Ethical standards

The Editorial Board and Editorial Office of the journal Combustion and Plasma Chemistry adhere to the principles of publication ethics accepted by the international community in their publishing activities, reflected in the recommendations of the Committee on Scientific Publication Ethics (Code of Conduct) developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The editors retract published articles in case of violation of publication and/or scientific ethics, based on the recommendations of COPE. An article is retracted/retracted (retracted) in the following cases:

• if there is clear evidence that the data obtained are unreliable or were obtained as a result of illegal actions, such as falsification or fabrication of data;
• detection of plagiarism in the article, including borrowing of figures, graphs, tables, etc.;
• the presence of gross errors in the article that may negatively affect other scientists and their research, such as a miscalculation or experimental error;
• claims regarding the copyright of the article or its parts by third parties;
• the presence in the article of information that contradicts the principles, standards, and norms of publication and/or scientific ethics.

The Editorial Staff of the journal is actively working to improve the quality and rating of the journal. All manuscripts are checked by iThenticate (Crossref: Similarity Check). In case of detection of a violation of research ethics, the editors will immediately contact the author(s) and request an explanation. If the problem cannot be resolved, the article will be retracted from publication.

Principles to be followed by the author of scientific publications

The author (or group of authors) understands that they bear primary responsibility for the novelty and reliability of the results of scientific research, which implies compliance with the following principles:

• The authors of the article must provide reliable results of the conducted research. Deliberately erroneous or falsified statements are unacceptable.
• Authors must guarantee that the research results presented in the submitted manuscript are completely original. Borrowed fragments or statements must be formatted with a mandatory indication of the author and the source. Excessive borrowing, as well as plagiarism in any form, including unformatted quotations, paraphrasing, or appropriation of rights to the results of other people's research, are unethical and unacceptable.
• It is necessary to acknowledge the contribution of all people who in one way or another influenced the course of the study, in particular, the article must provide references to works that were important in the study.
• Authors should not submit to the journal a manuscript that has been submitted to another journal and is under consideration, as well as an article already published in another journal.
• All persons who made a significant contribution to the study should be listed as co-authors of the article. Persons who did not participate in the study cannot be listed as co-authors.