Editorial Board Regulation

Journal Managment Structure

Khimicheskaya Bezopasnost'/ Chemical Safety Science is headed by Editor-in-Chief.

Editor-in-Chief is elected at a meeting of the Academic Council of the organization founder and approved by the order of the director of the organization founder (FRCCP RAS). The Editor-in-chief takes final decisions concerning scientific and methodological issues as well as provides organizational assistance in preparing the journal's issues for publication.

The journal has the collegial body – Editorial Board.

The Editor-in-chief and Editorial Board activities are governed by the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” (No. 273-FZ of 29 December 2012), Federal Law “On Mass Media” (No. 142-FZ of 14 June 2011 with amendments of 2 July 2013 No. 185-FZ), Federal Law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Concerning the Protection of Intellectual Rights in Information Telecommunication Network” (No. 187-FZ of 2 July 2013),  and also by by the existing general law of the Russian Federation, the Charter of FRCCP RAS, Charter of journal Editorial Board and the present regulation.

EDITORIAL BOARD is a scientific advisory body that performs the journal's activities, it is comprised of leading scientists representing the founder of the journal and other academic, research and educational institutions.

The activities of the Editorial Board are based on the professional independence principle аccording to Part 1 of Article 19 of the Law of the Russian Federation “On Mass Media” which assigns a special status of professional independence to the Editorial Board to buffer it against the founder's position. 

The tasks of the Editorial Board are as follows:

  • to set strategic lines of the journal's development, its scientific scope, and priority issues taking into account recommendations and proposals of the Editorial Council ;
  • to determine requirements for contents and style of the published materials;
  • to provide general assessment of the journal issues and recommendations for removing identified shortfalls;
  • to make requests for analytical reviews which are of extreme importance for the journal readers;
  • to conduct peer review of articles for compliance with the scope of the journal, editorial guidelines for authors; to reject the papers that do not correspond to the journal's standards;
  • to create and maintain partnerships with single and corporate authors to extend the scientific cooperation within the journal’s profile.

The basic documents of the Editorial Board include:

  1. Charter of the journal's Editorial 
  2. Editorial Board Regulation.
  3. Publication Policy, Publication Ethics, Peer Review Guidelines.
  4. Records of minutes of the Editorial Board meetings.
  5. Annual report.

Editorial Board membership is approved by the Editor-in-Chief.

The activities of the Editorial Board are coordinated by the Editor-in-Chief.