Aim and Scope

Objectives of the journal:

• coverage of current problems in technical sciences (by branches of light, food, and processing industry);
• informing about advanced research in these areas in order to exchange results between scientists from different countries;
• creation of thematic scientific platforms for the exchange of experience, scientific opinions, and proposals

Journal tasks:

• Provide an opportunity to publish the results of fundamental and applied research in various fields of engineering and technology (by light, food, and processing industries);
• promotion of advanced research in these areas;
• expanding the possibility of distributing and indexing published scientific papers in various foreign citation databases.

Section Policies

FOOD AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

TEXTILE AND CLOTHING TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

The Journal of Almaty Technological University provides open access to its content on the official website of the journal. This provides wider information access to the journal on the scale of the world scientific community.

The journal's website also provides the necessary information for authors and readers about the journal's activities: publication conditions, rules for registration and submission of manuscripts to the journal, the procedure for forming the journal and reviewing manuscripts, publication ethics, information about the editorial board, contact details of the scientific editor and executive secretary.

Readers and authors can get acquainted with electronic versions of the current issue of the journal and archives for previous periods. All publications of the journal in electronic form are distributed free of charge and without restrictions under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Peer-Review

Manuscripts submitted to the editorial office of the journal and meet the formal requirements, design requirements, and the indicator of originality on the basis of verification through the plagiarism verification system are necessarily sent for further review.

If the author(s) of the manuscript has a conflict of interest with other scientists, he (s) is obliged to indicate the presence of such a conflict of interest in the cover letter, in order to avoid sending this manuscript to the specified scientist (reviewer) and biased assessments of the manuscript.

The Journal of Almaty Technological University uses a "double-blind" peer review, carried out by at least two scientists with a PhD, Doctor of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), and scientific specialization on the subject of the reviewed manuscript.

The review is conducted confidentially: the manuscript of the article is sent to reviewers via the electronic platform of the journal without specifying data about the authors. Reviewers are required to make a clear, objective, and reasoned assessment of the compliance of the manuscript with the main scientific criteria, as well as it's quality and significance.

After receiving the conclusions from the reviewers, the responsible editor sends them to the author for correspondence without specifying the reviewers' data, for responding to comments, making appropriate changes, and resending the manuscript via an electronic platform. The author(s) may, without explanation, refuse to respond to comments, make changes to the manuscript and resend it to the editorial office of the Journal of Almaty Technological University.

After receiving comments from the reviewer or the editorial board, the authors undertake to provide a corrected version of the article, taking into account all comments, within 30 days. If the corrected version of the article is not submitted within the prescribed time, the editorial board reserves the right to reject the article.

After responding to all comments, making changes to the manuscript to eliminate the comments of reviewers, and re-sending it to the editorial office of the journal, the scientific editor sends all materials to the reviewer(s) for re-reviewing.

The manuscript, for which there are positive conclusions from two reviewers and the responsible editor, is recommended for publication in the Journal of Almaty Technological University according to the order of acceptance for publication. The manuscripts approved by the editorial board are transferred to the executive secretary for the formation of the issue of the journal.

If one of the reviewers provided a positive opinion on the manuscript, and the second – a negative one, the manuscript is sent by the scientific editor to the third reviewer or a member of the editorial board who is a specialist in the subject of the manuscript. If a third reviewer or a member of the editorial board provides a positive conclusion, the final decision to accept/reject the publication of the manuscript is made by the scientific editor of the Journal of Almaty Technological University.

In the case of two negative reviews, the manuscript is rejected.

The materials of articles rejected by the editorial board based on the results of the review are not used by the editorial board for their own purposes. The editor or executive secretary notifies the author of correspondence about the refusal to publish and sends the conclusions of the reviewers.

The reviews of the manuscripts are stored for three years in electronic format on the electronic platform of the journal.

Publishing Ethics

PREFACE

This Publication Ethics standard for the scientific journal of Almaty Technological University represents the basic guidelines and norms of publication ethics for a scientific journal and is intended to regulate relations between the scientific editor, members of the editorial board, authors of scientific articles, and reviewers in the process of publishing scientific articles.

The purpose of this standard is to outline the principles and norms of scientific ethics that should guide the scientific editor, reviewer, authors of scientific articles, executive secretary, and members of the editorial board of the scientific journal of Almaty Technological University in the process of interaction.

The task of the Publication Ethics standard is to emphasize the moral and ethical aspects of publication in the scientific journal of Almaty Technological University, and the responsibility of all participants in the publication process.

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.1. This standard of publication ethics defines the basic principles and norms of publication ethics in the scientific journal of Almaty Technological University (hereinafter – the University, ATU).

1.2. The standard regulates relations between the publisher, scientific editor, members of the editorial board, authors of scientific articles, and reviewers in the publication process.

1.3. This standard defines the norms of behavior of scientific editors, members of the editorial board, reviewers, and authors; measures to identify conflicts of interest; unethical behavior, instructions for revoking and correcting articles, publishing corrections and refutations.

1.4. This standard has been developed by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Science", the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Education", with the requirements of the Committee for Quality Assurance in Education and Science for scientific publications to include them in the list of publications recommended for publication of the results of scientific activity and by the international publication ethical standard of the Committee for Publication Ethics (СОРЕ), Ethical Principles of publication of Scopus (Elsevier) journals, the Code of Ethics of ATU Scientist, the Charter and the Code of Corporate Ethics of ATU.

1.5. Each author, scientific editor, reviewer, executive secretary, and member of the editorial board of the scientific journal of Almaty Technological University is obliged to strictly observe the principles, norms, and standards of publication ethics. Compliance with ethical principles is important both to ensure the high quality of the publication of a scientific journal and to create trust and respect between the participants of the publication process.

2. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

2.1. Publication ethics (publication ethics) is a system of norms of professional behavior of participants in the publication process: authors, reviewers, scientific editor, members of the editorial board, and publisher when creating, distributing, and using scientific papers in the Journal of Almaty Technological University.

2.2. Scientific ethics are the norms of behavior established and recognized by the scientific community, the rules of ethical behavior of scientists engaged in scientific and research activities.

2.3. The principles of scientific ethics are the principles of scientific honesty in presenting the results of scientific research, which are the basis of scientific ethics.

2.4. Scientific journal is a periodical in which, based on expert evaluation (peer review), the results of theoretical and applied research are published, intended for scientific, and pedagogical workers and students, as well as a wide range of readers.

2.5. Publisher – a legal entity that issues a scientific journal. The publisher of the scientific journal is Almaty Technological University.

2.6. ATU scientific journal – "The Journal of Almaty Technological University".

2.7. Unethical behavior is the behavior of one or more participants in the publication process (author, publisher, scientific editor, editorial board member, reviewer of ATU scientific journal) that violates accepted norms, principles of scientific ethics, has negative consequences for third parties and/or organizations, as well as behavior that does not comply with the norms and standards of publication Ethics for a scientific journal ATU. Also, the behavior is considered unethical in cases when one or more participants in the publication process (author, publisher, scientific editor, editorial board member, reviewer of ATU scientific journal) provide reviews of their manuscripts, organize contractual and/or pseudo-reviewing applies to agency services for publishing the results of scientific research, falsify the composition of authors, publishes pseudo-scientific research, transfers the material(s) of the manuscript to other journals/publications without the consent of the author(s), transfers the materials of the author(s) to third parties, violates copyrights and confidentiality principles, carries out activities aimed at manipulating citations.

2.8. Violation of the principles of scientific ethics is non–compliance with the accepted principles of scientific ethics.

2.9. A conflict of interest is a situation in which the personal and/or other interest of a person (group of persons) may influence decision–making, and thus harm the interests of the participant(s) of the publication process, third parties, society and/or organization(s), including those who are the employer of this person (group of persons).

2.10. The scientific editor is a member of the editorial board who heads the editorial board of the journal and makes the final decision regarding the publication of the manuscript based on the results of peer review and scientific editing.

2.11. The Editorial Board (editorial board) of the journal is the body that carries out the scientific management of the journal, determines and controls the editorial policy of the journal, as well as organization of the approval process and publication of the next issues of the journal.

2.12. The editorial board of the journal is a generalized name used to designate the scientific editor, executive secretary, and other members of the editorial board.

2.13. The publication process is the process of acceptance, reviewing, scientific editing, and preparation of a manuscript for publication, and the publication of scientific articles in the subsequent issue of the journal.

2.14. The author(s) is a person or group of persons (collective) who have made a greater contribution to the concept, scientific design, execution, and interpretation of research work and participated in the creation of a scientific article.

2.15.  The original text is the original text, which was not borrowed and translated from another language but was created as a result of independent creative, research work.

2.16. A manuscript is a previously unpublished author's scientific work submitted to the editorial office of the journal for publication.

2.17. A scientific article is the final or intermediate results of the theoretical, experimental, or analytical activity of a scientific study that contains previously unpublished and novel developments, conclusions, and recommendations of the author. It is also a review article of previously published scientific research. The structure of a scientific article, as a rule, consists of the title, annotation, keywords, main provisions, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, information on funding (if available), and a list of references.

2.18. Falsification (from Lat. to forge) is a conscious distortion, forgery, or substitution (of the genuine, the present) with a false one.

2.19. Data distortion (misrepresentation) is a change of information to obtain the necessary result in academic work, in scientific research.

2.20. Fabrication – presentation and use in scientific works and/or in other works of data that is not proven or does not correspond to reality.

 2.21. False authorship – fake, fake anonymization, pseudonymization, hoax, playing the author.

2.22. False co–authorship – inclusion of scientific work (articles, reports, monographs, etc.), applications for prizes, scholarships, grants, persons who have not contributed to scientific work, research, etc. in the author's team.

2.23. Duplication of a publication is a publication made based on the published research of the author with minor changes, alteration of the title, abstract, part of the text of the article, etc., or translated text of the article into another language, as well as withholding information about previously performed research when duplicated; re–publication without notification of the publisher, the editorial board of the journal and/ or unjustified self-borrowing of scientific work.

2.24. Misappropriation of other people's results is a deliberate deception committed by a scientist or a group of scientists to obtain undeserved or illegal benefits.

2.25. Plagiarism is the use of someone else's borrowed text, ideas, or work as one's own without indicating the true authorship (without references to sources), or the use of borrowed materials with references in such a form and volume that call into question the independence of the work performed. Falsification of links is also considered a kind of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a violation of the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and entails legal liability.

2.26. Self–plagiarism is the re-publication by the author of his work, in part or in full, without indicating that the work has already been previously published.

2.27. Review of scientific work is a procedure for reviewing scientific works (articles, monographs, grant applications, projects, etc.) by scientists– specialists in the same field, to ensure the quality of scientific work, and the correctness and reliability of the presentation of the results.

2.28. The reviewer is a scientist–a specialist in a certain field of scientific knowledge, authorized to examine scientific papers.

2.29. Examination of scientific papers is the process of obtaining an assessment of scientific work, based on the opinion of experts (reviewers), for subsequent decision–making and selection.

2.30. Retraction of an article is a procedure for warning readers about publications that contain serious errors or incorrect data, as well as information that their conclusions cannot be relied upon. Unreliable data may be the result of an honest mistake or improper behavior in research.

2.31. Erratum (typo) is an error in the printed text, usually as a result of accidents. Basically, as a result of a typo, the order of letters in a word is violated, one letter disappears from the word, an extra letter is added or one letter is replaced by another.

 2.32. Corrigendum (Correction) – correction of typos, spelling, grammatical, and stylistic punctuation errors in the text of scientific work.

2.33. Affiliation of the author – institutional affiliation, place of work of the scientist, indicated in scientific papers, applications, questionnaires, etc. documents for scientific prizes, scholarships, and grants.

3. PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ACTIVITIES

In its activities, the publisher of the ATU scientific journal is guided by the following fundamental principles of publication ethics for the scientific journal of Almaty Technological University:

3.1. Creates conditions for the implementation of ethical principles by the editorial board, scientific editors, reviewers, and authors by the standard of publication ethics.

3.2. Contributes to the prevention of violations of the requirements of the publication Ethics standard for the ATU scientific journal, including by providing support to the editorial board of the journal in reviewing the claim(s).

3.3. Ensures the confidentiality of all information data regarding the publication process, except for those related to open access information, by the principles of the editorial policy of the scientific journal ATU.

3.4. Provides the editorial board with the opportunity to freely choose the author's works for publication in the journal by the principles of scientific, objectivity, and transparency, as well as based on the results of the review.

4. PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

4.1. The editorial Board of the journal makes the final decision on which of the manuscripts received by the editorial board should be published, based on the results of the verification of compliance with the design requirements and the results of the expert review.

4.2. When deciding on the publication of a manuscript, the editorial board is guided by the editorial policy of the journal and does not allow the publication of manuscripts in which there are facts of violation of scientific and/or publication ethics, plagiarism, and copyright infringement.

4.3. The Editorial Board is responsible for deciding on the publication/rejection of the manuscript(s) submitted by the author(s) in the journal.

4.4. The Editorial board must carry out the procedure of retraction of the article if there is irrefutable evidence that the data obtained is unreliable and/or obtained as a result of the violation of the principles, norms, standards of scientific and/or publication ethics, illegal actions, experimental errors were found, the article was previously published in other publications without proper permission or justification, the article is plagiarism, the article contains information about unethical research.

4.5. The Editorial board evaluates manuscripts based on their intellectual content, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship, political views of the author, and commercial considerations.

4.6. The editorial board of the journal should not disclose information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, potential reviewers, and publisher. Any manuscript submitted to the editorial office for consideration is considered a confidential document. In no case should manuscripts be shown or discussed with third parties.

4.7. The Editorial Board guarantees that the rejected manuscript will not be used in the editorial board members' research without the written consent of the author(s).

4.8. The Editorial Board will refuse to review the manuscript if it is in any competitive relationship with the author and/ or the organization associated with the research results, or if there is another conflict of interest.

4.9. The Editorial board should require all participants in the process of publishing the article to disclose the conflict of interest.

4.10.  If there are any conflicts of interest with the content of the manuscript, a member of the editorial board is obliged to notify the scientific editor, after which the scientific editor redirects the review of the manuscript to another member of the editorial board who does not have a conflict of interest with the author(s) of the manuscript.

4.11. The editorial board of the journal is responsible for developing and improving the scientific journal, following the principles of freedom of opinion, and meeting the professional scientific needs of the authors and readers of the journal.

4.12. The editorial board of the journal should not allow the influence of commercial and/or other interests of the author(s), reviewer, and publisher of the journal on the decision-making on the publication/rejection of the publication of the manuscript.

4.13. The editorial Board of the journal is responsible for the publication of a manuscript with known signs of violation of standards, norms, and principles of scientific and/or publication ethics, unethical behavior, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation, and conflict of interests.

4.14. If the editorial board or one of the members of the editorial board found violations of standards, norms, and principles of scientific and/or publication ethics, the scientific editor of the journal, based on the decision of the editorial board, must carry out the procedure of retraction of the publication.

4.15. In case of receipt by the editorial office of the claim(s) (in paper and/or electronic format) from a person (group of persons) signed by the applicant(s) indicating the full name, contact details (mobile phone number, postal address and e-mail address), indicating the fact(s) violations standards, norms and principles of scientific and/or publication ethics, unethical behavior of the author(s) of the manuscript or on a previously published article(s) in the ATU journal, the editorial board of the journal is obliged to consider the claim(s) and provide a response in paper and/or electronic form signed by the scientific editor or the person replacing the person (group of persons) from whom the claim(s) was received within (no more than) 30 calendar days from the date of receipt of the claim(s) to the editorial office.

4.16. Are not subject to review and preparation, sending a response to the claim(s) received anonymously.

4.17. The Editorial Board undertakes to take reasonable measures regarding the claim(s) from a person (group of persons) indicating the fact(s) of violation of standards, norms, and principles of scientific and/or publication ethics, unethical behavior of the author(s) of the manuscript or on previously published articles in the ATU journal.

4.18. If the arguments stated in the claim are confirmed, the editorial board has the right to refuse to publish the manuscript and stop further cooperation with the author(s) on the publication of this manuscript or to perform the procedure of retraction of a previously published article in the ATU journal.

5. PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS OF THE AUTHOR OF A SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION

5.1. The author(s) submits the manuscript of the article to the editorial board of the journal and guarantees that it has not been published earlier, has also not been submitted, and is not under consideration for publication in other publications.

5.2. Submitting a manuscript to several journals/publications at the same time is unacceptable and is considered a violation of the ethical standards of publication.

5.3. The author(s) guarantees that the results of the research presented in the manuscript are independent and original work and do not contain incorrect borrowings (plagiarism) that can be identified during the review and/or reviewing of the manuscript.

5.4. If the research, the results of which are indicated and described in the manuscript, was conducted by several authors, the person who is the main author is indicated first in the list of authors.

5.5. Persons who have made a significant contribution to the research should be indicated as co-authors.

5.6. For correspondence, the author must ensure that the data of all co-authors are included in the manuscript.

5.7. All authors indicated in the manuscript are responsible for the content of the manuscript.

5.8. For correspondence, the author must submit to the editorial office a manuscript approved by other co-authors.

5.9. The author(s) is responsible for publishing an article with signs of violation of standards, norms, and principles of scientific and/or publication ethics, unethical behavior, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation, fabrication, falsification, data distortion, false authorship, false authorship, duplication, conflict of interest, deception.

5.10.  In the case of using fragments of other people's works and/or borrowing the statement(s) of other authors, bibliographic references must be made in the manuscript with a mandatory indication of the source.

5.11. Plagiarism in any form (unformulated quotations, paraphrasing, or attribution of the result(s) of research, text, or ideas of other persons) is an unethical and unacceptable action.

5.12. In case of detection of errors and inaccuracies in the work at any stage of the publication process, the author(s) undertakes to immediately inform the scientific editor and assist in the elimination or correction of errors and undertakes to publish Erratum or Corrigendum with appropriate comments, and in case of gross errors that cannot be corrected - revoke the publication.

5.13. The author(s) undertakes to correctly indicate in the bibliographic list of the manuscript the scientific and other sources that he(s) used during the research and which had a significant impact on the research results indicated in the manuscript.

5.14. The author(s) must provide additional materials to prove the ideas, results, and/or facts given in the manuscript, if the reviewer(s), scientific editor, or member of the editorial board of the journal has doubts about the authenticity and/ or reliability of the research results.

5.15. The author(s) must disclose conflicts of interest that may affect the evaluation and interpretation of the manuscript.

5.16. The author(s) must respect ethical standards related to criticism or comments regarding the research(s), and the manuscript, as well as about interaction with the editorial board regarding the review and publication of the manuscript.

5.17. Non-compliance with the ethical principles specified in Section 5 of this standard by the author(s) is regarded as a gross violation of publication ethics and gives grounds for withdrawing the manuscript from review and/or publication.

6. PRINCIPLES OF THE REVIEWER'S PUBLICATION ETHICS

6.1. The reviewer undertakes to conduct an expert evaluation of the manuscript objectively. Personal criticism of the author(s) is unacceptable.

6.2. The reviewer must provide arguments for his comments and justify his decision to accept or reject the manuscript for publication in the journal.

6.3. The reviewer should not allow the content of his review to be influenced by the origin of the manuscript, personal and/or other relations to the author(s) of the manuscript, and commercial considerations.

6.4. The reviewer should remember that the expert assessment of the manuscript provided by him is the basis for making final editorial decisions in accepting or rejecting the manuscript for publication in the journal, and also helps the author to improve the manuscript.

6.5. The manuscript submitted to the reviewer for review should be treated as a confidential document.

6.6. The reviewer is not entitled to show or discuss the manuscript with other persons without the permission of the scientific editor and/or the author(s) of the manuscript.

6.7. The reviewer should not distribute unpublished manuscripts, except for the need for their review and preparation for publication during the publication process.

6.8. Information and ideas of scientific materials obtained during the review process should not be used by the reviewer for personal and/or other benefits.

6.9. The reviewer should indicate comments and possible improvements to the manuscript for its improvement.

6.10. The reviewer is obliged to draw the editorial board's attention to the significant similarity between the manuscript under consideration and the previously published other work if such is known to the reviewer.

6.11. The reviewer should not allow the manuscript to be published if there are sufficient grounds to believe that they contain the fact(s) of violation of standards, norms, and principles of scientific and/or publication ethics, plagiarism, other incorrect borrowings, false, fabricated materials, or research results.

6.12. The reviewer is obliged to submit the review within the period determined by the editorial board. If it is not possible to review the manuscript and prepare a review within these terms, the reviewer must notify the editorial board.

6.13. The reviewer should not consider manuscripts that may cause a conflict of interest arising from competition, cooperation, and/or other relations with any of the authors or institutions related to the manuscript.

6.14. A reviewer who believes that his qualifications are insufficient to make a decision when evaluating a manuscript should immediately notify the scientific editor and refuse to review the manuscript.

7. COMPLIANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES, NORMS, AND STANDARDS OF PUBLICATION ETHICS

7.1. In case of violation of the ethical norms of publication ethics, it is necessary to thoroughly understand the situation and use the legal norms governing scientific work, collective agreements, and ethical norms.

7.2. When considering the issue of unethical behavior of participants in the publication process, the principle of confidentiality should be adhered to.

7.3. Anonymous testimonies and statements should not be accepted for consideration if there is no real threat to people or property.

7.4. The resolution of ethical conflicts should be carried out through discussions and discussions.

7.5. The case(s) of violation of the principles and standards of publication ethics should be considered officially by the Publication Ethics for the ATU scientific journal specified in Section 8 of this standard.

8. SUBMISSION OF OFFICIAL COMPLAINTS BY THE AUTHOR AND THEIR CONSIDERATION

8.1. Complaint of the author(s) (in paper and/or electronic format) signed by the applicant(s) with an indication of full name, contact details (mobile phone number, postal address, and e-mail address) for violation of the principles, standards of scientific and/or publication ethics and for unethical behavior by one or more participants in the publication process (scientific editor, member(s) of the editorial board, reviewer(s) of the ATU scientific journal) must submit a complaint to the ATU Ethics Commission against the participant(s) of the publication process.

8.2. The complaint(s) received anonymously by the Ethics Commission are not subject to consideration and preparation, sending a response/decision to the complaint(s).

8.3. The applicant(s) of the complaint has the right to withdraw the complaint at any stage of consideration of the complaint by the Ethics Commission.

8.4. The participant(s) of the publication process, in respect of whom a complaint has been filed with the Ethics Commission indicating the facts of violation of the principle(s), the standard(s) of Publication Ethics, has the right to submit facts refuting the complaint to the Ethics Commission for consideration (in paper and/or electronic format) signed by the applicant(s), as well as to file an appeal (in paper and/or electronic format) signed by the applicant(s) against the decision of the Ethics Commission.

9. MEASURES TAKEN IN CASE OF VIOLATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS

9.1. Upon receipt of a complaint to the Ethics Commission indicating the fact(s) of violation of the principle(s) and standard(s) of publication ethics, unethical behavior, the relevant facts must be immediately investigated by appropriate procedures, the necessary measures should be undertaken with impartiality, the results of which should be prepared by the decision of the Ethics Commission in the form of a protocol.

9.2.    Based on the protocol of the Ethics Commission or in some cases requiring additional investigations of the fact(s) of violation(s) of the principle(s) and standard(s) of publication ethics, unethical behavior, the Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovative Activities of ATU has the right to issue an order on the appointment of a special commission from among the editorial staff (for except the member(s) against whom the complaint was filed), the director and employees of the Department of Science and Innovation, specialists in the relevant scientific field to clarify the presence or absence of the fact(s) of violation(s) of the principle(s) and standard(s) of publication ethics, unethical behavior specified in the complaint.

9.3.    A special commission appointed by the order of the Vice-rector for Scientific and Innovative Activities of ATU in respect of one or more participants in the publication process (scientific editor, member(s) of the editorial board, reviewer(s) of the scientific journal of ATU), in respect of which the fact(s) of violation(s) of the principle was confirmed(s) and the standard(s) of publication ethics, unethical behavior specified in the complaint, has the right and is authorized to petition the ATU Disciplinary Commission to take disciplinary action, including – reprimand, severe reprimand, demotion, dismissal, about a participant or several participants in the publication process (scientific editor, member(s) of the editorial board, reviewer(s) of the scientific journal of ATU), who is an employee(s) of ATU at the time of the petition to the Disciplinary Commission of ATU.

10. PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CHANGES

10.1. The rules of this standard are mandatory for all participants in the publication process, including authors of manuscripts and published articles in the ATU scientific journal, scientific editors, members of editorial boards, reviewers of the ATU scientific journal, and may be amended or supplemented due to changes in regulatory documents and/or measures not taken into account by this standard.

10.2. Amendments to this standard are introduced by the order of the Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovative Activities of the University or by the approval of the new edition of this standard by the Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovative Activities of the University.

11. DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSIBILITY

10.3. Each participant in the publication process, including the author of the manuscript and the published article in the ATU scientific journal, the scientific editor, the member of the editorial board, the reviewer of the scientific journal of ATU, and other persons involved in the process of publishing a manuscript in the scientific journal of the University are personally responsible for the implementation and compliance with the principles, norms, and standards of publication ethics specified in this standard.

10.4. Each member of the ATU Ethics Commission is responsible for applying the necessary measures in case of violation of the principle(s) of publication ethics and unethical behavior.

10.5. Each author of a manuscript should be guided by the need to strictly observe the principles of publication ethics, and faithfully follow them at all stages of submitting a manuscript for publication.

12. FINAL PROVISIONS

10.6. Control over the implementation of this standard is assigned to the Vice-rector for Scientific and Innovative Activities of the Almaty Technological University.

Founder

• "Almaty Technological University" JSC

Publication fee

To compensate partially the cost of publication of the Journal the fee for one publication is set in the amount of 25 000 KZT. For employees of ATU the fee is 20 000 KZT.

The price of one issue - 8000 KZT.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Borrowing and plagiarism

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Almaty Technological University when reviewing a manuscript for compliance with formal requirements (design of the manuscript) it also checks for the presence of a borrowed text in the manuscript through a plagiarism verification system, access to which is provided by a university subscription or on the basis of a national subscription.

Only original manuscripts and/or those manuscripts in which, according to the results of verification by the anti-plagiarism system, the originality is more than 75% are sent for further review. If the manuscript does not meet the design requirements of the journal and is not an original work based on the results of a plagiarism check, the manuscript is returned to the author for correspondence to make appropriate changes and re-send the manuscript for consideration by the editorial board via the electronic platform of the journal.

If the authors used the works, articles, provisions, or quotations, and statements of other researchers when writing the manuscript, they must necessarily refer to the works of these scientists and correctly formalize the quoted text. Plagiarism appears to be an unethical act that violates the principles of the Code of Ethics of a scientist of the Almaty Technological University and is unacceptable in the Journal of Almaty Technological University.

Persons involved in the publishing process, especially members of the editorial board of the Journal of Almaty Technological University, in order to ensure the high quality of scientific publications, in order to avoid unfair practices in publishing activities, such as the use of false information, falsification of data, etc., to ensure the recognition of scientific achievements by society, undertake to comply with the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and the ATU, as well as take measures to prevent such violations.

In case of detection of violations of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and the ATU, the editorial board of the journal undertakes to act in accordance with the "Publication Ethics for the ATU Scientific Journal", the Code of Ethics of the ATU scientist and the standards of the Publication Ethics Committee (СОРЕ).

If a provable fact(s) of violation of principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics is found in an article published in the Journal of Almaty Technological University, the editorial board undertakes to withdraw this article from the issue in which it was published and from the official website of the journal (to carry out a retraction of the article) with mandatory indication of specific violations by the author(s) of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics and place an appropriate announcement in the next issue of the journal.

The author(s) of the article, in which a provable fact of violation of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics was found, is not allowed to submit articles to the Journal of Almaty Technological University for the next 3 calendar years from the date of detection of the fact(s) of violation of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in "The Journal of Almaty Technological University", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in "The Journal of Almaty Technological University" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

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Terms of publication of the manuscript

The journal of Almaty Technological University is published 4 times a year in the online (electronic) format on the following established dates for the publication of issues of the journal: the first issue is issued until March 30 of the current year, the second issue – until June 30; the third issue – until September 30 and the fourth issue – until December 30.

For publication in the journal of Almaty Technological University articles not previously published by the author(s) in Kazakh, Russian or English are accepted, which correspond to the thematic areas of the journal and are designed strictly according to the requirements of the manuscript design.

The manuscript must be uploaded via an electronic platform by the author for correspondence, indicating all the metadata of the article and its authors. An article by the same author (prepared individually or co-authored) may be published in the journal no more than once in the current issue of the journal.

The authors must submit to the editorial office an original work that has not previously been published in other publications (in print, electronic, and other open sources). The authors are responsible for the reliability, novelty, and evidence-based nature of the research results. At the stage of consideration of the manuscript by the editorial board and reviewers of the Journal of Almaty Technological University, as well as after its publication, the authors undertake not to submit this manuscript for consideration for publication in another publication.

At the stages of work with the manuscript, communication between the editorial board, the author for correspondence, and reviewers is carried out via the electronic (online) platform ElPub, and in exceptional cases – via e-mail.

The Editorial board of the journal reviews the manuscripts received from the author/authors, organizes their review, and makes a decision on publication or refusal to publish within six months from the date of receipt of the manuscript via an electronic platform.

The author(s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for publication in accordance with the approved price list of the cost of publication in the scientific Journal of Almaty Technological University, posted on the journal's website. The receipt of payment for the publication in PDF format is sent by the author(s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.

Conflicts of interest

A conflict of interest, as defined by the Publication Ethics Committee (СОРЕ), is a conflict situation in which authors, reviewers, or editorial board members have implicit interests that can influence their judgments regarding published material. A conflict of interest arises when there are financial, personal, or professional conditions that can affect the scientific judgment of the reviewer and editorial board members and, as a result, the editorial board's decision regarding the publication of the manuscript.

The executive editor of the journal should require all participants in the manuscript publication process to disclose a conflict of interest.

The academic editor, editorial board member, and reviewers must disclose potential conflicts of interest that could somehow influence the editorial board's decision. Members of the editorial board should refuse to consider the manuscript if they are in any competitive relationship related to the research results of the author (s) of the manuscript, or if there is another conflict of interest.

When submitting a manuscript for consideration to the journal, the author(s) declares that all sources of research funding are indicated in the manuscript content; also indicate what commercial, financial, personal, or professional factors exist that could create a conflict of interest concerning the submitted manuscript. If there is a conflict of interest, the author(s) in the cover letter may indicate scientists who, in their opinion, will not be able to objectively evaluate their manuscript.

The reviewer should not consider manuscripts that could cause a conflict of interest arising from competition, collaboration, or other relationships with any of the authors related to the manuscript.

If there is a conflict of interest with the content of the manuscript, the executive editor must notify the scientific editor, after which the scientific editor delegates the verification and review of the manuscript to another editor/reviewer.

The existence of a conflict of interest between the participants during the review process does not mean that the manuscript will be rejected.

All stakeholders should, as far as possible, avoid any variation of conflicts of interest at all stages of publication. In every case of any conflict of interest, the person who discovered this conflict must immediately notify the editorial board of this. The same applies to any other violation of the principles, standards, and norms of publication and scientific ethics.