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Requirements for papers and Publication Ethics

Only scientific articles that correspond to the profile of the Conference and reflect the results of theoretical and experimental researches of the authors will be accepted for publication.

The International Program Committee will make the selection of papers. Papers will be reviewed for the technical merit and content. Only original, unpublished contributions will be considered.

The article should have:

– the relevance (subject matter of the article should be interest to the scientific community in terms of the current development of science and technology);
– the scientific character (the article should deal with considered the scientific aspects of the problem, even if the task itself has a practical bias);
– the originality (results that presented in the article should have a scientific novelty, survey articles to be approved by the special decision of The International Program Committee).

The article must be clearly structured to be generally accepted in scientific publications sections, namely:

– introduction;
– relevance, scientific significance of the question with a brief review of the literature;
– setting of the problem;
– the theoretical part;
– practical significance, suggestions and case studies, the results of experiments;
– conclusions.

The results that presented in this paper must be justified by particular scientific tools: experimental mathematical conclusion, mathematical modeling, etc., in order to be considered them as sufficiently reliable. We do not accept materials containing only a hypothesis or untested proposals.

The presented results should be formulated in the form of scientific statements, which clearly define a contribution to science.

The article should be written in an understandable language for an expert in the relevant field. Generally accepted technical terms should be used.

The manuscripts should contain the following information:

– paper title;
– author(s) data (name, title, affiliation, full mail address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address);
– abstract;
– keywords;
– references.

The number of authors must not be more than three.

The number of articles that the author may publish in one issue must not be more than two.

The volume of the article is 5-6 full pages.

The article should be typed in the template Download template

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements

As a peer-reviewed this conference priorities is to ensure high standards of publishing. Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement are an important concern. Therefore, editors, peer-reviewers, and authors should pay great attention to meet the ethical standards. This conference is committed to keeping the integrity of the research papers we publish. The value of academic publishing depends on every person involved behaving ethically. Ethical duties and responsibilities are written in the light of the guides made by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

This conference’s Editor’s responsibilities for Publication decisions:

This conference’s editor is in charge of determining manuscripts submitted to the journal that will be published without looking at authors’ backgrounds such as race, gender, country, religion. this conference’s editor will make a decision based on the manuscript’s significance, uniqueness, and relevance to the scope of this conference. This conference with the help of its editors takes plagiarism extremely seriously. Our authors are cautioned against this. This conference with the help of its editors will not accept research articles or manuscripts submitted for publication elsewhere.

Confidentiality:

This conference’s editor and any editorial members have to keep any information related to authors and submitted manuscripts confidential and must not share such information with anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and publisher.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest :

Rejected manuscripts, papers, or articles and their materials submitted to this conference are extremely seriously not allowed to be used by this conference’s editor and any editorial members for their own interests and purposes. All will be archived in the system confidentially.

Reviewers’ responsibilities for helping this conference’s editorial decisions:

Research articles or manuscripts submitted to this conference are initially reviewed by the editors for general fit with this conference focus and scope and for the writing quality. Only those research articles meeting this conference focus and scope will be sent to reviewers for a double-blind review. Review time is typically 1-2 weeks.

Confidentiality:

The function of the peer-reviewing process is to help this conference’s editor and its members to make decisions through reviewer’s professional, scientific, and objective arguments on the reviewed manuscript. All reviewers must treat all manuscripts confidentially and must not discuss about with others without an authorization from this conference’s editor. Reviewers must do their review processes objectively. Personal reviews and blame to the author of manuscript are extremely seriously not allowed. All reviews must be supported by professional, scientific, and objective arguments.

Detecting plagiarism: another function of the peer-reviewing process is to help this conference’s editor and its members to identify others’ work that has not been cited in-text reference and in the reference section. This conference’s reviewers have to make sure that the authors of manuscript being reviewed provide appropriate sources. When this conference’s reviewers find the manuscript being reviewed similar to other published manuscript, they must inform this conference’s editor as soon as possible as this conference takes plagiarism extremely seriously. Our authors are cautioned against this.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: this conference’s reviewers must not use confidential information obtained from reviewing any manuscripts for personal purposes. They must keep all information confidential. This conference’s reviewers must NOT review any manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest due to their relationships with the authors of the reviewed manuscripts. They must inform the editor as soon as possible if they find the case.

Authors’ Responsibilities:

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to this conference must ensure that they pay attention to a variety of responsibilities including: reporting standards, data access and retention, originality and plagiarism, multiple, redundant or concurrent publication, acknowledgement of sources, authorship of the paper, hazards and human or animal subjects, disclosure and conflicts of interest, fundamental errors in published works.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to this conference must confirm that their manuscripts have not been formerly submitted or published in other journals. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is an unethical behavior and it is unacceptable.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to this conference must ensure the originality of the manuscripts and all others’ works have to be properly cited according to this conference’s references format. All authors must ensure that they have cited published works that have been used in determining the nature of the submitted work.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to this conference must ensure that all people who have made a significant contribution to the submitted manuscript are inclusive and acknowledged. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to this conference must ensure that if the work involves chemicals, human subject approvals, or animals, it must be clearly identified and clarified in the submitted manuscript.

Authors who want to submit their manuscripts to this conference must ensure that they have disclosed any financial or other substantive conflict of interest in their submitted manuscript that might be construed to affect the results of their manuscript.

Quality Control

It is prohibited for any scientist to be a co-author for more than 2 papers within the framework of 1 conference as well as to deal with papers specializing in distant research areas.

It is an obligation that all authors should be representatives from different countries as well as different continents, since internationalization of authors is highly essential.

It is an obligation that all reviewers should be representatives from different countries as well as different continents, since internationalization of reviewers is highly essential.

It is necessary that each paper should be reviewed by at least two independent scientists specializing in the specific area of research.

It is rigorously demanded that any conflict of interests between any parties at any stage of peer-review and final decision should be avoided.

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are strictly prohibited and cannot be accepted.

It is a must that all research topics of papers should be maintained within the scope of a conference. Papers specializing in other scientific spheres cannot be accepted for publication.

Citation Manipulations, namely such phenomena as: high self-citation and reviewers’ recommendations to cite their scientific research, are impermissible and not allowed.