UKRAINIAN BULLETIN OF PSYCHONEUROLOGY

The Scientific and Practical Journal of Medicine
ISSN 2079-0325
DOI 10.36927/2079-0325

Review Procedure for Manuscripts Submitted

Preliminary consideration. Once an article is received by the editorial board, it is reviewed to ensure that its content aligns with the journal’s scope and formatting requirements. The submitted material is then checked for plagiarism (using StrikePlagiarism).
If the article meets the requirements, it is sent for peer review. If there are any comments, the article may be rejected at this stage or returned to the author for revision.
The preliminary review may take up to 10 days.

Reviewing. The purpose of peer review is to improve the quality of scientific articles published in the journal by evaluating materials by highly qualified experts.
The peer review process, conducted by independent reviewers, is anonymous for both the reviewer and the authors: the reviewer is not provided with the author(s)’ personal information; the author(s) are not provided with the reviewer’s personal information (double-blind peer review).
The peer review process involves domestic and international scholars who have published research on the topics addressed in the article, do not work at the same institution as the authors, and have no conflict of interest with the authors.

Reviewers draw attention to potential violations of academic integrity, in particular plagiarism, text manipulation, fabrication or data fabrication, duplicate publications or other forms of academic misconduct.
The editorial board coordinates the reviewers' opinions regarding the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. Preference is given to articles that provide the highest level of evidence for their scientific and practical findings.
The review process takes up to 4 weeks.

Review of the article by the editorial board. After receiving the review, the executive secretary submits the article for consideration by the editorial board, which makes one of the following decisions:

— approve the article for publication without changes;

— return the article to the authors for revision with subsequent re-review;

— reject the article.

The author(s) are notified of the editorial decision. Articles that are subject to revision are sent to the author listed first in the list of authors, together with the text of the review containing specific recommendations for revising the article without specifying information about the reviewer. 
The total review period (from submission to final decision) is 6–8 weeks.
The author has the right to appeal the decision to reject the article within 10 days.

The revised version of the article is sent for a second review.

The final decision on the publication of articles is made by the editorial board of the journal.