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	International Conference INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH SOLIDS Minsk, Belarus September 26 – 29, 2023

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Content		Report Preparation Guide		Editorial Board			Ethics in Publishing

Ethics in Publishing

All participants of publishing processes, i. e. authors, editors, reviewers, publishers, are responsible for observing publication ethics rules, stated below. The editorial board and conference organizing committee monitor the fulfillment of ethics requirements based on the guidelines prepared by international specialized organizations, associations and publishers, as well as the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP). The editorial staff of Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids” follows the main standards, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the United Kingdom, as well as the declaration of «Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications», adopted by ASEP.

Author responsibility

1. The author submits materials, which have not been previously published, for review.

2. The author does not submit the same article for review to different journals.

3. All co-authors agree to the submission of their article to the conference proceedings.

4. The list of authors includes only persons who have made significant contributions to the research. Guest or gift authorship is not allowed.

5. If participation of contributing persons was insufficient to guarantee their identification as authors, they should be named in the section «Acknowledgments».

6. The author should obtain the consent from each person named in the section «Acknowledgments» because an editor can verify the information.

7. Authors should appoint a corresponding author who is responsible for communicating with the editorial staff.

8. The author should be familiar with the editorial policy of the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids” before materials are to be submitted, i.e. rules of correspondence with the reviewer and editorial staff, publication ethics, author guidelines and restrictions.

9. If the author sends the article that is under review to other journal, the author should give official notification to the editorial staff to recall the article. All co-authors give their consent to recall the article.

10. The author should guarantee that the peer-reviewed original article doesn't contain plagiarism.

11. The author should avoid duplicate publication or self-plagiarism.

12. The author should assure that the citations in the submitted article are correct.

13. The author cites his or her previous works correctly as to prevent self-plagiarism in the manuscript and avoid artificial increase of publications’ volume (salami-slicing).

14. If the author uses images or tables published in other editions, the author should refer to the edition.

15. The author properly corresponds with the reviewer through the editor and responds to comments and remarks, if any.

16. The author, who is acting as a contact with the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids”, informs all other co-authors of all changes and suggestions from the editorial staff, and does not make any decisions regarding the article alone without the written agreement of all co-authors.

17. If necessary, the authors either correct the data presented in the article, or refuse them.

18. The author should specify all funding sources (state, commercial and other).

19. Author should keep the correspondence with each other and with the editorial staff secret.

20. The author informs the editorial staff of a potential conflict of interest.

Editor responsibility

1. The editor of Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids” is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the Conference Proceedings should be published, the editor is often working in conjunction with the relevant society. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers should always underwrite such decisions.

2. The editors make fair and objective decisions, regardless of any commercial considerations and provide fair and efficient process for the independent review.

3. The 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.

4. The editors do not work with articles for which they have conflict of interest.

5. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained during peer-reviewing must be kept confidential and shouldn’t be used for personal gain.

6. The editors resolve conflict situations occurring during the editorial process, as well as use all available means to resolve these situations.

7. The editors of the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids” publish information concerning corrections, rebuttals, and review articles, if it is necessary.

8. The editor, who provides 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 corrections, retraction, expression of concern, or other relevant notes.

9. The editors of the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids” do not publish the final version of the article without the consent of the authors.

10. The editorial staff can abridge and edit the articles, make insignificant stylistic and nomenclature and formal corrections without author’s consent. The editorial staff is responsible for observing of orthographic and punctuation norms.

11. If the article is revised by the author during the processing before publication, the submission date is the date of submission of the final text.

Reviewer responsibility

1. The reviewer evaluates his or her own availability before the examination of the manuscript and accepts materials for review only if the reviewer is able to allow for sufficient time as to ensure quality work.

2. The reviewer notifies the editorial staff of any conflict of interest (if any) before article review is to be started.

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

4. The reviewer does not make conclusions about the quality of the article on the basis of subjective data, e.g. the personal relationship to the author, gender, age, religion, etc.

5. The reviewer does not send information about the article or any of the data from the article to any third party.

6. The reviewer does not use the information obtained from the article for any personal and/or commercial purposes.

Publisher responsibility

1. The publisher should develop codes of practice and inculcate standards for best practice in ethical matters, errors and retractions.

2. The publisher not only supports scientific communication and invests in the process, but also is responsible for complying with all current guidelines and standards for publishing scientific works.

3. The publisher does not affect the editorial policy of the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids”.

4. The publisher provides legal support to the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids”, if necessary.

5. The publisher provides for the timely release of issues of the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids”.

6. The publisher publishes changes, explanations, and recalls articles that have been identified to contain scientific misconduct and/or critical errors.

7. The publisher is responsible for observing the international scientific database requirements.

Copyright Notice

The authors who are published in Conference Proceedings agree to the following:

1. The authors retain copyright on the work and provide the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids” with the right of first publication of the work on condition of license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

2. The authors retain the right to enter into certain contractual agreements relating to the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. post it on the institutional repository, publication in the book), with the reference to its original publication in the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids”.

3. The authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. on the institutional store or personal website) prior to and during the review process, conducted by the Conference Proceedings “Interaction of Radiation with Solids”, as this may lead to a productive discussion and a large number of references to this work.