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Editorial Board, “Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy” Journal

Institute of Radio Astronomy, NAS–Ukraine, 4, Mystetstv St., Kharkiv, 61002, Ukraine

Phone: +380 (57) 700-3092

Fax: +380 (57) 706-1415

E-mail: RPRA_journal@ukr.net

 

Oksana A. Roienko

Phone: +380 (57) 315-00-06; +380 (97) 602-01-02

Fax: +380 (57) 315-21-05

E-mail: RPRA_journal@ukr.net

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Rubrics of the Journal

  • Radio astronomy and astrophysics
  • Scattering and diffraction of waves
  • Wave propagation and remote sensing
  • Radio systems and signal processing
  • Radio frequency engineering
  • Waves in plasmas
  • Electronics and photonics
  • Radio spectroscopy

The Journal RPRA publishes papers, brief information and letters to the editors relating to the modern problems of radio physics, microwave electronics, radio astronomy and astrophysics, containing the results of fundamental and applied researches, description of research methods, hardware implementation and practical application, as well as current information such as comments, events, men of science.

Publication Frequency

RPRA is published quarterly

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Ethics of Scientific Publications

The RPRA Editorial Board obeys the ethics of international scientific publications, including the concepts of decency, confidentiality, supervision of publications and prevention of possible conflicts of interests, and so on. In its activities, the Editorial Board is guided by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org), as well as by the powerful experience of reputable international publishers. Compliance with the rules of publications ethics of all parties of the publishing process helps to ensure the intellectual property rights of the authors, improvement of publication quality and prevention of possible misuse of copyrighted material for the benefit of individuals.

REGULATION ON THE ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS is one of the main components of paper review and RPRA journal publishing.

Anti-plagiarism Policy

One of the strict ethical standards of scientific publications is the inadmissibility of many types of plagiarism from cloning to recycling (without attribution) and claiming the right to the results of other author’s inverstigations. Authors should ensure that they submit only entirely original works, manuscript material has never been published or submitted for publication by some other publishing house.

The plagiarism in all forms being an unethical action is inadmissible. The papers being compilation of the materials published earlier by some other authors without their creative remaking and the author’s understanding cannot be accepted by the Journal Editors for publication.

If plagiarism is detected, either by the editors, peer reviewers or editorial staff at any stage before publication of a manuscript, the authors will be asked to revise the text, and any use of fragments of other people's works, borrowing statements of other authors should be noted in the text of the paper and be accompanied by the link to the source. The level of uniqueness of the author’s text is determined using the free online plagiarism checker tools. If plagiarism exceeds the maximum permissible level of 25 % of the original, the article is returned to the author along with the verification protocol.

In case of the proven fact of plagiarism in manuscript being published, the authors are denied the right to publish all future issues of the Journal, and the text is taken from the archives of the official website of the Journal and other places of publications for which the Journal is responsible.

The RPRA Editorial Board takes responsibility to assist a scientific community in all aspects of publication ethics policy, particularly in case of multiple submission/publication and plagiarism.

Open Access Policy

The RPRA adheres to an open access policy to the published material. The RPRA Editorial Board recognizes the priority of the principles of free dissemination of scientific information, knowledge exchange and entirely excludes national, racial, religious, political or other types of restrictions on paper publication.

The Editorial Board supports the Science Europe association's "Plan S" initiative to publish research results in open access journals licensed by the CC BY.

According to the instructions of BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative), under "open access" to the peer-reviewed scientific literature we mean its free availability through the public internet and the right of each user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, make references to full-text articles, or use it for any other lawful purpose in the absence of financial, legal, or technical barriers, with the exception of those that regulate access to the Internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this regard should be the authors’ right to control the integrity of their work and be properly acknowledged and cited.

Peer Review Process

A manuscript submitted to the RPRA is necessarily subject to a single-blind scientific peer review by at least two leading experts in the relevant field. The Editorial Board appoints reviewers from among the well-known highly qualified scientists and specialists who have the profound professional knowledge and work experience in a specific scientific area. The reviewing of manuscripts is confidential.

The objective of a review is to promote rigorous selection of author manuscripts for publication and to make specific recommendations for their improvement.

The review procedure provides a comprehensive analysis of the submitted manuscript and is aimed at an objective assessment of its content and compliance with the journal requirements.

When assessing the manuscript and writing a review, the reviewers adhere to the following criteria:

  • correspondence of the subject matter of the manuscript to the scientific areas (rubrics) of the journal;
  • the relevance of the chosen research topic;
  • scientific novelty of the presented results and their practical importance;
  • the correspondence of the goals and objectives of the work to the factual material;
  • advantages and disadvantages of the content and form of manuscript presentation;
  • recommendations for finalizing the manuscript;
  • the need to reduce the manuscript;
  • the possibility (or impossibility) of publishing a peer-reviewed manuscript in the journal.

A reviewer’s decision is not final. Authors have a right to appeal against a reviewer’s decision. In this case the paper should be sent to the independent referee or to adjudicating member of the Editorial Board for assessment. A final decision on the appeal remains with the Editorial Board.

The Editor makes the decision on the paper, and informs the authors on the decision.

Once reviewer reports have been received, authors are given 2 weeks to revise the manuscript. The revised manuscript along with a point-by-point response to the reviewer reports and with the explanations on any changes made in the manuscript should be returned to the Editorial Office.

The author's version of the article, agreed with the reviewers, is approved by the Editorial Board and sent to the editorial office to prepare for publication. The author acquaints him(her) self with the remarks of the scientific and literary editors. After completing the draft layout, the author makes the necessary corrections, and this version of the article is considered to be final, after which the replacement of text, figures or tables becomes inadmissible.

Indexed/Abstracted

The RPRA is included into the catalogue of subscription agency UKRINFORMNAUKA.

Since 2014 the scientific publications of RPRA are provided with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by CrossRef Agency.
The RPRA journal has DOI: 10.15407/rpra.

The RPRA is indexed in the international scientometric databases:

The RPRA is included into the rating list of the system BIBLIOMETRICS OF UKRAINIAN SCIENCE 

The RPRA is represented in the national systems of abstracting:

Submissions

Author Guidelines

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The manuscript of the article can be submitted through the online editorial system after registration on the journal's website. When registering, all fields with an asterisk must be filled in: name and surname (indicate in full in Ukrainian or English), place of work, country, e-mail address, username (in Latin letters), password, password repeated.

Articles are submitted to the Geological Journal exclusively through the online editorial system, where you will see step-by-step tips on how to create and upload your files and provide the required submission information. To start submitting, log in to the site as a registered user, and in the "User Folder" section find and click on the link "New submission".

When submitting the manuscript, it is obligatory to enter data about all authors in Ukrainian and English: name and surname, place of work (the name of the institution must be indicated in full without abbreviations), ORCID (in Latin letters as a link, for example, https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-000X). The sequence of authors must correspond to the sequence in the manuscript.

Submission preparation checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The author presents an original manuscript. The article has not been published before and is not currently under consideration in another journal.

• The manuscript and all additional files must be submitted to editorial office in electronic form. The manuscript must be signed by all co-authors.

• The manuscript should be accompanied by the order signed by the head of institution where the work was done, information about the authors (last name, name and, academic degree and academic status, place of employment and position, mailing address and e-mail for correspondence, telephones), as well as the License Agreement.

• The contents of manuscripts sent to the editors should correspond to the Journal’s type and scientific and technical level. The presentation material should be clear and structured (Introduction, Original part, Results and discussions, Conclusions, References), with maximum clarity and clearness the essence of obtained results and their novelty should be shown, the author's evaluation of the preceding works reflected, the research purpose formulated. It is essential to avoid ungrounded introduction of new terms and slangy expressions.

• The author is responsible for the novelty and reliability of the results of scientific research.

• The author guarantees the correct composition of the list of co-authors of the work who have made a significant intellectual contribution to the preparation of the presented work.

• The author guarantees that in case of using fragments of other works and/or borrowing statements of other authors, the article contains the relevant bibliographic references with the obligatory indication of the author and the original source.

• Excessive borrowing, as well as plagiarism in any form, including unstructured citations, paraphrasing, or appropriating rights to the results of other people's research, are unethical and unacceptable actions.

• The author is acquainted with and agrees with the terms of the License Agreement for the use of the work.

• All materials in format and content meet the requirements of the journal, outlined in Author Guidelines.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

The journal “Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy” publishes original scientific and review papers, relating to the modern problems of radio physics, radio astronomy and astrophysics, containing the results of fundamental and applied researches, description of research methods, hardware implementation and practical application, as well as current information such as comments, events, men of science.

Journal sections
    • Radio astronomy and astrophysics
    • Electromagnetic theory
    • Wave propagation and remote sensing
    • Radio systems and signal processing
    • Radio frequency engineering
    • Electronics and photonics
    • Radio spectroscopy
    • Men of science
    • Personalia

Working languages of the journal are Ukrainian or English (at authors’ request).
The journal is published in the form of two separate editions:
i) ISSN 1027-9636 (Print);
ii) ISSN 2415-7007 (Online).

After being submitted, every paper is directed to a Section Editor responsible for the journal section selected by the author. The Section Editor appoints two reviewers working in the corresponding field. The reviewers give their professional evaluation of the paper. Based on the reports received from the reviewers, the Section Editor makes a decision whether the paper can be accepted for publication or rejected (in the both cases, the Section Editor sends the reviewer's reports to the author). The reason for rejection can be a negative review, unconformity to the journal scope, the lack of novelty, etc. If the review on the paper contains remarks, the paper is first sent to the author for revision. If the paper does not correspond to the journal scope or it was not submitted in appropriate form, it can be rejected by the Section Editor prior to the peer review stage.
After the accepted paper was edited, the proof is sent by e-mail to the corresponding author for final approval. The journal’s electronic version in PDF format becomes publicly available on the website duly.

The publication in The journal “Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy” foresees no author emoluments and royalties.

2. STYLE GUIDE

An article submitted for publishing in the journal must contain:
• Index of UDC
• Initials and surname(s) of the author(s) (in the original language);
• Full name of the organizations where the authors work and postal address, telephone number, e-mail of the each of  the co-authors (in the original language);
• Title of the article (in the original language);
• Abstract (in the original language);
• Keywords (in the original language).
• The list of references;
• Initials and surname(s) of the author(s) (in an additional language);
• Full name of the organizations where the authors work and postal address, telephone number, e-mail of the each of  the co-authors (in an additional language);
• Title of the article (in an additional language);
• Abstract (in an additional language);
• Keywords (in an additional language).

Manuscript preparation: The articles should be prepared in form of the journal Style. The manuscript should be typed in the text editor of Microsoft Word 2003/2007/2010. Font Times New Roman 11; line spacing 1.0. 0. All page margins – 20 mm. A paragraph is an indent by 0.5 cm. Word hyphenation is not allowed. Tables and illustrations should be numbered according to their appearance in the paper. References to original sources in the article should be made in square brackets according to the number on the reference list.

Article size: The total size of the should not exceed 15 A4 pages in “Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy” format, including tables, figures and pictures, abstracts in Ukrainian and English. The total size of review publications should not exceed 25 pages The contents and subject matter of review publications should be agreed by the authors with the editorial board, therefore for preliminary consideration the abstracts and structural plan of paper are required.
The number of figures and tables cannot exceed the number of sides of the text material.

Authors and their affiliations: The authors' information about the authors is provided: initials and surnames, academic degree, academic title, position, affiliations, postal address of the organization, E-mail, direct links to the ORCID author identifiers of each author and author-correspondent and their contact data (for contacting the editor). If there is more than one author, names are put consecutively, separated by commas and indicated by superscript numerical indices, which then are used to indicate respective affiliations. For the list of organizations and their location (mailing address), it is advisable to use the generally accepted version of their writing and translation into English. Particular attention should be paid to the correct spelling of surnames and initials in the English version.

Title of the article: The title should reflect the main content of the study and be laconic, should not contain abbreviations, except (if necessary) generally accepted.

An abstract must be informative (without using general words and phrases), reflect paper main contents and research results, correspond structurally to the logic of statement of paper contents, and necessarily include the followings parts with headings: Subject and Purpose, Methods and Methodology, Results and Conclusions. Superfluous parenthetic phrases (e. g. “the author of the paper considers”) should be avoided.
The abstract volume must make 1800–2000 characters (250–300 words).

Keywords (5 to 8 words or phrases) are provided after each abstract, in Ukrainian and English, respectively (the contents must be identical). Keywords relate to the scientific topic, do not duplicate the title of the article, do not contain common words.

Figures and Tables: Be sure to submit separately electronic files of figures, photographs, charts, etc. Figures are numbered according to the first mention of them in the text. Figures are referred to in the text as (Fig. 1). The caption is placed below the figure and should be in Times New Roman, 10 pt.
All graphics must be computer designed in black and white. To obtain high-quality printed figures, it is advisable to submit them in vector graphic formats: CorelDRAW (CDR), Adobe Illustrator (AI) or in the Origin package (OPJ, OGG). If the figures were made in other graphic editors, they must be converted to Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Windows MetaFile (WMF), Portable Document Format (PDF). Graphs and charts can be made in the Excel editor.
Submitted figures and photographs in raster graphics formats (GIF, TIFF, JPG, uncompressed varieties) must be of high quality and have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Images and tone figures must be clear and contrast. Color figures are not acceptable if the question is not agreed beforehand with the editors. Color figures will be presented in the electronic version of the article on the journal's website.
The alphanumeric symbols at the figure chosen size must correspond to the size and style of formulas set in the Mathtype formula editor (Regular Times New Roman, 11 pt). Arrangement of figures must account for their placing within one or two columns. For that, the figure width must not exceed 8 cm, whereas the width of large and saturated images – 18 cm. Maximum size of a figure is 16×18 cm. All additional information and explanations for the figure are given in the figure caption or directly in the text of the article.
Tables with captions should be inserted in the text and numbered (in the left upper corner before the table’s caption). Tables are referred to in the text as (Table 1). Table captions should be in Times New Roman, 10  pt.
The total number of figures and tables cannot exceed the number of pages of the article text.

Formulas and Symbols: Only Latin or Greek symbols should be used for the designation of physical quantities in the text and formulas. Mathematical formulas and symbols should be typed in the MathType formula editor in common style: Latin letters and Greek lowercase letters are marked in Italics, Greek uppercase letters – in Regular, matrices – in Bold, vectors – in Regular (arrow above the letter). An exception is made for the characters of operators, for example, differential – d, and standard functions – cos, arctg, ln, lg etc., being typed Regular Times New Roman. Аlso differ in length a hyphen (-), “minus” sign, and dash (–). Superscript and subscript letters must be in English. Numbered should be only those formulas which are further mentioned in the text.
Use a period (full stop), but not a comma, to indicate the decimal place everywhere in the text, tables and figures.
Manuscripts with formulas typed using the MS Equation formula editor integrated into MS Word will not be accepted.

The list of references is formed according to the requirements for international citation systems adapted to the CrossRef standard. The list of references should be given at the end of the article. References (monographs, separate chapters, etc., articles from scientific periodicals, conference proceedings, patents and copyright certificates, dissertations or abstracts, electronic resources) are numbered sequentially, in the order of their citation in the text of the article. References to unpublished and unfinished works are not allowed. In the bibliographic description, all authors should be indicated.
As a rule, the self-citation should not be more than 20% of the list of sources.
Authors of scientific articles submitted in Ukrainian must provide a list of references in two versions. The first block is formed in the language of the original articles with the preservation of the format DSTU 8302: 2015). The second block duplicates the first, but the names of Ukrainian-language periodicals (Journals, abstract collections, etc.) are provided in transliteration, except for cases when the publication has an official English-language title (in this case, this English-language title is provided). The titles of periodicals or the title of a book are provided in English translation.
The editorial board of the journal "Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy" uses Harvard-British Style for the bibliographic list.

Sample Harvard-British Style Reference List

1. Berdnik, S.L., Katrich, V.A., and Nesterenko, M.V., Penkin, Y.M., 2018. Forming electromagnetic field distributions with combined, rod and slot antenna structures. Kharkiv, Ukraine: V.N.Karazin University Publ. (in Ukrainian)

2. Kostenko, A., Nosich, A., and Goldsmith, P., 2006. Historical Background and Development of Soviet Quasioptics at Near-MM and Sub-MM Wavelengths. Chapter 15. In: T.K. Sarkar, R.J. Mailloux, A.A. Oliner, and M. Salazar-Pajma (eds.) History of Wireless, New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 473-542.

3. Alekseev, E.A., Ilyushin, V.V., and Motiyenko, R.A., 2022. Square-wave frequency modulation in microwave spectroscopy. Radio Phys. Radio Astron., 27(4), pp. 130–147. DOI: 10.15407/rpra27.04.299

4. Nasr Esfahani, N., Vavriv, D.M., Schünemann, K., 2023. A new class of spatial harmonic magnetrons with potentials for CW and sub-THz operation. Int. J. Microwave Wireless Technolog., 15(8), pp. 1308–1318. DOI: 10.1017/S1759078723000065

5. Nestryzhenko, Y., 2004. Polarizer and spectral prisms for lasers. In: V.M. Yakovenko, ed. 2004. Radiofizika i elektronika. Kharkov, Ukraine: IRE NAS of Ukraine Publ. 9(Spec. Iss.), pp. 112–120 (in Ukrainian)

6. Tuz, V.R., Khardikov, V.V., Sydorchuk, N.V., Novitsky, D.V., Prosvirnin, S.L., 2017. Recent development of conception of trapped modes in low-loss all-dielectric metamaterials. In: Proc. 47th European Microwave Conf. (EuMC 2017). Nuremberg, Germany, 10–12 Oct. 2017. Nuremberg: IEEE, 2017. P. 484–487. DOI: 10.23919/EuMC.2017.8230895

7. Popov, I.V., 2021. Environmental monitoring using radiation from existing ground- and space-based radio systems: PhD thesis ed., Kharkiv, Ukraine: O.Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of NASU (in Ukrainian)

8. Tesla N., 1914. Apparatus for transmitting electrical energy. US Pat. 1119732

9. Popov M.O. and Stankevych S.A., 2008. Method for increase of spatial resolution of multi-spectral aero-space images on basis of classification of spectral signatures of objects. Ukraine. Pat. 84877 (in Ukrainian)

10. History. The Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Available from: http://rian.kharkov.ua/index.php/uk/history-ua (Accessed: 31.01.2023).

The read proof copy should be signed and dated by the authors and sent back to the editorial board within nearest three days.

The editorial board reserves the right to reject the paper with unsatisfactory quality of material presented.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors reserve the right of attribution for the submitted manuscript, while transferring to the Journal the right to publish the paper under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows free distribution of the published work under the condition of proper attribution of the original authors and the initial publication source (i.e. the Journal)
  2. Authors have the right to enter into separate agreements for additional non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form it was published in the Journal (such as publishing the paper on the institutional website or as a part of a monograph), provided the original publication in this Journal is properly referenced
  3. The Journal allows and encourages online publication of the manuscripts (such as on personal web pages), even when such a manuscript is still under editorial consideration, since it allows for a productive scientific discussion and better citation dynamics (see The Effect of Open Access).

The authors of the papers published before December 2018 granted the RPRA the right of the first publication and retain the copyright as the owners of the manuscript.

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