REVIEWING PROCEDURE OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscript should be send in electronic format to the Editorial board using the address — vestnik-rentg@mail.ru Manuscript must be prepared in accordance with the present requirements for the scientific articles to be published in the journal.
If manuscript corresponds to all the requirements, a special number which is used in the further work is assigned to it. Notification letter on manuscript receiving and its registration number are sent to an Author.
All manuscripts coming into the journal are sent for the reviewing to one of the constant readers or an independent reviewer according to the scientific research specialization.
Reviewing is executed confidentially (reviewing type — «single blind», without indication of the reviewer name).
Editorial board informs the Author the reviewing results via the e-mail.
If a reviewer issues a decision on the article publication possibility and doesn’t introduce many corrections, the article is transferred to the subsequent work.
If a reviewer issues a decision on the article publication possibility and gives instructions for its correction, the Editorial board sends the manuscript and the review to the Author to bear in mind the reviewer recommendations when preparing the new variant of the article or to give reasonable refutation of them. In this case the date of the entry to the Editorial board is the date of the reworked article return. Article reworked by the Author is sent for the reviewing again and the decision is to be issued that all the reviewer recommendations were taken into account. After the receiving of the reviewer positive answer the article is taken over for the further work.
If the reviewer issues a decision on the article publication impossibility, the Author of the reviewed work is provided with the review text. If the Author doesn’t agree with the reviewer opinion this Author has right to provide the argued answer to the Editorial board. In this case the article can be sent for the repeated reviewing or for the approval to the Editorial board. Editorial board or the editor authorized by it sends its answer to the Author.
All manuscripts which have undergone the reviewing, are submitted for the consideration to the Editorial board which makes a decision on the publication. After the decision making on the article allowance for the publication the Editorial board informs the possible publication terms to the Author.
Decision on the manuscript publication is taken exclusively on the base of its significance, originality, presentation clarity and the research issue correspondence to the journal focus. Research reports in which the negative results were obtained or the provisions of the earlier published articles are disputed, are considered according to the standard procedure.
Review originals are stored by the Editorial board for a year from the moment of publication.