Publication ethics
The relationship between authors, editors, and reviewers in the journal is based on the principles of academic goodwill, objectivity of evaluations, and the priority of scientific quality. The editorial board is guided by the principles of the Code of Conduct for Editors, created by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including:
- Publishing decisions
The editorial board can take acceptance decisions on manuscripts and including them into the current issue after peer-review. Simultaneously, it is guided by the policy of the journal and is based on academic values and the conclusions of the reviewers.
Manuscripts are evaluated regardless of previous merit, race, ethnic origin, gender, religion, citizenship, sexual orientation, or political philosophy of the authors.
- Confidentiality
The editorial board shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other members of the editorial board, and the publisher.
The author, who submits his/her manuscript to the scientific journal, gives his/her consent to communicate with the editorial board for the purpose of finalizing the article.
Unpublished material disclosed in the submitted manuscript may not be used in the editorial board members' own research without the written consent of the author.
- Ethics in peer review
The actions of the reviewer must be impartial, which consists in adhering the following principles:
- Confidentiality: the manuscript received for review should be treated as a confidential document that cannot be transferred for review or discussion to third parties;
- Objectivity and argumentation: the reviewer is obliged to give an objective and reasoned assessment of the presented research results, not the author (personal criticism of the author is unacceptable); the reviewer must also notify the editorial office and ask the editorial board to exclude him from the process of reviewing certain materials if he considers his qualifications insufficient for its evaluation or in case of a conflict of interests;
- The inadmissibility of the reviewer's use of unpublished data from manuscripts submitted for review for personal purposes.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC License.
