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Pedagogy and Psychology

Publication ethics

Вasic provisions

The Editorial Board of the journal "Pedagogy and Psychology" in its work adheres to the Code of Ethics of Educational Researchers of Kazakhstan. The Editorial Board of the Journal does its best to comply with the ethical norms accepted in the international scientific community, not allowing any violations of these norms both in its own work and in its relations. 

Responsibilities

The Editor-in-Chief:

- exercises direct management of the journal;

- co-ordinates issues related to the publishing activities of the magazine;

- resolves issues related to the artistic and technical design of the magazine;

- makes proposals to improve the activities of the magazine, increase the efficiency of its work;

 - organises professional development of the magazine's staff;

- ensures the creation of optimal conditions at workplaces for highly productive and high-quality labour;

- supervises the journal's employees' compliance with the University's statutes and regulations, including the Internal Labour Regulations, labour protection and safety rules, fire safety;

- fulfils other duties stipulated by the job description.

Duties of the Deputy Editor-in-Chief

The Deputy Editor-in-Chief:

- directly organises the activities of the magazine;

- coordinates the publishing activity of the Journal;

- reviews manuscripts and reviews of articles;

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

- checks the authors' compliance with the reviewers' comments, requirements to manuscripts during their revision, completeness of submitted materials, compliance of manuscript titles with their content;

- coordinates the work on reviewing articles;

- advises the authors of scientific articles, structural subdivisions on the publication of the journal;

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

- supervises the observance by the journal's employees of the University's statutes and regulations, including the Internal Labour Regulations, occupational health and safety rules, fire safety;

- fulfils other duties stipulated by the job description.

Duties of the scientific editor

The scientific editor:

- carries out scientific expertise of incoming materials;

- assesses the compliance of articles with the subject and scientific level of the journal;

- checks the relevance and novelty of the presented research;

- analyses the methodological validity of the papers;

- assesses the quality and relevance of the sources used;

- checks the correctness of citations and references;

- gives recommendations on improving the scientific content of articles;

- participates in the formation of thematic issues of the journal;

- advises the editorial board on scientific issues;

- contributes to the improvement of the scientific level of publications;

- monitors the observance of scientific ethics in published materials;

- co-operates with authors on the scientific content of articles;

- participates in the development strategy of the journal;

- fulfils other duties stipulated by the job description.

Duties of the responsible secretary

The responsible secretary:

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

- selects materials for the Journal, controls the fulfilment of the publication schedule;

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

- checks the authors' compliance with the reviewers' comments, requirements to the manuscripts during their revision, completeness of the submitted materials, correspondence of the manuscript titles to their content;

- checks the spelling of references and numerical data, correct use and spelling of names, terms, units of measurement, compliance of symbols used with the designations established by standards or accepted requirements of the journal;

- fulfils other duties stipulated by the job description.

Responsibilities of reviewers

Reviewer (internal and external):

- dives into the journal's online system with consent or reasoned refusal before reviewing;

- observes the principle of confidentiality in the review;

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

- identifies significant similarities or coincidences between the manuscript of the article under review and published works;

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

Responsibilities of the authors

Authors:

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

- is responsible for the reliability of the facts presented in the article;

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

- indicates in the article the contribution of other persons to the research, expresses gratitude, etc..;

- in case of detection of errors takes measures to correct them as soon as possible.

Copyright

The authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who were directly involved in the creation of the manuscript, in the formation of the idea, in the writing of the article, in the interpretation of the results and made a significant contribution to the scientific results. Authors retain the rights to their manuscripts, while allowing everyone to freely download, distribute or copy them, with the obligatory marking of authorship of this work and reference to the unique publication in this journal. For all these actions, the authors' or publisher's permission is not required when referring to the journal. Authors retain the right to disseminate their article in other sources with the obligatory reference to its original publication in this journal.

Conflict 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 process related to possible benefits should be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes. Reviewers should not participate in the review of manuscripts in case of conflict of interest due to competitive, joint and other interactions and relationships with any of the Authors, companies or other organisations related to the submitted work.

Privacy Policy

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

Procedure for correction and revision of articles

If the review of an article contains a conclusion about the necessity of its correction, the article is sent to the author for revision. If the review contains recommendations for correction and revision of the article, the responsible secretary sends the text of the review to the author 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 finalised (revised) by the author is re-submitted for review and considered in the general order. An article not recommended for publication by the reviewer is not accepted for reconsideration. In case of disagreement with the reviewer's opinion, the author of the article has the right to appeal to the Editorial Board with a motivated request to send his manuscript for review to another reviewer with appropriate arguments in the appeal. In this case, the Editorial Board of the Journal sends the manuscript for a second review or provides the author with a motivated refusal.

Retraction

The withdrawal of a text from a publication is the process of withdrawing an already published scientific article from a journal or database. This is a serious measure used in cases where significant problems with publication are found. The main reasons for retraction include: detection of falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, gross methodological errors that cast doubt on the results of the study, duplication of publication, violation of ethical standards during research, as well as a conflict of interest that was not disclosed during publication. Retraction serves as a self-correction mechanism in science, helping to maintain the integrity of scientific literature and trust in the process of scientific publications.

The publishing house carries out retraction (withdrawal of publication) at the official request of the author / team of authors of the article, who justified 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 is obliged to inform the author (corresponding author in case of collective authorship) about the retraction of the article and justify its reasons. 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, but the electronic version of the text will be marked RETRACTED/withdrawn and the date of retraction.

In case of retraction (withdrawal) of the article, the payment made by the authors for the publication is non-refundable. Publishing costs and the costs of the review process are not compensated, regardless of the reasons for the withdrawal of the publication.