Reviewing

The Editorial Board provides an independent one-sided blind review of submitted manuscripts in accordance with their topics. Information about the manuscript’s authors and their affiliations is disclosed to the reviewer. For the authors, any information about the reviewer remains unknown.

Leading scientists who have a scientific degree and conduct research in a speciality that corresponds to the topic of the submitted material are involved in the reviewing voluntarily (under their agreement). The reviewer must be the author (or co-author) of at least three scientific articles published within the last five years in scientific publications included in “A” and/or “B” categories of the List of specialized scientific journals of Ukraine and/or in the foreign publications indexed of Web of Science Core Collection and/or Scopus for the relevant speciality.

The task of selecting reviewers rests with the editors.

EEach article undergoes a process of independent peer review by two reviewers. Leading specialists of the Iron and Steel Institute of Z. I. Nekrasov National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine are involved in the internal review. The external review is carried out exclusively by specialists from other scientific institutions.

The reviewers must be guided by the ethical principles outlined in the “Publication ethics” section.

The review period is up to 30 days from the date the article is received by the reviewer.

The reviews are sent to the corresponding author’s email.

If the reviewer determines that the manuscript requires revision, the author(s) must resubmit the revised manuscript, corrected in accordance with the reviewer’s comments, to the editorial office within 15 days for a second round of peer review. Re-reviewing of the corrected manuscript is carried out within 15 days, and results are brought to the corresponding author.