New provisions for the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal

09.12.2021 The Provisions for the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal, the Provision on the Procedure of Study and Review of Academic Papers submitted to be published in the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal, and the Provision on Ethics of Scientific Publications in the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal were updated with the account of recommendations of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Provision on Ethics of Scientific Publications in the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal was supplemented by the Section "Observation of Publication Ethics" according to the recommendations of ASEP and international database Elsevier and contains information on the journal policy with regard to authorship and coauthorship, conflict of interests / competing interests, in the field of intellectual property; processing of complaints and appeals; procedure of actions for discussion and introduction of corrections upon publication.

In the Provision on the Procedure of Study and Review of Academic Papers submitted to be published in the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal, the Section "Requirements to Article Drawing up" for authors was enlarged to describe in details the international requirements to drawing up and content of an article, annotation, lists of references, an article structure and other requirements.

The text of the new Provisions is available by link on the official website of the "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" Journal https://nrs-journal.ru in the Section "Information".

Official publication of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia. Founded in 1998 (up to 2005 the title was "Vestnik of Gosatomnadzor of Russia"). The publication founder and publisher is the Scientific and Engineering Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SEC NRS).