Ethical Guidelines and Editorial Policy

Basic principles of publication:

• Publishing house relies in it’s activity upon regulations of the Chapter 70 «Author's Right» of the Russian Federation Civil Code and recommendations Commuttee of Publication Ethics.
• Only original scientific-technical articles or surveys, being not published anywhere before, are accepted for publication in the editorial staff of the journal.
• The papers having political profile, or the papers including biased or incorrect evaluations of other scientific works and other specialists, are not accepted for publication.
• Duplicate publication, all kinds of copying and reproduction of articles or materials published in the journal are permitted only by written consent of the corresponding editorial staff.

Duties of editors

Publication decision:

The Editor of a learned "Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use" is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working on conjunction with the relevant society (for society-owned or sponsored journals). The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always underwrite such decisions. The Editor may be guided by the policies of the "Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use " journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision.

Fair play:

An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality:

The editor and any editorial staff of "Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use" must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of interest:

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.

Vigilance over published record:

An editor presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should coordinate with the publisher (and/or society) to promote the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant.

Involvement and cooperation in investigations:

An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies.

Duties of reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions:

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. Publisher shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.

Promptness:

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor of "Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use" and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality:

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Standard and objectivity:

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources:

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of authors

Reporting standards:

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial 'opinion’ works should be clearly identified as such.

Data Access and Retention:

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism:

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication:

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal of primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper.

Publication of some kinds of articles (eg, critical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.

Acknowledgement of Sources:

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

Authorship of the Paper:

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects:

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) have approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

Fundamental errors in published works:

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the editor or publisher of " Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use " journal and cooperate with Publisher to retract or correct the paper, If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper.

Duties of the publisher (and if relevant, society)

Publisher should adopt policies and procedures that support editors, reviewers and authors of " Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use " in performing their ethical duties under these ethics guidelines. The publisher should ensure that the potential for advertising or reprint revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

The publisher should support " Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use" journal editors in the review of complaints raised concerning ethical issues and help communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors.

Publisher should develop codes of practice and inculcate industry standards for best practice on ethical matters, errors and retractions.

Publisher should develop codes of practice and inculcate industry standards for best practice on ethical matters, errors and retractions.

Publisher should provide specialised legal review and counsel if necessary.

The section is prepared according to the files (http://health.elsevier.ru/attachments/editor/file/ethical_code_final.pdf) of Elsevier publisher (https://www.elsevier.com/) and files (http://publicationethics.org/resources) from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE - http://publicationethics.org/).

Commercial considerations and conflict of interest:

• Editors should have declared policies on advertising in relation to the content of the journal and on processes forpublishing supplements.
• Misleading advertisements must be refused, and Editors must be willing to publish criticisms, according to the samecriteria used for material in the rest of the journal.
• Reprints should be published as they appear in the journal unless a correction is to be added.
• Editors should have systems for managing their own conflicts of interest as well as those of their staff, authors, reviewersand Editorial board members.

Encouraging academic integrity:

• Editors should ensure that research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
• Editors should seek assurances that all research has been approved by an appropriate body (e.g. research ethics committee, institutional review board). However, Editors should recognize that such approval does not guarantee that the research is ethical.

Pursuing malpractice, misconduct and plagiarism:

• Editors have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers.
• Editors should first seek a response from those accused. If they are not satisfied with the response, they should ask the relevant employers or some appropriate body (perhaps a regulatory body) to investigate.
• Editors should follow the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) flowcharts where applicable – https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts.
• Editors should make all reasonable efforts to ensure that a proper investigation is conducted; if this does not happen, Editors should make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem. This is an onerous but important duty.
• Whenever it is recognized that a significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distorted report has been published and may violate integrity of the academic record, it must be corrected promptly and with due prominence.
• If, after an appropriate investigation, an item proves to be fraudulent, it should be retracted.
• The retraction should be clearly identifiable to readers and indexing systems.
• In the case of plagiarism comes to light after a paper is published in one of the issues, or duplicate publication of the same paper in different journals, the corresponding editorial staff takes the measures for revealing the causes of this violation of the ethical guidelines of publication, informs the authors about this fact and reserves the right not to accept other articles of these authors in the future.
• If plagiarism is revealed during peer-review or editing of the paper, it should be returned to the authors for principal revision or rejected.
• If plagiarism or duplicate publication is found out after publishing the journal with this paper, editorial staff of the corresponding journal reserves the right to publish information about this fact in the nearest journal issue, to mark properly the pages with this paper in the electronic version of the journal and in the web-site, or to exclude this paper from the electronic version at all.

Complaints and disputes:

• Direct contacts are the main and most preferential method of communication (i.e. for adjustment of disputes) between the editorial staffs and authors in the process of submission and preparing the articles for publication.
• Editors should respond promptly to complaints and should ensure there is a way for dissatisfied complainants to takecomplaints further according to the COPE recommendations − https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts.
• Cogent criticisms of published work should be published unless Editors have convincing reasons why they cannot be.
• Authors of criticised material should be given the opportunity to respond.
• Studies that challenge previous work published in the journal should be given an especially sympathetic hearing.
• Studies reporting negative results should not be excluded.