Publication ethics
Publication Ethics
Manuscripts review order
Within the editorial policy a scientific journal " Science and Transport Progress" stick consecutively to publishing standards of COPE Code of Conduct publications, approved by COP (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Materials are reviewed by members of the journal editorial board and by the external independent experts on the basis of objectivity and from the standpoint of the higher international academic quality standards, and edited.
Editorial board reserves the right for stylistic alteration of the typescript.
Corrections are coordinated with the author which, in the opinion of the editorial board, can change the meaning of the text.
The editorial board of the scientific publication reserves the right to reject articles that do not meet requirements and topics of the journal.
Opinions and proposals expressed in articles do not necessarily coincide with the Editorial Board views. Reliability of the information in the articles, the accuracy of the names, statistics, surnames and citations are under the author′s responsibility.
The editors reserve the right for minor literary wording of texts and abridgements with the author's style retention.
Provided materials are not returned and can not be published in other scientific journals.
Elimination of the Plagiarism, Libel and Copyright Infringement
Our journal rejects any material that breaks legal requirements regarding plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement. If the text of the article contains data borrowed from other literary sources, then these fragments should be marked with bibliographic references. All submitted manuscripts are checked by online plagiarism search service "Unicheck".
Copyright and Licensing
This journal provides open access to all of its content.
As such, copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY license permits commercial and non-commercial reuse. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, the Directory of Open Access Journals, or the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
The CC BY 4.0 license allows users to copy, distribute and adapt the work in any way, provided that they properly point to the author. Therefore, the editorial board of the journal does not prevent from placing published materials in third-party repositories, including institutional ones. In order to protect manuscripts from misappropriation by unscrupulous authors, reference should be made to the original version of the work.
Fee for publication and purchasing the journal
The journal does not charge authors an article processing charge (APC).
