Digital technology security - Peer review procedure

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№1(112) January - March 2024

Peer review procedure

 The editorial board of the journal "Digital Technology Security," approved the following procedure for reviewing scientific articles:

 

1. General provisions

Manuscripts of all articles submitted to the editors of the journal Digital Technology Security are subject to mandatory double-blind review. Scientists with recognized authority and working in the field of knowledge, to which the content of the manuscript belongs, are involved in the review. The manuscript, which was submitted to the editors of the journal, is sent to two independent reviewers. If reviewers' opinions do not match, then the editorial board sends the manuscript for review to a third specialist. Reviews are discussed by the editorial board and serve as a basis for the adoption or rejection of manuscripts. Manuscripts submitted to the journal's editorial board are rejected without review if they are not formalized according to approved requirements. In this case, the authors are sent a reasoned email notification.
 
 

2. Review timelines

A manuscript submitted to the journal's editorial board is sent for review within two weeks to a month of admission. The reviewer submits the review to the editorial board within two weeks to a month of his receipt of the manuscript. The editorial board decides to publish or reject the manuscript within a month of receiving reviews. If necessary, re-review shall be carried out in the same time frame. Each review is sent an email notification to the authors. The review is provided to authors for review without disclosing the name of the reviewer. At the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, reviews are provided to the Higher Attestation Commission and/or the Ministry. The editors' decision to accept or reject the manuscript is sent to the authors by e-mail.

3. Review Requirements

The reviewer enters the review into the journal database online, filling in the mandatory evaluation fields of the form and adding the review text at their discretion. To be able to enter a review, the reviewer must register on the magazine website. The reviewer evaluates the following qualities of the manuscript:

Compliance of the submitted work with the log profile:

  • relevance of the work;
  • clear formulation of the research task;
  • selection of the study method;
  • the degree to which results have been achieved;
  • novelty of the obtained results;
  • the scientific significance of the results;
  • practical value;
  • consistency of the findings with the results achieved;
  • quality of annotation (author's summary);
  • Quality of English translation of the annotation (optional);
  • compliance of the list of cited works with the problem under consideration;
  • structured work;
  • presentation style.

The reviewer may additionally express his/her wishes and special opinions on the structure, content, form of presentation, design of the manuscript, etc., by entering the text in the text field and/or attaching the file format * .doc, * .docx. The reviewer concludes that it is advisable or impractical to publish a peer-reviewed manuscript, or that it should be finalized. The review thus formed is printed by the reviewer using the menu item "Print Version," signed and sent to the editorial office by regular mail, or attached as a color scanned copy on the site. Authors of the article or other persons who are not members of the editorial board of the journal are not disclosed the names of reviewers. The content of the review without specifying the name of the reviewer becomes available to the author (all co-authors) of this article, as well as other reviewers of this article (also without specifying the name of the reviewer).
 

4. Interaction between authors and reviewers

Reviews are provided for review by authors without specifying the names of reviewers. If the author wishes to object to the reviewer, he can send a letter to the editor, which should be transmitted to the reviewer within 2 weeks. The reviewer may, at his discretion, respond to the author personally (in this case, the reviewer assumes full responsibility for the possible consequences of revealing his name), transmit the answer through the editorial board or not answer. In the latter case, the reviewer submits to the editors his written opinion on the appropriateness or impracticality of publishing the article, taking into account the content of the author's letter. The editors have the right not to transmit to the reviewer a letter from the author containing incorrect or offensive expressions. In such cases, the editorial board has the right to independently decide on the final rejection of the manuscript.