Ethical policy

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Oeconomia is committed to maintaining high standards through rigorous peer-review, together with ethical policies. Ethical standards for publication are essential to ensure high-quality scientific publications, and public trust in scientific findings.

The Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Oeconomia follows the codes of conduct and international standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and available on its website (https://publicationethics.org/).

Publication decision:  The Chairperson and the Scientific Board of the Acta Sci. Pol. Oeconomia series are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The policies of the journal's editorial board are subjected to such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

Fair play: Manuscripts shall be evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to authors’ race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality: The editors must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.

 Reviewers' duties and responsibilities

Reviewers are obligated:

• to maintain the confidentiality of the review process;
• to use objective judgement about any paper suggested for their review;
• to have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, authors, and/or research funders;
• to immediately alert the journal editor about any real or potential competing interest that could affect the independence of the review itself;
• not to use any part of the material obtained for blind review in their own publications or unpublished research studies without proper citing;
• to make no attempts to look for or contact the potential authors of the papers suggested for review.

Authors' duties and responsibilities

Authors should ensure that:

• the paper is original and written by them;
• the paper has not been published in any other journal and has been submitted for consideration to this journal only;
• the data has been obtained by the authors directly or they have all legal permissions to use the data obtained from private businesses or other independent sources;
• the data is original and not manipulated;
• all sources used in the paper are clearly cited;
• the paper does not break any copyrights of others;
• the paper includes funding acknowledgment in cases where the paper was supported by an institution or grant;
• there is no conflict of interest between the co-authors or with third parties;
• addition, deletion, or order rearrangement of the authors’ names in the authorship list are approved in advance by the whole team;
• they contact the Editor to correct any errors upon their discovery immediately, no later than the text is published online;
• authorship of the paper is accurately stated, all authors must sign the statement as to their agreement to publication of the paper in this particular journal;
• they are obliged to participate in the peer-review process, responding timely and politely to all comments of the reviewers; if the authors agree to make changes – they must provide the corrections in a timely manner; if the authors do not agree with reviewers’ recommendations or other remarks – objections with a detailed explanation must be provided;
• they agree with minor corrections of the contents, including the title, phrasing, style, etc.;
• they accept that the publishing rights to use the paper be transferred to the publisher (according to CC BY 4.0).

Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Editorial Decision
• Promptness
• Confidentiality
• Standards of Objectivity
• Acknowledgement of Source
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

 Duties of Authors

 Authors submitting a manuscript to the journal should ensure that the submission is original work and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, and has not been previously published as copyrighted material .

 All team members:

• must use CrossCheck to screen for unoriginal material before the peer-review process and at any point during the peer-review process;
• keep and promote ethical policies of the journal;
• ensure the confidentiality of the review process for both sides involved;
• do not disclose any information regarding a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding Author, Reviewers, potential Reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the Publisher, when appropriate;
• make a decision on publishing or rejecting the paper according to the scientific importance/quality, interest to readers, Reviewers’ comments and the related legal requirements (i.e. plagiarism, breach of copyright, etc.);
• communicate politely with the authors about their paper;
• preserve the anonymity of reviewers;
• remove any identification of the authorship before the manuscripts are submitted for the critical review process;
• reserve the right to make minor amendments to the text or return it back to the author for further revision;
• reserve the right to refuse the manuscript without the review process due to inappropriate quality of the manuscript, a different focus or violation of legal requirements (i.e. plagiarism, breach of copyright, etc.).

• authorship of the paper is accurately stated, all authors must sign the statement as their agreement to publication of the paper in this particular journal;
• they are obliged to participate in the peer-review process, responding timely and politely to all comments of the reviewers; if the authors agree to make changes – they must provide the corrections in a timely manner; if the authors do not agree with reviewers’ recommendations or other remarks – objections with a detailed explanation must be provided;
• they agree with minor corrections of the contents, including the title, phrasing, style, etc.;
• they accept the publishing rights to use the paper transferred to the publisher (according to CC BY 4.0).