Publication ethics of the journal

«Memlekettik Audit – State audit»

 

1. General provisions

The publication ethics of the journal «Memlekettik Audit – State Audit» (hereinafter referred to as the Journal) is guided by international ethical standards of scientific publications, including rules of decency, confidentiality, supervision of publications, consideration of possible conflicts of interest, etc. In its activities, the editorial board follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics and draws on the experience of reputable international journals and publishers.

Publication ethics establishes norms, principles, and standards of ethical behavior for editors, reviewers, and authors, measures to identify conflicts of interest, unethical behavior, and instructions for removing (retracting), correcting, and refuting articles.

All participants in the publication process, namely, each author, editors, reviewer, and members of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Memlekettik Audit – State Audit" must unconditionally adhere to the principles, norms, and standards of publication ethics. Compliance with the rules of ethics is important both to ensure and maintain the quality of a scientific journal, and to create trusting and respectful relationships between participants in the publication process, to prevent the possibility of misuse of copyrighted materials in the interests of individuals in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Copyright and Related Rights".

Unethical behavior is considered to be the actions of authors, editors, or publishers, cases of self-review of their own articles, contractual and false peer review, cases of resorting to agency services to publish research results, false authorship, falsification and fabrication of research results, publication of unreliable pseudo-scientific texts, transfer of manuscripts of articles to other publications without the permission of the authors, transfer of authors' materials to third parties, copyright violations and principles of confidentiality of editorial processes, cases of manipulation of citations, plagiarism.

 

2. Duties and rights of the author of a scientific publication

The author of a scientific article is a person who was directly involved in writing the article, developing and collecting the material, analyzing and interpreting it.

Author:

• guarantees that the proposed work is original and has not been previously published anywhere, in any language.;
• Author is collectively responsible for his work and the content of the publication, the results of the research, which are characterized by high quality of execution and comply with ethical, methodological and legal standards.;
• provides results honestly, without fabrication, falsification and/or unfair manipulation of data;
• provides the materials of the article as complete, balanced and objective;
• If necessary, provides additional materials confirming the accuracy of the data provided in the article.;
• If any inaccuracies or errors are found, it takes measures to correct them as soon as possible.;
• If significant errors or inaccuracies are found in the publication on their own, they inform about it and interact with the editorial board in order to withdraw the publication as soon as possible or correct the errors.;
• can use self–citation - no more than five links;
• has the right to refuse publication before reviewing;
• has the right to receive a reasoned response if the editorial board refuses to publish the article.;
• has the right to finalize it before publication.;
• has the right to reasonably disagree with the reviewers' comments, leaving the right to decide whether to accept the article for publication to the Editorial Board.

 

3. Duties and rights of the reviewer

A reviewer is a person who carries out a scientific examination of the author's materials in order to objectively assess the quality of the submitted article and determine the degree of its compliance with scientific, literary and ethical standards.

The reviewer:

• agrees or gives a reasoned refusal to conduct a review in the online system of the Journal within 2 calendar days after receiving the article for review.;
• adheres to the principle of confidentiality when reviewing;
• gives an objective assessment of scientific work without any personal criticism of the author, expresses his opinion clearly and reasonably.;
• identifies significant similarities or coincidences between the considered manuscript of the article and the published works.;
• may not use the submitted and unpublished data for personal purposes for discussion by third parties.;
• notifies the editorial board without fail in case of suspicion of plagiarism, authorship or falsification of data.;
• If there is a conflict of interest, he may not be allowed to review the manuscript.;
• has the right to refuse to cooperate as a reviewer during the first two weeks after the release of the current issue.

 

4. Duties and rights of the Editorial Board:

1) The composition of the editorial board, approved by the Founder of the Journal.

2) The editorial board of the Journal consists of scientists with a Hirsch index of at least 2 (two) in the journal's subject area in the international databases Web of Science or Scopus, as well as scientists with publications in the international databases Web of science or Scopus.

3) The composition of the editorial board, indicating the academic degree and academic title (if any), the place of work is published on the Journal's website.

 

Chief Editor:

• carries out the direct management of the Journal;
• coordinates the issues of the Journal's publishing activities;
• ensures the organization of the Journal's work, the fulfillment of tasks and functions defined by the Regulations on the Journal;
• organizes professional development of the Journal's staff;
• solves issues related to the artistic and technical design of the Journal;
• ensures the creation of optimal workplace conditions for high-performance, high-quality work;
• makes a final decision on the possibility (or impossibility) of publishing materials in the Journal, guided by the Journal's policy and ethics standards, taking into account current legislation in the field of copyright.;
• does not disclose information about submitted works to anyone except the relevant authors, reviewers, and other editorial consultants. Information or ideas received during the editing process are confidential;
• he is fully responsible for choosing the content of the Journal.

 

Deputy Editor-in-Chief:

• organizes the Journal's activities;
• coordinates and coordinates the issues of the Journal's publishing activities;
• makes suggestions on improving the Journal's activities and increasing the efficiency of its work.;
• coordinates issues related to the artistic and technical design of the Journal;
• reviews the manuscripts of articles;
• supervises the accepted manuscripts;
• verifies that the authors have fulfilled the reviewers' comments and requirements for the manuscripts during their revision, the completeness of the submitted material, and the correspondence of the manuscript titles to their content.;
• coordinates the work on conducting double-blind peer review of articles;
• advises authors of scientific articles, structural divisions of the Journal's publishing activities.;
• reserves the right to reject the material before conducting a double-blind review if it is considered to be of low quality or unsuitable for the readers of the journal, or if the authors do not comply with the provisions of the ethics of the Journal.;
• does not disclose information about submitted works to anyone except the relevant authors, reviewers, and other editorial consultants. Information or ideas obtained during editing are confidential.

 

The managing (responsible) editor:

• participates in the development and promotion of the Journal;
• develops and coordinates with the management the annual plan and the subject of the issued editions, ensures the quarterly issue of the Journal;
• monitors online acceptance of articles, online peer review, and the online system of the Journal;
• Accepts incoming articles, checks their compliance with the subject of the journal and submits them to the Deputy editor-in-Chief of the Journal.;
• conducts negotiations with potential authors of articles;
• organizes and supervises work on planning, timely and high-quality preparation of materials for printing;
• selects materials for the Journal in accordance with editorial policy and ethics, monitors the schedule for the receipt of publications.;
• reviews the accepted manuscripts, while providing the authors with the necessary assistance (to improve the structure, choice of terms, design of illustrations, etc.), coordinates with them the recommended changes.;
• verifies the authors' compliance with the reviewers' comments and requirements for the manuscripts during their revision, the completeness of the submitted material, and the correspondence of the manuscript titles to their content.;
• verifies the correctness of the spelling of the cited citations and numerical data, the use and spelling of names, terms, units of measurement, and the conformity of the cited symbols with the designations established by standards or accepted requirements of the Journal.;
• performs other duties necessary to prepare the Journal for publication in accordance with the requirements of the authorized body.;
• keeps records of the fulfillment of schedules for the recruitment, printing and production of copies, controls the completeness of publications and the quality of printing;
• Accepts ready-made copies from printing companies, verifies that their quality meets the requirements of the technical specification and the terms of the contract.;
• participates in the acceptance, transfer, and distribution of manufactured copies of the Magazine in accordance with the established procedure;
• does not disclose information about submitted works to anyone except the relevant authors, reviewers, and other editorial consultants. Information or ideas obtained during editing are confidential. 

 

Members of the Editorial Board:

• They have no right to disclose information about articles submitted to the editorial office, except for a narrow circle of people directly involved in the article and the process of its preparation for publication.;
• may not use unpublished data obtained from submitted manuscripts for personal purposes or transfer it to third parties (without written consent);
• must take all necessary measures to restore violated rights, and if errors are identified, contribute to the publication of corrections or refutations if a conflict situation is detected.;
• They must ensure the confidentiality of names and other information related to reviewers. If necessary, when deciding whether to hire a new reviewer, the latter may be informed of the names of previous reviewers.;
• They are responsible for publishing articles with known signs of unethical behavior, plagiarism, excessive self-citation by the authors, and conflicts of interest. If the principles of publication and/or scientific ethics were violated when writing an article, the editor-in-chief of the journal, based on the decision of the editorial board, must retract the publication. Articles may be withdrawn by the author(s) or the editorial board of the journal. The editorial board carries out the withdrawal (retraction) of published articles in case of violation of publication and/or scientific ethics, based on the recommendations of the SORA. The article is withdrawn/withdrawn (retrogressed)
• if there is clear evidence that the data obtained is unreliable or obtained as a result of illegal actions, for example, falsification of data.;
• the discovery of the fact of the manuscript's publication in another publication before its publication in the Journal;
• detection of plagiarism in the article, including borrowing of drawings, graphs, tables, etc.;
• the presence of gross errors in the article that can negatively affect other scientists and their research, for example, a miscalculation or an experimental error;
• the appearance of copyright claims on the article or its individual parts from third parties;
• the presence of information in the article that contradicts the principles, standards and norms of publication and/or scientific ethics.
• They have the right to select articles for inclusion in the Journal, shorten texts and make edits to them without the consent of the authors, editorial decisions may be based on issues unrelated to the quality of the article, such as suitability for the Journal.

 

5. Measures to identify conflicts of interest

A conflict of interest, as defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (SORE), is a conflict situation in which authors, reviewers, or members of the editorial board have implicit interests that can influence their judgments about the published material. A conflict of interest arises when there are financial, personal, or professional conditions that may affect the scientific judgment of the reviewer and members of the editorial board and, as a result, the editorial board's decision regarding the publication of the manuscript.

In order to disclose conflicts of interest, the Editorial Board of the Journal implements measures to identify the degree of affiliation between authors and reviewers.

The editor-in-chief, a member of the editorial board and reviewers should notify about a potential conflict of interest that may somehow influence the decision of the editorial board. Members of the editorial board should refuse to review the manuscript if they are in any competitive relationship related to the research results of the author(s) of the manuscript, or if there is another conflict of interest.

When submitting a manuscript for review to the journal, the author(s) declares that the contents of the manuscript indicate all sources of research funding; they also indicate what commercial, financial, personal or professional factors exist that could create a conflict of interest in relation to the submitted manuscript. In the cover letter, if there is a conflict of interest, the author(s) may indicate scientists who, in their opinion, will not be able to objectively evaluate their manuscript.

The reviewer should not review manuscripts that may cause a conflict of interest arising from competition, collaboration, or other relationships with any of the authors involved in the manuscript.

Reviewers should state their attitudes and actions that may affect their evaluation of the article and abandon the review process if there is an actual or potential conflict of interest regarding the article in question. In particular, the reviewer may not be the author or co-author of the peer-reviewed work, the scientific supervisor of the applicant for an academic degree, or an employee of the department in which any of the authors of the article work.

If there is a conflict of interest with the content of the manuscript, the responsible editor must notify the editor-in-chief, after which the editor-in-chief assigns the re-examination and review of the manuscript to another editor / reviewer.

The existence of a conflict of interest between the participants in the review process does not mean that the manuscript will be rejected.

All interested parties should, as far as possible, avoid conflicts of interest in any variations at all stages of publication. In the event of any conflict of interest, the person who discovered this conflict should immediately notify the editorial board. The same applies to any other violations of the principles, standards and norms of publication and scientific ethics.

 

6. Unethical behavior

The editorial board of the Journal recognizes the following as unethical behavior in the field of scientific publications:

• the requirement for authors to independently provide reviews of their own articles, as well as contractual and pseudo-censorship. This practice implies the absence of peer review in the journal.;
• offering agency services. Provision of such services to authors as "turnkey publication", correspondence with the editorial board on behalf of the author, revision of articles by the agent based on the recommendations of the reviewer, preparation of paid reviews; 
• sale of co-authorship, gift co-authorship, changing the composition of the authors. Specifying among the authors persons who have not made an intellectual contribution to the research is a violation of copyright and ethical standards, since
• it not only misleads readers, but is also regarded as fraud.;
• publication of materials of correspondence "scientific" conferences. Since the practice of such conferences is directly related to fraud and fraud in the field of science, the publication of the materials of these conferences is regarded as unethical, contributing to the dissemination of pseudoscientific texts.;
• transfer of texts of articles to other journals without the consent of the authors. The publication of an article in a journal that was not approved by the author is a violation of the interests of the author.;
• transfer of the authors' materials to third parties. The transfer of the materials of articles sent to the editorial office to third parties, except for reviewers and editorial staff, is a violation of copyright and the principle of confidentiality of editorial processes.;
• manipulation of citations. Artificial increase of scientometric indexes, excessive self-citation and friendly citation, irrelevant references mislead readers and are interpreted as fraud.;
• plagiarism, falsification and fabrication. The editorial staff works diligently with the texts of articles, preventing the appearance of unscrupulous scientific publications containing plagiarism, falsification and fabrication of data on the pages of their publications.