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Editorial code of ethics
Scientific and methodological online journal
“Kaliningradskij Vestnik Obrazovaniya”

The editorial board of the journal “Kaliningradskij Vestnik Obrazovaniya” recognizes the requirements of ethical norms of scientific publications in the field of intellectual rights for the use of copyright materials published in the journal and carries out its activities within the framework of the current laws of the Russian Federation.

The Editorial Board of the Journal in its work is guided by the Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications, developed and approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Scientific Publications.

Compliance with ethical norms and rules is mandatory for all participants in the process of publishing scientific materials: authors, reviewers, editorial staff and members of the Editorial Board.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

The editorial board is responsible for all materials published in the journal.

The Editorial Board ensures the high quality of the published material.

The Editorial Board evaluates the intellectual content of manuscripts regardless of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious views, origin, nationality, social status or political preferences of the authors.

The Editorial Board makes every effort to comply with the ethical norms accepted by the international scientific community and to prevent any violation of these norms.

In its relations with the authors, the editorial board:

• is guided by the reliability of the presentation of the data and the scientific relevance of the work;
• publishes corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies, where necessary;
• announces mechanisms for authors’ appeals against the decisions of the editorial board.

Responsibilities of Authors

Requirements for publication of research findings

Authors of papers containing the results of original research are required to provide a detailed report of the work carried out, as well as objective proof of its relevance. The manuscript should provide accurate data proving the findings. The manuscript should include details and references necessary to repeat the work carried out. Submission of knowingly false facts is considered a breach of the Code of Ethics and is unacceptable.

Manuscripts should be objective and contain verified information. Works expressing the “opinion of the editorial board” should be marked accordingly.

Originality and plagiarism

Authors of an article should ensure that they have submitted a completely original work, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of other authors, this should be appropriately referenced or stated in the text.

Plagiarism takes many forms, from presenting someone else’s work as one’s own, to copying or paraphrasing essential parts of someone else’s work (without citing the source), to claiming rights to findings made in research carried out by others. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical publication behavior and is unacceptable.

Submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unethical publication behavior and unacceptable.

An author should not submit for consideration an already published article to another journal.

The work of other researchers should be duly acknowledged. Authors should provide references to publications that have influenced the content of the reported paper.

Copyright of the Paper

Copyright should be limited to those persons who have made a significant contribution to the concept, planning, execution or interpretation of the study described.

All significant contributors should be listed as co-authors. If any person has participated in any substantial part of the project, he or she should be acknowledged or listed as a co-author.

The author should indicate all co-authors who meet these requirements and not those who do not meet them, and ensure that the final version of the article and its submission for publication has been approved by all co-authors.

The manuscript, if accepted for publication, is placed in the public domain; the copyright is retained by the authors.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

All authors should declare in their manuscript any financial or other significant conflict of interest that could be perceived to affect the outcome of the review of their manuscript. Examples of possible conflicts of interest to be declared are: employment, consulting services, share ownership, financial rewards, paid expertise, patents, grants and other funding. All sources of financial support for the project should be declared.

Significant Errors in Published Papers

If the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her published work, it is the author’s responsibility to urgently notify the Chief Editor of the journal and to work with the Chief Editor to publish a retraction or correction of the article. If the Chief Editor learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the author’s responsibility to promptly refute or correct the article or to provide the Chief Editor with proof that the published work is correct.

Plagiarism Detection

The Editorial Board is committed to assist the scientific community in all aspects of the implementation of the editorial ethics policy, especially in cases of suspected duplicate manuscript submission or plagiarism.

In the review process:

• the manuscript received for review is treated as a confidential document; it is not allowed to be handed over to unauthorised third parties for review or discussion;
• the reviewer provides an objective and reasoned assessment of the research findings presented;
• unpublished data shall not be used for personal purposes and handed over to third parties;
• the reviewer who cannot be objective, e.g. in case of a conflict of interest with the author or organization, should inform the Chief Editor with a request to exclude him/her from the process of reviewing the manuscript.

In the case of complaints, the editorial board responds to complaints concerning manuscripts or published materials reviewed and, when a conflict situation is identified, takes all necessary steps to restore the violated rights.

The Process of Handling Complaints against Editors

A complaint can be written when there is a conflict with the editorial board, a reviewer, another author or a reader. It is submitted in writing to the postal address of the editorial office with the original documents, if referred to by the author. The term of consideration of the complaint is not more than three months from the date of its receipt by the editorial board. An expert committee of at Chief Editor least four members (the Chief Editor, Deputy chief editor and two members of the editorial board) is called when necessary after the complaint is received and, after the complaint has been considered, the decision of the expert committee is sent to the complainant by post.

Protection of Personal Data

The editorial board protects the confidentiality of personal data (residence address, telephone number). Surname, first name, patronymic, academic degree and title, position, place of work and e-mail address are available to readers in the text of the article already published (according to the License Agreement).