Criteria for manuscript evaluation 

• degree of correspondence with the thematic issues of the journal;
• brevity and informative value of the title;
• informativity, emphasizing the full content of the article in the abstract;
• modern methodology of the problem approach, clear and detailed explanation (including analytical and statistical methods);
• original character of the work;
• the material explicitly presented and in accordance with the issues being discussed;
• clarity, conciseness and accuracy of the article text;
• importance and usefulness of the research;
• scientific basis and value of the information communicated in the article;
• relevance of bibliographic sources;
• research contribution to the field of study;
• clarity and accessibility of the expressive style;
• grammatical correctness, accuracy of technical and stylistic aspects of writing.

                                                                                  Rejection criteria

• the subject does not correspond to the thematic areas of the journal;
• the manuscript was sent for examination inclusively to another journal;
• the lack of novelty, impact and originality of the work;
• the lack of rigorous description of the methodology (the research design, sampling and applied methods are not scientifically correct);
• the quality of the manuscript is mediocre;
• the clinical study/involving human/animal laboratory subjects was not approved by the ethics committee;
• criteria for submission of manuscripts were not respected.