PUBLICATION ETHICS
The editorial of “Psychological-Pedagogical Journal “Gaudeamus” endorses the materials and standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors) and the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
The editorial of the journal aims to comply with the ethical standards set by the international scientific community and to prevent misconduct of any kind. All submitted manuscripts in the journal are reviewed. Compliance with the publication ethics of the journal is obligatory for the publication in the journal. All submitted manuscripts are checked in the "Antiplagiat" system.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S CODE OF ETHICS
Editor-in-chief of the journal:
1) decides to publish the article solely based on an expert assessment by independent reviewers and opinion of editorial board members;
2) reports confidential information about the presented manuscript only to authors and reviewers, preserves the anonymity of reviewers;
3) removes the presented article from consideration if there is a conflict of interest;
4) takes adequate response measures upon receipt of a complaint of ethical misconduct against the submitted manuscript or published article (notification of the author, discussion of the complaint against the editorial board, publication of corrections or article retraction);
5) recommends citation of works with scientific significance only aiming to improve the presented material.
Forcing authors to reference journal is unacceptable.
Reviewer:
1) agrees (reports this to the editor) to review only those manuscripts for which they have sufficient knowledge to evaluate, and which they can review in time;
2) provides the journal with accurate and truthful information about its personal and professional knowledge and experience;
3) respects the confidentiality of the review and does not disclose any details of the manuscript or review during or after review to anyone, except those persons authorized by the journal;
4) does not use the information obtained in the course of the review for own benefit or that of other persons or organizations, or to harm others or discredit others;
5) does not directly contact the authors without the prior permission of the journal;
6) informs the editorial board of possible conflicts of interest and apply for advice to the journal if they are not sure whether the existing situation constitutes a conflict of interest or not;
7) does not allow the content of the review to be influenced by the origin of the manuscript, nationality, religious affiliation, political or other views of its authors, or commercial considerations;
8) writes the review objectively and constructively, refraining from hostile or inflammatory statements, and defamatory or humiliating comments;
9) understands that, as a researcher, they also need constructive reviews of colleagues, and therefore reviews diligently, indicates relevant published works that are not referenced in the manuscript;
10) should be specific in its criticism and confirm with solid evidence and appropriate references its general conclusions, such as “this work was done earlier”, to help editors form correct assessments and decisions while respecting objective treatment of authors;
11) in the review reports a reasoned listing of positive qualities of the material, a reasoned listing of defects of the material, a general assessment of the material and a recommendation for the editorial board.
PUBLISHER'S CODE OF ETHICS
Publisher:
1) defines relations between publisher, editors and other participants of contractual relations, forms effective policy of journals and mechanisms of its execution, distributes information about policy of journals;
2) respects the right to confidentiality and confidentiality of personal information (e.g. for research participants, authors, reviewers);
3) protects intellectual property and copyright;
4) promotes the independence of editors;
5) collaborates with other publishers and industry associations, including ethical concerns, error tracking, and publication of rebuttal;
6) enforces the Code of Conduct for Journal Editors;
7) remains faithful to the principles of scientific honesty;
8) assists the parties (e.g. agencies, grantees, government entities) responsible for investigating unfair research and publication practices and, where it is possible, assists in resolving these issues;
9) assists editors in publishing revisions, explanations and withdrawal of unfair articles;
10) ensures output of journal publications in time.
EDITORIAL BOARD'S CODE OF ETHICS
The editorial assists authors in improving the quality of works submitted to the editorial board of the journal through scientific review and literary editing of articles. The editorial undertakes to make fair and impartial decisions independent of commercial interests and to organize a process of objective review.
Editorial board:
1) respects the honor and dignity of authors, correctly conducts correspondence, ensuring benevolence, helping authors, if necessary, to select a profile journal;
2) respects confidentiality by not disclosing information about the manuscript submitted to the editorial office of the journal to third parties, except reviewers. Correspondence with the author is confidential, as is the content of negative reviews, which are reported only to the author;
3) considers all manuscripts submitted for publication without prejudice to their authors and does not disclose to anyone information about manuscripts received by the editorial office, except reviewers and editorial staff;
4) assigns a “blind” review to ensure an impartial review of the manuscript;
5) reviews are a confidential document used in the editorial board's decision to publish an article. The decision to publish the editorial board is guided by the expert assessment of reviewers, the reliability of the data submitted and the scientific significance of the work in question;
7) organizes review aimed at rapidly publishing high-quality research while maintaining a rigorous but benevolent process of expert evaluation. Rejected materials are returned within a month due to insufficient studies or lack of relevance during the review process;
8) adopts editorial policy ensuring maximum transparency and full reporting to the author; If the review and review process takes longer, the authors are notified by e-mail;
9) protects the integrity of publications by making corrections, if necessary, and issue justified waivers to those whose manuscripts do not comply with the Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications;
10) protects the rights of third parties against unauthorized use of materials (plagiarism) - persons found to plagiarize are deprived of the possibility to publish in the journal. The editorial board of the journal on its pages can make public cases of plagiarism that have become known to it;
11) regulates editorial conflicts of interest and take into account information received from the author on conflicts of interest, including administrative, research and financial, related to his work when organizing reviews and deciding on the publication of the relevant manuscript.
12) if the manuscript is rejected or sent for revision, the editorial board submit to the authors the justification of its decision;
13) publishes an error message signed by the persons who found it, if sufficient evidence of error of published materials is found;
14) does not allow printing of materials with incorrect references and incorrect borrowing.
AUTHOR'S CODE OF ETHICS
1) the author, who submitted the manuscript of the article to the editorial office, assumes responsibility for novelty, reliability of the results of scientific research, for the reliability of contact information, agrees with the publishing license agreement;
2) copyright is reserved for authors: the article accepted for publication is placed in the public domain;
3) the article should contain only original material reflecting the results of the completed studies of the authors, which are not published or transferred to other revisions; Performed according to generally accepted standards of scientific reporting;
4) it is permitted to publish the same article in other editions if it is translated into another language only with the consent of authors and publishers for re-publication and with mandatory reference to the first edition;
5) when quoting works and/or fragments of the text of other authors, they should be executed with appropriate references to published works;
6) the editorial board may reject an article that violates intellectual rights of third parties, rules of scientific ethics or contains information, restricted access, with notification of authors and the organization that sent the article;
7) authors should give an objective assessment of the state of the solved problem, based on the analysis of previous publications, describe the methodology of work, reliability of the obtained results, give an accurate description of the proposed ways of solving the set tasks and show the significance of the study;
8) a series of articles that publish the results of the comprehensive study should be organized in such a way that the reader can obtain an exhaustive understanding of both the structure of the study as a whole and each aspect of it covered in the relevant article;
9) the authors should in good faith and within the time limits set by the editorial board, eliminate comments on the article made by the editorial board and/or reviewers. If they disagree with the views of the reviewers, they give reasonable objections on the merits of the reviewer's comments;
10) if the analysis of the state of the problem is based on confidential information (personal communication, review of manuscripts, grants, etc.), this information cannot be published without the consent of the persons who are its sources;
11) the author may inform the editorial board about conflicts of interest, including administrative, research and financial, related to his work. The editorial board should take this information into account when organizing a review and deciding to publish the relevant manuscript;
12) the author knows that publication under his name of a foreign manuscript (its parts), quoting or recounting of its content without reference to the source of borrowing, as well as other forms of illegal appropriation of the results of foreign research are considered as plagiarism. Plagiarism in any form is contrary to scientific ethics and unacceptable;
13) authors at the end of the article express acknowledgements to all who contributed to work to some extent but does not comply with criteria of authorship (for example, the persons who provided purely technical assistance, the help in writing of article or heads who provided only the general support). Financial and material support is noted;
14) at the end of the manuscript the co-authors indicate the actual contribution of each co-author to the work (this, in particular, should be indicated in the dissertation).
15) all authors are required to provide refutations or corrections of errors if they are found.
RETRACTION OF PUBLICATIONS
The basis for the retraction of the article is the confirmation by the editors of the journal of the fact that the article contains the following gross violations of scientific and publication ethics:
The procedure for retracting the article
Editorial retracts the article according to the official letter from author/group of authors, motivated to explain the reason for his decision, and the decision of the editorial of the journal based on their expertise or received information.
If the editorial of the journal has not responded to the author's request within 30 working days, the author has the right to apply to the RASEP Council for the Ethics of Scientific Publications.
If the editorial decides to retract the article because of the violations listed above, the author (corresponding author in the case of collective authorship) is notified with the justification of the reason for the retraction.
The decision to retract the article is made taking into account the response of the author(s) justifying their position on this issue. If the author(s) do not respond to the editorial board's request within 10 working days, the editorial has the right to retract the article without his (their) consent. The authors may not agree with the position of the editorial board, but this does not negate the right to conduct a review procedure.
The decision to retract the article is made in the protocol. Copies of the protocol are sent to the author (corresponding author in case of collective authorship), to the RASEP Council for the Ethics of Scientific Publications, to the scientific electronic library eLibrary, the scientific electronic library "CyberLeninka" and other databases that index the articles of the journal.
Information about the retraction of the article is published in the next issue of the journal in all its versions (printed and/or electronic), indicating the reason (in case of plagiarism - indicating the sources of borrowing) and the date of retraction of the article. Retracted articles are publicly available and identified as such in all electronic sources (on the journal's website and in bibliographic databases marked RETRACTED); retracted articles and references from them are excluded from the citation indexes and calculation.
Along with the decision to retract the article, the editorial of the journal may decide to impose a ban on the acceptance of articles from the author of the retracted article for a certain period.
