About the Journal

Focus and Scope

“Environmental safety and natural resources” is the collection of scientific works with contemporary researches of domestic scientists and specialists in the areas of ecological safety, rational environmental usage, environmental management, use of modern information technologies for monitoring and environmental protection.

Certificate of state registration: КВ №14146-3117 Р of May 27, 2008.

Open Access Policy

The journal «Environmental safety and natural resources» provides immediate open access to all published content.

All articles are placed indefinitely and free of charge immediately after publication of the issue. Full-text access in real time to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website of the journal in the Archives section.

This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. The licensing policy is compatible with the overwhelming majority of open access and archiving policies.

The journal works under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Frequency of publication

Frequency of publication - once a quarter. The editorial board may decide to publish a paired issue. The number of paired issues per year can not exceed two.

№ of the issue Estimated release date
1 at the end of March
2 at the end of June
3 at the end of September
4 at the end of December

Ethics of publication

Ethical obligations of editors of the journal

  1. All submitted materials are carefully selected and reviewed. An editorial board reserves the right to reject an article or return it as requiring improvement. The author is obliged to improve the article according to the remarks of the reviewers and the editorial board. However, manuscripts may be rejected without external review if considered by the Editors to be inappropriate for the journal.
  2. Editor decision of acceptance / rejection of the manuscript is based on its relevance, originality, relevance to the scientific direction and the requirements of the journal.
  3. An editor should considerate all manuscripts offered for publication without prejudice, evaluating each on its merits without regard to race, religion, nationality, status, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
  4. The editor and members of the editor’s staff should not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone other than those from whom professional advice is sought. After a positive decision has been made about a manuscript, it should be published in the journal and in the website of the journal.
  5. According to the international law of electronic media copyright, copying of materials published in electronic journal in full or in part is not allowed without the prior written permission of author(s) and Editors. In case of use of the published materials in context of other documents, references to the primary source are required.
  6. During the publishing process, provides technical and information support to users of the journal.
  7. Editorial Board provides authors with detailed instructions regarding the editorial and publishing process, informs the time of receiving materials and publication dates of issues.
  8. Ensures that all participants of editorial and publishing process have received the necessary training and are provided with detailed instructions and guidelines for reviewing and work in the journal.
  9. Takes into account the comments and suggestions of readers, authors and reviewers on how to improve the work of the publication.
  10. Editorial Board quickly responds to any complaints on the work of the journal and guarantees a solution of the problem situations.
  11. The authors are provided with detailed description of the review process, in case of any deviations from the described process, editors are obliged to provide an explanation to the author.
  12. Editorial Board defines the criteria for evaluation of materials and carries out the selection of reviewers for each manuscript.
  13. Sends to authors detailed comments of reviewers.
  14. Editorial Board provides reviewers with detailed instructions on the work in the journal system.
  15. Editorial Board asks the reviewer to note the presence of a possible conflict of interest before he would agree to review the material submitted to him.
  16. Editorial Board asks reviewers to report all cases of plagiarism.
  17. Ensures that all reviewers’ qualification corresponds to the level of professional edition, and if necessary, change their structure.
  18. Stops cooperation with the reviewers who provide reviews of poor quality or with a constant delay.
  19. Ensures that the review process is fair, objective, unbiased and timely.
  20. The Editorial Board reserves the right to minor literary editor and correction, while preserving the author's style. Editors can make minor changes (fixing small errors) and clarifying the content of articles that improve its content, but does not significantly alter its structure as a whole.
  21. Ensures confidentiality of materials submitted to the journal for the entire editorial and publishing process, takes into account the provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Protection of Personal Data" and the General Data Protection Regulation.

Ethical obligations of reviewers

  1. All articles submitted for publication in the journal are given unbiased, objective assessment by peer review.
  2. Reviewers keep the peer review process confidential; the manuscript should not be shared with anyone outside of the peer review process.
  3. Reviewers provides a constructive, comprehensive, evidenced, and appropriately substantial peer review report. Personal critic is considered as inappropriate.
  4. Using by reviewer unpublished data contained in manuscript submitted to publication in journal for personal sake is completely prohibited.
  5. A chosen reviewer who feels inadequately qualified to judge the research reported in a manuscript should return it promptly to the editor.
  6. A reviewer should be sensitive to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the manuscript under review is closely related to the reviewer’s work in progress or published. If in doubt, the reviewer should return the manuscript promptly without review, advising the editor of the conflict of interest.
  7. A reviewer should not evaluate a manuscript authored or co-authored by a person with whom the reviewer has a personal or professional connection if the relationship would bias judgment of the manuscript.
  8. Reviewers should explain and support their judgments adequately so that editors and authors may understand the basis of their comments. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. Unsupported assertions by reviewers (or by authors in rebuttal) are of little value and should be avoided.
  9. A reviewer should be alert to failure of authors to cite relevant work by other scientists, bearing in mind that complaints that the reviewer’s own research was insufficiently cited may seem self-serving. A reviewer should call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper or any manuscript submitted concurrently to another journal.
  10. A reviewer should act promptly, submitting a report in a timely manner.

Ethical obligations of authors

  1. Author (authors of manuscript) should provide reliable results of research. Deliberate presentation of wrong or distorted results is inappropriate.
  2. Originality and plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
  3. Whole responsibility for content of articles and for the fact of publication rests with author(s). Editors do not bear responsibility for probable damage caused by publication of a manuscript to authors or third parties. Editors have the right to withdraw the article already published in case somebody's rights or generally accepted norms appear violated. Editors inform author(s) of the article, persons who gave recommendations and representatives of organization, where the research was held, about the fact of withdrawal.
  4. The journal does not accept papers that have been either published or accepted for publication, or are under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  5. All those who have made significant contributions to the research work may be listed as coauthors.
  6. The co-authors of a paper should be all those persons who have made significant scientific contributions to the work reported and who share responsibility and accountability for the results. Іt is unacceptable to point out among co-authors a person who did not participate in the study.
  7. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Conflicts of interests

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in any research of the editor, reviewers or any other informed person without the written consent of the authors. Privileged information or arguments obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal or third party advantage. Editor and any member of the editorial board should release themselves from the duties of considering manuscripts in case of any conflicts of interest resulting from collaborative, competitive, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies/institutions having relevance to the manuscripts. Editor should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests. In case of revealing the competing interests after publication, the corrections should be published. A retraction or expression of concern may be published if needed.

Plagiarism policy

The journal «Environmental safety and natural resources» are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has not been published elsewhere.

The journal uses software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts: Detector Plagiarist, Antiplagiat, eTXT. Manuscripts in which plagiarism or textual borrowings are found without reference to the original source are rejected by the editorial board for publication in the journal.

The concept of plagiarism is determined as follows:

Plagiarism – promulgation (publication), fully or partially, of another's work under the name of a person who is not the author of this work

Self-plagiarism – re-publishing of large text parts from own scientific papers by the author without stating the fact of their prior or simultaneous publication

Textual plagiarism – full or partial copying of text fragments (modified or not) in the articles, theses, reports, books, manuscripts, theses, and so on.

The following actions clear characterize the process of plagiarism:

  • turning in someone else’s work as your own;
  • copying another person’s words or ideas without reference to its work;
  • intentional omission the quote from the reference list; providing incorrect source data (such as "broken" links);
  • changing words order, while preserving the overall structure of a sentence;
  • copying large parts of text or ideas that makes up the majority of new article.

Authors are responsible for accuracy of information presented in articles, accuracy of names, last names and citations. Authors bear responsibility according to current legislation of Ukraine (Law of Ukraine «On Copyright and Related Rights»).

Authors are also responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing illustrations, tables, figures taken from other authors and/or source. Permission must be placed at the foot of each figure.