Editorial policy

All papers submitted for publication are subject to content and quality review aimed at objective evaluation and thorough analysis of their strengths and shortcomings. The submitted papers can be published with the explicit understanding that they have not been previously published and provided they fit within the scope of the Bulletin.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the members of the editorial board and independent experts – specialists in relevant fields. In most cases both the reviewer and the author are anonymous. If a paper receives a negative review it can be either rejected or returned to the author for improvement.

The papers are rejected in the event of:

• republishing: multiple submission is against the publishing policy and is considered a breach of generally accepted publication ethics;
• duplicate publication (or self plagiarism): simultaneous submission or publishing of similar or identical papers to different journals, sometimes in different languages, is considered a self plagiarism;
• plagiarism is a wrongful appropriation of another author's ideas or results of research without appropriate citing the source; conscious full or partial appropriation of authorship to research results of other scholars;
• fabrication and falsification: fabrication of research results means that the author did not conduct the research and the reported data or results are invented. Data or results falsification is the practice of author’s altering research data or results.