ACTA MECHANICA ET IMPERIUM

Publishing model: Online

ISSN: 2400-9900

Declaration on privacy

Any information about authors (family name, name, patronymic, position, academic degree, academic title, ORCID, Scopus Author ID, Science Index of the author, author’s organization, organization address, e-mail address, phone number for readers to communicate with authors), given by them to be published in the journal, becomes accessible for anybody; authors confirm consent at the time of manuscript submission. Publication of the above-mentioned data is accomplished allowing for authors’ interests as it makes for complete and correct account of publications and their citation by relevant reference organizations and for providing possible contacts between authors and scientific society as a whole.

Private information which is given to the journal by authors apart from the above-mentioned obligatory data, including additional e-mail addresses and phone numbers, will be used only for contacting authors in the process of preparing a paper for publication. The Editorial board undertakes not to give this private information to any third parties which can use it for pursuing any other goals.

Policy towards plagiarism

All the papers submitted to the Editorial office at the preliminary stage of consideration are to be inspected in relation to correctness of borrowings. Should there be any justified suspicions in plagiarism or should any technical tricks which can allow to hide it be detected a paper is not accepted for further consideration. Authors are informed about a paper rejection due to occurrence of suspicion in plagiarism. Should plagiarism be detected in a paper which has already been published such paper is retracted from publication without any possibility to be recovered (without physical removal and only by publishing a statement on plagiarism occurrence on the relevant web-pages on the journal web-site and a paper file). Should any incorrect borrowing occur in a submitted paper, all cases of such borrowings are to be considered individually.

The Editorial office treat the following as plagiarism:

use (word-for-word citing) of any materials in any volume without indicating a source;
use of images, figures, photos, tables, graphs, schemes and any other graphic information without indicating a source;
use of images, figures, photos, tables, graphs, schemes and any other graphic information published in scientific and popular editions without a copyright holder’s consent;
absence of written consent to use materials authors or copyright holders of which forbid use of their materials without firm agreement.

The Editorial office treat the following as incorrect borrowings:

absence of graphic highlighting of a word-for-word cited text but with a link to s source;
incorrect references (incomplete data on reference description of a source which make its identification rather complicated);
a reference which is given not to the first source of a borrowed text without clear indication of the fact (an error in determining the original source);
absence of references from the text to sources given in a paper references;
excessive citing (when there are references to sources and graphic highlighting of a cited text), a volume of which cannot be justified by a paper genre and goals.

An acceptable volume of citing (correct borrowings) cannot exceed 30% of the total paper volume. This requirement is not applicable to reviews and other papers which objectively require greater citing volumes. Such materials are considered by the Editorial office individually. Papers the content of which corresponds to other scientific materials of the same author (thesis, abstract of a thesis, monograph, previous publications in journals and collections) in volume greater than 30% are not accepted for publishing.

The rules of retraction

Revocation of text from the publication (retraction) is a mechanism of correcting the published information and alerts readers that the publication contains serious deficiencies or erroneous data that cannot be trusted. The unreliability of the data may be the result of bona fide error or deliberate violations.

Retraction is also used to alert readers about the cases of duplicate publications (when authors present the same data in several publications), plagiarism and concealment of conflicts of interest that could affect the interpretation of the data or recommendations about their use.

Grounds for revocation of the article is the violation of the ethical principles of the journal. Among the grounds for revocation of the article include:

the presence of illegal borrowing (plagiarism) in a large volume;
duplicate articles in multiple periodicals;
detection in the work of fraud or fabrication (e.g., manipulation of experimental data);
detection in the work of serious mistakes (e.g., incorrect interpretation of results), which casts doubt on its scientific value;
not correct the composition of the authors (no author; includes individuals who do not meet the criteria of authorship);
hidden conflict of interest;
reproduction of articles without the author’s consent;
other violations of ethical principles of the journal.

The reason for the retraction of article are:

the author’s appeal on the revocation of the article;
the decide of the chief editor of the journal.