Editor-in-Chief's Responsibility

• Ensuring compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of intellectual property and publishing activities; providing information openness through the website of the scientific publication.
• Responsible for maintaining a high standard of scientific research published in the journal, thereby contributing to the development of educational science.

The responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief includes the following important aspects aimed at ensuring the quality and relevance of published articles in this field:

1. Expertise in Education: The editor must possess deep knowledge and experience in education to ensure the quality assessment of articles submitted to the journal; proper selection of articles corresponding to the section's theme.
2. Evaluation of the quality and relevance of articles: The editor must carefully assess the submitted articles, paying attention to their scientific significance, methodology, relevance, and contribution to the educational knowledge system.
3. Selection of reviewers: The editor is responsible for selecting competent reviewers specializing in educational issues who can ensure quality review of articles.
4. Providing feedback to authors: The editor interacts with the authors, providing them with constructive feedback necessary to improve the quality and clarity of the submitted materials.
5. Adherence to ethical standards: The editor is obligated to monitor authors' compliance with ethical norms and standards of scientific publication, including plagiarism exclusion and correct data representation.
6. Supervision of the review process: The editor ensures that the review process is conducted efficiently and within the established timeframe, monitors the quality of reviews, and based on the quality of scientific contribution, makes decisions on acceptance, rejection, or revision of articles.
7. Facilitating the formation of the scientific community: The editor may actively participate in shaping the scientific community in the field of education, organizing conferences, webinars, and supporting interaction between researchers and practitioners in this field.

Authors' Responsibility:

• All authors who have made a substantial contribution to the research must be listed. Falsification of authorship (including undeserved authorship) or exclusion of deserving authors is considered a breach of ethics.
• Authors should strive for objectivity in their research, avoiding subjectivity and bias in their work. Authors should verify all facts and data they present in their work, including all sources of information and data.
• Authors should openly and transparently present their research methods (providing a full description of the research methodology), research results (providing access to raw data).
• The work submitted by the author for publication must be original and should not have been published elsewhere. Double publication (publication of the same work in multiple journals) is considered unacceptable.
• Authors should properly cite previous works and sources. Plagiarism, i.e., copying or using others' ideas, texts, or research results without proper acknowledgment, is considered a serious violation of publication ethics.
• Information about the methods and data presented by the author should be sufficient for other researchers to reproduce the results. Data processing should be fair and transparent.
• Research conducted by the author involving animals or human subjects must comply with ethical standards and requirements. Obtaining consent from participants and complying with all regulatory norms is necessary.

Responsibility of Reviewers (Experts):

The responsibility of reviewers in a scientific journal is a key element in ensuring the quality and reliability of scientific publication.

Aspects of reviewers' responsibility include:

1. Ensuring the quality of scientific research: Reviewers must carefully evaluate the articles submitted to them, checking the methodology, data, conclusions, and research results. They should identify weaknesses and caution against inadequately supported or erroneous statements.
2. Ensuring neutrality and impartiality: Reviewers should consider articles without bias and fairly evaluate the quality of the research. They should not allow personal biases or conflicts of interest to influence them. Reviewing works should be honest and objective.
3. Maintaining confidentiality: Reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality regarding the materials provided to them. Their duties include preventing the leakage of information from the reviewed articles.
4. Timely provision of review: Reviewers must adhere to deadlines for providing their reviews. Delays can slow down the publication process.
5. Providing constructive feedback: Reviewers should provide constructive feedback to authors, pointing out the strengths of the research and suggesting improvements where necessary.
6. Additional recommendations: Reviewers may provide recommendations of the following nature: accept the article for publication or reject it for publication; as well as request additional corrections from the authors.

The responsibility of reviewers is important for maintaining trust in scientific journals and ensuring high standards of scientific publication.

Conflict of interest is the conditions under which conflicting or competing interests arise that can affect the results of the decision to publish or refuse to publish an article in a journal.

A conflict of interest may arise when reviewing or making a decision to publish a manuscript if the participants in the process (authors, reviewers, editors) have personal, financial, professional, scientific or other relations with someone involved in the publication process.

Authors are required to report any relationship or circumstance that may affect the objectivity of the review of their article. Authors should disclose information about potential conflicts of interest that may affect the perception of the content of the work and the results presented. All information about the conflict of interest (or their absence) must be indicated at the end of the article.

Authors are also required to indicate a reliable place of work, sources of research funding (if any).

If the Author has identified significant errors or inaccuracies in his publication, he is obliged to notify the Editor of the journal and cooperate with him to promptly eliminate the publication or make the necessary corrections. If the editor or other member of the Editorial Board receives information from third parties about the presence of significant errors in the publication, the author is obliged to withdraw the work or make corrections as soon as possible.

If during the review a conflict of interest is found between the reviewer and one of the authors, the Editorial Board ensures the transfer of the manuscript to another reviewer.

If the editorial board receives a complaint about an ethical violation related to a manuscript or a published article, and the complaint is recognized as justified, then the editorial board must publish corrections, retractions or apologies. All reports of unethical behavior are considered, regardless of the time they are received after the publication of the article.

Retraction is the retraction of an article regardless of the date of its publication.

Article retraction is used to prevent duplication of publications (when authors submit the same article for publication in several journals), plagiarism, concealment of conflicts of interest, provision of unreliable data that affect the interpretation of data or recommendations for their use.

The grounds for retraction are:

– falsification of data – the presence of unreliable data due to deliberate violations, errors or miscalculations;

– multiple publications – duplication of publication of the same study in several journals;

– plagiarism – borrowing results, data, or references without proper formatting;

– the presence of a conflict of interest – if hidden conflicts could affect the interpretation or use of the results;

– re-publication of the article, including without the consent of the author.

Retraction procedure

Retraction can be carried out at the request of the author or on the basis of the decision of the editorial board.

In case of violation of scientific and publication ethics, the Editorial Board notifies the author of the reasons for the retraction of the article and, if the author does not respond within 10 working days, the Editorial Board has the right to retract the article without his consent. The decision made is documented in a protocol, copies of which are sent to the author and scientific electronic libraries.

The Editorial Board may impose a temporary ban on the publication of new articles by the author of the retracted article.

The editorial board does not accept manuscripts prepared using artificial intelligence, ChatGPT.

Identification of the use of artificial intelligence for writing an article is carried out by checking for plagiarism of the licensed program «Antiplagiat-Kazakhstan. EXPERT» (Internet version).