Compliance with COPE, WAME and DORA Principles and Recommendations

The Editorial Board of the Ukrainian Journal of Remote Sensing adheres to the following principles and recommendations of international organizations:

  1. COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)
    The journal follows the ethical standards articulated by COPE, including:
    • Transparency across submission, peer review, and publication workflows.
    • Impartiality and independence of editors and reviewers.
    • Academic integrity – including the prevention of plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, and duplicate publication.
    • Responsible authorship – clear attribution of each author’s contribution.
    • Complaints and appeals handling – supported by the public, with well-defined procedures for ethics-related concerns.
    • Retractions and corrections supported by clear processes for retraction, correction, and error notification.
  2. WAME (World Association of Medical Editors, principles for editors of all sciences)
    WAME recommendations can be applied in a broader context:
    • Editorial independence – ensuring decisions are made without undue influence from sponsors, institutions, or commercial interests.
    • Conflict of interest – all authors, reviewers, and editors are required to declare them.
    • Peer review ensuring objective, fair, and timely expert assessment.
    • Funding transparency – disclosure of information about grants, sponsors, and research funding sources.
    • Support for early-career researchers – enabling publication pathways for scholars at the beginning of their academic careers.
  3. DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)
    The journal supports responsible and fair research assessment practices, including:
    • Moving beyond bibliometrics (e.g., impact factor, h-index) toward evaluation based on quality, novelty, and scholarly contribution.
    • Valuing diverse research outputs – including software, datasets, algorithms, and technical solutions, not only journal articles.
    • Recognizing interdisciplinary research as equivalent in scholarly value to traditional publications.
    • Encouraging Open Science – publication of preprints, and open access to data and code.
  4. CMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors – general principles for all sciences)
    • Authorship criteria – recognizing authorship only for those who have made a substantive intellectual contribution to the work.
    • Research ethics – compliance with standards for data governance, human participants, and experiments.
    • Data openness – encouraging authors to preserve and provide access to research data.
  5. Additional Contemporary Principles (Open Science, Plan S, FAIR Data, and responsible AI use)
    The journal aligns with current best practices in scholarly communication, including:
    • Open Access – promoting open access to scientific results.
    • FAIR Data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) – ensuring the ability to find, access, interoperate, and reuse data.
    • Plan S – supporting policies for publication in open journals and archives.
    • Ethical and transparent AI use, ensuring transparency and responsibility when artificial intelligence is applied in research.