About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The main aim of the journal is to highlight the results of scientific researches and the dissemination of information on all information security aspects (organizational, technical, software, cryptographic, normative, legal etc). Categories of audience: students, postgraduate students, doctoral candidates, researchers & experts in information security.

Peer Review Process

1. All articles are reviewed.
2. Reviewing is double-blind & all correspondence between reviewers and author is performed across the Editorial Board.
3. Each article is reviewing at least by two reviewers.
4. A reviewer is a member of Editorial Board or appointed expert in Information Security.
5. After reviewing article the reviewer send to Editorial Board special report.
6. The result of a reviewer is recommendation, the decision of Editorial Board about article publishing is a final.
7. If author disagree with a reviewer comments he may send a reasoned response to Editorial Board.
8. In case of revision required the author receive all review comments and suggestions of reviewer.
9. In case of submission decline the author receive a review with a reasoned refusal.
10. The manuscript, which received a positive review, is passed to the Editorial Board to prepare it for publication.

Publication Frequency

Articles Submission Deadlines:

• First Issue - March 1;
• Second Issue - July 1;
• Third Issue - November 1.

Journal Publication Schedules:

• First Issue - April 25;
• Second Issue - August 25;
• Third Issue - December 25.

Open Access Policy

The journal is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication ethics

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

The Editorial Board, authors and reviewers of the scientific journal “Ukrainian Scientific Journal of Information Security” follow the international ethical standards and principles based on the Code approved by the Committee on Publication Ethics.

In order to avoid the publication malpractice (plagiarism, misappropriation of ideas, data fabrication and garbling, etc.) as well as to encourage scientific publications of high quality, the Editorial Board reserve the right to reject manuscripts in case of the violence of the following norms:

Duties of Authors

Authors bear the primary responsibility for content and competence of the manuscript.

Any kind of plagiarism (claiming another’s paper as author’s own, excessive borrowings, unmarked quotations, paraphrasing, etc.) and data fabrication are the cases of publication malpractice. Author should provide a list of literature used in the paper with correctly presented bibliographical references and quotations as well as authentic results and supporting information.

Authorship should include all persons who made a significant contribution to the paper; listing of others as co-authors of the manuscript is prohibited. The finite paper should be endorsed by its co-authors. All authors of the manuscript should familiarize with the principles and rules of editorial processing.

Author should not submit a previously published paper or a manuscript already reviewing by another edition.

Professional Ethics of Reviewers

The fundamental principle of peer review is absolute impartiality along with the next commitments:

• Reviewers should not divulge, submit or discuss the reviewing materials with others till the publication of the manuscript.
• Reviewers should be the competent authority and provide reasonable opinion and impartial appraisal without making personal remarks.

Ethical Principles of Editors

Bearing responsibility for publication of manuscripts the Editorial Board headed by the Chief Editor acts as mediator between authors, reviewers and editors and sticks to the following regulations:

• to verify the validity of the research paper, its relevance to the journal, research novelty and significance, lucidity of statements and completeness of findings, relying on reviews, editorial appraisal and legislative regulations on libel, plagiarism and copyright.
• to ensure and control the transparency of all editorial stages; to evaluate the intellectual content of the manuscripts with regard to the norms of politeness, justice and impartiality to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political philosophy, ethnic origin, citizenship and social position of the author, as well as to avoid private, political and business interests.
• to protect author’s privacy and not to submit the unpublished data of the manuscript for looking through or copying to the third party, except the author(s), reviewers, editorial council and publisher, considering exceptional circumstances. All ideas obtained through the review of the manuscript must be confidential and not used for self-profit.
• to substantiate the decision to reject the manuscript and take appropriate measures in settling of conflicts as well as ethic complaints concerning the published materials.

Indexed in

Abstracting systems and journal databases

	EBSCO Information Services
	Russian Science Citation Index powered by Scientific electronic library (eLIBRARY.RU)
	Simple Search Metadata (SSM)
	The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
	Scientific and Technical Library of the NAU

Web-based search systems

	Google Scholar
	WorldCat (OAIster)
	Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)

Serial registries

	ISSN
	Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof, Dr Eng Oleksandr KORCHENKO, National Aviation University (Kyiv, UKRAINE)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Prof, Dr Econ Alexey TIKHOMIROV*, UN Project Office on Governance (Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA)
* after special agreement with UN

Executive Secretary

Assoc Prof, PhD Sergiy GNATYUK, National Aviation University (Kyiv, UKRAINE)

Editorial Board Members

Sponsors

• Кафедра безпеки інформаційних технологій Національного авіаційного університету
• Національний авіаційний університет
• Науково-технічна бібліотека Національного авіаційного університету (НТБ НАУ)

Sources of Support

• Кафедра безпеки інформаційних технологій Національного авіаційного університету