Authors’ Responsibility

  1. Duties of the Editor and Advisory Board
    1. The Editor-in-Chief of the Slavic Studies journal makes the final decision on which paper will be published. When making the decision, the Editor-in-Chief and members of the Advisory Board are guided by the editorial policy, taking into account legal regulations relating to defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
    2. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the discretionary right to evaluate received manuscripts and not publish them if he or she determines that they do not meet the prescribed content and formal criteria.
    3. The Editor-in-Chief and members of the Advisory Board must not have any conflict of interest in relation to the manuscripts they are reviewing. If a conflict of interest exists with one or more members of the Advisory Board, those members are excluded from the process of selecting reviewers and deciding on the fate of the manuscript. The Editor and members of the Advisory Board are obliged to report the existence of a conflict of interest in a timely manner.
    4. The Editor-in-Chief and members of the Advisory Board are obliged to judge the manuscript based on its content, without racial, gender, religious, ethnic or political prejudice.
    5. The Editor-in-Chief and members of the Advisory Board may not use unpublished material from submitted manuscripts for their own research without the express written permission of the author, and the information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts must be kept confidential and may not be used for personal gain.
    6. The editor and members of the Advisory Board are obliged to take all reasonable measures to ensure that the identity of reviewers remains unknown to authors before, during and after the review process and to ensure that the identity of authors remains unknown to reviewers until the review process is completed.

     

    Authors’ Obligations

    1. Papers that have been published or submitted for publication in another journal or collection cannot be accepted for publication in Slavic Studies. Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals constitutes a violation of ethical standards. Such a manuscript will be immediately excluded from further consideration.
    2. If the submitted manuscript was created as part of a research project or was previously presented at a conference as an oral presentation (under the same or similar title), more detailed information about the project, conference, etc., is provided in a footnote at the very beginning of the text.
    3. Authors are required to adhere to ethical standards relating to scientific research. Authors also guarantee that the manuscript does not contain unfounded or illegal claims and does not violate the rights of others. The publisher will not be liable in the event of any claims for damages.

     

    The Content of the Paper

    The paper should contain sufficient detail and references to enable reviewers, and subsequently readers, to verify the claims made in it. Deliberately making false claims is a violation of ethical standards. Critical reviews and book reviews must be accurate and objective. Authors bear full responsibility for the content of submitted manuscripts and are required, if necessary, to obtain the consent of all persons or institutions directly involved in the research presented in the manuscript before publication.

    Authors who wish to include illustrations, tables or other materials that have already been published elsewhere in their work are required to obtain the consent of the copyright holders. Material for which such evidence is not provided will be considered the author’s original work. If any dispute arises later (e.g., objections from copyright holders that some material was published without their consent), the journal publishes a correction or disclaims the work entirely in a separate note and clearly states that the error occurred through the author’s fault.

     

    Authorship

    Authors are required to list as authors only those persons who have significantly contributed to the content of the manuscript, i.e. they are required to list as authors all persons who have significantly contributed to the content of the manuscript. If other persons than the authors participated in important aspects of the research project and preparation of the manuscript, their contribution should be mentioned in a note or acknowledgment. The list of authors and their order cannot be changed after the review process.

     

    Citing Sources

    Authors are required to cite sources that have significantly influenced the content of the research and manuscript correctly and in accordance with the proposed instructions. Information obtained in private conversations or correspondence with third parties, when reviewing project applications or manuscripts, etc., may not be used without the express written permission of the source.

     

    Plagiarism

    Plagiarism, i.e. taking someone else’s ideas, words or other forms of creative expression and presenting them as one’s own, is a gross violation of scientific and publishing ethics. Plagiarism also includes autoplagiarism, i.e. the case when an author takes over, in whole or in part, a text that they have previously published somewhere without citing the reference from which the data is taken. Plagiarism can also include copyright infringement, which is punishable by law.

    Plagiarism includes the following:

    • verbatim or near-verbatim copying or deliberate paraphrasing (with the aim of concealing plagiarism) of parts of texts by other authors without clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragments (for example, by using quotation marks);
    • copying images or tables from other people’s works without proper citation of the source and/or without permission from the author or copyright holder;
    • publishing a paper of identical or adapted content with an already published paper in another language by the same author without the approval of the Advisory Board and without stating that it is a translation of an already published paper.

    The editorial team checks every manuscript for plagiarism.

    Manuscripts with clear indications of plagiarism will be automatically rejected and authors will be permanently banned from publishing in the Slavic Studies journal.

    If a paper published in a journal is found to be plagiarised, it will be retracted in accordance with the procedure described under the Retraction of an Already Published Paper section, and the authors will be permanently banned from publishing in the journal.

     

    Conflict of Interest

    Authors are required to disclose any financial or other conflict of interest that may affect the results and interpretations presented.

     

    Fundamental Errors in Published Papers

    In the event that the authors discover a significant error in their work after its publication, they are required to immediately notify the editor or publisher and to cooperate with them to have the work retracted or corrected.

    By submitting a manuscript to the Editorial Board of the Slavic Studies journal, authors undertake to comply with the above obligations.

     

    Reviewers’ responsibilities

    1. Reviewers are obliged to provide the editor with an assessment of the scientific value of the manuscript in a professional, well-argued, impartial manner and within the given deadlines.
    2. Reviewers evaluate papers in terms of the consistency of the topic of the paper with the journal profile, the relevance of the research area and the methods applied, the originality and scientific relevance of the data presented in the manuscript, the style of scientific presentation, and the availability of scientific apparatus in the text. The reviewer should determine whether all relevant literature on the problem that is the subject of the paper has been exhausted.
    3. A reviewer who has reasonable suspicions or knowledge of a violation of ethical standards by an author is obliged to inform the editor. He should also alert the editor to significant similarities and coincidences between the manuscript under review and any other published work or manuscript that is in the review process in another journal, if he has personal knowledge of this. If he has knowledge that the same manuscript is being reviewed in more than one journal at the same time, the reviewer is obliged to inform the editor.
    4. The reviewer must not have a conflict of interest with the authors or the research funder. If there is a conflict of interest, the reviewer is obliged to inform the editor immediately.
    5. A reviewer who considers himself/herself incompetent for the topic or area covered by the manuscript is obliged to inform the editor.
    6. The review must be objective. Comments concerning the author’s personality are considered inappropriate. The reviewer’s judgment must be clear and supported by arguments.
    7. Manuscripts submitted to a reviewer are considered confidential documents. Reviewers may not use unpublished material from submitted manuscripts for their own research without the express written permission of the author, and information and ideas expressed in submitted manuscripts must be kept confidential and may not be used for personal gain.