Academic Integrity Policy

The editorial policy of the journal is aimed at compliance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)  and is guided by the principles of academic integrity, ensuring the most objective evaluation of scientific articles, their compliance with the journal’s requirements, and a comprehensive assessment of their strengths and weaknesses.

The editorial board accepts for publication only original manuscripts that have not been previously published and are not under consideration by other journals. The journal uses specialized software to detect textual overlap in submitted manuscripts. Articles containing unattributed borrowings are rejected prior to publication. All submissions are checked for plagiarism using Turnitin, provided by Turnitin, LLC.

Academic integrity constitutes the foundation of the editorial board’s activities, ensuring the quality and credibility of published research. The journal promotes a culture of scientific inquiry based on the following principles:

• Intellectual honesty: results presented in the article must be the outcome of independent research, free from manipulation or distortion;
• Respect for intellectual property: authors guarantee that submitted work does not violate copyright; all illustrative materials (tables, figures, images, etc.) must be properly cited;
• Openness: the journal adheres to an open access policy, facilitating scientific discussion and the advancement of knowledge;
• Objectivity: reviewers provide unbiased expert evaluation, contributing to the improvement of manuscript quality;
• Equality: the editorial board ensures equal conditions for all authors, regardless of their status or academic rank.

The primary violation of academic integrity is plagiarism, which involves presenting others’ results, ideas, or text fragments without proper citation. To avoid plagiarism, authors should:

• use quotation marks for verbatim excerpts;
• avoid altering quoted text within the sentence context;
• use ellipses to indicate omitted parts of a quotation;
• limit excessive use of direct quotations.

This also applies to self-plagiarism, where authors reuse their previously published work without proper acknowledgment, presenting it as new research.

Other violations include fabrication and falsification of data, which involve inventing non-existent results, manipulating sources, or deliberately altering findings to support false hypotheses. Misconduct also includes authorship manipulation, such as listing individuals who did not contribute to the research or outsourcing manuscript writing to third-party commercial services.

In light of technological advancements, undisclosed use of generative artificial intelligence is also considered a violation. Submitting AI-generated text or images without proper disclosure and critical author involvement is treated as academic misconduct. Additionally, simultaneous submission of a manuscript to multiple journals and failure to disclose conflicts of interest are unacceptable practices that may compromise the objectivity of the research findings.