Print ISSN: 2520-257X
eISSN: 2617-3980
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The purpose of the journal is to reflect and consider the fundamental and practically significant issues within chemistry.
SECTIONS
Original Articles
Short Communications
Chronicle, Information
Jubilees
To the Memory of Scientist
All articles in the sections “Original Articles” and “Short Communications” are reviewed.
PUBLICATION FREQUENCY
2 issues per year (February, August).
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
“Journal of the Belarusian State University. Chemistry” is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition – it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
For more information please read BOAI statement.
ARCHIVING
National Library of Belarus (print and online versions)
Fundamental Library of the Belarusian State University (print and online versions)
Scientific Electronic Library “Elibrary.ru” (online version)
Electronic Library System of Publishing House “Lan” (online version)
PEER-REVIEW
A double-blind peer-review method is a mandatory process for all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial staff of «Journal of the Belarusian State University. Chemistry».
Order of peer-review
а) the editor-in-chief of the journal reviews the manuscript submitted for publication within five workdays beginning from the date of receiving the manuscript by the editorial staff. Then the author is informed about the decision made by the chief editor;
а) the review should contain the expert analysis of the manuscript according to the following characteristics: accordance of the matter of the article with its title; relevance of the research issue; scientific novelty of obtained results; reasonability of publication of the article according to the previously published literature on the matter; presentation of the data (writing, style, used categories and constructions);
– to recommend to accept the manuscript for publication in the journal;
– to recommend to accept the manuscript for publication in the journal after technical revision;
– to recommend to accept the manuscript for publication in the journal after the remarks suggested by the reviewers have been agreed with the author, followed by the repeated review by the same reviewer;
– to recommend to reject the publication of the manuscript in the journal due to its nonconformance with the requirements for scientific level of the journal.
INDEXING
Articles in «Journal of the Belarusian State University. Chemistry» are indexed by several systems:
Russian Scientific Citation Index (elibrary.ru)
Google Scholar
PUBLISCATION ETHICS
All participants of publishing processes, i. e. authors, editors, reviewers, publishers, are responsible for observing publication ethics rules, stated below. The editorial board monitors the fulfillment of ethics requirements based on the guidelines prepared by international specialized organizations, associations and publishers, as well as the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP). The editorial staff of «Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology» follows the main standards, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the declaration of «Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications», adopted by ASEP.
Author responsibility
Editor responsibility
Reviewer responsibility
Publisher responsibility
FOUNDER
Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.
AUTHOR’S FEE
Publication in journal is free of charge for all the authors.
The journal doesn’t have any arcticle processing charges.
The journal doesn’t have any article submission charges.
ACTIONS OF EDITORS AT REVEALING PLAGIARISM, FABRICATION OR FALSIFICATION
CORRECTION OF ERRORS AND ARTICLE RETRACTION
POLICY OF DISCLOSURE AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Unpublished data from manuscripts submitted for consideration cannot be used for personal research without the written consent of the author.
Information or ideas obtained during peer-review and related activities, which potentially can be beneficial to any party other than the author, must be kept confidential and not be used for personal gain.
Reviewers should not participate in examination of manuscripts in case of conflict of interest that is a result of any competitive, cooperative, and/or other interactions and relationships with any of the authors, companies, and/or other organizations involved in the creation or presentation of the works.
DERIVATION AND PLAGIARISM
During the consideration of an article, the editorial staff carries out verification of the submitted materials with the help of the Anti-plagiarism system. In the case of the discovery of multiple incidents of content matching, the editorial staff acts in accordance with the rules of COPE.
SELF PLAGIARISM
PREPRINT AND POSTPRINT POLICY
During the submission process, the author should confirm that the article has not been published and/or accepted for publication in any other journal.
Articles, which have been previously posted by the author on personal and/or public websites that have no relationship to any other publishers, are allowed to be submitted to the journal.