Ethical norms

The Editorial Board of “Public Health Journal” follows specific requirements for selecting and approving articles submitted to the editorial office. These norms are determined by the journal’s scientific focus and the quality standards for scientific works and their presentation set in the academic community.

Responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief:
The Editor-in-Chief decides on the article’s publication being guided by the relevant decision of the editorial board, reviewers and a person responsible for checking materials, which are based on the COPE policy, for plagiarism,
The Editor-in-Chief guarantees confidentiality by operating with information about the content of the provided materials only within the editorial board, reviewers, author, and publisher.
The Editor-in-Chief resolves (if any) conflicts of an ethical nature.
The Editor-in-Chief decides on retraction and rejection of a manuscript that violates copyright or generally accepted standards of scientific ethics.

Responsibility of editorial board members:
All information obtained during the peer-review process shall be kept secret. The discussion may only be carried out by persons authorized by the editor-in-chief.
EBMs are accountable for publishing the accepted manuscripts by relying on their scientific value.
EBMs determine the compliance of the submitted materials with the journal’s expertise area and the requirements for presentation and send them for review (to doctor or candidate of sciences). They are authorized to return the article for revision if the requirements for content and design are met partially. Significant flaws in the design may be the reason for rejecting the manuscript.
The editorial staff reserves the right to reject a manuscript if self-plagiarism exceeds 15%.
EBMs reserve the right to involve independent reviewers.

Responsibility of reviewers:
Reviewers carry out an objective assessment of a manuscript and provide relevant arguments.
Reviewers conduct a double-blind review of the submitted manuscripts and decide on their publication.
They review manuscripts within the time frame defined by the editorial team (2 weeks). However, the editorial board is authorized to adjust the review terms, taking into account the subjective circumstances of each specific case (subject to mandatory preservation of the review quality).
Reviewers do not use ideas or information obtained during the peer-review process in their publications without the written consent of the author or a corresponding reference after the publication of the latter.
Subject to a positive review, a reviewer should inform the editorial board, which makes the final decision on publication. If the reviewer has a remark under the overall positive assessment, the article is considered conditionally admitted to printing, but it needs to be improved (the improved article is resent for peer review). With the consent of the author and the editorial board, the findings may not be corrected. Therefore, the editorial board reserves the right to publish such findings as comments to the article (the author reserves the right to officially respond to them).
Reviewers have the right to refuse a recommendation for printing. In this case, the manuscript is not considered for a second time.

Responsibility of the authors:
Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works which do not contain plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) and are not considered by the editorial staff of another journal and have not been published previously (including in other languages).
Authors are responsible for the reliability of facts, references, quotations, and translations.
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included on the paper.
Authors shall comply with copyright laws.
The author retains the copyright of the manuscript and grants the journal right to first publication under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License.
If the paper is published within the framework of the project, the grand, etc., it should contain the relevant information.