The editorial board considers retraction of a publication as a mechanism for preventing the negative consequences of publishing an article containing accidental or deliberate errors, falsification of data, biased reflection of authorship, and the presence of a conflict of interest identified after publication. The protocol for the implementation of procedures related to the retraction of publications includes the following possible actions:

• assessment of the possibility of making corrections to the content of the published article without direct retraction,
• initiation of an investigation into the fact, the manifestation of which could potentially lead to a retraction procedure, for validity and possibility retraction of a publication,
• deletion of an article from electronic resources of the journal and indexing resources,
• generation of a notice of retraction of a publication.

Evaluating the possibility of making corrections to the content of a published article without direct retraction. It is carried out in cases where a precedent arises in the format of a revealed fact or an external signal about a conflict of interests of authors, a bias in the list of authors, or an identified minor error in a published article that does not entail negative consequences in the context of the overall significance, applicability and effectiveness of the published results.

Initiating an investigation into a fact, the manifestation of which could potentially lead to a retraction procedure, regarding the validity and possibility of publication retraction. It is carried out in any of the following cases when the editorial board receives evidence that there is plagiarism in the published articles, there is a conflict of interest, falsification of data or manipulation, violation of publication ethics, if the published results are erroneous and their use may entail negative consequences varying degrees of severity.

Removing an article from electronic resources of the journal and indexing resources. It is carried out in the event that the result of an investigation for the validity and possibility of retraction of the publication is the following:

• the application of the results of the article can cause negative consequences of varying severity,
• the published article violates the legal rights of other persons,
• the published article is defamatory in its essence,
• the published article the article, its individual parts, the consequences of using the results set forth in the article may become the object of legal proceedings
• the article contains information that may inadmissibly disclose personal data, without the personal consent of the relevant person, expressed by the adopted documents, protocols, etc. ., including identifying a specific person based on published photographs.

Formation of a notice about the retraction of the publication. The notification is generated for indexing resources and contains all the necessary information to identify the article, in particular: the title of the article and its authors or a link to the revoked article. In addition, the notification contains information about the reason for the retraction and the initiator of the retraction, possibly also the evidence base regarding the reason for the retraction. The notice may include a request to post the relevant information about the retraction as soon as possible and necessarily in the public domain. It is also possible to comment on whether the publication is a rebuttal. The notice will not become available until there is conclusive evidence as to the validity of the retraction. All reviews are pre-agreed with the institutions with which the authors of the article being investigated are affiliated, in accordance with the COPE guidelines for collaboration between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases.

The guarantees of authorship are secured by the License Agreement between the Licensor (author) and the Licensee (Publisher).

A correspondent author should be singled out from the composition of the group of authors, who acts on behalf of the entire group of authors on any issues of interaction with the editorial board. He/she is responsible for ensuring that all agreements regarding the rules of the Publisher for the transformation of the manuscript into an article and its subsequent publication are reached, as well as at the stage after the publication of the article, if such a need arises. If there is a need, justified on the part of the authors, to remove or add co-authors, or to change the order of authors, such changes after the submission of the manuscript are possible only with the approval of each author.

The authorship identification process also presupposes the prevention of ghost authors, guest authors and gift authors from appearing in the group of authors. As regards the implementation of the rules for working with a manuscript, this procedure is standard for starting work with a manuscript.

In the event of situations not described above and probably not foreseen in advance, in terms of the reality of authorship in this manuscript, the editors take actions based on the recommendations of COPE.

The consolidation and conditions for the transfer of copyright (identification of authorship) is carried out in the License Agreement. In particular, the authors reserve the right to the authorship of their manuscript and transfer the first publication of this work to the journal under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license. At the same time, they have the right to conclude on their own additional agreements concerning the non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal, but provided that the link to the first publication of the article in this journal is preserved.

When submitting a manuscript, authors must disclose any conflicts of interest, in particular competing non-financial or financial interests, regarding the submitted manuscript. In terms of financial conflicts of interest, both in relation to corporate and personal finance: authors should indicate the specific role of the sponsor in the research, preparation of the manuscript and its presentation, as well as organizations or individuals that may have any financial consequences after the publication of the article. The monetary value of their financial interests is not disclosed by the authors.

In terms of non-financial conflicts of interest: we recommend that authors indicate any relationships and participants that are not related to finance, but which may affect the process of considering the publication of the manuscript.

The absence of conflicts of interest or their presence is stated in the Cover Letter, which is a mandatory document attached to the manuscript, without which the manuscript is not considered.

If authors are bound by confidentiality agreements, instead of disclosing information in detail, they must declare that they are bound by confidentiality agreements that prevent them from disclosing their competing interests in the work.

 If the reviewer has a conflict of interest in relation to a potentially peer-reviewed manuscript, he must inform the editor about it. In this case, the manuscript is submitted for review to another expert.

The regulations of the editorial staff in case a conflict of interest is identified at the stage of peer review of a manuscript or after publication implies following the COPE recommendations «What to do if a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript»  and «What to do if a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article». In particular: the editorial office contacts the corresponding author to clarify the existence of an unspecified conflict of interest, an internal investigation is carried out based on the justifications of the author(s) and the reviewer or an outsider who has declared the existence of a conflict of interest, information about the conflict of interest is declared if it is confirmed as a result of the investigation or the appropriate corrections are made according to the article's retraction policy.

«Problemy nadzvychaynykh sytuatsiy» (Problems of Emergency Situations) journal does not accept for consideration manuscripts in which the fact of plagiarism is found. The control of the manuscript for the presence of borrowings without appropriate and unambiguous attribution is carried out at the first stage of work - at the entrance to the editorial office – and is carried out by a specialized service Unicheck. If the fact of plagiarism is found, the manuscript is not considered. If the fact of plagiarism is discovered after the publication of the article, the editors conduct an investigation and take appropriate measures, the result of which depends on the volume of content identified as plagiarism. In choosing response options, the editors are guided by the COPE recommendations.

The procedures carried out in this case, in particular, include: contacting the authors of the article in respect of which plagiarism was detected, obtaining official explanations, informing the management of the organizations in which the authors work about the detected plagiarism, informing all indexing resources about the detected plagiarism, marking the article , in which plagiarism was detected, with the inscription "PLAGIARISM" in all indexing resources, the application of additional sanctions provided for by the License Agreement in the part concerning the violation by the authors of their guarantees of authorship.

If self-plagiarism is found, the manuscript is also not considered. The manuscript is accepted for consideration for publication only if the uniqueness is at least 80%. In the event that the fact of self-plagiarism is discovered after the publication of the article, the editors conduct an investigation and take appropriate measures, the result of which depends on the volume of content identified as self-plagiarism, including, in particular, communication with the authors of the article in respect of which plagiarism was detected, obtaining official explanations, informing all indexing resources about the detected self-plagiarism, marking the article in which plagiarism was detected with the inscription "DUPLICATE" in all indexing resources.