Aim and Scope

The main goal of the scientific and practical journal "Digital Transformation" is to satisfy the needs of various specialists in scientific and analytical information on the implementation and use of information-communication technologies (including their use in the educational process) in the conditions of digital transformation.

The target audience of the journal is Belarusian and foreign researchers (including doctoral students, graduate students), employees of the education sector and IT-sphere, government bodies.

The main concept is the publication of the latest achievements in the field of technical and economic sciences, including the results of national and international research.

Section Policies

ECONOMIC SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

TECHNICAL SCIENCES

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

INFORMATICS, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, EDUCATION, ECONOMICS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ECONOMIC SCIENCES, EDUCATION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year

Open Access Policy

"Digital Transformation" is an 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.

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
• Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.ru
• National Library of Belarus
• Republican Scientific and Technical Library (Belarus)
• Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus named after Yakub Kolas

Peer-Review

All scientific articles are peer reviewed. The review process takes place according to a “double-blind” scheme.

Reviewing is carried out by the members of the editorial board, as well as external experts in this field of research.

Article review period: from 2 to 8 weeks. The exact deadline is established by the agreement between the publisher and the reviewer.

The recommendations of the reviewers are the basis for making the final decision on the publication of the article. Based on the results of the review, the editorial board makes one of the decisions: accept the manuscript for publication in its submitted form, re-examine the manuscript after revision, or reject the manuscript. The editor-in-chief makes a decision on publication, guided by the journal's policy and taking into account current copyright legislation.

The manuscripts sent to authors for revision are re-checked to ensure that the comments of reviewers and editors have been corrected, after which a final decision on publication or rejection of the manuscript is made. The revised text should be returned by the authors to the editor along with the original version of the article, as well as responses to the comments of the reviewer and/or editor (if the comment is eliminated, then it is necessary to write “corrected”; if the author does not agree with the comments, then it is necessary to justify this).

Indexation

Publishing Ethics

Duties of Authors

1. Authorship

1.1. The authors (co-authors) of the article are only those persons who took part in the research and (or) writing of the work. The publication must indicate persons who made a significant contribution to the research or assisted in writing the article.

1.2. The author who submitted the article to the editor guarantees that the team of authors is complete and does not include persons who did not participate in the research and (or) writing of the article, and also confirms that all authors are familiar with the final version of the article, approved it and gave their consent for publication.

1.3. All copyrights to articles are reserved for their authors. The author of the article grants the publisher the right to use the article on the basis of a non-exclusive license.

2. Lack of secret data

The author guarantees that the provided material does not contain information related to state, official or commercial secrets.

3. Reliability and absence of falsification

The author of the article must provide only reliable information and results of research. False or deliberately erroneous statements or falsification of data are unacceptable.

4. Originality and plagiarism

The author guarantees that the work is completely original, and in the case of using works, research results, statements of other authors, links to sources of information must be provided.

5. Multiplicity, redundancy and simultaneity of publications

The author guarantees that the material provided has not been published anywhere before. Copying or paraphrasing your own work is unacceptable and should only be used as a basis for new conclusions. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals at the same time is unethical behavior.

6. Data access and retention

Authors may be asked to provide data used to write an article (for example, the original version of the images used in the article). Authors should be willing to make these data publicly available if possible, and should retain them for some period of time after the article is published.

7. Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Authors are required to disclose financial and other conflicts of interest in their articles that may affect the results of the study or their interpretation.

Potential conflicts of Interest: employment, honoraria, equity ownership, consulting, patents, grants and other financial support.

8. Fundamental errors in submitted, accepted or published work

If the author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in the publication, he must report about them to the editor of the journal and help correct the errors.

If a third party informs the editor or publisher of significant errors in the published work, the author is obliged to correct them as soon as possible or withdraw the publication, or provide the editor with evidence of the correctness of the information provided.

Responsibilities of editors and publishing houses

1. Publication decision

The decision to publish the article is made by the editorial board, guided by the journal's policy and copyright legislation. The editors evaluate manuscripts solely on their scientific significance, regardless of the race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship and political views of the authors. The reviewer's feedback is the basis for making the final decision on publication of the article. The final publication decision is made basing on all comments of reviewers.

2. Confidentiality

The editor and editorial board must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the authors, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher. Unpublished materials are returned to the authors.

3. Conflict of interest

If there is a conflict of interest due to a competitive relationship, collaboration, or other connection with one of the authors or organizations related to the submitted manuscripts, the editor should refer the manuscript to another member of the editorial board for review.

The editor should request disclosure of conflicts of interest from all participants in the preparation of the manuscript.

4. Supervision of published work

An editor presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should coordinate with the publisher to promote the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, or other note, as may be relevant.

Duties of Reviewers

1. Contribution to editorial decisions

Reviewers assist the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

2. Efficiency and diligence

Reviewers must adhere to the deadlines for reviewing articles.

If a reviewers believe that they are not qualified to review a manuscript or do not have enough time to complete the work on time, they should inform the editor and ask to be excluded from the review process.

3. Objectivity and validity

Reviewers are required to provide an objective and impartial review. The reviewer's opinion must be clear and reasoned; if necessary, it can be supported by a reference to the source.

4. Confidentiality

4.1. Any manuscript is a confidential document and cannot be discussed with anyone who does not have permission from the editor and the author (-s).

4.2. Reviewers may not use data from peer-reviewed manuscripts in their own research without the written consent of the author.

5. Fundamental errors in the manuscript

If the reviewer finds incorrect, erroneous provisions or distortion of data, then he must, through the editors, notify the authors of the article so that they can eliminate the errors.

6. Acknowledgement of sources

Reviewer should call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge. The reviewer should identify significant published work that is relevant to the topic of the manuscript but not included in its bibliography. Any statement that had been previously published should be accompanied by the relevant citation.

7. Disclosure and сonflict of interest

Reviewers should not participate in the review of a manuscript if there is a conflict of interest due to competitive relationships, collaborations, or other connections with any of the authors of the submitted manuscript.

The Publishing ethics is prepared according to Guidelines from COPE (https://publicationethics.org/).

Founder

• Educational Establishment "Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics"

Author fees

Publication in “Digital Transformation" is free of charge for all the authors.

The editors do not charge authors for the preparation, placement and printing of materials.

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.

Plagiarism detection

"Digital Transformation" use detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

Articles previously posted by authors on personal or public websites not related to other publishers are accepted for consideration.

When referring to an article published in the journal "Digital Transformation", the editors ask that you post a link to the official website of the journal.