The editorial board of the “Ukrainian Society” magazine (specialists in the relevant field), headed by the editor-in-chief, carries out the general scientific guidance of the periodical and adopts the final decision on acceptance for publication or rejection of the submitted materials.
The editorial board and the editor-in-chief of the periodicals are responsible for the appropriate scientific level of the periodicals, high-quality editorial content, compliance with the filing schedule in processing and design requirements.
The editorial board is constituted by the founder(s) with the objective of formulating and approving the editorial policy of the scientific journal, overseeing independent peer review, and ensuring adherence to publication ethics during the preparation, publication, and dissemination of submitted materials.
The editorial board is responsible for the retraction (official withdrawal or at the author’s initiative) of a published scientific article, initiated in the event of violations of publication ethics and/or other significant shortcomings (errors, plagiarism, or incorrect borrowing of text, ideas, data, or research results, lack of proper references to the original sources of data, republication of the same article in another publication without proper justification, inclusion of authors who did not make a significant scientific contribution to the research, or exclusion of authors who did make such a contribution, detection of unethical review process, the existence of conflict of interest that could have influenced or did influence the results of the research), that make it impossible to reliably use the results of such an article. Following the retraction of the article, it is stored in the archive of the scientific journal, accompanied by a clear indication of the retraction (watermark).
