The Elektrichestvo journal’s editorial policy follows the recommendations suggested by the UNESCO International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Elektrichestvo journal Publisher and Editorial Board are guided by the publication ethics principles developed proceeding from international standards, namely:

- the statements adopted at the Second World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010;

- the statements set out in the Ethics Code of Scientific Publications developed and approved by the Committee оn Publication Ethics (the Noncommercial Partnership “Committee on Publication Ethics” );

- statements set out in Chapter 70 “Copyright” of the Russian Federation Civil Code .

The Ethics Obligations of the Authors,

who shall adhere to the ethics principles, violation of which may result in that the Publisher can impose sanctions including suspension or cancellation of rights for publishing.

1. The author shall submit to the Editorial Office an authentic report about the accomplished investigation neatly formatted in accordance with the Rules of Preparing Manuscripts for the Elektrichestvo journal and provide an unbiased assessment of the significance of the scientific work submitted for its publishing. The information collected by the author of the paper must contain sufficient details and references to accessible sources that would allow an experienced expert to recreate the experimental observations.
2. If requests are received from the interested readers, the authors of the published paper should share with them the data and methods of the accomplished investigation that were obtained in the paper. The authors are also suggested to present the study results to common databases.
3. The list of cited references shall include the sources that had an essential influence on the content of the published paper, and which can lead the readers to earlier publications on this topic, which are essential for understanding the material presented by the author. The fraction of self-citing sources shall not be more than 20% of the entire list of references.
4. The author should remember that for convenience of readers, the results of interrelated investigations carried out by him or her should preferably be published in one journal or in a small number of periodicals.
5. In submitting a manuscript for publishing, the author must inform the publisher about other papers on the same topic that are being considered or published in other editions. Their copies must be submitted to the publisher.
6. Submission of a manuscript describing the results of the same investigation to more than one journal is regarded as violation of scientific ethics.
7. The study results obtained by the author may serve as a basis for criticizing the works of another scientist. Such criticizing is acceptable provided that it is scientifically grounded and does not touch the scientist’s personality.
8. Scientists who made a significant scientific-practical contribution in the published investigations and who share the responsibility for their results may be co-authors of the article. Agreement for co-authorship shall be confirmed by signatures in the cover letter to the Editorial Office in submitting the paper. Other participants to the work (including those having managerial relation to the investigation) may be mentioned in footnotes or at the end of the paper. The deceased co-authors shall be included in the list of paper authors (their surnames should be taken in a mourning frame).
9. In submitting a manuscript, the author shall inform about the possibility of conflict of financial and other interests in connection with consideration and publishing of the paper.
10. Plagiarism is not acceptable in the journal. The authors shall not borrow literally, copy almost literally or very closely a text with the results of works of other authors without making reference to them; they should not go in self-citation, which is regarded as repeated publication of previously published investigations without indicating the source.

Ethics Obligations of Reviewers

1. A reviewer shall disclose to the publisher the actual or perceived conflict of interests before he or she agrees to write a review. Family, friendship, or business relations with the author, or scientific cooperation with the author, e.g., as a scientific leader of his or her dissertation, etc. are meant here. The publisher should decide if the conflict is sufficiently deep to prevent the reviewer from writing an unbiased review.
2. A reviewer should refuse from reviewing a manuscript if he or she has insufficiently deep knowledge about the paper topic, if he or she is not able to present a review in due time, if the manuscript competes in the scientific sense with somebody with whom the reviewer had complex professional relations or some conflict of interest.
3. On the reviewer’s desire, the publisher will not reveal his or her personality.
4. The reviewer shall treat the manuscript as a confidential document.
5. Unless the author’s permission is received, it is not acceptable to use or cite the manuscript until it has been published.
6. Reviewers shall clearly and substantially confirm the basic principles of their analysis in reviewing. In particular, they should indicate whether the paper title is in consistency with its content, whether the statements in the paper are clear for the reader’s understanding, whether it contains new results, whether it is worthy of publishing, etc.
7. If the reviewer knows that manuscripts similar to that sent to him or her have already been published or are under consideration in other editions, he or she shall inform the publisher about this; however, it is the publisher who bears responsibility for the decision made in such case.

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