PEER-REVIEW POLICY

The Editorial Board of the journal adheres to the principles of publication ethics accepted by the international community, which are reflected, in particular, in the recommendations of the Committee on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Recommendations on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (Publishing Ethics Resource Kit) of Elsevier Publishing House, the Code of Ethics of Scientific Publications (www.publicet.org/code).

All articles received by the editors are reviewed by two anonymous reviewers. Members of the Editorial Board of the Journal, as well as highly qualified scientists and specialists from other organisations with deep professional knowledge and work experience in a specific scientific field, can be involved as reviewers of the the submitted articles manuscripts. Peer review is "double-blind": the author is not informed about the reviewer’s/revieviwers’ identity and vice versa.

Reviewers evaluate submitted articles according to the following criteria: