"Ethical principles of scientific publications"

The declaration "Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications" is adopted at the General meeting of ANRI which has taken place within the 5th International scientific and practical conference "The scientific publication of the international level - 2016: the solution problems of publishing ethics, reviewing and preparation of publications", Moscow, May 20, 2016.

(edition of 2016)

1. The present Declaration is developed by Association of scientific editors and publishers (ANRI) as the set of the ethical principles regulating behavior of editions, editors, reviewers, publishers and authors in the sphere of scientific publications. The text of the Declaration is intended for use as the complete document, and each its separate situation has to be applied taking into account all other applicable provisions.

2. The persons involved in scientific and printing process seek to follow the principles of the Declaration and also the recommendations of Committee on ethics of publications (Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)) and other international associations of editors and publishers.

3. ANRI sees the purpose in formation in scientific community of a clear idea of printing ethics, the open and unconditional condemnation of unethical behavior and full refusal of any kinds of the cooperation leading to producing "garbage" publications, interfering development of science in general.

Basic principles:

4. Ethical standards of edition. The editorial team of the journal in the activity is guided by the principles of scientific character, objectivity, professionalism, impartiality.

5. Responsibility for respect for ethical standards. Researchers, authors, editors, reviewers and publishers incur ethical obligations to the publication and distribution of the results of scientific research.

6. Norms of communication with authors. Interaction with authors is based on the principles of justice, politeness, objectivity, honesty and transparency.

7. Existence of the reviewing institute. All contents of the journal, except the advertising and editorial matter which is accurately designated as such undergo obligatory reviewing by independent experts (open, blind, double blind). Double blind reviewing is preferable.

8. Access to publications. Magazines guarantee access to publications, providing storage of materials in the leading libraries and repositories of scientific information of the country.

9. Information openness. On the page of the edition regulations on printing ethics and reviewing are published in the Internet, the policy of the magazine, the rule of submission of manuscripts, instructions for authors and information on availability of materials is accurately formulated (free access or on a subscription). ISSN, the address of publishing house are surely specified.

10. Information about paid services. All information about the paid services if those in this or that form are available, distinctly registers and is available on the journal website, is approved as the chief editor. If the magazine does not provide paid services, it is also specified on the edition website.

11. Respect for ethical criteria of authorship. 1. The author is only the person substantially participating in work writing, in development of its concept, in scientific design, collecting material, the analysis and interpretation; 2. The consent of all authors to the publication is obligatory. All coauthors have to correspond to these criteria.

12. Coordination of the final text of article with the author. The publication of article means emergence of copyright law by the name of the author. The publication of the text which isn't agreed with the author, as well as entering of strangers into number of coauthors, is copyright infringement.

13. Terms of decision-making by the editorial office. Adoption of editorial decisions is carried out in limited terms and stated in an accurate and constructive form on the edition website in the instruction for authors.

14. Interaction with scientific and professional associations. Editions seek for interaction with professional scientific associations and branch communities for the purpose of quality ensuring work of scientists.

15. Prevention and correction of ethics violations. A debt of scientific editors to prevent situations when authors, the reviewers or other subjects included in process of production of scientific texts carry out unethical behavior and also to provide withdrawal of unfair publications from scientific space, to cooperate with council for ethics and scientific associations.

16. Conflict of interests. Editors urge authors to open the relations with the industrial and financial organizations capable to lead to the conflict of interests. All sources of financing have to be specified by authors in article body

ANRI is recognized by unethical behavior in the sphere of scientific publications by the following:

17. The requirement to authors to independently provide reviews of own articles and also contractual and pseudo-reviewing. This practice means lack of reviewing in the magazine.

18. Agency services offer. Rendering such services to authors as "the turnkey publication", correspondence with edition on behalf of the author, completion by the agent of articles according to the recommendations of the reviewer, preparation of paid reviews.

19. Co-authorship sale, gift co-authorship, change of the list of authors. The instruction among authors of the persons which haven't made an intellectual contribution to  research is copyright infringement and norms of ethics as not only misleads readers, but also is regarded as fraud.

20. Publication of materials of the correspondence "scientific" conferences. As practice of such conferences is directly connected with frauds and fraud in the sphere of science, the publication of materials of these conferences is regarded as unethical, promoting distribution of pseudoscientific texts.

21. Transfer of articles in other magazines without coordination with authors. The publication of article in the magazine which hasn't been agreed with the author, it is violation of the author interests.

22. Transfer of authors’ materials to the third parties. Transfer of the materials of articles sent to edition to the third parties, except reviewers and editorial office employees, is copyright infringement and the principle of confidentiality of editorial processes.

23. Manipulations with citation. Artificial increase in scientometric indexes, excess self-citing and friendly citation, irrelevant references mislead readers and are interpreted as fraud.

24. Piracy, falsifications and fabrications. The edition honestly works with texts of articles, preventing emergence of the unfair scientific publications containing piracy, falsification and fabrication of data on pages of the editions.

Council for ethics

Coordinating and consulting body within the present Declaration the Council for ethics created at Association of scientific editors and publishers admits.

The declaration is developed by Council for ANRI ethics:

Kuleshova A.V., Kochetkov D.M., Abramov E.G., Abalkina A.A., Belyaeva D.A., Kasyan A. S., Maleshin D.Ya., Nosov D.M., Repetskaya A.L., Rostovtsev A.A., Filippov Yu.I., Shishlakova O.S. The president of ANRI Kirillova O.V. took part in development.