Editorial Policy

  1. The editorial board of the "Professional Art Education" observes certain publication principles and publication support rules:
  • scientific character, objectivity, professionalism, informational presentation of the most significant innovative research in the field of arts education;
  • unconditional loyalty to all subjects of the creative process, involved in the creation of the journal;
  • involving objective competent reviewers in a work with the aim of unbiased application of double-blind peer reviewing;
  • continuous advisory work with authors, aimed at meeting the requirements of international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science on materials content and design.
  1. The "Professional Art Education" is a non-financial publication.
  2. The decision to publish or reject materials submitted to the editorial staff shall be taken by the editorial board in accordance with the review clause.
  3. The editorial staff reserves the right to make editorial changes to the materials submitted to the Journal, to reduce them, to reject manuscripts which do not correspond to the topics of issue or not properly executed, while adhering to the publication ethics.
  4. Manuscripts rejected by the editorial board shall not be reviewed or returned to the authors.
  5. Reprinting of the materials, published in this journal, by other publishers is prohibited.
  6. Neither the editors nor the editorial board are responsible for authors’ expressed opinions and the content of the manuscripts published in the journal. Originality, proofreading of manuscripts and the presence of errors are the sole responsibility of individual authors.
  7. The editorial suggests that the authors download and sign the consent for the publication of the article in order to enable the possibility of citation, increase the citation index of the author and the journal itself. The editorial also requires the author to provide contact information (surname and name, degree, rank, position, place of employment, Orcid ID or Researcher ID, e-mail address, phone number).
  8. Articles shall be published in a first-come first-served basis, based on a date of receipt of the article to the editor. The editorial board queues the article for publication after having received payment confirmation. Articles will be assigned in the nearest issues where the spaces are available.
  9. The editorial board queues the article for publication after having received payment confirmation.
  10. Each issue of the journal is signed to print based on the decision of the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University Academic Council. An edition with the article published shall be sent to the authors (by agreement) by mail or issued by the editorial office.
  11. The electronic version of the article is posted on the official website. The printed version is sent to the authors.

Conflict of interests

In case of conflict of interest, the author of the article has the right to apply to the editorial board of the journal with a reasoned explanation of his own position. In this case, the article is considered at a meeting of the working group of the editorial board. The editorial board may send the article for additional or new review to another specialist. The editorial board reserves the right to reject the manuscript, if the author is unable or unwilling to take into consideration the reviewers’ recommendations or comments. At the request of the reviewer, the editorial board may submit the article to another reviewer, subject to the principles of double-blind peer review.