The Editorial Board of the journal adheres to the following principles and recommendations of international organizations:

  1. COPE – transparency in the process of submission, peer-review, and publication of articles; impartiality and independence of editors and reviewers; academic integrity; correct authorship (clear definition of each author’s contribution); handling complaints – existence of open and clear procedures for considering appeals and ethical complaints; retraction and correction of articles – a clear procedure for retractions, corrections, and notifications of errors;
  2. WAME – editorial independence; conflicts of interest; peer-review; funding transparency – disclosure of information about grants, sponsors, and sources of research funding; support for young scientists;
  3. DORA – not being limited to bibliometric indicators (impact factor, h-index), but evaluating research by its quality, novelty, and contribution to science; valuing various types of research outputs; recognizing interdisciplinary research as equivalent to classical publications; encouraging open science – publication of preprints, open access to data and codes.

Ethical use of AI – maintaining transparency and responsibility in the case of using artificial intelligence in research.

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