For all works submitted for publication, Lazarski University Publishing House applies high substantive, formal and ethical standards to prevent undesirable publication practices and to ensure the publication of reliable scientific works of the highest quality in order to contribute to international scientific exchange.
The rules and regulations applied are in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics, a detailed version of which can be found at https://publicationethics.org/files/Full set of Polish flowcharts.pdf).
I General Rules - applicable to employees and associates of the Publishing Office
- Control of ethical standards. The Publishing Office and the Publishing Board of Lazarski University shall ensure compliance with the applicable publishing standards and principles of publishing ethics, and prevent practices inconsistent with the accepted standards.
- Principle of fair conduct. Race, gender, religion, origin, citizenship or political beliefs of authors shall in no way affect the evaluation of the work.
- Criteria for acceptance for publication. When accepting works for publication, only the substantive opinions of reviewers on the scientific value of the work, its subject matter, originality of the treatment of the problem, clarity of the argument are taken into account.
- Principle of confidentiality. The employees of the Publishing House, members of the Publishing Board, editors, members of scientific boards do not disclose to unauthorized persons any information about the submitted works. Persons authorized to have this information are: the author, designated reviewers, editors and other persons participating in the publishing process.
- Prevention of conflicts of interest. Unpublished texts may not be used by Oficyna employees or any other persons participating in the publishing process without the written consent of the authors.
- Verification of already published works and withdrawal of publication. The publishing house has the right to withdraw a work both during the publication procedure and after publication if:
- the existence of evidence indicating the unreliability of research results and/or falsification of data is disclosed, as well as in the case of committing serious and unintentional errors, e.g., methodological or computational errors;
- the authors have the right to withdraw the work.
- if plagiarism or ethical violations are detected (self-plagiarism; publication of a scientific work under one's own name; ghost authorship - omission from the list of authors of persons who contributed to the creation of the work; guest or courtesy authorship - attribution of authorship to persons who did not contribute to the creation of the work or their contribution to its creation was insignificant);
- if it turns out that the research results have been published elsewhere.
II Rules of reviewing
- Timeliness. The reviewer is obliged to deliver the review within the established deadline. If for some reason (content, lack of time, etc.) he/she is unable to meet the deadline or undertake the review, he/she should immediately inform the managing editor.
- Confidentiality. All reviewed works and their reviews are confidential. Disclosing them to third parties is not allowed (except to those who are involved in the publishing process).
- Objectivity. A scientific review must be fair and objective in nature. Personal criticism of the author of the work is inappropriate. All comments of the reviewer should be adequately justified.
- Principle of reliability of sources. The reviewer, if necessary, should identify relevant works related to the subject of the text not cited by the author. He or she should also point out and report to the Office any relevant similarities of the reviewed text with other works.
- Principle of preventing conflicts of interest. A reviewer may not use the reviewed work for his or her personal needs and benefits. He should also not undertake the evaluation of a work when there may be a conflict of interest with the author. He or she shall sign a statement that there is no conflict of interest between him or her and the author.
III Rules applicable to the scientific editor of collective works
- Criteria for accepting texts for publication. The scientific editor selects texts for a collective work on the basis of their scientific value, originality of the treatment of the problem and clarity of the argument.
- The principle of scientific integrity. The scientific editor ensures the scientific integrity of all texts. To preserve it, he may make appropriate changes and corrections. In the case of suspicion of fraudulent practices (plagiarism, falsification of research results, etc.), he is obliged to decide on the withdrawal of the work in question from the collective publication.
- Principle of authorship. All persons listed in the submitted collective work as authors or co-authors should actually have significant participation in its creation (design, idea, planning, execution, interpretation of results). Also, all persons who influenced the final form of the work should be listed as co-authors. The duty to make sure that those who contributed to the collective work accept the list of its authors and its final form lies with the scientific editor submitting it for publication.
- Withdrawal of the text. The scientific editor has the right to withdraw from publication of the collective work at any stage if the prerequisites listed in Chapter I, para. 6. of this document.
IV Principles applicable to the author
- Scientific integrity. The author is obliged to accurately describe the research work performed and objectively interpret the results. The work should contain information that allows the identification of data sources, as well as the repetition of research. Incompatible with the principles of publishing ethics in the presentation and interpretation of data and research results is unacceptable and may result in the withdrawal of the work.
- Originality of the work. The author may submit for publication only his own original texts. Research and/or information of other researchers used in the publication should be marked as a citation. Plagiarism or falsification of data is unacceptable. The author's statement of the originality of the work is an integral part of the publishing contract.
- Principle of data sharing. The author, when asked by the Office or the Publishing Board to provide unprocessed research results used in the work, is obliged to provide access to these data, even after the work has been published.
- Authorship of the work:
- authors submitting multi-authored works for publication are required to disclose the contribution of each author to the work (with the authors' affiliations and information on who authored the concept, assumptions, methods, protocol, etc. used in the creation of the text);
- the practices listed in chap. I p. 6b of this document. In case of detection of such manifestations of scientific unreliability, representatives of the Publishing House, the Publishing Board, or the University will exercise the right to notify relevant entities, such as the author's employing institutions, scientific societies, associations of scientific editors, etc.
- Reliability of sources. The author is obliged to list in the appendix bibliography the publications that were used by him in the creation of the work, as well as to mark the quoted or paraphrased passages with appropriate footnotes.
- Rules on errors in published works. If the author discovers errors or inaccuracies in his text, he is obliged to immediately notify the managing editor in order to correct the errors that have occurred in the form of an errata and in the next edition.