Principles of publishing ethics (more detail about publication ethics and ethical standards for publication in the Journal see Editorial policy and publishing ethics of the “Geosystems of Transition Zones” Journal).

Unfair and unethical behavior of participants in the publishing process includes:

falsification of data; plagiarism of data, ideas or fragments of articles; false use of statistical or other methods; intentional hiding the details of the method; false attribution; misrepresentation of results from other studies; inadmissible reuse of publications (self-plagiarism or duplication of publications); conspiracy with the purpose of artificially increase citation.

Inappropriate or unethical behavior of an author can be identified and brought to the notice of the Editor-in-Chief and publisher at any stage of the publication process.

Consequences of such behavior (can be applied alone or in combination):

point the author and reviewer to deviations in order to prevent deviations from ethical standards in follow-up articles; official notification of the author's affiliation and the funding organization; official reject to publish; prohibition on the publication of this author for a certain period of time; withdrawal (retraction) of the published article, notification of indexing and abstracting agency and readers of the Journal.