COPE, WAME, DORA and other principles

The editorial board of the collection of scientific papers "Control, Navigation and Communication Systems" supports the highest standards of academic integrity and is unconditionally guided by the principles of leading international organizations in the field of scientific ethics:

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)

In its activities, the collection strictly adheres to COPE ethical standards, which stipulate:

  • Transparency: clearly regulated processes of submission, peer review, and publication of articles.

  • Impartiality: independence of editors and objectivity of reviewers.

  • Academic integrity: zero tolerance for plagiarism, data fabrication/falsification, and citation manipulation.

  • Handling complaints: the existence of an open procedure for considering appeals and complaints regarding ethical violations.

  • Retraction and corrections: a clear mechanism for retracting articles, publishing corrections, and notices of errors.

DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)

The collection supports the principles of fair and comprehensive assessment of scientific activity:

  • Priority of quality: evaluating research based on its scientific novelty and real contribution to the field, rather than solely on the bibliometric indicators of the publication.

  • Recognition of non-traditional results: since the collection publishes works in the field of IT and engineering, the editorial board recognizes software, algorithms, mathematical models, and datasets as full-fledged and valuable results of scientific activity.

  • Interdisciplinarity: encouraging research at the intersection of computer, technical, and engineering sciences.

Universal Principles of WAME and ICMJE

The collection implements the fundamental recommendations of WAME and ICMJE:

  • Authorship criteria: only a person who has made a significant intellectual contribution to the conception, design, data collection or analysis, and participated in drafting or critically revising the manuscript is recognized as an author.

  • Editorial independence: publication decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief based solely on the scientific value of the work, without any pressure from founders, sponsors, or commercial interests.

  • Funding transparency: mandatory disclosure by authors of information about grants and other sources of research funding.

Integration of Open Science Initiatives

  • Open Access: promoting free access to scientific knowledge through the publication of all materials in open access.

  • FAIR Data Principles: encouraging authors to preserve and provide open access to underlying research data in a way that makes it findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

  • Responsible use of AI: compliance with current ethical standards regarding transparency and mandatory declaration of the use of artificial intelligence tools during the preparation of publications.