Focus and Scope
ISSN 0042-8469,
e-ISSN 2217-4753,
UDC 623+355/359,
DOI: 10.5937/VojnotehnickiGlasnik; https://doi.org/10.5937/VojnotehnickiGlasnik,
COBISS.SR-ID 4423938,
COBISS.SR-ID 181287436,
is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal.
The journal covers scientific and professional fields within the educational-scientific field of Natural-Mathematical Sciences, as well as within the educational-scientific field of Technical-Technological Sciences, and especially the field of defense sciences and technologies. It publishes theoretical and practical achievements leading to professional development of all members of Serbian, regional and international academic communities as well as members of the military and ministries of defence in particular. It publishes papers with balanced coverage of analytical, experimental, and applied research as well as numerical simulations from various disciplines. The material published is of high quality and relevance, written in a manner that makes it accessible to a wider readership. The journal welcomes papers reporting original theoretical and/or practice-oriented research as well as extended versions of already published conference papers. Manuscripts for publication are selected through a double-blind peer-review process to validate their originality, relevance, and readability. This being so, the objective is not only to keep the quality of published papers high but also to provide a timely, thorough, and balanced review process.
More detailed guidelines for authors are available at Call for papers.
Peer Review Process
All submitted manuscripts relevant to the journal’s profile are reviewed.
All referees are eminent external experts in relevant fields, with papers published in these fields in the last three years. The reviewers must not be from the authors' own institution and they should not have recent joint publications with any of the authors.
Editorial Board applies the iThenticate (CrossRef and CrossCheck) service for verifying the originality of submitted papers and for preventing duplicate publishing and plagiarism.
Journal applies a „double blind peer review process“ for papers. Authors and reviewers are anonymous to each other in the process of review. Reviews after the article has been published are allowed and encouraged for subsequent evaluation of papers and authors.
The Editorial Office encourages Journal’s contributors and readers alike to analyse and assess the published articles and send their analyses and assessments to the Editorial Office.
A peer reviewer assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process. During the review process Editor may require authors to provide additional information (including raw data) if they are necessary for the evaluation of the scholarly merit of the manuscript. These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Papers classified as scientific must have at least two positive reviews. Throughout the process, all of the reviewers of a paper act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editor may assign additional reviewers.
A usual reviewing period is 30 days.
Having finished the review, the referee makes one of the following decisions:
- Publish without any changes,
- Publish with suggested changes,
- Change and resubmit for a review,
- Refuse the manuscript.
The Editorial Board then informs the author about the content of the review and suggests following the referee’s decision.
The Editorial team shall ensure reasonable quality control for the reviews. With respect to reviewers whose reviews are convincingly questioned by authors, special attention will be paid to ensure that the reviews are objective and high in academic standard. When there is any doubt with regard to the objectivity of the reviewers or quality of the review, additional reviewers will be assigned.
The detailed instructions on following the referee’s decision are available on the web page Instructions for ASSISTANT.
Reviews are processed electronically through the ASSISTANT system for journal online editing and publishing. ASSISTANT supports all activities of editorial management, from a creation of a journal page, over article submission, monitoring of the reviewing process, documentation administration, and maintenance of recordkeeping, to making final decisions and publishing volumes on the journal’s own web page.
The Editorial Office has an obligation to send to the author a copy of the review or an explained refusal to publish a manuscript. Copies of reviews are also sent to the Ministry of the Education of the Republic of Serbia as well as to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation at a request of the Ministry submitted to the Editorial Office.
All reviews are kept in the archives and in the ASSISTANT system for journal electronic editing and publishing, permanently.
The Editorial Team of the Military Technical Courier encourages the reviewers to verify their reviews in their personal profile on Web of Science in accordance with the instructions on the website page: Registration in Web of Science.
The reviewing policy of the Journal:
- allows public display of the review (only after the article has been published),
- allows reviewers to display the title of the reviewed article (only after the article has been published).
The list of Military Technical Courier referees is available on the web page List of referees.
The details on the publication ethics in the article creation and submission as well as the journal editing and publishing are available on the web page Publication ethics and malpractice statement.
The percentage of papers rejected due to a negative peer review is 65 % for the last twelve months.
Publication Frequency
Contributions in Military Technical Courier is published together in issue, as part of the journal content.
The journal is published quarterly:
- Number 1 (January-March),
- Number 2 (April-June),
- Number 3 (July-September), and
- Number 4 (October-December).
Open Access Policy
Military Technical Courier enables OPEN ACCESS and applies Creative Commons (CC BY) licence on copyright. This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
The details are available on the journal web page Copyright notice and Self-archiving policy.
History of the Journal
The first printed issue of the Military Technical Courier was published on 1st January 1953, pursuant to Decree No 9 on its formation and publishing, dated 27th August 1952, and Decree No 11 on forming the editorial board, dated 16th December 1952, of the Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff.
Five journals of army services and branches preceded the Military Technical Courier – Artillery Courier, Tank Courier, Military Engineering Courier, Courier of Engineering and Chemical Units of the Yugoslav Army, Courier of Communications and Logistics and Support of the Yugoslav Army. These journals had been published from 1947 until the end of 1952 when the decree on forming the Military Technical Courier was passed.
The Military Technical Courier will pay special tributes to the military technical publications published in our country before 1945 (in the Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). The following reviews represent the foundations of the Serbian military technology reasoning: Artillery and Engineering Courier (1905-1906), Artillery Courier (1926-1932), Infantry and Artillery Courier (1933-1941), Engineering Courier (1929-1940), Aviation Courier (1927-1941) and Nautical Courier (1933-1940). There is no doubt that their quality and professional profiles paved also the way to today’s Military Technical Courier.
More journal history details can be find on the Military Technical Courier web pages About the Journal.