All articles received by the editors of the journal “Izvestiya vuzov. Fizika”, are independently peer reviewed.

1. The manuscript of a scientific article received by the editors of the journal is considered by the executive secretary for compliance with the profile of the journal, the main provisions of the requirements for publications, design, approved by the editorial board of the journal.

The executive secretary informs the authors about the receipt of the article and its further review by means of an automatic notification by e-mail after making the appropriate changes in the author's profile on the journal's website. If the formal requirements for materials for publication are not met, then the article for publication is not accepted “on formal grounds” and the author is informed about this by automatic notification.

2. The executive secretary sends the article for review. To review manuscripts, both members of the editorial board of the journal and highly qualified scientists and specialists from other organizations with deep professional knowledge and experience in a particular scientific area can be involved as reviewers.

3. The review is drawn up on a special form. The deadline for submitting a review to the executive secretary should not exceed two months from the date of receipt of the manuscript by the reviewer.

4. Peer review "one-sided blind": the author is not informed about the data about the reviewer (reviewers). The author receives a review without a signature and indication of the name, position, place of work of the reviewer.

5. If the review contains recommendations for correcting and finalizing the article, the executive secretary of the journal sends the text of the review to the author with a proposal to take them into account when preparing a new version of the article or to refute them with reason (partially or completely).

6. An article sent to the author for revision must be returned in a corrected form. A letter from the authors must be attached to the revised manuscript, containing answers to all comments and explaining all the changes made in the article (highlight the changes in a separate file and in the text of the article). The article modified (revised) by the author is re-sent for review and a response to the reviewer is attached (an answer to the review is “Thank you dear reviewer for carefully reading our work, .... we tried to take into account all the comments ..., but at the same time ... .. ").

7. The editors reserve the right to reject articles if the author is unable or unwilling to take into account the wishes of the editors.

8. An article not recommended by the reviewer for publication is not accepted for re-consideration.

9. If there are negative reviews on the manuscript or on its revised version, the article is rejected with the obligatory notification of the author about the reasons for such a decision.

10. After the editorial board of the journal makes a decision on the admission of the article for publication, the executive secretary of the journal informs the author about this by means of automatic notification and indicates the possible terms of publication.

11. The order of publication of articles is determined by the registration date of their receipt by the editorial office. Works devoted to particularly topical problems of science, as well as containing fundamentally new information, may be, by decision of the editorial board, published out of turn.

12. The editorial board does not enter into a meaningful discussion of articles with the authors, correspondence on the methodology for writing and designing scientific articles and does not bring articles to the required scientific and methodological level.