Ethics of Publications
The Editorial Board of the Journal "Industrial and Civil Engineering" strictly adheres to the generally accepted international standards of publishing ethics in the world scientific community, posted on the website http://publicationethics.org (Committee on Publication Ethics). These rules are mandatory for authors who publish research materials.
The editorial Board makes decisions on the publication of the received articles after receiving the conclusions of the leading scientists - members of the Editorial Board of the Journal and other experts as reviewers. The decision to publish is based on the reliability, scientific significance and relevance of the work in question.
The formation of the editorial policy of the Journal "Industrial and Civil Construction" is based on the recommendations of international organizations set out in the following documents:
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1. Papers must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of abstracts or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by other journals.
2. Each author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors (joint and several liability). The authors are also responsible for ensuring that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of all the necessary instances, as well as for ensuring that the material stated in the article does not contain information prohibited for public release (the presence of an appropriate certificate of examination).
3. A condition for submission of a paper is a permission of the author (authors) to edit the article according to publishing requirements and normative documents. All enquiries concerning the publication of accepted papers should be addressed to pgs@inbox.ru.
About Authorship
1. Authorship is an explicit way of assigning responsibility and giving credit for intellectual work. These two aspects are linked. Authorship practices should be judged by actual contributions to the final product. Authorship is important to the reputation, academic promotion and receiving the grant by individuals involved as well as to the status and reputation of their institutions.
2. Sometimes disputes arise regarding the list of authors of an intellectual product and the order of their enumeration. Disagreements over the authorship may cause significant harm to the prestige, efficiency and reputation of individuals involved and the academic community to which they belong. Many such disagreements arise as a result of misunderstanding and incorrect information exchange among colleagues. This can be prevented by accurate pre-clarification of standards for authorship that are shared by the academic community as a whole.
3. The order of the names of the authors of the articles is set by the authors and confirmed by their signatures on the application form.
4. The «Industrial and Civil Engineering» Journal considers necessary the presence of signatures of all co-authors of the article on the application form, which is published on the site of the journal www.pgs1923 in the section «To Authors», and on the article itself (on the first and last pages of the manuscript). The author submitting the article is responsible for attainment of the agreement and all contacts with the journal and co-authors before and after publication. Any changes in the list of authors after submission to the journal, the addition or deletion of authors need to be approved by a letter signed by every author.
Minimum requirements for Authorship
1. All persons listed as authors should have a right to it and all eligible for authorship should be included in the list of authors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should bear the responsibility for the integrity of the work from inception to publishing.
2. Authorship credit should be based on the following factors:
a) significant contribution to the conception and development or accumulation of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
b) final approval of the version to be published.
Financing or general supervision of the research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship.
3. All other persons who have contributed to the paper but are not authors should be named in the foot-note with description of their contribution (for example, persons who provide the technical or general support only, help in writing, as well as persons or groups of persons, who made a material contribution to the paper but whose contribution does not imply authorship, may be listed under a heading such as «participated in investigation», «participated as technical consultants», «reviewed the research plan», «collected data» or «provided research».
About duplicate publication
1. If a part of the paper that an author wishes to submit to the «Industrial and Civil Engineering» Journal has been published or is planned to be published elsewhere, the author must present a detailed explanation in the covering letter. Consideration of the manuscript by the Journal is possible if the main result, conclusion, or implications are not borrowed from the other work, or, for example, if the work was published in another language.
2. The author is responsible to get permission from the previous publisher or copyright holder, if the author is duplicating any part of paper (drawings or numerals, for example) published elsewhere, or a part of the copyrighted paper. The editorial board considers all materials assuming that the authors have permission to publish every part of the submitted material including illustrations.
About Plagiarism
1. Plagiarism is the use or close imitation of the language and ideas of another author and representation of one's earlier work for an original. Duplicate publications, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occur when the author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without appropriate references. This can be even an identical paper published in various journals, where authors add new data to the previous work.
2. Plagiarism is obvious, when large chunks of text are cut and pasted. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication. But minor plagiarism without deliberate intent is relatively frequent, for example, when the author reuses parts of an introduction to an earlier paper. The editors will make a decision in each case (according to their knowledge in this area and other literature, or if reviewers will pay attention to it) on the basis of its own assessment.
3. In case of detecting the plagiarism after publication of the paper in the «Industrial and Civil Engineering» Journal, the journal will conduct a preliminary investigation. Depending on the extent of plagiarism, the paper may be officially retracted.
Prior publications
1. The following categories of materials published by the author before submitting the paper to the journal are considered as earlier publications:
a) articles published in any publication, even on-line only, non-peer-reviewed publications;
b) articles, book chapters, and long abstracts containing original data in figures and tables, particularly in publications of materials of scientific events, as well as posters containing original data and disseminated among participants of the event, e.g. displayed in websites;
c) widely circulated, copyrighted, or archival report such as technical reports.
2. Doctoral dissertations, available in data bases or institutional repositories, are not considered prior publications. The accommodation of data portions of submitted papers on the website is permitted with the proviso that the author informs the Publisher when submitting the paper that such material exists. In this case, the Publisher can determine the suitability of this article for publication. Failure to do so will result in automatic rejection of the manuscript.
3. After submitting the manuscript to the «Industrial and Civil Engineering» Journal authors should not send it or its revised version to the preprint server. However, if the manuscript receives the final reject decision of the Journal or it is withdrawn from the editorial this restriction is then lifted.
Ethical procedure
1. Reviewers should inform the editorial about the suspected duplicate publication, fraud, plagiarism. A reviewer may recognize and report that he/she is reviewing, or has recently reviewed a similar or identical article by the same author (authors) for another journal. Readers may report that they have seen the same articles in other publications, or authors may see that their work has been borrowed. In all cases, the editors consider the ethical aspect and take appropriate measures summarized below.
2. The editorial office, on the basis of the reviewer's opinion supported by appropriate material, sends a letter to the author in a non-judgmental form asking for an explanation. If the author's explanations are not acceptable and it seems that a serious breach of publication ethics has taken place, the paper is rejected.
3. If the infraction is not so serious, the editor sends the author a letter with a reminder about the politics of publication; if the manuscript has been published, the editor may require the author to publish an apology in the journal to remedy the situation. If due to the author's actions, the copyrights of another journal have been violated, the editor writes a letter of apology to this journal.
4. In serious cases of fraud that result in retraction of the article, the journal publishes a notice that the article is withdrawn.
Responsibilities of reviewers
1. Reviewers perform an expert evaluation of journal article on voluntary basis. Reviewers have the right to decline the invitation to review a certain article at own discretion, including manuscripts about which they do not feel competent. Reviewers shall submit their reviews within one month.
2. The information and ideas got by the reviewers in the process of peer review of articles shall be considered confidentially and not be used by them in their personal interests. Peer review shall be objective and clear with specific reasoning of suggestions for improving the article, even if the manuscript cannot be published by their opinion.
3. Reviewers in their reviews shall define possible plagiarism or duplications of the research data presented by the author earlier and draw the attention of the Editor-in-Chief to any serious similarity between the considered article and other publications and documents they know about.
Responsibilities of editors
1. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal is governed by the policy of the Journal.
2. Editor-in-Chief can consult with other members of the editorial board as well as with the reviewers in the process of making a decision about the article publication. He promotes observing the «blind» reviewing of the articles.
3. The editorial board and Editor-in-Chief aim at close cooperation with scientific and research organizations and institutions in accordance with recommendations on cooperation between research institutes, design organization, higher educational institutions and the Journal.
