"Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne" follows the principles of publication ethics and publication malpractice statement mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011, download PDF).
Responsibilities of the Editor
Confidentiality
Until the moment of the admission of the article for publication, the editor and any editorial staff shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to any third party other than:
- corresponding Author
- peer reviewers
- members of the editorial team
- the publisher
- copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters involved in the production of the journal as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished original material submitted to the journal shall never be used by the Editor or any party privy to the material prior to its publication (listed in the "Confidentiality" section of this document above) for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.
Reviewer's responsibilities
Author's Responsibilities and Obligations
Duties of Editorial Team
1. Editors-in-Chief select reviewers from among recognized experts in the field. Selected reviewers are competent in their field.
2. The editorial secretary will ensure that all published papers and reviews of research have been reviewed by suitably qualified reviewers following the principle of fairness, impartiality and timeliness.
The review has a written form. It ends with an explicit conclusion:
- article suitable for publication;
- article suitable for publication after introducing minor changes suggested by the reviewer;
- article suitable for publication after significant redrafting, must be reviewed again;
- article unsuitable for publication.
3. The Editorial Committee applies the principle of blind review, taking care to ensure that reviewers and authors do not know other’s identities.
4. Until the publication of the article, any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents.
5. Editorial Board does not disclose any information about the works submitted for publication to unauthorized persons. Persons authorized to possess this information are: the author, editors, appointed reviewers and other persons participating in the publishing process.
6. The final decision to accept or reject a paper for publication lies with the Editorial Committee.
7. When accepting texts for publication, the opinions of reviewers concerning the scientific value of the work, the originality of the approach to the problem, a comprehensive analysis of the article and the transparency of the argument are taken into account.
8. Submitted texts should only be evaluated on their merits. The authors’ race, political opinion, sex, origin, religion and citizenship or do not in any way influence the evaluation of texts.
9. Unpublished texts may not be used by employees of the publishing house or any other person involved in the publishing process.
10. The editorial board may withdraw a paper from publication if there is evidence of unreliability of test results and/or falsification of data or if the work is plagiarised or violates the rules of publishing ethics.
Duties of Reviewers
1. Privileged information obtained through peer review must be kept confidential (during review and post review) and not used for personal benefit.
2. The Reviewer’s comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective.
3. A reviewer should act without undue delay, submitting a review in a timely manner.
4. Reviewers must treat the submissions received for review as confidential documents and must not disclose any information about them to anyone other than the Editorial Board of the journal „Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne’’.
5. The reviewers can refuse to review a work without giving a specific reason notify.
6. The review will provide the Author with relevant information allowing him or her to revise her contribution to meet the highest standards of academic quality or to improve their writing in the future.
7. Any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper should be reported to the editor.
Duties of Authors
1. Authors who submit articles to ”Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne’’ confirm that manuscript contents are original and that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not currently submitted for publication to another publisher. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
2. The authors of the publication may only be persons who have made a significant contribution to its creation.
3. The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list.
4. Authors also ensure that all the authors and co-authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors; that they agreed for an uploaded version and inclusion of their names as co-authors.
Ghostwriting and guest authorship are unethical and unacceptable.
5. The article will be approved for publication on condition it gets positive feedback from the reviewers and meets the formal requirements and signing copyright statement by the author.
6. When author/authors or co-author/s discover/s a significant error or inaccuracy or any inaccuracies in his/her own published work, it is the author’s/co-author/s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript.
7. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source.
The list of the reviewers is published on the ”Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne’’ webpage.
Journal does not charge a publication fee.
Based on:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct.
Vol. 23 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2024-09-27