The Editorial Board of the Journal is guided in its work by the international ethical rules of scientific publications, including the rules of integrity, confidentiality, supervision of publications, consideration of possible conflicts of interest, etc. In its work the editorial board follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publi-cation Ethics, in particular, the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit of Elsevier publishing house and the Regulations on the editorial ethics of the journal "KazGUKI Vestnik".

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Ethical Principles of the Editorial Board

The editorial board and editorial board policy of the Vestnik of KazGUKI is based on the international practice of copyright protection and on the ethical principles supported by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Budapest Open Access Initiative, leading publishers of scientific periodicals.

The editorial board is responsible for the quality of published scientific articles and supports initiatives aimed at reducing research misconduct and ethical violations. It ensures that the members of the Editorial Board/Board, reviewers and authors comply with publication ethics.

In its work, the editorial board is guided by such important principles as reliability, scientific significance and relevance of the published works. The negative results obtained by the authors in the course of research are not an obstacle for their publication in the Journal. The Editorial Board encourages scientific discussions and exchange of experience on the pages of the journal.

The editorial board does not accept for publication materials the content of which is prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

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The editorial board is guided by the following ethical principles

- Editorial impartiality;

- combination of the transparency of the work process with respect for the confidentiality of research participants, authors, reviewers;

- observance of scientific ethics in reviewing articles, encouragement of fair scientific discussion between authors and reviewers;

- availability of contractual relations between the publisher, editors and authors;

- the journal reserves to the author the exclusive copyright without any restrictions;

- publication of all materials of the journal with the license CC-BY-NC ("With attribution - Noncommercial");

- rejection of the article manuscript if there are cases of direct borrowing of materials of other authors without reference to the original sources (plagiarism);

- non-disclosure of personal data of authors and reviewers and other information obtained in the course of professional interaction (according to both the rules of "blind" review and the law "On Protection of Personal Data" 152-FZ)

- making editorial corrections to the article in agreement with the authors;

- prevention of conflicts of interest between the publisher, members of the editorial board/editorial board, reviewers and authors.

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Ethical principles of article reviewing

The editorial board assumes that the review of articles is not only a necessary condition for their publication, but also an opportunity to improve their quality, which guarantees a high scientific level of the journal. The Editorial Board encourages reviewers to contribute to improving the quality of the article through scientific editing.

Ethical principles for reviewers

- reviewing only manuscripts for which they have sufficient expertise to evaluate;

- the timeliness of reviewing;

- the observance of confidentiality of peer review

- objectivity and constructiveness in compiling a review;

- informing the editorial board about potential conflicts of interest;

- the content of the review should not be influenced by the origin of the manuscript, nationality, gender, religious or political beliefs of the authors (if the latter do not affect the scientific value of the article)

- reviewers should not use information obtained in the course of reviewing for personal purposes or interests of others;

- as recognition of the reviewers' work, a list of them is published annually (since 2016) in the print and online versions of the journals with acknowledgements from the editorial board.

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Ethical guidelines for journal authors

Identification of authorship.

Everyone who has made significant substantive contributions to the research and/or text of an article should be listed as an author. The order in which the names of a group of authors are listed is determined by the authors themselves.

Inadmissible forms of author participation :

- "Guest authors" (well-known scientists who have not actually worked on the article, but whose participation could potentially increase the chances of publication);

- "Honorary authors" (individuals who did not actually work on the article but have authority over the actual authors, e.g., department heads, administrative staff);

- "Invisible authors," that is, people who actually worked on the research/article...

If people or organizations have made contributions to the article that do not fall within the definition of authorship, these contributions are mentioned in the Acknowledgements section.

Authors are guided by the following ethical principles

- Compliance of the publication materials with ethical and legal standards;

- originality and scientific novelty of the research;

- reliability of the results obtained (authors should make an effort to describe the methodology of the work clearly and unambiguously, so that their results could be confirmed by other studies)

- objective discussion of the significance of research;

- recognition of the contributions of others, obligatory bibliographic references to the used works;

- representation as co-authors of all participants who have made a significant contribution to the study;

- informing of the detection of significant errors or inaccuracies in the publication and interaction with the editorial board in order to correct identified errors or withdraw the publication as soon as possible

- inadmissibility of any type of plagiarism.