This section contains information on the procedure of peer review in the Vestnik MGSU journal and formulates key ethical principles that every review must adhere to when conducting expert evaluation of manuscripts for the Vestnik MGSU journal.
More information about Editorial Policy and Publication ethics available at Editorial policy section.
Ethics of the Journal’s reviewers
Ethics of the Journal’s reviewers
Peer review is the process of evaluating the quality of scholarly manuscripts submitted to a scientific journal by specialists in the same subject area. The principal aim of peer review is to obtain an expert opinion on the validity and accuracy of the presented data, the level of scientific rigour and novelty, as well as the theoretical and practical significance of the conducted study.
All manuscripts submitted to Vestnik MGSU undergo obligatory single-blind peer review, which implies that the reviewers’ identities remain anonymous to the authors throughout the publication process. Editors are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the Reviewer’s identity.
A Reviewer is a specialist performing evaluation of materials submitted to the Journal in his/her field of scientific expertise. Reviewers assume responsibility for preparing an objective independent review of the presented scientific study, including reasoned comments and recommendations, as well as general recommendations on the possibility of publishing the submitted manuscript. When performing expert evaluation, Reviewers should be guided by the Journal’s Publication Ethics, the Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers formulated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Reviewer is selected by the Editor supervising a respective research section of the Journal from specialists having scientific expertise in the subject area of the submitted manuscript. A specialist having competitive or other relations with the author(s) or organizations associated with the research presented in the manuscript cannot act as a Reviewer, which requirement is strictly controlled by the Editors. Prior to forwarding the manuscript for review, the Journal’s Editor contacts a potential reviewer and discusses the possibility of peer review evaluation. Reviewers must disclose any conflicts of interest when agreeing to evaluate the proposed manuscript.
Reviewers are free to refuse from conducting a review for any reason.
Reviewers conduct peer review on a volunteering and non-commercial basis.
