2.1. The review must include a qualified analysis of the article material, objective evaluation and reasonable recommendations.
2.2. Review may be prepared by the reviewer in a free form or in the form of expert questionnaire, approved by the editorial Board.
2.3. Special attention in review should be paid to the lighting of the following questions.
- General analysis of the scientific level, terminology, structure of the article, actuality of the question.
- Evaluation of the article readiness for publication in language and style, compliance with the requirements of the article registration.
- The article scientific presentation, compliance of the methods, techniques, recommendations used by the author and the results of the research with modern science and practice.
- The valid scope of the article as a whole and its separate elements (text, tables, illustrations, bibliographic references). Reasonability of tables, illustrations within the article and their compliance with the stated question.
- Place of the reviewed article among others, issued earlier, concerning the same question: what’s new in it, or how it differs from them, if it doesn’t duplicate other authors' works or previously issued works of this author (in a whole or partly).
- Inaccuracies and errors in the article, recommendations to the author and editorial Board to the article improving.
2.4. Comments and suggestions of the reviewer must be objective and principal, aimed at improving the scientific and methodological level of the article.
2.5. Final part of the review should contain conclusions about the article in general, and recommendations for its publication in the scientific journal "Agrarian journal of the upper Volga region" on specific scientific direction corresponding to the range of scientific disciplines, approved by the higher attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
2.6. In case of a negative evaluation of the article, the reviewer must give cogent arguments on his conclusion.