Ethical norms

Ethical guidelines for the editorial board are based on Committee on Publication Ethics, (International standards for editors and authors), and the Scientist Ethics Code of a of Ukraine.

Ethical obligations of the editors of the journal "Medicine and pharmacy: educational discourses":

• all materials submitted for publication are carefully selected and reviewed. The editorial board reserves the right to reject the article or send it back for revision. The author is obliged to improve the article following the comments of reviewers or the editorial board;
• the editorial board should render fair and impartial decisions, independent of commercial or other interests and ensure a fair review process;
• the editorial board may reject the manuscript without review if the work does not meet the journal’s scope;
• the editorial board has the right to retract a published article if it transpires a violation of someone’s rights or common rules of research ethics. The editorial office notifies the author and the organization where research was carried out about the article’s retraction;
• the editorial board allows distribution of any articles or their pieces but with appropriate credit to the original source;
• according to international copyright legislation, the journal’s materials not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form (electronic or printed) without the prior written consent of the authors and the editors. When using the published materials in the context of other documents, a reference to the original source is obligatory.

Ethical obligations of authors:

• research published in the journal should be conducted in accordance with current legislation and ethical standards;
• authors should present their research findings clearly and unambiguously, so that their conclusions can be confirmed by other scientists, without falsifying the data obtained or manipulation;
• authors are responsible for the article’s content and the very fact of their publication;
• authors should adhere to the publication guidelines. Submission of plagiarism as an original manuscript and a previously published article is not permissible;
• sources of funding and relevant conflicts of interest must be disclosed. Authors should guarantee that there are no contractual relations or proprietary reasons that could affect the publication of the information available in the manuscript;
• authors should refer to the sources of all data cited or presented and compile references to literary sources used in the work, meeting the journal’s requirements. The editorial board has the right to refuse publication of an article if the specified requirements are violated.

Ethical obligations of peer reviewers:

• a peer reviewer should follow Committee on Publication Ethics and be impartial and objective;
• a peer reviewer should objectively evaluate the quality of the manuscript, its experimental and theoretical parts and their interpretation and presentation, as well as whether it corresponds to scientific standards and design requirements. The reviewer should respect the intellectual independence of the authors;
• any manuscripts and additional materials subject to review should be treated as confidential documents. They may not be displayed or discussed with third parties, except as permitted by the editor.