The procedure for reviewing manuscripts of scientific articles

For publication in the journal, previously unpublished scientific articles written in Kazakh, Russian, or English, corresponding to the thematic focus of the journal and formatted in strict accordance with the established requirements, are accepted from authors (or groups of authors).

 The author must upload the article via the journal's electronic platform, providing all necessary metadata and author(s) information.

 The editorial board reviews submitted manuscripts, organizes the peer review process, and makes a decision on acceptance or rejection within two months from the date of submission through the electronic system.

 During the manuscript review process, communication between the author and the reviewer is carried out via the journal's online platform, and in exceptional cases — by email.

 Compliance with formal requirements (article formatting) is verified using an anti-plagiarism system provided through Shakarim University's institutional subscription.

 The Editorial Board of the journal when reviewing the manuscript for compliance with formal requirements (design of the manuscript) It also checks for the presence of a borrowed text in the manuscript through a plagiarism verification system, access to which is provided by a subscription from Shakarim University.

Manuscripts submitted to the editorial office of the journal and meeting the formal requirements, design requirements and the indicator of originality on the basis of verification through the anti-plagiarism system are necessarily sent for further review.

The journal uses double-blind review (double-blind review), that is, confidentially: the manuscript of the article is sent to reviewers via the electronic platform of the journal without specifying data about the authors.

Highly qualified scientists from domestic and foreign organizations with deep professional knowledge and experience in a specific scientific field and having at least three years of experience in publishing on the subject of peer-reviewed articles can be involved as reviewers.

The reviewer has the right to refuse to write a review if there is a clear conflict of interest affecting the perception and interpretation of the manuscript materials.

Reviewers are required to make a clear, objective and reasoned assessment of the compliance of the manuscript with the main scientific criteria.

The ongoing review of manuscripts ends with a reasoned recommendation for further actions of the editorial board.

After receiving the conclusions from the reviewers, the responsible editor sends them to the author(s) for correspondence without specifying the reviewers' data, for responding to comments, making appropriate changes and resending the manuscript via an electronic platform. The author(s) may, without explanation, refuse to respond to comments, make changes to the manuscript and resend it to the editorial office of the journal.

After receiving a response from the author to all the comments of the reviewers, making changes to the manuscript and re-sending it to the editorial office of the journal, the scientific editor sends all the materials to the reviewer(s) for re-reviewing.

The manuscript, which has positive conclusions from two reviewers and the responsible editor, is recommended for publication in the scientific journal "Bulletin of Shakarim University. Technical Sciences" according to the order of their acceptance for publication. The manuscripts approved by the editorial board are transferred to the executive secretary for the formation of the issue of the journal.

If one of the reviewers provided a positive opinion on the manuscript, and the second – a negative one, then the manuscript is sent by the scientific editor to the third reviewer or a member of the editorial board who is a specialist in the subject of the manuscript. If a third reviewer or a member of the editorial board provides a positive conclusion, the final decision on acceptance/rejection of the publication of the manuscript is made by the scientific editor of the journal.

If there are two negative reviews, the manuscript is rejected from publication in the journal. The materials of the articles rejected by the results of the review are not used by the editorial board for their own purposes. The editor notifies the author(s) of the refusal to publish, and sends the conclusions of the reviewers.

The reviews of the manuscripts are stored for three years in electronic format on the electronic platform of the journal.