REVIEWING

Any manuscripts received by the Editorial office are to be reviewed by professionals in respective areas of knowledge. Manuscripts may be accompanied by letters of review issued by the professionals in the area of knowledge covered by the manuscript, although the availability of the review cannot cancel the peer review procedure implemented by the Editorial office in the following manner.

The Executive Secretary of the Editorial Board checks the incoming manuscript for its compliance with the areas of knowledge covered by the Journal, its formatting requirements, and assesses the exhaustiveness of the accompanying letter of review. Thereafter, the Executive Secretary submits the manuscript for initial review to a Deputy Editor-in-Chief responsible for the assessment of the research value of manuscripts. Further, it may be forwarded for a review to another Editorial Board member or an independent reviewer – a specialist, a holder of a degree of a doctor or a candidate of sciences whose specialization is closest to the area covered in the manuscript.

The manuscript review deadline is set by the Executive Editor of the Journal on a case-by-case basis for the paper to be published as promptly as possible.

Reviewers are notified that the submitted manuscripts are the private property of the authors and belong to the information not subject to disclosure. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of manuscripts for their needs.

All reviews are to be certified in pursuance of the procedure of the reviewer’s employer.

The review is confidential, the author is not informed of the name of the reviewer. The review is closed and is provided to the author of the manuscript at his written request, without a signature and the name, position, place of work of the reviewer. The author of the reviewed article is given the opportunity to get acquainted with the reviewer’s comments.

If the letter of review has any recommendations to correct and revise the paper, the remarks made by the reviewer will be forwarded by the Editorial office to the author using Open Journal Systems, for the author to consider them in the course of drafting the further version of the manuscript or to provide a substantiated refutation of the reviewer’s arguments (in full or in part). A revised paper is to be addressed for another review.

Any paper not recommended by the reviewer for publication cannot be accepted for repetitive consideration. A negative opinion is to be forwarded to the author by electronic mail.

A positive opinion cannot serve as the argument sufficient for the manuscript to be published in the Journal. Final decision concerning the expediency of the paper publication is made by the Editorial Board of Engineering and Construction Bulletin of the Caspian Region.

The author is notified about the acceptance of his/her manuscript for publication by electronic mail upon the issuance of the positive decision by the Editorial Board of Engineering and Construction Bulletin of the Caspian Region with publication dates to be specified in the email alert.

Original letters of review are deposited in the office of the Editorial Board of Engineering and Construction Bulletin of the Caspian Region for a period equal to or exceeding 5 years.

Copies are provided to the Ministry of science and higher education of the Russian Federation upon request.

Information about the reviewer of the article is not published in the journal.