Research Permit Policy

If the manuscript of a scientific article includes the results of research conducted with the participation of humans or animals, the editorial team will require the author(s) to provide copies of permits from bioethics committees (commissions). Permits are documents (certificates, extracts from protocols, certificates, etc.), officially executed, registered, signed by responsible persons. An example is the decision of the Committee on Bioethics of Scientific Research of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

The author(s) must submit a copy of the permit together with the manuscript of the article as a separate file of the type Research materials. The author(s) may attach this file at the request of the editorial board if the permit was not attached during submission. During  submission, a note must be made in the Statement on Data Accessibility that "The Editorial Board has been provided with a copy of the permit to conduct research". The Editorial Team has the right to withdraw the manuscript of the article from consideration if the author does not provide a copy of such permit.

If the author(s) used raw data, such as a survey of people conducted by another organization, they must provide consent or permission from that organization for the authors to process the data. This statement or permission from the organization must also indicate that the data was obtained legally.

Policy on Anonymization, Confidentiality, and Use of Informed Consent

If the manuscript involves the use of data not obtained from open sources, including images, audio, or video, from which it is possible to identify certain individuals, there must be a statement from such individuals for their consent to the publication of content through which they can still be identified, either accidentally or not. This statement must be published on the journal website in the Data Availability Statement section and included in all full texts of the article. If such data is obtained from open sources, this must also be indicated on the journal website in the Data Availability Statement section and included in all full texts of the article.

If it is impossible to identify the subjects of the study from the data provided in the article, no notes about this should be made anywhere, so as not to overload the text of the article.

The editorial board may offer the author/authors additional anonymization of the data to avoid violating the confidentiality of the study participants. If the author or authors refuse this step, but the editors predict a possible violation of confidentiality (for example, identification of a person through the timbre of the voice), in this case the editors note on the journal website the author's or authors' refusal to take this step.