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«Environmental Protection and Nature Reserve Management
Scientific and Practical Journal
Environmental Protection and Nature Reserve Management
Scientific and Practical Journal
Publication Fee
The Journal does not charge authors for submission, processing, publication, or printing of manuscripts.
Conflict of Interest Policy
  • Members of the Editorial Board, reviewers, editors, and authors must avoid conflicts of interest at all stages of the publication process.
  • If a conflict of interest or violation of ethical standards is identified, the concerned party must immediately inform the Chair of the Editorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief.
  • In cases of alleged publication ethics violations, the Chair and Editor-in-Chief shall conduct an impartial investigation without involving persons who may have a conflict of interest. If misconduct is confirmed and the material has been published, it shall be corrected in a form accessible to readers and indexing systems or retracted.
Responsibilities of the Editorial Board
  • The Editorial Board makes every effort to comply with ethical standards accepted by the international scientific community and to prevent violations of these standards.
  • The Journal ensures independent peer review to guarantee fairness and objectivity in assessing the scientific value of submitted manuscripts.
  • Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two experts selected from members of the Editorial Board or external reviewers.
  • All manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents and are not disclosed or discussed with unauthorized persons.
  • Reviewers must not disclose any information about the manuscript (including its receipt, content, review process, reviewers’ comments, or final decision) to anyone except members of the Editorial Office. Confidentiality may only be breached in cases of suspected falsification or misconduct.
  • Reviewers are not permitted to copy manuscripts for personal use and may not use knowledge of unpublished work for their own benefit.
  • Reviewers must recuse themselves from reviewing manuscripts where conflicts of interest exist due to competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with authors or related organizations.
  • The Editorial Office maintains the confidentiality of reviewers’ personal data.
  • The Journal uses available tools to detect plagiarism.
  • The Journal publishes works by authors of all countries and nationalities whose research aligns with the editorial policy.
  • The Editorial Office rejects manuscripts containing calls for terrorism, xenophobia, or offensive statements toward other authors or citizens.
  • The Journal provides open access to its issues from the first issue onward. Access is free of charge. The table of contents, abstracts, keywords, and author information (in Russian and English) are also available.
  • Full access to articles is provided through the website of FSBI «VNII Ecology», the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), and the CyberLeninka electronic library.
  • Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscripts. Submitted materials must contain only original scientific data. If materials of other researchers are used, appropriate and accurate citation must be provided.
  • The results discussed in the article must meet the criterion of reproducibility by other researchers. All data processing methods and their interpretation must be transparent. Authors must present reliable research results. Deliberately erroneous or falsified statements are unacceptable.
  • Authors are responsible for unauthorized use of the results of other researchers. Borrowed materials reproduced with permission of copyright holders must be presented correctly and accompanied by proper references. Plagiarism in any form constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  • By submitting a manuscript to the Journal, authors confirm that the manuscript is not under consideration by another journal and has not been previously published. Authors must not submit manuscripts that are simultaneously under review elsewhere or have already been published.
  • If elements of the manuscript have been previously published, authors must reference the earlier work, clearly indicate the substantial difference between the new and previous publication, and explain its relationship to earlier findings.
  • Verbatim copying of one's own published work (self-plagiarism) or its paraphrasing is unacceptable unless it serves as a foundation for new conclusions.
  • The Editorial Office recommends including in the reference list previously prepared materials related to the research underlying the submitted article, including conference papers and seminar presentations.
  • Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. All individuals who made substantial contributions must be listed as co-authors. Persons who did not participate in the research must not be listed as authors. Individuals who contributed substantially should be acknowledged or included as co-authors.
  • Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest is mandatory.
  • Authors must observe ethical standards when criticizing or commenting on the research of third parties.
  • Authors must respect the work of the Editorial Board members, reviewers, and editors by correcting identified deficiencies or providing reasoned arguments in response.
  • Manuscripts must be prepared and formatted in accordance with the Journal’s submission guidelines.
  • If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, they must immediately notify the Editor-in-Chief and cooperate in correcting or retracting the publication. If the Editorial Board, reviewers, or editors receive information from a third party about a substantial error in a published article, the author is obliged to promptly provide corrections or evidence supporting the accuracy of the data.
Responsibilities of Authors
The editorial policy of the Journal is based on the traditional ethical principles of Russian scientific publishing and complies with international publication ethics standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP).

In its publishing activities, the Editorial Board adheres to international copyright regulations, international publishing standards, current legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as departmental and local regulatory acts.
“Environmental Protection and Nature Reserve Management” (All-Russian Research Institute for Environmental Protection (FSBI «VNII Ecology»))
Ethical Principles of the Online Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal
All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection (FSBI «VNII Ecology»)
36 km MKAD, Building 1, Structure 4
Moscow, 117628, Russian Federation
Tel.: +7 (495) 739-66-41
Email: journal@vniiecology.ru
Contacts
Editorial Office and Editor-in-Chief