ACSS policy
Agrochemistry and Soil Science focuses on highlighting the results of scientific research aimed at finding regularities in the spatial organization of soils and their evolution under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors. There are also directions such as the characteristics of processes and interactions in the "soil-plant-fertilizer" system, methods of plant nutrition management, measures to protect soils and preserve their ecological functions. The articles cover a wide range of scientific problems at different levels of structural organization — from molecular-ionic to landscape.
Main principles
• Publish up-to-date significant scientific results
• Promote the integration of national science into the international information space
• Expand the geography of publications
• Support the original search results of young researchers
• Compliance with publication ethics requirements
Main thematic headings:
- SOIL SCIENCE, SOIL PROPERTIES; •AGROCHEMISTRY, PLANT NUTRITION; •SOIL CONSERVATION; •RESEARCH METHODS; •HISTORY of SCIENCE; •WORKS of YOUNG RESEARCHERS
Open Access Policy
Agrochemistry and Soil Science adheres to the policy of open access (Open Access), which corresponds to the definition of this concept in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which includes: free online access to scientific literature; free use for research, teaching and other purposes; the author's right to control his publication and the right to link and cite (https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/).
Our ethical guidelines are based on the COPE Guidelines of Best Practices for Journal Editors, available online at http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct
Full texts of articles, abstracts, illustrations and references are posted on the official website of the journal in the "Archives" section and are available free of charge and without other obstacles. Open access applies to all published material without the embargo period. It means that anyone can copy, distribute or otherwise use the published articles for any purpose, provided that the author and ACSS are correctly cited.
Copyright and licensing policy
The authors are the copyright holders and grant the Journal the first publication rights, and also allow others to share this work with acknowledgment of authorship and primary publication in this collection. The licensing policy of ACSS is consistent with the policy of open access and archiving of materials. ACSS works under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC).
It allows anyone to search, read, download, copy, distribute, print, quote or link to the full text of the articles, or use them for other lawful purposes.
If the article is accepted for publication, the author must fill out and sign the License Agreement and send a scanned copy to the Editorial Office's email address.
Privacy Statement
The ACSS policy on confidentiality (privacy) is based on the policy of publishing ethics and includes the following aspects: comprehensive preservation of authors' rights during the procedure of peer review of manuscripts and distribution of already published articles; editorial support of reviewers' right to confidentiality; compliance by members of the editorial board with the rights of authors and reviewers.
The editors do not disclose information about manuscripts (including their content, status in the review process, criticism by reviewers, etc.) to anyone other than the authors and reviewers.
Members of the editorial board and reviewers are aware that the manuscripts sent for consideration are the private property of the authors. Authors' rights are respected and the manuscript is not publicly discussed before publication of the article. Reviewers are not permitted to make copies of manuscripts for their own files, nor are they permitted to give them to others.
The editors do not keep copies of rejected manuscripts.
Information about the personal data of the reviewer is not published or disseminated
Plagiarism policy
The editors of ACSS accept for peer review only original manuscripts of scientific articles that have not been published before and have not been submitted to other publications. The authors guarantee this by signing the License Agreement.
In the submitted manuscripts at the stage of expert evaluation (before the review procedure), if necessary, for some manuscripts, the level of uniqueness of the author's text is determined using the appropriate software.
If the level of uniqueness (originality) of the manuscript text is less than 75%, the manuscript will be rejected without editorial review and the author will be sent a review report. The Editorial Board considers the detected fact of plagiarism, auto-plagiarism or incorrect citation to be a violation of publishing ethics.
If plagiarism or borrowing is detected, but the level does not exceed 25%, the editorial office immediately warns the author about the need to rewrite the text or make references to the original sources and revise the textual borrowings and resubmit a new version of the manuscript.
If plagiarism is detected already after the publication of the article, the editorial board conducts an analysis of this fact, informs the author and makes a decision to place information about this in the PDF file of the article on the ACSS website, or may even withdraw the article both from its own website and from those databases where it was already placed at that time.
Plagiarism is the following:
- verbatim quoting of text from articles, books, theses, etc. of other authors in any volume without reference to the source;
- using copies of illustrations (drawings, photos, graphs, tables, etc.) of other authors without reference to the source;
Autoplagiarism is the following:
- copying by the author of large fragments of text from previously published own articles or books in printed and electronic formats without reference to the primary source;
- use of unchanged illustrations from own previously published articles or books in print and electronic formats. An author may not copy his own material for a new manuscript without citing the original source.
Incorrect citation includes the following cases:
- lack of graphic notation (in quotation marks) of verbatim quoted text, even if there is a link to the source;
- an incorrectly formatted bibliographic description of the source, which prevents its identification;
- lack of references in the text of the article (serial number in square brackets) to the sources listed in the reference list;
- lack of references in the list of sources referred to in the text;
- excessive citation (in the presence of references to sources and graphic designation of the quoted text). The volume of citation is not justified by the topic and purpose of the article.
Recommendations for authors on avoiding plagiarism, auto-plagiarism and incorrect citation are posted on the page "For authors" "For authors"
Regulations on retraction (withdrawal) of a published article
The decision to retraction (withdraw) an article — the removal of an already published article from the journal at any time after its publication, is made by the editor-in-chief of the journal, the editorial board, and at the initiative of the author in the event that serious problems with the article are discovered. The decision to withdraw an article will be made in accordance with the COPE Guidelines (https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4).
After the decision on retraction is made, the article and its description remain on the publication's website, but the retraction mark is placed on the electronic copy and also in the table of contents. Indexing of the article is stopped.
Reasons for retraction
Serious error in analysis or methods that renders the conclusions in the article invalid;
Faкed or falsified data;
Image manipulation;
The presence of plagiarism;
Duplication of an article in several journals;
Incorrect author composition;
Copyright infringement;
Concealment of a conflict of interest;
Retraction can be initiated by the author if the journal republishes his material without consent.
Retraction is not carried out due to minor editorial errors that may affect the interpretation of individual elements of the article, but the scientific integrity of the article remains unchanged. In this case, the article will be corrected on the journal's website and a corresponding notice will be added to the electronic text of the article.
Repository policy
The editors keep in their own electronic archives the submitted versions (originals) of the accepted manuscripts. The published versions are stored in electronic format on the website (since 2014) in the "Archive" section, and in paper format (since 1966) – in the scientific library of the National Scientific Center "Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O. N. Sokolovsky" (Kharkiv) without embargo.
Full versions of published articles in electronic format are also kept on the portal of National Scientific Library named after V. I. Vernadsky (Kyiv).
Unaccepted manuscripts are not kept.
Financing and pricing policy
Financing of the publication of the AgroChemistry and Soil Science is carried out at the expense of the NSC ISSAR (publisher) and the authors of the articles.
The author or the author's team of the article reimburses the cost of publishing the article at the rate of 55 UAH per page (including the costs of editorial processing, printing and placement in databases). The cost of one page may change when the prices of the work producers change.
The author of the article (or a group of authors) receives one printed copy of the journal free of charge.
Employees of the NSC ISSAR, members of the editorial board and graduate students of the stationary form of education (if the graduate student is the only one author of the manuscript) are exempted from payment.
Distribution of electronic texts of individual articles and the collection as a whole in PDF format is free on the ACSS website.
Dissemination of printed copies of the AgroChemistry and Soil Science is carried out through the web-site of the NSC ISSAR. The price of one printed copy is equal to the price determined by the printing house for the issue.
