Procedure for reviewing papers

Review of papers (hereinafter referred to as articles), submitted for publication in journal "Bulletin of South Ural State University, Series "Power Engineering", is done in accordance with the following rules.

Document flow in the process of papers review.

  1. The articles submitted in accordance with the requirements are sent for review to publish them in “Bulletin of South Ural State University, Series „Power Engineering“.
  2. The article is sent for review to the specialist in the corresponding sphere (hereinafter referred to as reviewer), who has the degree of Doctor of Science. A member of the editorial board can not be a reviewer.
  3. Type of prepublication – “double-blind”, the author and the reviewer did not know about each other.
  4. The period for review is up to one month starting from the moment of submission.
  5. Within two weeks from the moment of getting a review the editorial board considers the review and makes a reasoned decision on the necessity to make corrections to the article or possibility/impossibility to publish the article.
  6. The reasoned decision of the editorial board is given for a one week.

Form and the content of review.

  1. The review is issued as a document of A4 format, font 14, single spaced with the margins of 2 cm.
  2. The review has a title of the following type: Review of the article (the title of the article).
  3. The text of the review includes:
    — the relevance of the problems;
    — novelty and value of the given methods of solution;
    — the level of novelty of scientific results;
    — practical relevance of the results;
    — style of presentation and literacy;
    — structure of the article.
  4. The review finishes with a final summary of pros and cons of the article.
  5. The review makes a conclusion about:
    — possibility (reasonability) to publish the article in journal;
    — possibility of publishing the article after error correction;
    — impossibility (impracticality) to publish the article.
  6. The signature and full name of the reviewer with his degree and position should be presented in the review.