Journal publication ethics

All parties involved in the process of preparing materials for publication in the journal - authors, expert commission, reviewers, editorial board members - should follow the following requirements for publication ethics.

The Editor-in-Chief may consult with members of the editorial board and reviewers when making a decision, who shall be guided by the following rules:

  • do not disclose information about the submitted manuscript to anyone except the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial consultants and, if necessary, the publisher.
  • do not discriminate in the evaluation of the authors' submissions;
  • not to disclose without necessity information about the materials accepted from authors, except authors, reviewers;
  • take reasonable measures to identify and prevent the publication of articles in which the research has been improperly conducted, knowingly discourage, prevent such violations;
  • consider facts or allegations of improper research behaviour;
  • be prepared to publish corrections, clarifications, rebuttals and apologies where necessary.

In the publishing process authors are guided by the following rules:

  • to work in full compliance with current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright, legality and plagiarism;
  • to provide reliable results of the work done on the original study and an objective discussion of its significance.
  • contain enough content to ensure a review of the work. False or deliberate erroneous statements may cause material to be rejected or a published article to be refuted;
  • submitting the manuscript simultaneously to another edition is considered immoral and improper. The author must not submit to the magazine an article previously published in other publications;
  • guarantee the complete originality of the presented material. If other authors' works or statements are used, relevant bibliographic references or excerpts are provided;
  • do not allow plagiarism in any forms. The article should have at least 80% uniqueness of the text for publication.
  • to follow the rules of autocitation (self-citation), namely, if the elements of the material were previously published in another article, including in the journal «Topical issues of teaching mathematics, physics and information sciences journal », the author is obliged to refer to an earlier work and advised to follow a self-citation rate of 0-10%.
  • the number of authors of the article shall not exceed five;
  • to disclose in their works information about funding, as well as the presence of interests of third parties, which may be perceived as having influenced the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
  • informing the responsible editors in the scientific directions of the journal about a material error or inaccuracy in the work and providing constant contact with the editors of the journal to delete or correct the article.
  • articles of editorial board members not more than one article in one issue;

The number of articles of one author in the issue of the journal should not exceed 2 (two) articles written separately and/or jointly