1. Review organization and procedure
1.1. Reviewing the manuscripts of the articles submitted for publication in thematic sections of scientific and technical “RSREU journal” is organized by the editorial board. Responsibility for the quality of reviews and the promptness of article manuscripts reviewing rests with the executive secretary and the editor-in-chief of “RSREU journal”.
1.2. To review the manuscripts of the articles the members of editorial council and editorial team of the journal as well as highly qualified scientists and specialists of Ryazan state radioengineering university and other organizations and enterprises with deep professional knowledge and working experience in a certain scientific direction, usually Doctors of sciences, professors, can be involved as reviews. A reviewer cannot be the author or co-author of peer-reviewed work.
1.3. Reviewing the manuscripts of the articles is mandatory for the teachers of Ryazan state radioengineering university and is taken into consideration in their individual plans. The reviewers who are not the university employees are paid in accordance with current rules.
1.4. The editorial board of scientific and technical “RSREU journal” sends the reviews of the materials received to the authors in electronic form.
1.5. The reviews for article manuscripts should be kept in the editorial office of the journal within three years from the date of publication of the articles and be submitted at the request of expert councils of Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
2. Requirements to Review Content
2.1. The review should contain a qualified analysis of the article manuscript, its objective reasoned assessment and well-grounded recommendations.
2.2. In the review, special attention should be given to the following issues:
- General analysis of scientific level, terminology, article structure, topic relevance.
- Assessment of the article being prepared for publication in relation to its language and style, compliance with established requirements to the design of article materials.
- Scientific language of the article, correspondence of methods, recommendations and the results of the research to modern achievements in science and technology.
- Admissibility of the volume of the whole article and its individual elements (text, tables, illustrative material, references). Practicability of the tables, illustrative material placed in the article and their correspondence to the theme presented. Recommendations for rational reduction of article volume (to specify, at the expense of which element in the article).
- The place of peer-reviewed work among the other works on this theme being already published: what’s new and what is its difference from the others; whether it duplicates the works of other authors or the works of this author being published before (both on the whole and in part).
- Inaccuracies and mistakes made by the author.
2.3. The reviewer should give recommendations to the author and the publisher concerning article improvement. Comments and wishes of the reviewer should be objective and principled, aimed at increasing of scientific and methodological levels of the manuscript.
2.4. The final of the review should contain grounded conclusions about the article as a whole and clear recommendation on the appropriateness of its publication in a particular thematic section of “RSREU journal” in a specific scientific area corresponding to the nomenclature of scientific specialities approved by Higher Attestation Comission of the Russian Federation.
2.5. In case of negative evaluation of the manuscript as a whole the reviewer should justify his conclusion with particular conviction.
2.6. In case of written disagreement of the authors with negative conclusions of the reviewer the editor-in-chief and editorial board of scientific journal “RSREU journal” have the right to send the manuscript for re-review to one or more other reviewers.
2.7. In case when the manuscript of the article reflecting scientific results at the junction of several scientific areas is submitted for review, the final decision to send the article for review is taken by the editor-in-chief or editorial board of scientific and technical “RSREU journal”.
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Chairman of the editorial board of “Vestnik of RSREU” |
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Gurov V.S.
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