Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The Editorial Board of Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science] follows the requirements for peer-reviewed journals in accordance with the internationally accepted ethical rules regarding scientific publications accepted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including the rules concerning copyright, confidentiality, inadmissibility due to plagiarism, consideration of possible conflicts of interest.

The authors are asked to disclose (in a Conflict of Interests Disclosure Form) any relationships with financial and industrial institutions that could lead to the conflict of interests related to the submitted paper. All financial sources should be listed in the end of text article.

The policy pursued by the Editorial Board of the Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science] journal is based on the ethical principles accepted by the global community of scientific publishers, which are stated in the following standards:

The Editorial Board advises anyone participating in the process of preparing and publishing the journal (i.e., authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers) to follow the publishing ethics standards given below. The members of the Editorial Board of the Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science] journal make efforts to prevent any violation of the editorial ethics standards. In case of any suspicions that the principles given below are violated, the Editorial Board will act in accordance with the COPE instructions.

Ethical principles of the journal editors and the Publisher

The Editor-in-Chief has an exclusive right to accept a manuscript for publishing or to reject it.

The Editor-in-Chief is guided by the reliability and the scientific significance of the work when deciding on its publication.

The Editor-in-Chief is obliged not to disclose any information about the manuscript to anyone except for the reviewers, possible reviewers, other scientific consultants, and the Publisher.

The journal editors are to comprehensively study all of the original information included in a manuscript; however, they do not have any right to use it in pursuing personal goals. They can use such information only after the article has been officially published and in accordance with all the citing requirements.

When inviting peer reviewers to evaluate a manuscript, the Editor-in-Chief should take into account that peer reviewers should not participate in reviewing manuscripts in case of any conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies, or other organizations associated with the submitted manuscript.

The Editor-in-Chief and other editors must keep the anonymity of the peer reviewers.

The Editor-in-Chief can reject an article before review for the following reasons:

  • the subject matter of the article does not agree with that of the journal;
  • scientific quality of the article is evidently low;
  • the article has previously been published in another edition;
  • the manuscript is not arranged properly;
  • the editor has every reason to believe that the information in the manuscript is plagiarized;
  • the submitted materials contain principle contradictions with the ethical principles, which the journal adheres to.

The editor, together with the Publisher, should not leave any claims concerning the reviewed manuscripts or published materials unanswered and take all necessary measures to restore the violated rights in case of a conflict situation.

Editors should guarantee that published materials are in agreement with the international standards of scientific and publishing ethics.

Editors should guarantee high quality of materials published in the journal. They should also publish corrections, explanations, and apologies, or retract an article if it is deemed necessary.

Materials published in the journal contain authors' personal views, which may be different from those of the Editorial Office. Authors take full responsibility for the facts and data included in the manuscripts.

Malpractice Statement

The editorial board of the Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science] journal makes every effort to prevent illegal actions in any form: plagiarism, duplicate publications, fraud, breached intellectual property rights. If these violations are proven is supported by evidence, the article in question will be rejected for consideration in Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science] and all authors as well as their affiliations will be informed. In cases where the article has already been published before the misconduct was discovered, a retraction by the authors or by the Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science] Editorial Board will have to take place and the case will be made public (see Retraction Policy). Evident cases of misconduct may result in a long-term ban from future submission to Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost’ [Chemical Safety Science]. The term of the ban is decided by the Editor-in-Chief. All appeals regarding the Editorial Board’s decisions should be submitted to the Editorial Office within 30 days of the decision date.

Reviewing ethics

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with anyone except for those who were authorized by the editor.

Peer reviewers should not use any unpublished data included in the reviewed manuscripts for personal purposes.

Peer reviewers are obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the study results. Personal criticism of the author is inadmissible.

Peer reviewers should identify any relevant published work that was not cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported should be accompanied by a relevant citation. The peer reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published article of which they have personal knowledge.

Any selected expert who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript, knows that its prompt review will be impossible, or has a conflict of interests with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the article, should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.

Reviews of the manuscripts must be kept confidential.

Author's rights and responsibilities

The authors have the right to have comprehensive and scrupulous consideration of their manuscripts.

If an author does not agree with the results of the review, he/she sends a letter to the Editorial Board with the justification of the disagreement. In this case, the author has the right to get a single additional review.

The authors have the right for free peer review and free publication of their articles.

The author guarantees that his/her manuscript is original and does not contain plagiarism or inappropriate borrowing of the contents.

The authors are solely responsible for the selection and validity of any information provided in their articles, citations, statistical and sociological data, etc.

The authors must notify the Editorial Board about any errors that they may find in the manuscript after the publication.

Author ethics

Authors should provide reliable results of their research. Fabricated and knowingly inaccurate statements are unacceptable.

The authors should guarantee that the results presented in the manuscript are original, have not been published previously in other editions, and are not under consideration in the editorial offices of other publishers. Authors should first resolve any possible conflicts of interests related to copyright and publication of the manuscript.

Borrowed fragments or statements must be given in accordance with the citation rules. Excessive borrowing, word-for-word copying, and plagiarism in any form, including unformed quotations, paraphrasing, use of images, figures, photos, tables, graphs, diagrams, and any other graphic information, without reference to the source or assignment of rights to the results of someone else's research, are unethical and unacceptable.

Word-for-word copying of previous own works and paraphrasing are unacceptable. Previous research can only be used as a basis for new conclusions. If the elements of the manuscript were previously published by the authors in another article, including articles in Tonkie Khimicheskie Tekhnologii [Fine Chemical Technologies], the authors should refer to the earlier work and clearly indicate the significant differences between the present and previous study. In addition, the authors should state the relevance of the previously presented research results and conclusions. The editors recommend indicating in the list of references articles that the authors have reported previously; however, self-citation should not exceed 20%.

Manuscripts submitted to the Editorial Office should not contain scientific and technical data relating to state, official, or commercial secrets. Authors should submit a document confirming the absence of confidential information to the Editorial Office.

When using any content that is freely available on the Internet, the authors should clarify the information about the copyright owner and, if necessary, obtain permission to borrow it.

If the work involves the use of chemical products, procedures, or equipment that present an unusual risk, the authors should make this clear in the manuscript.

It is necessary to recognize the contribution of all persons who influenced the course of the study. In particular, the manuscript should contain references to all works that were important in the study. The authors should clearly indicate information about received grants as well as other sources of funding for the study and forms of support, i.e., facts that can be perceived as having influenced the results or conclusions presented in the work.

Authorship should be limited to those who made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all relevant co-authors are indicated. The signing of the application for publication by all co-authors expresses their consent to the publication. It is not acceptable to indicate persons who did not participate in the study among the co-authors.

The authors should inform the editors about the discovery of any significant errors or inaccuracies to promptly correct them or retract the article.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject the article in case of violation of these rules.