Dear authors and readers of scientific articles!

Volodymyr Onyshchenko Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of Education, Rector of National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology

On behalf of the Editorial Board of printed scientific specialized serial "Economics and Region", which is Scientific Bulletin of National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», I’m greeting university professors and graduate students, researchers and practitioners.

Our journal, which has been published since 2003 is a highly professional serial edition of the national level. The main purpose of the journal is to highlight the scientific achievements in the national and regional economy, national economy management, finance, business economics, national economic security and business entities.

Journal "Economics and Region" is included into the list of specialized academic editions that can publish the results of thesis works; it regularly publishes the most significant achievements of leading scholars, doctoral students, post-graduates, teachers, students and practitioners.

Preparation and publication of the journal is carried out in the close cooperation with celebrated scientific schools established in PoltNTU, doctorate and post-graduate programs. In addition, the editorial board of the journal “Economics and Region” maintains regular close relations with leading universities of engineering and economic profile in Ukraine as well as with foreign colleagues.

It seems reasonable to emphasize that the Editorial Board of the journal consists of 17 Doctors of Economics and professors in the appropriate field, including 11 persons working at the university, 1 person represent other universities of Ukraine and 5 members are foreign experts (Georgia, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Croatia). The independent experts carry out the external and internal review of research papers. It provides our journal with high quality articles and international publicity on topical issues of economic science and practice.

We understand quite clearly, that gaining international recognition is only possible if the research papers citation index is high enough. Therefore, we are taking efforts on including the journal "Economics and Region" into the international scientometric databases and ensuring availability of information about it at the world’s leading libraries. Only for the recent years, the journal has published papers by leading experts of Germany, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, and other countries.

We invite to cooperation all persons concerned: authors - to provide topical articles containing information about the significant contributions of their research to economics; researchers and practitioners - to obtain information on current achievements of scientific thought; students and post-graduates - to gain experience of summarizing and highlighting the results of their own scientific research. We are looking forward to fruitful long term cooperation in this respect with authors and readers.

Sincerely,

Editor in Chief

of the scientific specialized edition "Economics and Region" ––

Academic Bulletin of

National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic»

Volodymyr Onyshchenko

The quality control system

The editorial board practices double-blind peer review.

Reviewing of articles carries out by two independent doctors of sciences or by one doctor of sciences for doctor’s (professor’s) articles. One of reviewers necessarily is Ukrainian or foreign member of Editorial Board of Academic journal.

A reviewer in writing presents in Editorial Board review in that confirms absence of conflict of interests, accordance to the requirements, possible remarks and conclusion regarding acceptance of the article for publication or its rejection. The form of review is stated below; in it there are criteria after that the article is accepted or rejected.

The editorial board is entitled to send an article for additional reviewing.

The editorial board is entitled to carry out the scientific and literary editing of the accepted materials; where applicable it is authorized to cut them upon consultation with the author, or, whereas the subject of an article is of interest for the magazine, to send the article back to the author for refining.

The Editorial board reserves the right to decline an article, if it is irresponsive to the applicable requirements or the subject of the magazine.

In case the submitted article is rejected, the Editorial board sends the author a reasonable conclusion.

Open Access statement

Academic journal Industrial Machine Building, Civil Engineering is an open access journal and refer to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. All articles are free for users to access, read, download, and print.

The Journal also operates under the Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND. This allows for the reproduction of articles, free of charge, for non-commercial use only and with the appropriate citation information. All authors publishing with the Journal accept these as the terms of publication. Please note that copyright of the content of all articles and reviews remains with the designated author of the article or review.

The Journal submits all articles which have their own Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to CrossRef for cross-referral. To find articles via their DOI numbers, use the URL http://dx.doi.org/10.26906

Licensing terms

Assignment of Copyright Form is required together with the article manuscript.

By this document the authors confirm the originality and exclusivity of the article and that it does not infringe upon a copyright of any third party, and that it has not been submitted for consideration to any other journal. Also the Assignment of Copyright Form transfer to the Editorial board and Founders of the Journal  non-exclusive license for the full term of copyright for:

1. publication of this article and distribution of printed copies;
2. distribution of electronic copies for all electronic media and formats (posting on the Journal’s official web-site, any e-print services and electronic databases or repositories).

Assignment of Copyright Form send to the Editorial office by mail, or its photocopy submits together with the manuscript file via web interface.

Ethical norms of publication

Drawing up the items of the publication ethics policy of the journal Editors followed the recommendations of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org) and the experience of foreign professional associations and other Ukrainian and foreign research institutions and publishers).

An essential feature of professional scientific community is the acceptance of the moral code which sets the basic rules of behavior and the responsibilities of the scientific community members before each other and in relation to the public. Such a code is defined by the intention to ensure maximum benefit to the professional community and to limit the actions, which could serve the interests of individuals, as well as to ensure an author's intellectual property rights. All manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using the system Plagiat.pl.

Ethical Obligations of Editors of the Scientific and Technical Journal

1. All submitted materials are carefully selected and reviewed. An editorial board reserves the right to reject an article or return it as requiring improvement. The author is obliged to improve the article according to the remarks of the reviewers and the editorial board.
2. An editor should considerate all manuscripts offered for publication without prejudice, evaluating each on its merits without regard to race, religion, nationality, status, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
3. An editor should consider manuscript submitted for publication without delays.
4. The whole responsibility for acceptance or rejection of an article rests with the editor. Responsible and reasonable approach to the duty requires that the editor seek advice from reviewers, Doctor of Science of required specialty, as to the quality and reliability of manuscripts submitted for publication. However, manuscripts may be rejected without external review if considered by the Editors to be inappropriate for the journal.
5. The editor and members of the editor’s staff should not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone other than those from whom professional advice is sought. After a positive decision has been made about a manuscript, it should be published in the journal and in the website of the journal.
6. An editor should respect the intellectual independence of authors.
7. Editorial responsibility and authority for any manuscript authored by an editor and submitted to the editor’s journal should be delegated to other qualified person, such as a member of its Editorial Board.
8. If an editor is presented with convincing evidence that the main substance or conclusions of a report published in an editor’s journal are erroneous, the editor should facilitate publication of an appropriate report pointing out the error and, if possible, correcting it. The report may be written by the person who discovered the error or by an original author.
9. An author may request that the editor not use certain reviewers in consideration of a manuscript. However, the editor may decide to use one or more of these reviewers, if the editor feels their opinions are important in the fair consideration of a manuscript. This might be the case, for example, when a manuscript seriously disagrees with the previous work of a potential reviewer.

Ethical Obligations of Authors

1. Main duty of an author is to present an accurate account of the research performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
2. An author should be aware that journal space is a limited resource and should use it wisely and economically.
3. A primary research report should contain sufficient detail and reference to public sources of information to permit the author’s peers to repeat the work. When requested, the authors should make a reasonable effort to provide samples of unusual materials unavailable elsewhere, with appropriate material transfer agreements to restrict the field of use of the materials so as to protect the legitimate interests of the authors.
4. An author should cite those publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work and that will guide the reader quickly to the earlier work that is essential for understanding the present investigation. Except in a review, citation of work that will not be referred to in the reported research should be minimized. An author is obligated to perform a literature search to find, and then cite, the original publications that describe closely related work. For critical materials used in the work, proper citation to sources should also be made when these were supplied by a non author.
5. Any unusual hazards appearing during an investigation should be clearly identified in a manuscript reporting the work.
6. Fragmentation of research reports should be avoided. A scientist who has done extensive work on a system or group of related systems should organize publication so that each report gives a well-rounded account of a particular aspect of the general study.
7. In submitting a manuscript for publication, an author should inform the editor of related manuscripts that the author has under editorial consideration or in press. Copies of those manuscripts should be supplied to the editor, and the relationships of such manuscripts to the one submitted should be indicated.
8. It is improper for an author to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal of primary publication, unless it is a resubmission of a manuscript rejected for or withdrawn from publication. It is generally permissible to submit a manuscript for a full paper expanding on a previously published brief preliminary account (a “communication” or “letter”) of the same work. However, at the time of submission, the editor should be made aware of the earlier communication, and the preliminary communication should be cited in the manuscript.
9. An author should identify the source of all information quoted or offered, except that which is common knowledge. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported in the author’s work without explicit permission from the investigator with whom the information originated. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, should be treated similarly.
10. An experimental or theoretical study may sometimes justify criticism, even severe criticism, of the work of another scientist. When appropriate, such criticism may be offered in published papers. However, in no case is personal criticism considered to be appropriate.
11. The co-authors of a paper should be all those persons who have made significant scientific contributions to the work reported and who share responsibility and accountability for the results. Other contributions should be indicated in a footnote or an “Acknowledgments” section. An administrative relationship to the investigation does not of itself qualify a person for co-authorship (but occasionally it may be appropriate to acknowledge major administrative assistance). Deceased persons who meet the criterion for inclusion as co-authors should be so included, with a footnote reporting date of death. No fictitious name should be listed as an author or coauthor. The author who submits a manuscript for publication accepts the responsibility of having included as co-authors all persons appropriate and none inappropriate. The submitting author should have sent each living co-author a draft copy of the manuscript and have obtained the co-author’s assent to co-authorship of it.
12. The authors should reveal to the editor and to the readers of the journal any potential and/or relevant competing financial or other interest that might be affected by publication of the results contained in the authors’ manuscript. All authors should not have any personal significant financial interest and employment or other relationship with entities that have a financial or other interest which can affect the results described by the manuscript.

Ethical Obligations of Reviewers of Manuscripts

1. As the reviewing of manuscripts is an essential step in the publication process, and therefore in the operation of the scientific method, every scientist has an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.
2. A chosen reviewer who feels inadequately qualified to judge the research reported in a manuscript should return it promptly to the editor.
3. A reviewer of a manuscript should judge objectively the quality of the manuscript, of its experimental and theoretical work, of its interpretations and its exposition, with due regard to the maintenance of high scientific and literary standards. A reviewer should respect the intellectual independence of the authors.
4. A reviewer should be sensitive to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the manuscript under review is closely related to the reviewer’s work in progress or published. If in doubt, the reviewer should return the manuscript promptly without review, advising the editor of the conflict of interest.
5. A reviewer should not evaluate a manuscript authored or co-authored by a person with whom the reviewer has a personal or professional connection if the relationship would bias judgment of the manuscript.
6. A reviewer should treat a manuscript sent for review as a confidential document. It should neither be shown to nor discussed with others except, in special cases, to persons from whom specific advice may be sought; in that event, the identities of those consulted should be disclosed to the editor.
7. Reviewers should explain and support their judgments adequately so that editors and authors may understand the basis of their comments. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. Unsupported assertions by reviewers (or by authors in rebuttal) are of little value and should be avoided.
8. A reviewer should be alert to failure of authors to cite relevant work by other scientists, bearing in mind that complaints that the reviewer’s own research was insufficiently cited may seem self-serving. A reviewer should call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper or any manuscript submitted concurrently to another journal.
9. A reviewer should act promptly, submitting a report in a timely manner.
10. Reviewers should not use or disclose unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations contained in a manuscript under consideration, except with the consent of the author. If this information indicates that some of the reviewer’s work is unlikely to be profitable, the reviewer, however, could ethically discontinue the work.