Instructions for reviewers – Scientific and methodological Journal

Instructions for reviewers

The review must contain a qualified analysis of the article’s material, an objective reasoned assessment and reasonable recommendations.

In the review, special attention should be paid to covering the following issues:

1) general analysis of the scientific level, terminology, structure of the article and relevance of the topic;

2) assessment of the preparedness of the article for publication in terms of language and style, compliance with the established requirements for the design of article materials;

3) the scientific nature of the presentation, the correspondence of the methods, techniques, recommendations and research results used by the author with modern achievements of science;

4) compliance of the volume of the article as a whole and its individual elements (text, tables, illustrative material, bibliographic references) with the established requirements.

5) the appropriateness of placing tables and illustrative material in the article and their correspondence to the topic being presented;

6) inaccuracies and errors made by the author.

The reviewer should make recommendations to the author to improve the quality of the manuscript. The reviewer’s comments and suggestions should be objective and principled, aimed at improving the scientific and methodological levels of the manuscript.

The final part of the review should contain substantiated conclusions about the article as a whole and a clear recommendation on the advisability of its publication in a specific scientific area corresponding to the scientific specialties approved at a meeting of the Editorial Board of the journal.

In case of a negative assessment of the manuscript as a whole, the reviewer must justify his conclusions.