Publication Ethics

Ethics guidelines of the Editorial Board of "Scientific Journal of Metinvest Polytechnic. Series: Technical sciences"

General provisions

Ethics guidelines of the editorial board are based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics, International standards for editors and authors, the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

The editorial board considers the monitoring of ethics of the manuscripts as one of the aspects of its activities and the peer-review process.

Editors don’t approve the materials which contain insulting statements, manifestations of aggression or any discrimination, or incite ethnic and racial hatred, violate international legal norms and current legislation of Ukraine.

Editors are not responsible for opinions, judgments, results and conclusions made by the authors of articles and published in the journal. They do not represent the point of view of the editorial board.

Editors are not liable to the authors and/or third parties and organizations for possible damage caused by the publication of the article.

The authors are responsible for the originality or any unfair use of the intellectual property of other authors, as well as for the reliability of information, the accuracy of names, surnames, etc.

Editors reserve the right to review the above ethical principles to amend them.

Ethical guidelines for editors

▶ editors take responsibility for everything they publish and thus, all submitted materials are subject to careful selection and peer review. Editors reserve the right to reject an article or send back for improving;

▶ editors should make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process within a reasonable time;

▶ editors are entitled to reject a manuscript without peer-reviewing if it doesn’t meet the editorial policy, ethics and requirements for manuscripts;

▶ editors shall not provide information related to the content of a manuscript under consideration to other persons, except ones involved in the professional evaluation of this manuscript;

▶ editors are authorized to withdraw the electronic version of the article published in the printed version of the journal, if someone’s rights or generally accepted rules of scientific ethics are violated. The editors inform the author who provided the article and the organization where the work was performed about the fact of withdrawal of the article. Editors also publish a notice of the fact of withdrawal of the article in the next issue of the journal;

▶ editors allow distributing any articles or extracts from the journal in electronic social networks, but reference to the original source is mandatory. The third parties or organizations are prohibited to publish and / or distribute the journal materials in paper form and data storage devices.

Ethical guidelines for authors

▶ the research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation. Authors should mention dangerous manifestations and risks associated with the research;

▶ researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.

▶ researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere;

▶ a manuscript can involve scientifically grounded criticism of a paper of another researcher. The personal comments are not regarded as relevant;

▶ funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed. Authors should guarantee a lack of the contractual relations or
property considerations, which could influence the publication of information contained in a manuscript;

▶ authors should indicate the sources of cited information, which should be properly acknowledged and referenced.

Ethical guidelines for peer-reviewers

▶ if an appointed peer-reviewer is not confident that his qualification meets the level of research, he/she should give the manuscript back immediately;

▶ a reviewer should be impartial when evaluating a manuscript, its experimental and theoretical parts, interpretation and statement, as well as take into account the correspondence of the research compliance with the high scientific and literature standards. The reviewer should respect the intellectual independence of authors.

▶ a reviewer should assess a manuscript if he/she has personal or professional relations and if such relations can influence the impartiality;

▶ a reviewer shouldn’t show a manuscript under review others or discuss it with colleagues, only if the reviewer needs professional advice;

▶ reviewers should adequately explain and justify their judgments so that editors and authors can understand the reasons their comments are based on;

▶ a reviewer should indicate any cases of a lack of citations of the papers of other scholars, any significant similarity between the relevant manuscript and any published article or any manuscript simultaneously submitted to another journal;

▶ reviewers should not use or disclose unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations contained in the manuscript without the consent of the author.

Policy on Mandatory Ethical Approval

The journal requires that all research involving human participants, animals or their biological materials, as well as studies involving personal or confidential data, be conducted in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine and relevant international ethical standards.

For studies involving human participants or their biological materials, authors must obtain prior approval from an appropriate institutional ethics committee or bioethics board. This also applies to surveys, interviews, clinical data, and any other form of human participation research. The manuscript must include a statement confirming ethical approval, specifying the name of the approving institution and, where available, the approval reference number.

Research involving animals or animal-derived biological materials must comply with the principles of humane treatment of animals in research and applicable regulatory requirements. Authors must confirm that the study was reviewed and approved by an authorized ethics committee and that all procedures complied with established animal welfare standards.

For studies involving personal, confidential, or sensitive data, authors must ensure compliance with data protection legislation, including anonymization of data where required and the existence of a lawful basis for data processing. Where applicable, appropriate ethical or institutional approval must be obtained.

The editorial board reserves the right to request supporting documentation confirming ethical approval. Manuscripts that do not comply with these requirements or fail to provide sufficient ethical justification may be rejected or withdrawn from consideration.

Research Assessment Policy (in accordance with DORA)

The journal supports the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and adheres to responsible practices in the use of bibliometric indicators in editorial decision-making and research evaluation.

The journal recognizes that the quality of scientific research cannot be assessed solely on the basis of quantitative indicators such as journal impact factor, citation indices, or other bibliometric metrics. Such indicators may be used only as supplementary tools and must not replace expert evaluation of the content of scholarly work.

In the evaluation of manuscripts, the editorial board and peer reviewers focus primarily on scientific originality, methodological rigor, reliability of results, contribution to the relevant field of knowledge, and overall research quality, regardless of the venue of publication.

The journal also supports the recognition of diverse research outputs, including research articles, reviews, datasets, software, and other scholarly products, provided they demonstrate scientific value and comply with ethical standards.

In editorial selection, peer review, and academic assessment processes, the journal encourages the use of transparent, objective, and quality-based criteria in line with international principles of responsible research evaluation.

Accordingly, the journal upholds the principle that the primary criterion for evaluation is the scientific content and quality of the research, rather than quantitative metrics or the prestige of the publication venue.