The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board

• The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding whether to publish or decline the papers submitted. In this case, the editor-in-chief is guided by the journal's policy and holds to the legal bases to prevent possible plagiarism and copyright violations.
• The Editor-in-Chief appraises the paper submitted judging only by its scientific value irrespective of the author’s/authors’ race, sex, religious belief, nationality, citizenship, origin, and social or political views.
• The editor-in-chief, the editorial-publishing group workers, and the journal editorial board are not expected to give information about the article to anybody except the author/authors and appointed or potential reviewers.
• The Editor-in-Chief, the workers of the Editorial Office and the reviewing-publishing group, or the members of the Editorial Board are not allowed to use (without an author’s written permission) the unpublished data of the papers that were not accepted for publication to their or somebody else’s benefit.

Authors
The Editorial Board insists that the authors should keep strictly to the following principles:

• the paper reports original results;
• the reported results are authentic and reliable;
• the paper presents an objective/unbiased data analysis;
• the data presented is correct and accurate;
• all the contributors to the research must be acknowledged throughout the text and in a compulsory list of references;
• Everybody who participated in and contributed to the research should be a co-author. All the co-authors must approve the final version of the paper and have their consensus on its publication;
• significant errors and inaccuracies, if detected, must be reported and promptly corrected, even through withdrawing the publication.

Reviewer
The Editorial Board shares the opinion that a reviewer of a journal commits himself/herself to adhere to the following ethical principles:

• to be objective and unbiased in estimating the quality of the paper under review and its correspondence to scientific, literary, and ethical standards;
• the reviewer should inform the Editorial Board of being uncertain that his/her qualification corresponds to the level and the trend of the research discussed in the paper;
• the reviewer is not expected to use the information presented in the paper to his own benefit before the paper is published;
• the reviewed paper is a confidential document and cannot be transferred to any other person for reading or discussion; a possible conflicting situation should be reported to the Editorial Board;
• the reviewer can address the author directly only after getting preliminary permission from the Editorial Board;
• the Editorial Board insists on the strict discipline of a reviewer who is expected to perform paper reviewing in due time and to show high respect for the authors;
• the reviewer should inform the Editorial Board if there is any doubt concerning the possibility of plagiarism, authorship, or data forgery.

 

Ethical Research Involving Humans

The ethical policy of “Visnyk of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Psychology” regarding research involving human participants is based on the international standards of academic integrity and COPE recommendations. The journal considers only those manuscripts that comply with ethical protocols aimed at protecting the rights, safety, and dignity of the research participants.

General Principles

Authors submitting manuscripts based on research involving human participants are required to ensure that such studies comply with the national legislation, ethical standards, and international bioethics conventions. All procedures must be transparent, justified, and must not harm the participants.

Ethical Approval 

 All studies involving humans must be pre-approved by the appropriate institutional ethics committee or its equivalent. 

 Authors must provide the editorial office with a clear reference to the ethical approval, including the approval number, date, and name of the issuing authority. 

 Studies that do not require ethical approval under national legislation must be accompanied by appropriate justification from the authors.

Informed Consent

 The authors must confirm that voluntary informed consent was obtained from all study participants.

 In cases where participants are unable to provide consent themselves (e.g., minors or  individuals with limited decision-making capacity), consent from their legal representatives is required.

 Manuscripts must include a description of the consent procedures.

Confidentiality and Anonymity 

 All participants’ personal data were anonymized or presented in a depersonalized form. 

 The authors are responsible for complying with legislation regarding personal data protection and confidentiality.

 

Vulnerable groups

Research involving vulnerable groups (minors, elderly people, persons with disabilities, and individuals in difficult life circumstances) must comply with heightened standards of ethical oversight and safety.

Risks and Safety

Authors must describe the potential risks to participants and the measures taken to minimize them. Studies that create unjustified risks are not eligible for publication.

Ethics Violations 

If any breaches of the publication’s ethical standards are identified, actions will be taken in accordance with the COPE recommendations. This may include rejecting the manuscript, publishing a correction, or retracting an already-published article.