Ethical statement

Authors

  • All the papers, studies, reports and reviews must be original and adhere to a high scientific and technical standard.
  • Authors must comply with submission guidelines and requirements published by the editors.
  • The corresponding authors declare that the manuscript is original and that they have taken all the necessary steps to avoid breach of copyright. The plagiarism is against the principles and rules of APPS. The authors guarantee that the submitted paper is not proposed at the same time for publishing to another journal and that the presented results are based on real data achieved by objective methods application.
  • The authors must declare the financial support of the research (if relevant) and their professional affiliation.
  • Published articles must have the relevant and complete list of references.
  • The authors must cooperate with the reviewers and implement their corrections and proposals in the best possible way.

Reviewers

  • Papers, studies, reports and reviews submitted for possible publication are subjected to a double-blind peer review process.
  • Invited reviewers are expected to objectively evaluate papers and inform the editorial team about the results. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
  • Reviewers treat all content of the whole review process confidentially.
  • Reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the authors or reviewed articles.
  • Plagiarism is unacceptable; any suspicion of plagiarism will be investigated by the editorial team.
  • If the editors of APPS want to publish in the Journal,the process of double-blind peer review must be handled independently of the author.

Editors

  • The editors make efforts to meet the needs of readers and authors, they constantly improve the APPS and ensure the quality of the material they publish.
  • The editors have complete responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article on the basis of objective and clear academic criteria (such as originality, importance, clarity, etc.).
  • The editors cannot have any conflict of interest with respect to articles they accept or reject.
  • The editors must publish submission and acceptance dates for articles on the APPS website.
  • Editors control the implementation of the proposed corrections into the texts or retractions by the authors if the reviewers proposed them in the review process.
  • During the review process, the editors preserve anonymity of reviewers and ensure that papers remain confidential.
  • Editors monitor and safeguard all issues of publishing ethics and promptly communicate with authors, reviewers and readers in cases of possible errors in publishing of the texts. They monitor and check any suspected misconducts (authorship complaints, plagiarism, fabrication of data, research standards violations, research result misappropriations, etc.).
  • Editors must ensure that reviews are relevant, courteous and timely. The reviewers should judge the quality of the research and not comment on the researcher’s gender, race, beliefs, etc.