peer reviewing dives consent or motivated refusal in the online system of the journal;

- observes the principle of confidentiality during reviewing;

- gives an objective assessment of scientific work without any personal criticism of the author, clearly and reasonably expresses his opinion;

- reveals significant similarities or overlaps between the manuscript of the article in question and published works;

- cannot use for personal purposes submitted for consideration and unpublished data without the written consent of the author(s);

- in the event of a conflict of interest, the manuscript cannot be considered.

2.5 Duties od authors

Author(s):

- submits to the editorial board previously unpublished, executed in strict accordance with the requirements and carefully edited materials of a scientific article;

- is responsible for the accuracy of the facts stated in the article;

- provides, if necessary, additional date on the materials of the article;

- denotes in the article the contribution of others to the research, makes thanks, etc.;

- if any inaccuracies or errors are found, take measures to correct them as soon as possible.

Copyright

The authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who participated directly in the creation of the manuscript, in the formation of the idea, in writing the article, interpreting the results and made a significant contribution to obtaining scientific results. The authors retain the rights to their manuscripts, while allowing everyone to freely download, reuse, reprint, change, distribute or copy them, with a mandatory mark of authorship of this work and a link to a unique publication in this journal. For all these actions, when specifying a link to the journal, permission from the authors or publisher is not required. The authors retain the right to distribute their article in other sources with a mandatory link to its original publication in this journal.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors and reviewers may not 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 and related to possible benefits should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not participate in the review of manuscripts in case of conflicts 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.

Privacy policy

The editorial board of the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" does not disclose information about the manuscript accepted for consideration before its publication to third parties, except for appointed reviewers. Also, the editorial board does not disclose information about reviewers to authors and other persons. These and other norms of behavior of participants in the publication process, namely the principles, norms and standards of behavior of authors, members of the editorial board, publisher and reviewers are based on the ethics of publications accepted by the international community.

The procedure for correcting and finalizing articles

If the review of an article contains a conclusion on the need to correct it, then the article is sent to the author for revision. If there are recommendations in the review for correcting and finalizing 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). The article modified (revised) by the author is re-sent for review and is considered in the general order. An article that is not recommended for publication by the reviewer is not accepted for reconsideration. In case of disagreement with the opinion of the reviewer, the author of the article has the right to apply to the editorial office with a reasoned request to send his manuscript for review to another reviewer with relevant arguments in the appeal. In this case, the editorial board of the journal sends the manuscript for re-review, or provides the author with a reasoned refusal. The procedure for revoking (retracting) an article from publication This procedure is based on the "Rules for Revoking (retracting) an article from publication" (HENRI, Russia) and describes the procedure for eliminating violations in scientific materials published in the journal.

Withdrawal of the text from publication (retraction) is a mechanism for correcting published scientific information and notifying readers that the publication contains serious flaws, erroneous data that cannot be trusted, cases of duplicate publications (when authors present the same data in several publications), plagiarism and concealment of conflicts of interest that could affect on the interpretation of data or recommendations on their use.

Reasons for revoking the article:

- detection of plagiarism in publications;

- duplication of articles in several publications; detection of falsifications or fabrications in the work (for example, falsification of experimental data);

- detection of serious errors in the work (for example, incorrect interpretation of the results), which casts doubt on its scientific value; incorrect composition of authors (there is no one who deserves to be an author;

- included persons who do not meet the criteria of authorship);

- hidden conflict of interest (and other violations of publication ethics); publication of an article without the author's consent.

The publishing house carries out a retrospective at the official request of the author / team of authors of the article, who explained the reason for his decision, as well as by the decision of the editorial board of the journal on the basis of their own expertise or information received by the editorial board. The editorial board must inform the author (corresponding author in case of collective authorship) about the retrospective of the article and substantiate its reasons. The article and the description of the article are posted on the journal's website as part of the corresponding issue, but the electronic version of the text is marked RETRACTED/retracted and the date of retraction, which is put when the article is included in the title of the issue. The comment to the article indicates the reason for the retraction (in case of plagiarism – indicating the sources of borrowing). There is no mechanical deletion of articles from the electronic version of the journal and from the archive, the texts of the withdrawn articles remain where they were before, with the appropriate mark. There is no fee for the publication of rejected articles.