Information for referees

Ethical principles in peer-reviewing  a manuscript

Referee provides scientific expertise of the original manuscript, so that his/her actions should be impartial in nature and follow the principles listed below:

— A manuscript received for peer-review should be treated as a confidential document, which can not be transmitted for review or discussion of third parties who are not authorized by the editor/editorial board.

— A referee is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the study results in the manuscript. Personal criticism of the author is not acceptable.

— Unpublished data from manuscripts submitted for consideration should not be used for personal purposes of a referee.

— A referee who does not have, in his/her opinion, enough qualification/knowledge in the field of the manuscript or can not be objective, for example, in the case of a conflict of interest with the author or organization must inform the editor with a request to exclude him from the process of peer-reviewing  this manuscript.