About the Journal

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE JOURNAL

  • development of fundamental and applied research in the field of mathematics and computer science;
  • acquisition and dissemination of advanced knowledge and information in these areas;
  • integration of intellectual potential with leading foreign centers of higher education and science;
  • support and development of scientific schools in the field of mathematics and computer science.

 

SECTIONS

Differential Equations and Optimal Control
Mathematical Logic, Algebra and Number Theory
Probability Theory  and Mathematical Statistics
Computational Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Cybernetics
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science
Real, Complex and Functional Analysis
Geometry and Topology
Reviews
Review Articles
Chronicle, Information
Jubilees
Outstanding Scientists
To the Memory of Scientist

All sections, except for the sections "Reviews", "Review Articles", "Chronicle, Information", "Jubilees", "Outstanding Scientists", "To the Memory of Scientist" are peer-reviewed.

 Species features of copyright materials

Scientific publications, review articles, reviews of scientific publications that correspond to the subject of the journal are accepted for publication.

  1. Research articles

In the introductory part, the relevance and feasibility of developing a topic (a scientific problem or task) should be substantiated. In the main part of the article, by analyzing and synthesizing information, it is necessary to disclose the problems under study, ways to solve them, substantiate possible results, and their reliability. In the final part  it is necessary to summarize, to formulate conclusions, recommendations, to indicate possible areas for further research.

  1. Review articles

The review should analyze, compare and identify the most important and promising directions of the development of science (practice), its individual activities, phenomena, events, etc. The material should be problematic, demonstrate contradictory views on the development of scientific (practical) knowledge, contain conclusions, generalizations, summary data.

  1. Reviews of scientific publications

Analysis, critical analysis, evaluation of a scientific work (except dissertation research). The title of the review may be replaced by a bibliographic description of the reviewed work.

 

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

3 issues per year (March, July, November).

 

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

“Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics” 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)
Bavarian State Library (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. Mathematics and Informatics".

The peer- review procedure

  1. The scientific manuscript submitted to the editorial board of the journal is reviewed by the editor-in-chief for compliance with the scope of the journal and requirements for the article design. In the case of compliance with indicated requirements the manuscript is sent to the editor of the journal section which corresponds to the subject of the presented manuscript.
  2. The section editor arranges the process of peer-review which is performed by the members of the editorial board and other scientists, who are specialists in the field closest to the subject of the article. All reviewers are recognized specialists in the scope of reviewed materials and have publications related to the subject of the reviewed article over the past three years. The editorial board has the right to engage external reviewers. The specialists from the institutions and departments, where the work has been performed, are not engaged.
  3. The process of reviewing is kept confidential. The reviewers are informed that manuscripts submitted to them are private property of authors and are not a subject of disclosure. The reviewers and also the editorial staff have no right to use knowledge about the content of the article before its publication for their own benefit. The reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the article for their own needs. The reviewers should not give a part of the manuscript to other person for review without advanced permission of the editorial board. The disclosure is possible only in the case of a claim for unreliability or falsification of materials, in all other cases non-disclosure is obligatory.
  4. The deadlines of peer-review:

а) the editor-in-chief of the journal reviews the manuscript submitted for publication within ten work days 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;

b) the peer-review of the manuscript is performed within thirty work days from the date of its submission to experts;

5. The contents of the review:

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);

b) the reviewer is obliged to provide recommendations to the author and the editorial staff on article adaptation. The reviewer’s remarks and recommendations should be objective, principled, and aimed at improving scientific and methodological aspects of the article;

c) in the conclusion the review should contain one of the following decisions:

– 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 reviewer 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.

  1. If the reviewer makes a decision to recommend the manuscript for publication in the journal after the remarks have been agreed, the author should make all necessary corrections in the final version of the manuscript and submit to the editorial staff the final text with the cover letter to the reviewer. In this case the date of submission of the manuscript to the editorial staff is the date when the revised manuscript has been returned. For overall negative assessment of the manuscript, the reviewer should make a very compelling argument for his conclusion.
  2. The section editor presents the peer-review to the editorial board.
  3. The author is informed about the decision of the editorial board within ten work days. The editorial staff of the journal sends the author without fail the review of the manuscript in electronic format with no signature. The surname, occupation and affiliation of the reviewer are not indicated as well. If the manuscript is rejected, the review and justified rejection are sent to the author. In this case the manuscript is considered to be rejected and is no more the subject of review by the editorial board of the journal.
  4. After peer-review the articles allowed to publication are edited and made up. PDF-file of the article is sent to the corresponding author for agreement. Within two or three days the author should agree the article with the editorial staff. If it is impossible to come to an agreement (the editorial staff and the author cannot agree on the point in issue or the author doesn’t contact the editors) the editorial staff is allowed to reject the article or with the author’s agreement to include it in the next issue so as not to slow down the publication of the current issue.
  5. The editorial staff does not retain rejected manuscripts.
  6. The manuscripts accepted for publication are not returned. The manuscripts with negative response from the reviewer are not published and also are not returned to the author.
  7. The reviews are retained in the editorial office of the journal for five years from the date of its approval by the reviewer.
  8. The editorial staff has the right to send the articles (partly or completely) to foreign organizations, indexing the scientific publication and to post the articles on journal’s website.
  9. The order for manuscripts’ publication is determined according to the editorial plan of journal issue.

 

 

 

INDEXING

Articles in "Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics" are indexed by several systems:

Scopus

Russian Scientific Citation Index (elibrary.ru)

Google Scholar

Mathematical Reviews

zbMATH

Ulrichsweb

 

 

PUBLISCATION ETHICS

All participants of publishing processes, i. e. authors, editors, reviewers, publishers, are responsible for observing publication ethics rules, stated below. The editorial staff 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. Mathematics and Informatics» follows the main standards, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the United Kingdom, as well as the declaration of «Ethical Principles of Scientific Publications», adopted by ASEP.

 

RESPONSIBILITY OF PARTICIPANTS' PUBLICATION PROCESS

Author responsibility

  1. The author submits materials, which have not been previously published, for review.
  2. The author does not submit the same article for review to different journals.
  3. All co-authors should agree to the submission of their article to the journal.
  4. The list of authors includes only the persons who have made significant contributions to the research. Guest or gift authorship is not allowed.
  5. If participation of contributing persons was insufficient to guarantee their identification as authors, they should be named in the section "Acknowledgements".
  6. The author should obtain the consent to publish names from each person named in the section "Acknowledgments" because an editor can verify the information.
  7. Authors should appoint a corresponding author who is responsible for communicating with the editorial staff.
  8. The author should get acquainted with the editorial policy of "Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics" before materials are to be submitted, i.e. rules of correspondence with the reviewer and editorial staff, publication ethics, author guidelines.
  9. If the author sends the article that is under review to other journal, the author should give official notification to the editorial staff to recall the article. All co-authors give their consent to recall the article.
  10. Responsibility for violation of exclusive rights to works rests with the authors.
  11. The author properly corresponds with the reviewer through the editor and responds to comments and remarks, if any.
  12. The author, who is acting as a contact with the journal, informs all other co-authors of all changes and suggestions from the editorial staff, and does not make any decisions regarding the article alone without the written agreement of all co-authors.
  13. If necessary, the authors either correct the data presented in the article, or refuse them.
  14. The author should specify all funding sources (state, commercial and other).
  15. The author informs the editorial staff of a potential conflict of interest.
  16. The author should guarantee that the peer-reviewed original article.
  17. The author should avoid duplicate publication or self-plagiarism.
  18. The author should assure that the citations in the submitted article are correct.
  19. The author cites his or her previous works correctly as to prevent self-plagiarism in the manuscript and avoid artificial increase of publications’ volume (salami-slicing).
  20. Prior to article submission, authors should clear permission to use any content that has not been created by them. Editors of the “Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics” are unable to publish any article which has permissions pending.

    A. The rights we require are:

    • non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter;
    • print and electronic rights;
    • to use the material for the life of the work (i.e. there should be no time restrictions on the re-use of material e.g. a one-year licence).

    B. When reproducing tables or figures from another source, it is expected that:

    • authors obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in their manuscript. Permission must also be cleared for any minor adaptations of any work not created by them;
    • if an author adapts significantly any material, the author must inform the copyright holder of the original work;
    • authors obtain any proof of consent statements;
    • authors must always acknowledge the source in figure captions;
    • authors should not assume that any content which is freely available on the web is free to use. Authors should check the website for details of the copyright holder to seek permission for re-use.

 

Editor responsibility

  1. The editor of "Journal of the Belarusian State University.  Mathematics and Informatics" is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers should always underwrite such decisions.
  2. The editors make fair and objective decisions, regardless of any commercial considerations and provide fair and efficient process for the independent review.
  3. The editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  4. The editors do not work with articles for which they have conflict of interest.
  5. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained during peer-reviewing must be kept confidential and shouldn’t be used for personal gain.
  6. The editors resolve conflict situations occurring during the editorial process, as well as use all available means to resolve these situations.
  7. The editors of the journal publish information concerning corrections, rebuttals, and review articles, if it is necessary.
  8. The editor, who provides convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous, should coordinate with the publisher to promote the prompt publication of corrections, retraction, expression of concern, or other relevant notes.
  9. The editors of the journal do not publish the final version of the article without the consent of the authors.
  10. The editorial staff can abridge and edit the articles, make insignificant stylistic and nomenclature and formal corrections without author’s consent. The editorial staff is responsible for observing of orthographic and punctuation norms.

 

Reviewer responsibility

  1. The reviewer evaluates his or her own availability before the examination of the manuscript and accepts materials for review only if the reviewer is able to allow for sufficient time as to ensure quality work.
  2. The reviewer notifies the editorial staff of any conflict of interest (if any) before article review is to be started.
  3. The reviewers should identify a relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement (an observation, derivation, or argument) that had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. The reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  4. The reviewer does not make conclusions about the quality of the article on the basis of subjective data, e.g. the personal relationship to the author, gender, age, religion, etc.
  5. The reviewer does not send information about the article or any of the data from the article to any third party.
  6. The reviewer does not use the information obtained from the article for any personal and/or commercial purposes.

 

Publisher responsibility

  1. The publisher should develop codes of practice and inculcate standards for best practice in ethical matters, errors and retractions.
  2. The publisher not only supports scientific communication and invests in the process, but also is responsible for complying with all current guidelines and standards for publishing scientific works.
  3. The publisher does not affect the editorial policy of the journal.
  4. The publisher provides legal support to the journal, if necessary.
  5. The publisher provides for the timely release of issues of the journal.
  6. The publisher publishes changes, explanations, and recalls articles that have been identified to contain scientific misconduct and/or critical errors.
  7. The publisher is responsible for observing the international scientific database requirements.

 

ACTIONS OF EDITORS AT REVEALING PLAGIARISM, FABRICATION OR FALSIFICATION

  1. In case of revealing the misconduct of an author, detection of plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data the editors should be guided by the COPE rules.
  2. Misconduct is understood in “Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics” as any action of a researcher that involves mistreatment of research subjects or purposeful manipulation of the scientific record such that it no longer reflects the observed truth as well as the conduct of a researcher that falls short of good ethical and scientific standards.
  3. In “Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics” the misconduct notion does not include honest error or honest differences in the design, execution, interpretation, or judgment in evaluating research methods or results or misconduct not connected with the scientific process.

 

CORRECTION OF ERRORS AND ARTICLE RETRACTION

  1. If in an article the errors are found that influence its interpretation, but not distort the research results they may be corrected by substitution of pdf-file of an article indicating the error in the article file and on the numbered page of an article on the journal site.
  2. If in an article the errors are found that distort the research results or in case of plagiarism, detection of misconduct of author/authors connected with falsification and/or fabrication of data, such article may be retracted and the retraction may be initiated by editors, author, organization, private person.
  3. The retracted article should be marked “Retracted” and on the page of the article, the information about the reason for retraction should be given. Information about retraction is directed to the databases where the journal is indexed.

 

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.

 

 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

  1. Journal requires that all authors sign a copyright form that clearly states that their submitted work has not been published before. If elements of a work have been previously published in another publication, including an earlier “Journal of the Belarusian State University. Mathematics and Informatics” publication, the author is required to acknowledge the earlier work and indicate how the subsequent work differs and builds upon the research and conclusions contained in the previous work. Verbatim copying of an author's own work and paraphrasing is not acceptable and we recommend that research should only be reused to support new conclusions.
  2. No more than 3 citations of own works are allowed. Journal recommends that authors cite all previous stages of publication and presentation of their ideas that have culminated in the final work, including conference papers.

 

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.