About the Journal

Area and issues

The collection of scientific works of the State Research Institute of Aviation publishes scientific articles in the field of knowledge 25 – military science, national security, state border security, specialty 255 – armaments and military equipment in accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of April 29, 2015 № 266.

The main thematic headings of the collection:

military-technical policy in the field of state aviation;

development and modernization of aviation equipment and armaments;

extension of designed indicators;

advanced technologies for the operation and repair of aircraft and weapons.

Areas of research, the results of which are covered in the pages of the collection:

development of conceptual bases of military-technical policy in the field of state aviation in general, and military aviation, in particular;

formation of general and tactical and technical requirements for priority models (systems) of armaments and military equipment of aviation of the armed forces;

development of perspective (modernization of existing) aviation equipment, means of radio engineering and optoelectronic reconnaissance, electronic warfare and protection of aircraft, combat aviation complexes, high-precision weapons;

improvement of perspective technologies of restoration repair of aviation equipment and further realization of import substitution measures;

research of possibility and development of methodology of further continuation of stages of a life cycle of planes and helicopters of the state aviation, and also definition of deadlines of their safe operation;

improvement of the strategy of aircraft operation according to the technical condition on the basis of introduction of mobile diagnostic complexes and information systems of operation support;

historical aspects of development, creation, operation, combat use and utilization of military equipment and armament of aviation of the armed forces.

The thematic areas of the collection can be adjusted by the editors considering the changing relevance of problems in the field of aviation technology and armaments.

Review process

In order to ensure the proper quality of publications, all articles submitted to the collection are subject to review.

Before sending the manuscript of the article to the reviewer, who must be an expert on the issues covered in the article, the editors of the collection check the article for compliance with the criteria that have a formal (technical) nature. In particular, at this stage the following are checked:

correspondence of the topic of the article to the subject of the collection and specialization of its section to which it is submitted;

compliance of the article with the requirements established by edition;

observance by the authors of the article of the rules of use of sources of reference and citation;

compliance of the article with the requirements of Art. 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On Printed Mass Media (Press) in Ukraine” (on the inadmissibility of abuse of freedom of activity of print media).

In addition, with the use of automated means, the submitted article is checked for plagiarism / self-plagiarism and the level of originality (uniqueness).

The article is rejected by the editors if it does not meet the thematic areas of the collection, the requirements of Art. 3 of the Law of Ukraine "On printed mass media (press) in Ukraine", or contains explicit plagiarism. In other cases of non-compliance with the established requirements, the article is returned to the author (authors) to eliminate the identified shortcomings.

Literary editing of the article with correction of minor grammatical and stylistic errors is carried out in the edition of the collection at the stage of preparation of the article for publication. However, if a significant number of such errors are found during the submission of the article, the article is also returned for revision.

If the article meets the formal criteria for acceptance by the editors, it is sent to the reviewer, who is determined by the editor-in-chief of the collection.

The reviewer draws up a review on a standardized form prepared by the editors. To ensure an impartial independent assessment and to avoid conflicts of interest, the names of the authors of the article are not indicated on the review form. The reviewer evaluates the scientific level of the article according to certain quality criteria and provides in writing to the editor-in-chief of the collection his comments on the identified shortcomings, conclusions and recommendations.

Criteria for expert evaluation of the quality of the article by the reviewer:

relevance of the problematic issue to which the article is devoted;

correct choice of research method;

scientific novelty of the obtained results;

reliability (sufficient confirmation) of the facts given in the article;

absence of data fabrication and falsification in the article;

the validity of the statements and conclusions of the authors;

compliance of the structure and content of the article with the academic style of presenting the material;

no technical errors.

A specific list of criteria for the quality of the article considers the specialization of the section of the collection to which the manuscript is submitted.

Based on the review received, the editor-in-chief of the collection makes one of the options:

accept the article for publication;

return the article for revision;

reject the submission.

The decision of the editor-in-chief is made out by his signature on the review form. After that, it contains information about the authors and the review is sent for storage to the editorial archive. If it was decided to publish the article, after approval of the issue of the collection on the review is marked with the number and year of issue.

In the case of returning the article for revision, the review cycle is repeated with special attention to eliminating the identified shortcomings.

In any review cycle, the editor-in-chief may decide to involve additional reviewers in evaluating the quality of the article.

To ensure the guarantees of blind review, the instruction to authors provides for the submission of an article file without providing information about the authors. If you submit an article on the journal's website, this information must be entered in the appropriate fields of the submission form. If the article is sent to the editors by e-mail, they must be placed in a separate file.

Open access policy

The printed version of the collection is distributed for a fee. Full texts of articles in electronic form are placed on the site in open access.

Member

The printed version of the collection is published at the expense of funds received through subscription. Publication of articles is free for authors.

Preparation and production of printed copies of the collection is carried out by PE "Ryabina", Hryhoriy Andryushchenko Street, 6, Kyiv, 01135.