The academic journal Strategic Panorama (Strategìčna Panorama) strives to adhere to high ethical standards for scholarly publications and takes measures to prevent misconduct in this area.

The editors and editorial board of the journal are guided by the standards of publication ethics of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing, Guidelines on Publication Ethics) and Elsevier Publication Ethics Principles. The Statement below is based on these principles, which, in particular, contains the ethical obligations of participants in the publication process (authors, reviewers, editors and editorial board members).

STRATEGIC PANORAMA STATEMENT ON ADHERING TO PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE PREVENTION

DUTIES OF EDITORS AND EDITORIAL BOARD

1. Editors and editorial board members shall evaluate submitted manuscripts based on their content, regardless of the authors’ race, gender, ethnic origin, citizenship, political preferences, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
2. Editors and editorial board members find any violation of academic integrity unacceptable and shall reject any materials containing signs of such violations.
3. Editors shall accept for consideration only original research papers and other materials submitted as manuscripts, which have never been published elsewhere in any language.
4. Editors and editorial board members shall ensure the confidentiality of information relating to submitted manuscripts, do not provide any information about the manuscript to third parties other than the authors of the manuscripts, reviewers (potential reviewers) and the publisher. Editors and editorial board members shall undertake not to use the authors’ ideas and research results for personal gain.
5. Editors and editorial board members may not use or publish materials unpublished in the journal without the written consent of the authors.
6. Editors and editorial board members shall report any conflict of interest that may have arisen over a manuscript due to competition or other relations with any of the authors or institutions involved in the study, and shall abstain from reviewing, evaluating and deciding to publish such manuscript.
7. Research papers authored by editorial board members shall undergo a standard procedure of independent peer reviewing. Editorial board members shall not participate in the evaluation of their own manuscripts.
8. In case editors or editorial board members have doubts about the authenticity or ethical correctness of the manuscript submitted to the journal, its publication should be postponed until such doubts are eliminated.
9. The editorial board shall consider cases related to the violation of publication ethics. In particular, it shall be guided by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). If necessary, the editorial board removes published research papers and other materials, informs readers of corrections, clarifications, and refutations in accessible ways (on the site, including the next issue of the journal).

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

1. Reviews of scientific articles shall be performed at the appropriate scientific level in compliance with ethical requirements for this type of scientific activity.
2. Reviewers shall evaluate scientific articles with regard to their content, regardless of the authors’ race, gender, ethnic origin, citizenship, political preferences, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
3. Reviewers shall ensure the confidentiality of information relating to manuscripts of research papers.
4. Reviewers have the right to decline the invitation to review the research reported in a manuscript if the scope of their academic expertise does not correspond to the subject matter of the paper.
5. In the event of a conflict of interest caused by competition or other relations with any of the authors or institutions involved in a study, reviewers shall notify the editors and decline the invitation to review such a manuscript.
6. Reviewers may not use the information, arguments and conclusions contained in the materials received for review for personal gain.
7. Reviewers may not use or publish the unpublished information, arguments and conclusions contained in the manuscripts received for review without the written consent of the authors.
8. Reviewers must apply to the editorial board with a request for a collective review of the paper, if during the review there are doubts about the author's compliance with academic integrity. Any allegation of failure to comply with academic integrity shall be accompanied by appropriate references.
9. In order to comply with the publication timetable of the journal, reviewers shall review the materials within the timeframe proposed by the editorial board (usually thirty days).

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

1. The author of a manuscript of a research paper or other materials (hereinafter referred to as authors as well as groups of authors / co-authors), by submitting the manuscript to the journal, ensures thereby that this research paper or other material is original, belongs only to the author and has never been published in any other publication in any language.
2. By submitting a manuscript to the editors, the author ensures that the manuscript has not been submitted to another periodical at the same time.
3. The author must make sure that the manuscript submitted is relevant to the journal’s scope.
4. The author must comply with the editorial requirements regarding the formatting of the manuscript.
5. The author must obtain prior permission to use copyrighted materials in the manuscript.
6. The author must make appropriate references to the opinions, works, statements, etc. of other authors, as well as provide accurate descriptions of the sources in which this information has been published. The author may not include into the research paper or any other material submitted to the journal information obtained in private (for example, during conversations, correspondence or discussions with third parties) without the written consent of the source.
7. The author must ensure that all borrowed elements of a research paper or other materials (including quotations and illustrations) are used in accordance with the principles of academic integrity as well as the legislation on copyright and related rights. In case a failure to comply with academic integrity (plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, etc.) or a violation of copyright and related rights is detected, the responsibility rests with the author.
8. While submitting a manuscript of a research paper or any other material, the author shall indicate (if there are any grounds) the possibility of financial or any other significant conflict of interest, which may be interpreted as affecting the results contained in this manuscript. If there is financial support / grants for the research and / or preparation of the manuscript, the author shall indicate this in the manuscript.
9. By submitting a research paper or any other material to the editors, the author agrees that if this work is accepted for publication, the text of this work will be made public in the online version of the journal, and the content of the published work will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. International CC-BY, which allows users to freely read, download, copy, cite and distribute this work provided the authorship and first publication in this journal are acknowledged.

AUTHORSHIP

Authorship shall be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the formulation of the concept, research design and interpretation of the findings reported in the manuscript of the research paper. The author may acknowledge the persons who participated in certain essential aspects of the research project in the manuscript.

If the manuscript of a research paper or other material was created by several authors, the corresponding author who submits the manuscript to the journal and writes to the editors shall be responsible for ensuring that the list of authors includes only those who participated in the preparation of the manuscript. This corresponding author shall also ensure that all the authors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to submit it to the journal and publish it. All the authors involved are responsible for the content of the research paper or other materials submitted to the journal.

After submitting the manuscript to the journal, the editors will consider amendments to the list of authors of the manuscript only in exceptional cases. If there is a need to amend the list of authors, the corresponding author shall immediately notify the editors and state the reason for such changes. All the authors of the manuscript of a research paper or other materials submitted to the journal must give their written consent to any changes in the authorship list.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Editors and editorial board members shall ensure the confidentiality of information related to submitted manuscripts of research papers and other materials; they shall not disclose information contained in the manuscripts to third parties other than the authors, reviewers (potential reviewers) and the publisher; and they shall undertake not to use the ideas and results of the authors' research for personal gain. Reviewers shall consider manuscripts submitted for review as a confidential document and undertake not to use the information, arguments and conclusions contained in the submitted manuscripts for personal gain.

Unpublished materials from manuscripts submitted to the journal may not be used or published by editors, editorial board members or reviewers without the written consent of the authors.

Personal data of the authors of research papers or other materials submitted to the journal (names, e-mail addresses, etc.) will be used exclusively for internal technical tasks of the journal by law and they will not be distributed or passed on to third parties.

COMPETING INTERESTS

Conflicts of interest arise from the competitive or other relations between the author of a manuscript submitted to the journal and any editorial staff member, editorial board member, reviewer or institution involved in the research reported in the manuscript.

In case of a conflict of interest regarding a research paper or any other material submitted to the journal, editors, editorial board members and reviewers must declare it and abstain from participating in the consideration, evaluation and decision to publish this paper or another material.

The authors must inform the editors of potential financial or any other conflicts of interest, which may be interpreted as affecting the results reported in the manuscript of the research paper or any other material. If the research reported in the manuscript is financially supported (run under a grant), the author must indicate it in the manuscript.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING 

The journal implements a policy of strict compliance with copyright and related rights.

The authors retain the copyright (property and non-property rights under intellectual property) to a research paper or any other material, as well as give the journal the right to first publish their work. By submitting a research paper or any other material to the editors, the authors agree that if their work is accepted for publication, their texts will be made public in the online version of the journal, and the materials included in the published work will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License International CC-BY, which allows users to freely read, download, copy, cite and distribute these works provided the authorship and first publication in this journal are acknowledged.

Responsibility for the infringement of intellectual property rights rests with the authors of the works.

PLAGIARISM

The editorial staff and editorial board members find any violation of academic integrity unacceptable.

Academic misconduct includes:

• academic plagiarism, i.e. publication (in part or in full) of research findings obtained by others as the result of their own research and / or reproduction of published texts authored by others without indication of their authorship;
• self-plagiarism, i.e. publication (in part or in full) of one's own previously published research findings as new scientific results;
• fabrication, i.e. making up data or facts used in research;
• falsification, i.e. deliberate change or modification of existing data relating to research;
• deception, i.e. providing knowingly false information about their own scientific activities.

Manuscripts submitted to the editorial staff are checked for plagiarism and other violations of academic integrity.

The correctness of the facts and data as well as the validity of the conclusions and recommendations rests with the authors of manuscripts. In case a failure to comply with academic integrity (plagiarism, falsification, etc.) is detected, the author shall be responsible for the materials submitted to the journal.

Reviewers are required to contact the editorial board with a request for a collective review of a manuscript in case of doubt as to the author's compliance with academic integrity.

The editors and editorial board members shall reject all materials that contain signs of violation of the academic integrity norms.

The retraction procedure shall be applied to publications that contain signs of serious violation of academic integrity.

HANDLING COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS

In case the author disagrees with certain remarks of the reviewer, he or she may appeal to the editors with reasoned comments regarding the reviewer’s remarks. The editors shall send these comments to the reviewer and make the appropriate decision on the manuscript jointly with the reviewer.

If the reviews of two reviewers contain opposing recommendations regarding the manuscript (acceptance or rejection), the editorial staff shall invite an independent expert in the field to further review the manuscript and / or shall submit such issues to the editorial board for collective consideration.

Anyone who believes that the materials published in the journal Strategic Panorama (Strategìčna Panorama) contain signs of academic integrity violation may complain to the editorial staff at publish@niss.gov.ua. After receiving the complaint, the editors shall ask the author of the publication for an explanation. If necessary, an interim commission may be created from among the members of the editorial board to consider the complaint. In reviewing such complaints, the journal's editorial staff and editorial board members will be guided by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The editorial board considers it unacceptable to insult the editorial staff, editorial board members, reviewers and other persons involved in the publication of the journal. Letters that contain offensive statements and do not contain substantiated evidence to support doubts about the ethical correctness of the materials published in the journal shall not be considered.

RETRACTION AND CORRECTION

The editorial staff can decide to retract a journal publication in compliance with the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Issues related to publication retractions are considered by the editorial board.

The retraction procedure usually applies to research papers and other materials that constitute plagiarism or contain such seriously flawed or erroneous data that make the research findings and conclusions unreliable.

In particular, research papers and other materials published in the journal may be retracted if:

• serious violation of academic integrity (plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, etc.) or copyright infringement are detected in the text of a publication;
• it is detected that the author submitted a previously published work to the journal;
• the author failed to disclose a conflict of interest, which significantly affected the evaluation of the work and its recommendation for publication.

If the editorial board decides to retract a research paper or other material, the editorial staff shall publish a notice in the online and print versions of the journal, stating the reasons for and the date of retraction, and it shall notify the author. The publication shall remain on the journal's website, but it shall be marked as retracted in the online version of the corresponding issue of the journal.

An unpublished paper may be retracted at the author’s request. In this case, the author shall send a letter to the editorial staff at publish@niss.gov.ua and state the reasons for retraction prior to the editorial board’s decision to accept the manuscript for publication.

If necessary, the editorial staff will issue corrigendum, editorial notes, rebuttals and apologies with regard to the content of materials published in the journal.

If the author finds significant errors in a research paper or other material after its publication in the journal, he or she shall inform the editors and work with them on corrections. If a notice of significant errors in the publication was sent by a third party, the author, upon contacting the editors, shall correct these errors or provide evidence of the correctness of his or her research paper or other material.

ACCESS AND DATA SHARING

The journal Strategic Panorama (Strategìčna Panorama) adheres to the policy of open access to published materials, recognizing the priority of the principle of free dissemination of scientific information in order to increase the global exchange of knowledge.

All research papers and other manuscripts are published indefinitely and free of charge immediately after the release of the issue. Full-text access to research papers and other materials is given in real time on the journal’s official website in the Archives section.

All materials are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License International CC-BY, which allows users to read, download, copy, cite and distribute work freely, acknowledging the authorship of this work and indicating that it was first published in this journal.

ARCHIVING

The journal’s archive (its electronic version) is stored on the journal’s website, and also has a backup on the website of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

AUTHOR FEES

The journal does not charge for the submission of manuscripts, their review, preprint and publication. Full texts of all research papers and other materials are posted on the journal's website indefinitely and free of charge immediately after the issue release.