Compliance with the principles and recommendations of COPE, WAME, DORA

The Editorial Board of the “Collection of Research Papers of the National Mining University” adheres to international standards of ethics, transparency, and quality of scientific publishing, as established by leading global associations.

The journal strictly adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors developed by the Publication Ethics Committee. In case of detection of violations (plagiarism, falsification and fabrication of data), a Commission is created to investigate and retract (withdraw) articles. According to COPE, AI is not recognized as an author. The Editorial Board requires authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose any potential financial or personal interests that may affect the objectivity of the research.

Decisions on publication are made solely on the basis of scientific quality and independent peer review, without the influence of the journal's founders or commercial factors. A double-blind peer-review procedure is used. Reviewers are selected from leading specialists within the cluster “Industrial and Construction Technologies, Logistics, Transport by specialties” who have high citation indices in international databases.The journal guarantees the confidentiality of manuscripts and the protection of authors' personal data at all stages of the manuscript review process.

The journal supports the principles of DORA, whose policy is aimed at abandoning the use of impact factors as the sole indicator of the quality of individual articles. The Editorial Board encourages evaluating the scientific value of the work based on its content, novelty, and practical contribution to the development of mining, mechanical engineering, and environmental science, rather than solely on the journal's citation metrics.

The journal requires precise and careful formatting of References section using DOI, and encourages authors to cite primary sources directly relevant to the research, avoiding artificial inflation of citation metrics. The journal supports an open science policy (CC BY 4.0 license) and allows deposition of materials in institutional repositories, ensuring maximum accessibility and transparency of research results for the global scientific community.

To ensure the implementation of the above principles, the journal establishes the Ethics Committee to deal with complaints and controversial issues regarding academic integrity violations (in accordance with the approved Complaints Handling Procedure). The article retraction procedure provides a clear mechanism for correcting scientific records in case of detection of significant errors or unethical practices. The Editorial Board strictly adheres to the deadlines for the peer review and publication procedure (at least one month for peer review and one month for publication after approval), which guarantees the thorough and careful review.