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Bulletin of Abai KazNPU. Series of Philological Sciences
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The order of review

Scientific articles submitted to the editorial office of the scientific journal "Bulletin of Abai University. The Philological Sciences series", which meet the formal requirements for formatting and the originality indicator based on verification through the plagiarism checker system, undergo double anonymized ("blind”) review. The reviewer is given a manuscript for review without authors’ names. Correspondence between the executive secretary and the reviewer takes place in the electronic editorial office on the journal's website. Articles are reviewed by specialists in the relevant field who have published on the subject of the reviewed article for the last 5 years. In the case of two negative reviews, the manuscript is rejected from publication in the journal.

The presence of a positive review is not a sufficient basis for the publication of the article. The final decision on publishing the article is produced by the editor-in-chief and the editorial board, whose expert profile corresponds to the manuscript subject. After the editorial board decides to publish the article, the author is informed about it and the approximate publishing timeline.

Deciding to publish an article, the editor-in-chief is guided by the accuracy of the data presented and the scientific significance of the work. Information or ideas obtained during editing and related to possible advantages are kept confidential. If the author and reviewers have irresolvable contradictions regarding the manuscript, the editorial board may send the manuscript for additional review. In conflict situations, the editor-in-chief decides at the editorial board meeting.

If the review contains recommendations to correct and revise the article, the executive secretary sends the review to the author. The author is asked to consider these recommendations preparing a new version of the article.

The article sent to the author for revision should be returned in the correct form within two weeks. The date of receipt to the editorial office is the date of return of the revised article. The editorial board has the right to reject an article in case of the author's inability or unwillingness to consider the editorial board's recommendations.

The editor-in-chief and publisher do not leave unanswered the claims concerning the reviewed manuscripts or published materials, as well as in case of detection of a conflict situation, take all necessary measures to restore the violated rights.

Each manuscript coming to the journal website or the editorial office mailbox is evaluated by the editor-in-chief of the journal and (or) his/her deputy, the executive secretary and the editorial board, whose expert profile corresponds to the issue of the article. If the journal is interested in the manuscript, it is sent for review. The editorial board does not involve reviewers who may have a conflict of interest. The review period is agreed with the reviewer but cannot exceed one month. If the manuscript is of no such interest, it is rejected.

The journal does not publish materials if:

- the article does not fit the profile of the journal;

- there is no research question in the article;

- the article is a short text stating the author's opinion;

- the article is not an original research;

- the author has published the material in other editions previously;

- the materials containing spelling or other errors that cannot be corrected, as well as statements and hypotheses that directly contradict established scientific facts;

- detection of plagiarism in the article, including borrowings of figures, graphs, tables, etc.

 

Authors are responsible for publishing articles with evidence of unethical behaviour, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, self-citation, falsification, fabrication, misrepresentation, false authorship, duplication, conflict of interest and deception.

The author(s) are equally (if there are several authors) fully responsible for the reliability and accuracy of facts, quantitative and qualitative indicators, citations, proper names, correctness and completeness of bibliographic data.

Form to be filled in by the reviewer

REVIEW REQUIREMENTS

A reviewer is recommended to use the review template. It is also possible to submit a review in a free form.

The reviewer can make the following recommendations for the publication of the article:

  1. "The article can be recommended for publication" - if the manuscript does not contain comments and meets the requirements of relevance and originality of scientific research.
  2. "The article can be recommended for publication if it is revised following the reviewer's comments" - in this case, the article is sent to the authors for revision. After receiving the revised text, the editorial board sends the article again to the reviewer.
  3. "The article cannot be recommended for publication" - in this case, the article is either rejected by the editorial board or sent for re-review, which is possible only once for this article.

The editorial board reserves the right to refuse the author to publish the article if he ignores the reviewer's comments. The reviewer also has the right to conduct an additional check on the textual borrowing in the publication through available Internet search engines.

The article review period is no more than 2 weeks.

Cover letter

For each author (co-author) studying in the master's or PhD program, a recommendation (cover letter) from the scientific adviser shall be added to the list of obligatory documents sent to the editorial office.

The text of the article is accompanied by a cover letter on the possibility of publication with the signatures of the scientific adviser, certified by the head of the scientific organization.