Aim and Scope

“Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” is a peer-reviewed scientific and practical journal. It aims to inform the readers about the latest achievements and prospects in the field of Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Technology. The journal is a forum for cooperation between Russian and foreign scientists, contributes to the convergence of the Russian and world scientific and information space.

Priority is given to publications in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics, mechanical engineering and machine science, friction and wear, as well as to the methods of control and diagnostics in mechanical engineering, welding production issues. Along with the discussion of global trends in these areas, attention is paid to regional research, including issues of mathematical modeling, numerical methods and software packages, software and mathematical support of computer systems, information technology challenges.

All articles are published in Russian and English and undergo a peer-review procedure.

The journal is included in the List of peer-reviewed scientific editions, in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the degrees of Candidate and Doctor of Science are published (List of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation).

The journal publishes articles in the following fields of science:

Theoretical Mechanics, Dynamics of Machines (Engineering Sciences)

Deformable Solid Mechanics (Engineering Sciences, Physical and Mathematical Sciences)

Mechanics of Liquid, Gas and Plasma (Engineering Sciences)

Mathematical Simulation, Numerical Methods and Program Systems (Engineering Sciences)

System Analysis, Information Management and Processing, Statistics (Engineering Sciences)

Automation and Control of Technological Processes and Productions (Engineering Sciences)

Software and Mathematical Support of Machines, Complexes and Computer Networks (Engineering Sciences)

Computer Modeling and Design Automation (Engineering Sciences, Physical and Mathematical Sciences)

Computer Science and Information Processes (Engineering Sciences)

Machine Science (Engineering Sciences)

Machine Friction and Wear (Engineering Sciences)

Technology and Equipment of Mechanical and Physicotechnical Processing (Engineering Sciences)

Engineering Technology (Engineering Sciences)

Welding, Allied Processes and Technologies (Engineering Sciences) Methods and Devices for Monitoring and Diagnostics of Materials, Products, Substances and the Natural Environment (Engineering Sciences)

Hydraulic Machines, Vacuum, Compressor Equipment, Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (Engineering Sciences)

The editorial policy of the journal is based on the traditional ethical principles of Russian scientific periodicals, supports the Code of ethics of scientific publications formulated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Russia, Moscow), adheres to the ethical standards of editors and publishers, enshrined in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal is addressed to those who develop strategic directions for the development of modern science — scientists, graduate students, engineering and technical workers, research staff of institutes, practical teachers.

Section Policies

MECHANICS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MACHINE BUILDING AND MACHINE SCIENCE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year (March 30, June 30, September 30, December 30) 

Open Access Policy

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the Editorial Board of the journal "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)" go through mandatory double blind peer review. The Editorial Board of the journal strives to conduct an independent peer review, in which the reviewers do not know the authors, do not depend on the authors and are not affiliated with the same institution.

Manuscript peer review process includes the following steps:

• preliminary assessment of the quality of materials by editors, verification of compliance of the subject with the research areas of the journal (no more than 2 working days after uploading the manuscript on the database);
• peer review (about four weeks);
• revision of the article in accordance with the comments of the reviewer(s), resubmission and evaluation of the material (if necessary);
• the author receives a notice of acceptance or rejection of the article, indicating the reasons for it.

Peer Review Process

Every submitted manuscript is peer-reviewed on the following basis:

• relevance of the topic;
• academic novelty;
• conformance of the content with the set topic;
• depth of elaboration;
• adherence to scientific style;
• literacy and consistency of presentation;
• correctness of the design.

The choice of reviewers is at the editors' discretion, which is based on the reviewers’ competence in the subject area, absence of interests in relation to the research, authors and/or sources of funding. In case of conflict of such interests, reviewers report them to the Editorial Board. Preference is given to reviewers who evaluate the submitted materials as objectively as possible. At this, personal criticism of the author(s) is not allowed. Any manuscripts received for peer review are treated as confidential documents.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Agree to peer review only those manuscripts for which they have competencies required for the assessment and sufficient time to review.
• Respect confidentiality of the peer review and not disclose any details of the manuscript or its review during or after the peer review process, except those published by the Journal.
• Do not use the information obtained in the process of expert evaluation for their own or any other interests or interests of the organization, as well as to the detriment of others. 
• Declare all potential conflicts of interest.
• Do not allow peer reviews to be influenced by the origin of the manuscript, nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, as well as commercial considerations.
• Be objective and constructive in their reviews, refrain from hostile, provocative, derogatory personal comments and from slander.
• Take into account that peer review is largely a mutual process and fulfill their role in this process in a timely manner.

On average, the period of peer review process takes about 4 weeks.

The period from the moment of submission of the manuscript to its publication is on average 90-120 days.

The Journal rejects about 45% of submitted manuscripts.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Ethics principles of scientific publications in the journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” are based on the COPE guidelines. The Editorial Board, headed by the Editor-in-Chief, considers one of the prime responsibilities to prevent publication malpractice and unethical behavior. Plagiarism in any form is not allowed in the Journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)”. Authors submitting the manuscripts to our Journal confirm that content thereof is original, warrant that the manuscript has not been published in whole or in part elsewhere in another language and is not under consideration for publication in another edition.

EDITORS RESPONSIBILITIES

 Decision for Publication

The Editorial Board of the Journal has liability to the authors, reviewers, readers and the scientific community, to the founder and publisher, as well as to the general public for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the Journal should be published. When making a decision, the Editorial Board takes into account the reviews of experts in the given subject area, is guided by the policy of the Journal, and respects copyright. Editors make objective decisions regardless of commercial considerations.

Justice

All manuscripts are reviewed on the basis of intellectual content, without regard to age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, citizenship or political preferences of the authors.

Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest

All manuscripts submitted for peer review are strictly confidential. The Editor-in-Chief and any editorial staff do not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the authors themselves, reviewers, potential reviewers and editorial consultants. Editors or reviewers in no case use the submitted materials without the consent of the authors. Editors do not work with articles in respect of which they have a conflict of interest.

Conflict situations

Editors of the Journal make every effort to resolve the conflict situation that has arisen in the course of work.

Significant Errors in Publications

If a significant error or inaccuracy is found in the published paper, the Editorial Board of the Journal conducts appropriate work and cooperates with the author(s) in order to retract or correct the respective information. If this correction in the manuscript or accompanying article is deemed appropriate, the Editorial Board reserves the right to correct the published material and make an appropriate statement. Editors of the Journal publish information about corrections, refutations and retractions of articles in case of such need.

Protection from Unethical Behavior

When considering unethical behavior, the Editorial Board relies on guidelines and recommendations provided by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE).

Retraction Policy

The Journal «Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)» follows the COPE retraction guidelines.

Disclosure Policy and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials submitted to the Publisher are never used by the Editorial Board for its own research without the written consent of the authors. Editors of the Journal do not publish the final version of the article without its approval of the authors.

AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Requirements for Manuscripts

Authors of the manuscripts should provide reliable results of the work done and an objective discussion of the importance of the research. Underlying data should be presented properly, without errors and inaccuracies. The work should contain a sufficiently detailed description of the experiments performed and bibliographic references for possible reproduction. False or deliberately erroneous statements are unacceptable and believed to be unethical behavior.

Communication with reviewers

Authors should communicate correctly in correspondence with reviewers through editors’ intermediation and respond to comments and remarks, if any. If required, authors should correct the data presented in the article.

Data Access and Storage

Authors may be asked for raw data related to the manuscript to conduct a peer review procedure (if necessary). Aside from that, authors should be prepared to provide public access to such data (in accordance with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if possible, and keep this data for an adequate period of time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors should make sure that the submitted work is completely original. In case of using the works or statements of other authors, authors should indicate the relevant bibliographic references or excerpts.

Authors should correctly cite their own previous works, avoid self-plagiarism in the manuscript and artificial increase in the volume of publications (salami-slicing).

Multiple, Redundant or Simultaneous Publications

In general, authors should not publish a manuscript describing the same investigation in more than one edition. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time is unacceptable and is perceived as unethical behavior.

Recognition of Sources

Proper recognition of the contribution of others must always be given. Authors should refer to publications that are relevant to the performance of the submitted work.

Disclosure Policy and Conflict of Interest

All authors are required to disclose in their manuscripts financial or other existing conflicts of interest that may be perceived as having influenced the results or conclusions presented in the work. All sources of financial support for the project must be specified. 

Publication Authorship

All co-authors must agree to submit the article to the Journal.

Authors of the publication can only be persons who have made a significant contribution to the creation, development, execution or interpretation of the presented research. All those who have made significant contribution should be designated as co-authors. In cases where research participants have made a significant contribution in a particular direction in a research project, they should be indicated as persons who have made an important contribution to this study.

Before accepting the final version of the article for publication, it is required that the author and all co-authors approve the final version of the manuscript, which has undergone literary editing and translation.

Changes in Authorship

Amendment to the data on the authors or co-authors is not possible after acceptance and publication in the online version.

If there is a need to amend the information on the authors, the following information should be provided to the Editorial Board.

1. The reason for the addition or deletion of the author(s).
2. Written confirmation (scanned document sent by e-mail), in which all authors agree that during this operation, the name of the person is added or removed from the list of the authors.
3. In this case, the Editorial Board informs the author that his/her name needs to be added or removed from the list and asks for his/her consent.

The application is not considered if it is sent by the author having no appropriate right.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors are required to submit an original written version of the article. If the works or statements of other authors are used, they should be cited according to the citation instructions. If ideas (drawings, photographs, tables, calculations, and other visual material) of other authors are used, their written consent is required.

Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical behavior, it is unacceptable, and the author who has committed plagiarism in his work will not be able to submit manuscripts to the Journal «Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)» in the future.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to check each work for plagiarism. If the work does not pass the check for illegal borrowings, the Editorial board notifies the author and rejects this manuscript.

Significant Errors in Publications

If authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in the publication, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the Editorial Board of the Journal and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Copyright

Authors warrant that their manuscript:

• is their original work that has not been published before;
• is not under consideration for publication elsewhere;
• has been approved by all co-authors, if any,
• has been approved by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work was carried out.

Authors affirm that the article contains no ungrounded or unlawful statements and does not violate the rights of others. If copyrighted works are included, authors bear liability for obtaining written permission from the copyright holders. The corresponding author, who signs the consent, warrants that he/she has all the authority to do so on behalf of the authors.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF REVIEWERS

• Agree to peer review only those manuscripts for which they have competencies required for the assessment and sufficient time to review.
• Respect confidentiality of the peer review and not disclose any details of the manuscript or its review during or after the peer-review process, except those published by the Journal.
• Do not use the information obtained in the process of expert evaluation for their own or any other interests or interests of the organization, as well as to the detriment of others; do not transfer information about the article and the data contained in it to third parties.
• Declare all potential conflicts of interest.
• Do not allow reviews to be influenced by the origin of the manuscript, nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, as well as commercial considerations.
• Be objective and constructive in their reviews, refrain from hostile, provocative, derogatory personal comments and from slander; do not draw conclusions about the quality of the article based on subjective data: personal attitude to the author, the author’s gender, age, religion.
• Take into account that peer review is largely a mutual process and fulfill their role in this process in a timely manner.

PUBLISHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Publisher should support scientific communications, invest in the publication process, and be liable for compliance with all modern recommendations in the published work.
• Publisher should not influence the editorial policy of the Journal.
• Publisher must provide legal support to the Editorial Board of the Journal when required.
• Publisher is fully responsible for taking precautions against scientific malpractice, fraud and plagiarism.
• In case of proven scientific violations, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, Publisher, in close cooperation with the Editorial Board, must take the required measures to resolve the situation and make changes. Publisher discloses edits, clarifications, and retract articles in which violations of research ethics or critical errors have been identified.
• Publisher must provide the timely release of the next issues of the Journal.
• Publisher should strive for the continued availability and preservation of scientific research and provide accessibility through collaborating with organizations and maintaining its own digital archive.

ALLEGATIONS OF RESEARCH MISCONDUCT

Research misconduct refers to fabrication, falsification of theoretical and experimental data, as well as citation manipulation or plagiarism. In case of detecting the fact of authors’ involvement in the above listed violations when conducting research or presenting results, the editors will use the best practices of COPE to resolve any complaint and address the misconduct in the due way. If such cases arise, editors inspect the manuscript to find the ethics violation and reject the manuscript if finding thereof. If ethics violation is found in a paper already published, the Editorial Board publises a refutation with reference to the original article, or, where necessecary, the article undergoes the retraction procedure.

DATA SHARING AND REPRODUCIBILITY

Journal’s policies on data sharing and reproducibility are based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal strongly encourages authors to include as supplementary material the data sets or code, if any, that demonstrate the results of the article. The journal policy encouraging the authors to share and make the data open is applicable only where this does not contradicts the subjects’ rights protection or confidentiality provisions. The authors are also encouraged to cite the data and provide the data availability statement in the end of the manuscript.

A data availability statement (also sometimes called a ‘data access statement’) tells the reader where the research data associated with a paper is available, and under what conditions the data can be accessed. It also includes links (where applicable) to the data set.

ETHICAL OVERSIGHT

Ethical oversight should include, but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication. The Journal Editorial Board works within the framework of compliance with the ethical principles and the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Any research article describing a study involving humans and animals should contain Informed Consent Statement. Written informed consent for publication must be obtained from identifiable human participants. For studies, involving animals, the written informed consent must be obtained from the owner of the animals (or an authorized agent for the owner).

The Editorial Board of the journal considers the appeal claims  from the Ethics and Oversight Committee for Professional and Scientific Activity concerning the non-observance of the ethical principles by our authors if they are substantiated and non-anonymous.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

“Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” is an open-access journal where the materials are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license. Under this license, readers of the Journal are free to adapt and share the published materials for non-commercial purposes, provided that the “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” is duly cited. The journal follows COPE's guidelines on Intellectual property.

OPTIONS FOR POST-PUBLICATION DISCUSSIONS

The journal’s Editorial Board values the open dialogue and constructive interaction with our readers. We welcome discussions and feedback from readers on the articles published in our journal and believe that post-publication discussions contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and foster formation of the active academic community.

We encourage readears to provide feedbacks on published articles. Feedbacs or comments can be sent directly to the Editor-in-Chief. Additionally, readers have the option to post their comments on the independent online platform, https://pubpeer.com/. This platform allows for transparent and public discussions of the published articles.

Use of Artificial Intelligence Policy

The Editorial board draws the authors' attention to the inadmissibility of generating materials using artificial intelligence

The editorial board of the journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” informs the authors of its position on the use of neural networks — chatbots and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools when creating texts and illustrations of scientific articles. The editorial board of the Journal believes that this is at best impractical, at worst — unacceptable.

In which case the use of AI would be a violation of the direct prohibition and current legislation

AI tools cannot be used to create content, i.e., text, supporting information, metadata, or illustrations of a scientific article. The authors of such material can only be people — professional scientists, graduate students or practitioners.

In addition to the authors, articles often mention people who have contributed to the preparation of the research. In this case, we can also only talk about people working in specialized or related areas.

Deviation from this rule leads to the problems listed below.

1. The established and legally enshrined concept of authorship is unacceptably blurred. According to article 1257 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the author of a work of science, literature or art is a citizen by whose creative work it was produced. Similar rules apply abroad.
2. From the above it follows that the use of AI-generated materials distorts the conception of ​​the author's integrity, obligations to colleagues and readers. Unconditionally, only a person or a research team is responsible for the content of the article.
3. For obvious reasons, a declaration of absence of conflict of interest can only be accepted from a person or a group of authors.
4. Most AI tools are not subject to external control. For example, there is no data on how tasks and texts uploaded for processing are used. In this regard, it is important to emphasize: it is unacceptable to “trust” AI with materials related to the author’s interaction with the journal. This applies to work with a reviewer, editor, etc.

In which case the use of AI is impractical and can reduce the quality of the material

The global scientific community does not prohibit the use of AI to collect and analyze open data, search for additional sources of literature, recommend keywords, and edit text. However, tests show that the materials created by AI often contain incorrect or false data. This is well known to everyone who has used chatbots. Moreover, paid and free tools demonstrate approximately the same level of rejection. As a result, it turns out that checking and finalizing the generated content requires almost as much time as it takes for the actual author's work. Thus, the use of AI is often inappropriate, does not provide the expected gain in preparation time or coverage of analyzed sources.

If the authors have used AI to collect and analyze data, search for literature sources, or editorial revision, this should be specified in the materials accompanying the article. In this case, the program version and the date of use must be indicated.

When checking the originality of works, the “Antiplagiat” system module is used, which detects generated text.

The editorial board of the journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” shares the position of the international publishing community regarding the use of artificial intelligence in the preparation of scientific articles, as stated in the following documents: Chatbots, Generative AI, and Scholarly Manuscripts, Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making

The editorial board of the journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” aims to be a prominent platform for the publication of the scientific research results. We apply efforts to make publications look worthy, to be in the field of view of the scientific community and potential partners of our authors. At the same time, the editorial staff cannot completely replace fellow scientists in such matters as research integrity and scientific ethics. In case of violation of these principles, all reputational and other risks are borne by the persons who submitted the material for publication in “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” and declared themselves as the authors.

Indexing

The Journal is indexed in the following systems:

• Russian Index of Science Citation (RISC)
• Google Scholar 
• Cyberleninka
• Dimensions
• DOAJ
• EBSCO
• Crossref
• Mendeley
• OpenCitations
• Unpaywall
• Baidu
• Internet Archive
• Library of Congress
• Unibversiteit Bibliothek Gent, Netherlands
• Universitat Bibliothek Leipzig (UBL), Germany
• Simon Fraser University's electronic journal database
• Warsaw University of Technology Digital Library
• DTU Findit - Technical Information Center of Denmark, DTU Library
• Ilmenauer Discovery Tool
• Index Copernicus
• SCILIT
• Penn Libraries, University of Pennsilvania
• UNSW Alma - University of NSW 
• University of Saskatchewan, University Library
• MIAR
• SFU LIBRARY CATALOGUE

About the Journal

In September 2020, the scientific journal “Vestnik of Don State Technical University” (ISSN 1992-5980) changed its title.

The new title of the journal is “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” (eISSN 2687-1653).

All articles of the Journal have DOI index registered in the CrossRef system.

Founder and Publisher: Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Don State Technical University", Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation, https://donstu.ru/

ISSN (online) 2687-1653

Year of foundation: 1999.

Frequency: 4 issues per year (March 30, June 30, September 30, December 30).
Distribution: Russian Federation.

The journal "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)" accepts for publication original articles, studies, review papers, that have not been previously published.

Website: https://www.vestnik-donstu.ru/

Editor-in-Chief: Alexey N. Beskopylny, Dr. Sci. (Engineering), Professor (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation).

Languages: Russian, English

Key characteristics: indexing, peer-reviewing.

Licensing history:

The Journal uses International Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) license.

Founder and Publisher

Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Don State Technical University (DSTU)

Founder’s, Publisher’s and Printery Address:

1, Gagarin Sq., Rostov-on-Don, 344003, Russia
tel.: +7 (863) 2738-372
e-mail: vestnik@donstu.ru

The Journal is funded and published at the expense of Don State Technical University

Advertising and Publication Fee

The Journal "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)" does not charge the authors including for:

— submission of articles;

— collection and processing of articles;

— publication of materials;

— language editing;

— color drawings and additional pages in articles.

The "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)" Journal does not accept advertising materials for publication.

Disclosure Policy and Conflict of Interest

All authors are required to disclose in their manuscripts financial or other existing conflicts of interest that may be perceived as having influenced the results or conclusions presented in the work. All sources of financial support for the project must be specified.

Borrowing and Plagiarism

All articles submitted to the Editorial Board of the Journal are checked for borrowings using the Antiplagiat and iThenticate systems. In case of detection of borrowings, the Editorial Board acts in accordance with the COPE guidelines.

Preprint and Postprint Placement Policy

The journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)” accepts for consideration the articles previously posted by the authors on the personal or public websites not affiliated with other Publishers.  

The authors have right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. https://preprints.ru/, https://preprints.org/   websites, etc., personal websites) before and during the process of article consideration by the journal, because this can foster efficient discussion and increase the number of references to this work.

During the article submission process, the author must confirm that the article has not been published or accepted for publication by another scientific journal. When citing an article published in the journal "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)", the Publisher requests to provide a link to the journal official website (full URL of the material) and DOI.

Preprints are published under the CC BY 4.0 license.

CrossMark Policy

DOI https://doi.org/10.23947/2687-1653-crossmark

CrossMark  is an international project involving numerous publishers aimed at creating and maintaining a unified tool for readers to search for the current version of a published article or other content. Using the CrossMark logo on pages of the published articles, "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)" gives readers convenient access to the current version of each published document, and notifies about all post-publication changes.

Clicking on the CrossMark button in a document will let you know its current status, as well as provide you with additional information about the publication of the document.

For more information on CrossMark, please visit the CrossMark web site.

The use of the CrossMark logo in the publications of "Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)" is limited to current and future Journal articles and applies only to a limited set of publication types.

There are 12 types of updates in Crossmark:

1. addendum – adding related information to the document;
2. clarification – adding explanations, clarifying information;
3. correction – data correction;
4. corrigendum – a message about the data correction;
5. erratum – a message about erratum affecting the perception of data;
6. expression_of_concern;
7. new_edition;
8. new_version;
9. partial_retraction;
10. removal – removal of information;
11. retraction;
12. withdrawal.

Dealing with Unethical Behaviour

Anyone can inform the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Board at any time about suspicions of unethical behavior or any misconduct, providing the necessary reliable information and evidence to initiate investigation.

During the investigation, any evidence is treated as confidential and is provided strictly to those involved in the process.

If at the end of the investigation, it is established that misconduct has occurred, then it is classified either as minor or major one.

Minor violations (which do not affect the integrity of the article and the journal, for example, when there is misunderstanding or incorrect application of publication standards) will be dealt directly by the authors and reviewers without involving any other parties.

The procedure includes:

• sending a warning letter to authors and/or reviewers;
• correction of the article, e.g., when the sources properly cited in the text are excluded from the list of references;
• publication of errata list, e.g., if the error was made by Editorial staff.

In case of major violations, the Editorial Board may take various measures, which include:

• publication of an official announcement or editorial describing the misconduct;
• official informing of the affiliated institution of the author/reviewer;
• officially announced removal of publications from the journal in accordance with the Retraction Policy;
• a ban for an individual on submission of materials for a certain period.

The above actions can be taken separately or jointly. If necessary, consultations with relevant expert organizations, bodies or individuals may be held in the process of resolving the problem.

When dealing with unethical behavior, the Editorial Board will rely on the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE .

Digital Archiving Policy

To ensure the long-term digital storage of the materials published in the journal “Advanced Engineering Research (Rostov-on-Don)”, they are reposited in:

• Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY)
• Russian State Library (RSL)
• Internet Archive
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Complaint Policy

Complaints shall be sent to the Editor-in-Chief and reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief, who can transfer them to an editor or specialist who worked with the paper for finding the solution to a complaint.

An appeal against the decision to reject an article based on its scientific value. The Editor-in-Chief shall consider the arguments of the authors stated in the complaint and send the materials to reviewers for consideration. The reviewers shall make decisions using the following options: “The rejection decision must remain in effect”; “Another independent opinion is required”; "The appeal should be satisfied." The applicant shall be informed about the corresponding decision. The appeal decision shall be final.

Complaint against the implementation of certain procedures. The Editor-in-Chief shall consider a substance of the complaint and based on the investigation make managerial decision which shall be communicated to all interested parties in writing or by e-mail.

Complaint concerning publishing ethics. When handling complaints concerning publication ethics, Editor-in-Chief shall be guided by the principles presented in the Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies developed based on the standard of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing". In difficult cases, the Editor-in-Chief can introduce a question for the discussion at the Editorial Board of the journal. The decision on the complaint shall be taken collectively and documented.

Retraction Policy

This section is prepared on the basis of the Rules for Paper Retraction (revoking a publication) of the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP) and describes the procedure for retracting a paper if violations are found in the published materials.

Retraction is a mechanism for correcting published scientific information and notifying readers about serious flaws, erroneous data that cannot be trusted, contained in the publication, about the cases of duplicate publications (when authors submit the same data in several publications), plagiarism and concealment of conflict of interest that may have influenced the data interpretation or recommendations for their use.

Reasons and rationale for retracting an article:

• detection of plagiarism in a paper;
• duplication of a paper in several publications;
• detection of falsifications or fabrications (for example, manipulation of experimental data) in a paper;
• detection of serious errors in a paper (for example, misinterpretation of the findings), which casts doubt on its scientific value;
• incorrect composition of authors’ team (a person who deserves to be an author is not included; persons who do not meet the authorship criteria are included);
• concealment of conflict of interest (and other violations of publication ethics);
• republishing a paper without the author’s consent.

A paper retraction shall be performed at the official request of the author(s) of the article and/or the Editorial Board with the reasoned explanation of their decision, as well as by the decision of the journal Editorial Board on the basis of internal expert review.

The author(s) must be informed of the decision to retract the paper, including the retraction justification.

The paper and description of the paper shall remain available on the journal's website as part of the corresponding issue of the journal, but the inscription RETRACTED and the retraction date shall be applied to the electronic version of the text; the same notice is placed with the paper title in the table of contents of the issue. 

Information about the retracted papers shall be transmitted to the ASEP Scientific Publications Ethics Board (to enter the information into the unified database of retracted papers) and to the Sience Electronic Library (elibrary.ru) (information about the paper and the full text shall remain available on elibrary.ru, but shall be supplemented with the retraction notice. The retracted papers and references from them shall be excluded from the RISC and shall not participate in the calculation of indicators).