The Editorial Board of the scientific journal “Problems of World History” adheres in its work to international ethical standards of scientific publishing, which include principles of integrity, confidentiality, publication oversight, and prevention of potential conflicts of interest, among others.

The Editorial Office, in turn, follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit by Elsevier, and relies on the experience of leading international publishers. Compliance with publication ethics by all participants in the publishing process ensures the protection of authors’ intellectual property rights, improves the quality of publications, and prevents the misuse of authors’ materials for the benefit of individuals.

This Regulation complies with the journal’s policy and is one of the key components of the peer-review process and publication workflow.

 

I. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors bear personal responsibility for the submitted manuscript and must adhere to the following principles:

1. Provide reliable results of the conducted research. Knowingly false, fraudulent or falsified statements are equated with unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

2. At the request of the editorial board, provide source data for editorial review. Authors must provide free access to such data and store this data for a reasonable time after their publication.

3. Ensure that the research results presented in the manuscript are independent and original work. In the case of using fragments of other people's works and/or borrowing statements from other authors, the article must include appropriate bibliographical references with the obligatory indication of the author and the original source. Excessive borrowing, as well as plagiarism in any form, including unformatted quotes, paraphrasing or assignment of rights to the results of other people's research, are unethical and unacceptable actions. Articles that are a compilation of materials published by other authors without their creative processing and their own author's interpretation by the editorial board of the journal are not accepted.

4. Be aware that the author(s) bear(s) primary responsibility for the novelty and reliability of the results of the scientific research.

5. Recognize the contribution of all persons who in one way or another influenced the course of the research or determined the nature of the presented scientific work. In particular, the article should include bibliographical references to publications that were of some importance in conducting the research. Information obtained privately through conversation, correspondence and discussion with third parties should not be used without the express written permission of the representative of its source. All sources should be open. Even if written or illustrative materials of a large number of people are used, permission for this must be obtained and submitted to the editorial board.

6. Submit only the original manuscript to the journal. Do not submit an article to the journal that has been sent to another journal and is currently under review, as well as an article previously published in another journal. Failure to comply with this principle is considered a gross violation of publication ethics and gives grounds for removing the article from review. If elements of the manuscript have previously been published in another article, authors are required to refer to their earlier work and indicate how the new work differs significantly from the previous one. Verbatim copying of their own works and their paraphrasing are unacceptable; they can only be used as a basis for new conclusions.

7. Ensure the correct composition of the list of co-authors of the work. The co-authors of the article should include all persons who have made a significant intellectual contribution to its concept, structure, and the conduct or interpretation of the results of the submitted work. Other persons (or organizations) who participated in some aspects of the work should be thanked. The author must also ensure that all co-authors are familiar with the final version of the article, approve it and agree to its submission for publication. All authors indicated in the article must bear public responsibility for the content of the article. If the article is a multidisciplinary work, the co-authors are each responsible for their personal contribution, while retaining collective responsibility for the overall result. It is unacceptable to indicate among co-authors persons who did not participate in the research.

8. In the event of detection of significant errors or inaccuracies in the article at the stage of its consideration or after its publication, immediately notify the editorial office of the journal and make a joint decision to acknowledge the error and/or correct it as soon as possible. If the editorial office of the journal becomes aware that the published work contains significant errors, the author is obliged to immediately prepare a message about the corresponding corrections of errors for publication in the journal, or to provide the editorial office with evidence of the correctness of the information presented to them.

9. The author must clearly indicate in his work the situation when the research is related to chemicals, physico-chemical processes or equipment, during work with which there is a risk to human or animal health. If the research involves the use of animals or humans as test subjects, the author must ensure that all procedures were carried out in accordance with relevant laws and institutional principles, as well as that the relevant government agencies have approved them. The submitted article must include a statement and confirmation from the relevant authorities of consent for experiments with humans. The right of the person involved in the experiment to confidentiality must always be respected.

10. Indicate in his manuscripts all sources of financial support for the project, information about the employer, patent applications/registrations, grants and other types of funding.

11. Disclose in his works information about any significant conflicts of interest that may affect the results of the study or their interpretation. All potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage

 

II. Ethical Principles for Reviewers

The reviewer conducts a scientific examination of the author's materials in order to objectively assess the quality of the submitted article and determine its level of compliance with scientific, literary and ethical standards. When evaluating the article, the reviewer must be impartial and adhere to the following principles:

1. Expert evaluation should help the author to improve the quality of the article text, and the editor-in-chief to make a decision on publication.

2. A reviewer who does not consider himself an expert in the subject area of the article or knows that he will not be able to submit a review of the article in a timely manner must notify the editor-in-chief and refuse to review.

3. The reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of the work submitted for review. This also applies to the scientific supervisors of candidates for a scientific degree and/or employees of the department in which the author works.

4. Any manuscript received by an expert from the editorial office for review is a confidential document. It cannot be discussed with other persons, except for the specified persons.

5. The reviewer must be objective. It is unacceptable to make personal remarks to the author in the review. The reviewer must express his opinion clearly and with reason.

6. The reviewer must identify published articles that are relevant to the reviewed article and not cited by the author. Any statement in the review that some observation, conclusion or argument from the reviewed article has already been encountered in the literature must be accompanied by an accurate bibliographic reference to the source of information. The reviewer must also draw the editor-in-chief's attention to significant similarity or partial coincidence of the reviewed article with any other previously published one.

7. If the reviewer suspects plagiarism, authorship or falsification of data, he must necessarily contact the editorial board with a proposal for a collective review of the author's article.

8. The reviewer must provide an objective conclusion on the sufficiency of citing articles already published in the literature on this topic.

9. The reviewer should not use information and ideas from the article submitted to him for review for personal gain, observing the principle of confidentiality.

10. The reviewer should not accept manuscripts for consideration if there is a conflict of interest caused by competition, collaboration or other relationships with any authors or organizations associated with the article.

 

III. Ethical Principles of the Editorial Board

The members of the editorial board and the editorial staff of the journal are responsible for the publication of the submitted manuscript, guided by the following fundamental principles:

1. When making a decision on publication, the editor-in-chief of a scientific journal is guided by the reliability of the submitted data and the scientific significance of the work under consideration.

2. The editor-in-chief should not have personal interests in the articles that he rejects or accepts.

3. The editor-in-chief of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles will be accepted for publication and which ones are rejected. In doing so, he is guided by the journal's policy and adheres to legal principles, preventing copyright infringement and plagiarism.

4. The editor-in-chief evaluates the submitted article solely on its scientific content, regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, citizenship, origin, social status or political views.

5. The editor-in-chief, the editorial staff and the members of the editorial board of the journal should not disclose information about the article submitted to the journal to anyone except the author(s), appointed and potential reviewers, other editorial staff and (if necessary) the publisher.

6. Unpublished data obtained from manuscripts submitted for consideration should not be used by the editor-in-chief, editorial staff, members of the editorial team or editorial board for personal purposes or transferred to third parties (without written consent).

7. The editor-in-chief should not allow the submitted article to be published if there is sufficient reason to believe that it is plagiarized.

8. The article, if accepted for publication, is placed in the public domain, the copyrights are retained by the authors.

9. The editor-in-chief together with the publisher should not leave unanswered claims regarding the manuscripts reviewed or published materials. If a conflict situation is identified, they must take all necessary measures to restore the violated rights, and if errors are identified, they must facilitate the publication of corrections or refutations.

10. The editor-in-chief, employees of the editorial office or editorial and publishing group of the journal must ensure the confidentiality of the names and other information relating to reviewers. If necessary, when deciding on the involvement of a new reviewer, the latter may be informed of the names of previous reviewers.

 

IV. Ethical Principles of the Publisher

The publisher is responsible for the publication of authored works, adhering to the following fundamental principles and procedures:

1. To facilitate the fulfillment of ethical responsibilities by the editorial board, editorial-publishing group, editorial board, reviewers and authors in accordance with these requirements.

2. To provide support to the journal editorial board in considering claims to the ethical aspects of published materials and to help interact with other journals and/or publishers, if this contributes to the fulfillment of the duties of the editors.

3. To adhere to the provision that the journal’s activities are not a commercial project and are not intended to make a profit.

4. To facilitate the process of publishing corrections, clarifications, refutations and apologies, when necessary.

5. To provide the journal editorial board with the opportunity to withdraw publications that contains plagiarism and inaccurate data.