Rules for Editors



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1) The Editorial Team ensures the quality, regularity of publication, and accessibility of the Journal. It is guided by scientific integrity and impartiality and strives to raise scientific, editorial, and ethical standards.

2) ensures compliance with publishing ethics and counteracts plagiarism, abuse, and other unfair practices, such as ghostwriting and guest authorship;

3) evaluates submitted materials according to an established and transparent procedure and decides which texts will be published, based on the opinions of external reviewers appointed for this purpose. See Submission and Publication Procedure and Peer Review Procedure;

4) considers the originality of submitted material, its scientific value, and its importance for the development of research in Poland and globally;

5) commercial considerations do not influence the Editorial Team’s decisions;

6) treats received materials as confidential and does not disclose information about submitted articles to unauthorized persons;

7) does not use unpublished articles without the written consent of the authors;

8) has the right to withdraw a publication after its publication if evidence emerges indicating unreliability or falsification of the research, methodological errors, plagiarism, or other violations of publishing ethics;

9) prevents conflicts of interest. See the Journal’s Conflict of Interest Policy