Principles of ethics
Editors of the magazine “Siedlce Comeniological Research Bulletin. Education Studies Series” applies the rules consistent with the recommendations of COPE - the Publication Ethics Committee, which apply to authors submitting texts for publication in the journal, as well as reviewers and members of the editorial board.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
This is an open access journal (Open Journal System): https://czasopisma.uws.edu.pl/, 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. The journal publishes articles under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-ND 4.0
AUTHORS' OBLIGATIONS
- Indication of the authorship of the work
Authorship should be limited to people who have made a significant contribution to the creation of the publication - the concept and implementation of research, interpretation of research results.
The editors of the journal apply the rules limiting the occurrence of ghostwriting and guest autorship, which are a manifestation of scientific misconduct. Authors are obliged to indicate the contribution of individual persons to the creation of the text. For this purpose, they submit a declaration available on the publisher's website.
- Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
It is the author's responsibility to disclose the sources of funding for projects in his work, the contribution of research institutions, foundations, associations and other entities. He is also obliged to indicate important premises that may lead to a conflict of interest.
- Standards for preparing the text
Articles submitted to the journal must be original works, not infringing the copyrights of third parties. They cannot be previously published or submitted for printing in another publishing house. The author should not publish material describing the same research in more than one journal or original publication. Submitting the same work to more than one editorial office of the journal at the same time is not allowed. It is unethical to submit a scientific article that is a translation of a text published or submitted to another journal.
- Data Access and Data Retention
The author should be ready to allow access to the raw data related to the submitted work. Moreover, he should keep this data for one year from the date of publication.
- Errors found after submitting the text
If, after submitting the article, the author discovers an error or inaccuracy in the text, he is obliged to immediately notify the editors of this fact.
- Originality and plagiarism
The author only submits the original work to the editorial office. He should exercise due diligence to ensure that the names of authors included in the work are properly quoted or mentioned. Plagiarism is treated as unethical and unacceptable behavior. The ethical violations listed here constitute grounds for rejection of the article.
DUTIES OF THE EDITORIAL
- Responsibility for published texts
The editorial board is obliged to comply with the current legal status in the field of defamation, infringement of copyright and plagiarism.
It is responsible for decisions on submitted articles. The publications are reviewed by the thematic editor and then forwarded to the editor-in-chief. If the article meets the substantive requirements and corresponds to the journal's profile, the editor-in-chief decides to refer the article for review. The decision to publish is also influenced by the risk of copyright infringement, plagiarism, self-plagiarism and doubts as to the authorship or co-authorship of the article.
- Impartiality
The decision-making process to accept or reject an article is primarily influenced by its originality, scientific quality and consistency with the subject of the journal. Under no circumstances are the author's origin, nationality, ethnicity, political views, gender, race or religion taken into account.
- Confidentiality
Editors do not disclose data about authors to reviewers or data about reviewers to authors. Information obtained in the process of evaluating the publication, as well as rejected articles or their fragments may not be used in own research by editorial board members or reviewers without the express written consent of the author.
- Avoiding a conflict of interest
The editorial office does not appoint persons who are in direct reporting to the authors of the texts or in other direct personal relationships as reviewers.
- Anti-plagiarism policy
In the case of confirmation of the illegal use of the text, statements, research results, data, the author of the article submitted for publication is informed about the rejection of the text. If there is no answer about the matter, the institution with which the author is affiliated is notified.
In the case of self-plagiarism, when the author in the submitted article includes previously published fragments of his own authorship, the editorial board informs about the refusal to publish the article due to the lack of original character of the analyzes.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF REVIEWERS
- Timeliness
A reviewer who is unable to review the manuscript at all or within the prescribed time limit should immediately inform the editors about it.
- Objectivity
Reviews should be made objectively, in line with ethical standards, based on scientific arguments. The aim is to increase the scientific value of the text. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable.
- Confidentiality
All reviewed papers are treated as confidential documents. You cannot show them to other people, or discuss them outside the Editorial Board. The authors' works may also not be used for personal gain by the reviewer.
- Anonymity
All reviews are anonymous. The editors do not share the authors' data with the reviewers. Reviewers cannot be affiliated with the same institution as the author of the article.
- Conflict of Interest
The reviewer should not review works in relation to which there is a conflict of interest, resulting from the relationship with the author, company or institution with which he or she has a work or personal relationship.
- Verification of the originality of the text
The reviewer is obliged to inform the editorial secretary about the violation of ethical standards by the author of the text, in particular, it concerns significant similarity, partial compliance of the content of the reviewed work with any other work published and known to the reviewer.
REVIEW PROCESS
Basic rules for qualifying publications:
- Original and creative research results, review articles, scripts and reviews are accepted for publication.
- Articles sent to the editorial office of the journal may not be previously published or be in the editorial office of other publishing houses.
- Texts sent to the editorial office should meet the requirements for authors, prepared by the editorial office.
- The decision to accept the submitted text depends on its originality, novelty and compliance with the specified substantive scope
- The submitted texts of articles should contain a full annotation of the data (surname, first name) of the Author or the main Author in the case of team work, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
- Signed author statements must be attached to the text. https://wydawnictwo-naukowe.uws.edu.pl/images/pliki_pdf/UwS/dokumenty_oswiadczenie_autora_wc.pdf
Review procedure:
- The publication is assessed by two independent reviewers.
- The review takes place in the "double-blind review process" system. This means that the Authors and Reviewers do not know their identities. The principle of confidentiality is maintained during the reviewing process. The name of the Reviewer is confidential.
- Reviewers submit completed review forms to the Editorial Board (by e-mail, by post or directly to the Editorial Board).
- The final decision to include an article in a given issue of the journal is made by the Editor-in-Chief
