Compliance with COPE, WAME, and DORA

Adherence to the Principles and Recommendations of COPE, WAME, DORA, etc.

The editorial board of the proceedings adheres to the following principles and recommendations of international organizations.

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics, ethical standards):

• transparency in the submission, peer review, and publication processes;
• impartiality and independence of editors and reviewers;
• academic integrity – avoidance of plagiarism, fabrication, and duplicate publications;
• proper authorship – clear identification of each author’s contribution;
• handling complaints – availability of open and clearly defined procedures for considering appeals and ethical complaints;
• retraction and correction of articles – clear procedures for retractions, corrections, and error notifications.

WAME (World Association of Medical Editors, principles for editors across all disciplines):

• editorial independence – editorial decisions are made without pressure from sponsors, institutions, or commercial interests;
• conflicts of interest – all authors, reviewers, and editors are required to disclose them;
• peer review – ensuring objective, fair, and timely expert evaluation;
• transparency of funding – disclosure of grants, sponsors, and research funding sources;
• support for early-career researchers – facilitating publications by researchers at the initial stages of their careers.

DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, principles of fair research evaluation):

• not relying solely on bibliometric indicators (impact factor, h-index), but evaluating research based on its quality, novelty, and contribution to science;
• valuing diverse research outputs – software, data, algorithms, technical solutions, not only articles;
• recognition of interdisciplinary research as equal to traditional publications;
• promotion of open science – publication of preprints, open access to data and code.

ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, general principles for all disciplines):

• authorship criteria: only those who have made a substantial contribution to the work qualify as authors;
• research ethics: compliance with standards regarding data, human participants, and experiments;
• data transparency: encouraging authors to preserve and provide access to research data.

Other contemporary principles (Open Science, Plan S, FAIR Data):

• Open Access – promoting open access to scientific results;
• FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) – ensuring that data can be found, accessed, integrated, and reused;
• Plan S – supporting policies for publishing in open-access journals and repositories.

Ethical Use of AI
Adherence to transparency and accountability when applying artificial intelligence in research.