Aim and Scope

The aim of the journal is to provide Kazakhstan and international scientific community with information on the current results of research on fundamental and applied issues of physics, ecology, non-proliferation, nuclear power, controlled thermonuclear fusion and science-intensive technologies.

The journal aims to accumulate advanced scientific and technical knowledge and to serve as an effective and accessible information resource that contributes to the development of science and technology, and to bring together a wide range of scientists and specialists from various fields to exchange knowledge, ideas and research results.

Journal objectives: 

• to highlight the results of scientific research, scientific practical and innovative activity of the scientists and specialists in the fields of natural, physical-mathematical, and technical sciences;
• to ensure unbiased and independent evaluation of scientific articles published in the journal through a double-blind peer review process;
• to ensure full transparency and openness in addressing scientific issues in relevant fields by providing users with free access to the journal's content.;
• to ensure that all participants adhere to the norms and principles of scientific ethics during the publication process.

The scientific research areas covered in the journal include:

1. Nuclear power, nuclear technologies and use of nuclear power;
2. Controlled thermonuclear fusion technologies;
3. Hydrogen energy and technologies;
4. Environmental pollution, ecology;
5. Problems of the former nuclear tests and other nuclear legacy facilities;
6. Ensuring radiation safety;
7. Geological and geophysical research in support of the safety of nuclear power engineering and nuclear legacy objects;
8. Strengthening regime of nonproliferation of nuclear weapon and materials, upgrading nuclear safety and security;
9. Nuclear physics;
10. Material science, new and functional materials in nuclear power;
11. Information security, information systems and technologies in power industry;
12. Radiation and other science-intensive technologies;
13. Nuclear medicine.

The journal has many years of experience in publishing significant scientific findings on unique aspects of scientific activity, including experimental research in support of nuclear power safety being conducted at both in-pile and out-of-pile facilities, radiological studies of the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, elimination of infrastructure and consequences of nuclear testing, and many others.

Section Policies

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Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 times per a year (once per a quarter)

Open Access Policy

"NNC RK Bulletin" is an Platinum/Diamond Open Access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

Peer-Review

A double-blind peer review method is mandatory for processing of all scientific manuscripts submitted to the editorial stuff of "NNC RK Bulletin". This implies that neither the reviewer is aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor the author maintains any contact with the reviewer. The manuscripts are sent to two reviewers for evaluation.

Publishing Ethics

Authors, reviewers, editorship, chief editor of the journal are liable for ethic obligations, related to preparation of publications and dissemination of scientific research results. In its work, the editorship shall rely on agreed ethics standards and keep to the principles of scientific publications, developed by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/), and base on the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on “Copyright and related rights” (https://online.zakon.kz/m/Document/?doc_id=1005798), Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on “Science” (https://online.zakon.kz/document/?doc_id=30938581).

Editorship principles of publication ethics

The editorship and chief editor shall rely on the following principles in their work:

1. Create conditions for the editorship, reviewers and authors to fulfill ethics principles in accordance with the editorial policy of the journal.
2. Assure compliance to ethics of authorship, review and scientific publications.
3. Provide confidentiality of information appearing during publication process.
4. Assure publications in the journal be in accordance with principles of scientific character, integrity and transparency, and based on article’s review results.
5. When obtain complaint or accusation in author professional misconduct, editor staff shall take measures prescribed by COPE.

Principles of publication ethics of scientific articles authors

1. Assure originality of articles presented to editorial staff. No plagiarism. Intentionally false and inaccurate information is forbidden.
2. Observe the regulation of copyright law, and present accurate research results.
3. Assure agreement of all authors with article final version and its submission for publication in the journal.

Principles of reviewers publication ethics

1. Perform scientific inquiry of author materials with unbiased approach.
2. Have no right to use any information obtained for review for his own benefit or to discredit other individuals or organizations.
3. Any scientific article subject to review is a confidential document.
4. Assure a publication compliance to publication ethics standards.

Editorial staff discourage any unethical conduct (one’s own review to an own article, negotiated and pseudo review, appealing to agent’s services in publication of scientific research results, fabrication of authors team, publication of pseudoscientific texts, conveying article text to other journal without agreement of authors, conveying of authors materials to third parties, violation of copyright and principles of editorial confidentiality, manipulation with citation, plagiarism, fabrication and falsification) and will make efforts to avoid such conduct.

In case if editorial staff become aware of any improper conduct towards published article, the editorial staff shall act in accordance with the recommendations of СОРЕ.

Founder

• Republican State Enterprise on the Basis of Economic Control Rights «National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan” of Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Author fees

Publication in "NNC RK Bulletin" is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.

The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Authors should disclose potential and apparent conflicts of interest related to the manuscript.

A conflict of interest can be considered any situation (financial relations, service or work in institutions that have a financial or political interest in published materials, official duties, etc.) that can affect the author of the manuscript and lead to concealment, distortion of data, or change their interpretation.

The presence of a conflict of interest among one or more authors is not a reason for refusing to publish an article.

Concealment of potential and obvious conflicts of interest on the part of the authors revealed by the editors may be the reason for refusal to consider and publish the manuscript.

Plagiarism detection

"NNC RK Bulletin" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in "NNC RK Bulletin", authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites.

As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in "NNC RK Bulletin" we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Glossary (by SHERPA)

Retraction and alterations of articles, publications of alterations, apologies, rebuttal

Editorial board members are responsible for publishing articles with known-good features of unethical behavior, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation by authors, and conflicts of interest.

The facts of the publication ethics violation in the published article may be disclosed by the author, or by another concerned person and brought to the attention of the editors of the journal. At the same time, it is necessary to provide a sufficient volume of verify information. If when writing an article by the author (s), the publication or scientific ethics principles were violated, the editors of the journal conduct a fair treatment.

When only a small piece of article (e.g., a few sentences) contains material with indications of violations of the principles in publication or scientific ethics (e.g., plagiarism), the editors may suggest the authors to enter amendments for elimination of identified violations.

In other cases, the editors based on the decision of the editorial board can retract (delete) the publication, if there are the following reasons:

• Unreliability evidence of the published information as a result of the author (s)’ conscious actions, (e.g. fabrication, falsification of data);
• Unattributed borrowings (plagiarism);
• Cases of duplicate publications;
• Assumptions of serious errors in results (e.g. errors in experiments, calculations, etc.) and its interpretation;
• Incorrect authorship;
• Hidden conflict of interests (and other violations of publication ethics).

The articles can be retracted by author (authors) or by the editors of the journal. The editors can retract published articles in case of violation of publication and scientific ethics focusing on COPE recommendations.

The main purpose of retraction is to correct published information and ensure its integrity, not to punish authors who have committed violations.

If the editorial staff decide to retract the article, then the article itself remains on the journal's website in the corresponding issue, but a notification is issued indicating the name of the retracted article, the names of the authors, the reason and date of retraction, and those who revoke the article are also indicated. Notifications are published in electronic and printed versions of the journal. The issue table of contents is marked "retracted". The editors inform the author's team about their decision with an indication of the reasons for retracted article. Article retraction information is sent to databases where the journal is indexed.

If the authors found errors or entering alterations (amendments) to the published article, the editors posts a message about error or alteration (Erratum). Erratum is posted in Russian and English at the separate page of the journal in section “Alterations/Erratum” and DOI records are assigned. Erratum is published in public access. The error/alteration message includes:

• Attributes of the article (first author and others, title of article);
• Reference to the original version of the published article, DOI and date of its publication.
• Description and date of alterations.
• Initial text and text after entering amendments.
• Indication that the alteration did not affect the authors’ conclusions.
• Indication that alteration was entered to the online-version of the journal.

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