The journal aims to follow the rules of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) regarding all duties and responsibilities of editors, reviewers, authors and readers – see COPE Core practices.

Privilegies, tasks and responsibilities of the editors

• Systematically raise journal standards
  
  Editorial Team is not only privileged but also obliged to systematically improve the standards of the journal, by interacting with members of the Scientific Council, authors, reviewers, readers, and specialized organizations or scientific publishing houses, including Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and also STM: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers; European Association of Science Editors (EASE), Editage, Elsevier, Ithenticate. Professional Plagiarism Prevention, etc.;
  
  
• Strict confidentiality, objective impartiality, due thoroughness and kindness
  
  Editors are requested to treat submissions with strict confidentiality, objective impartiality and due thoroughness.
  
  In particular, without the written consent of the authors they must not use in their own research the information contained in the submitted (and not yet published) articles.
  
  Editors are also requested to formulate their critical remarks about the submitted articles in a kindly manner. It is worth pointing out both positive and negative aspects of the articles and trying to show how to eliminate their weak points (for further information on this subject, see  tab "Peer Review Process").
  
  All this is intended to help the authors improve the final text of the articles by refining its editorial and literary form, strengthening its source and factual foundations, as well as deepening the reasoning process, the presented interpretations and the formulated theses.
  
  
• Unacceptable conflict of interests
  
  Any unacceptable conflict of interests between editor, and author or reviewer is prohibited (see below “Additional information about publication ethics”).
  
  
• Final acceptance or rejection of submitted articles
  
  Editor-in-chief decides on the final acceptance or rejection of the submitted articles, taking into account the opinions of editors and reviewers (detailed description see tab "Peer Review Process").
  
  
• Counteracting ghostwriting, guest authorship or honorary authorship, data falsification, data fabrication as well as irregularities regarding citations, e.g. plagiarism, self-plagiarism, the Matthew effect and the Matilda effect
  
  The Editorial Team will categorically oppose all indications of ghostwriting and guest or honorary authorship, data falsification, data fabrication as well as inappropriate practice of quoting sources in accordance with the Matthew effect or the Matilda effect, since they violate elementary ethical principles of the academic community (see below “Additional information about publication ethics”, and "Counteracting erroneous interpretations of bibliometrics").
  
  Should such misconduct be detected on the author’s part, the Editorial Team will request clarification regarding the misconduct and then undertake appropriate steps based on the COPE Flowcharts; this may ultimately include: notifying authorities in the author’s institution, withdrawing a given article, and preventing the author from publishing new articles in the journal.
  
  
• Editorial expressions of concern, corrections, retractions, and commenting
  
  Editorial Team:
  1. may publish an “Editorial expression of concern” regarding the published article;
  2. may publish corrections regarding the published article;
  3. may retract the published article if it violated ethical and publishing standards (cf. COPE Retraction Guideline);
  4. creates the opportunity for readers to comment on each published article.
     
     Note:
     
     Minor corrections, i.e. regarding errors that slightly affect the understanding of the original article, may be made in comments posted by the editors to the online version of the article.
     
     Major corrections, i.e. regarding errors that significantly affect the understanding of the original article, may be entered through a correction article, fully indexed and linked to the original document.
     
     

Privilegies, tasks and responsibilities of the reviewers

• Privilege of criticizing manuscripts
  
  Reviewers have the privilege to criticize the submitted manuscripts. This role is both very important and responsible.
  
  
• Strict confidentiality, objective impartiality, due thoroughness and kindness
  
  Reviewers are required to treat submissions with strict confidentiality, objective impartiality and due thoroughness; in particular, reviewers must not use the information contained in the submitted (and not yet published) articles in their own research without the written consent of the authors.
  
  Reviewers are also requested to formulate their critical remarks about the submitted articles in a kindly manner. It is worth pointing out both positive and negative aspects of the articles and trying to show how to eliminate their weak points.
  
  All this is intended to help the authors and the editors improve the final text of the articles by refining its editorial and literary form, strengthening their source and factual foundations, as well as deepening the reasoning process, the presented interpretations and the formulated theses (for further information on this subject, see tab "Peer Review Process").
  
  
• Unacceptable conflict of interests
  
  Any unacceptable conflict of interests between reviewer, editor and author is prohibited (see below “Additional information about publication ethics”).
  
  

Privilegies, tasks and responsibilities of the authors

• Free of charge for publishing in the journal
  
  Due to the fact that Studia Historiae Scientiarum is a diamond open access journal, publishing in the journal is free of charge – authors do not pay for submission or article processing. The only exception to this rule is if the author, authorized to a one-time proofreading (after the review phase and after the final version of the text has been established) introduces to the work (in a PDF format) additional changes that exceed 5% of its volume. In such situations the Publisher can request to be reimbursed for the additional costs incurred.
  
  
• Authorship
  
  Authorship credit should be based solely on the actual contribution to the creation of the submitted manuscript, i.e. the participation in: 1a) study planning, 1b) data acquisition, and 1c) analysis or interpretation of data, 2a) drafting content of the manuscript, 2b) making important revisions, 3) final approval, and 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work (cf. EASE Form for Authors’ Contributions and Conflict of Interest Disclosure).
• Co-authorship and declaration of co-authors
  
  In the case of group authorship, individual contributions of each author should be given in the manuscript (both descriptively and in percentage).
  
  Authors, for example, can formulate the following declaration about their particular contribution to the research:
  
  “Declaration about the particular contributions to the research: a) study planning: first author (100%); b) data acquisition and analysis or interpretation of data: second author (100%); c) writing the manuscript, making revisions and final approval: first author and second author (100%).”
  
  This information will be published in the article (see also "Contacts and forms. Author Declaration Form").
  
  
• Changes of authorship or order of authors after submission of manuscript
  
  Any change of authorship of the manuscript or the order of authors requires: a) providing clear reasons for the change by the corresponding author, and b) the permission of all authors for the change sent individually by email to the Editor-In-Chief.
  
  If no consensus can be reached among the authors, they must resolve this problem with help of their parent institutions (the author-correspondent coordinates these contacts; the Editorial Team does not participate in this dispute).
  
  If the change of the authorship or the order of the authors concerns an already published article, the journal will publish information about the correction of the article or the revised article will be published.
  
  
• Contributions and acknowledgements
  
  The contributions of people who meet at most two of the above-mentioned criteria of authorship should be mentioned in the acknowledgments, but their names should be given only when they agree (cf. EASE Form for Authors’ Contributions and Conflict of Interest Disclosure).
  
  
• Sources of article’s financing
  
  Authors of articles should inform readers: a) who financed the research and b) whether the funders played any role in researching or publishing the article.
  
  
• Manuscript submitted and Author Declaration Form
  
  The author, by submitting the manuscript for publication in Studia Historiae Scientiarum, is also obliged to submit an additional statement regarding legal and ethical issues related to the manuscript (see tab "Contacts and forms: Author Declaration Form").
  
  
• Reviews of submitted manuscript, and corrections of linguistic editors
  
  The author receives from the Editor-in-Chief (or his deputy or editors of the journal’s sections) peer reviews of the article made by open and secret reviewers, and editorial proofreading made by the Editorial Team.
  
  The author is obliged to reply to the peer reviews and editorial proofreading.
  
  Since the aim of the peer reviews and proofreading is constructive criticism of all aspects of the submitted manuscript, which is to help improve its editorial and literary form and strengthen the factual basis and deepen its theses or formulated arguments, the authors are requested to make the best use of the received peer reviews (see tab "Peer Review Process") and editorial proofreading.
  
  

Privilegies, tasks and responsibilities of the readers

• Open, free access
  
  Due to the fact that Studia Historiae Scientiarumis a diamond open access journal, readers have open, free access to all its publications.
  
  This also applies to all articles published since the journal’s foundation (1999), when it was called: Prace Komisji Historii Nauki. Polska Akademia Umiejętności or Prace Komisji Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (1999–2007) and Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU (2009–2015) – see Author Index or Thematic Index.

• Commenting articles by readers
  
  Readers may post comments to articles. However, the Editorial Team reserves the right to delete any comment whose content violates generally accepted ethical principles.
  
  
• Observance of copyright and citation of publications used in own research
  
  In the light of well-known bibliometric knowledge (including the so-called St. Matthew effect and the so-called Matilda effect), it is known that many publications that authors use in their own research are not cited in their publications.
  
  With this in mind, the readers are asked to use all articles published in Studia Historiae Scientiarum (called from 2009 to 2015, Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU / Proceedings of the PAU Commission on the History of Science, and from 1999 to 2007 Prace Komisji Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności / Proceedings of the Commission on the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences) in accordance with the copyright and moral law:
  
  Should any article published in the journal draw the attention of the reader, they are requested to quote this publication in their own publications against sociological pathologies referred to as, among others, the so-called the effect of St. Matthew and the so-called Matilda effect.

Note:

See also below “Additional information about publication ethics” (with the explanation of several important terms), as well as Peer Review Process (including Review Guidelines) and Counteracting erroneous interpretations of bibliometrics.

Ghostwriting, guest authorship or honorary authorship, data falsification, data fabrication as well as irregularities regarding citations: plagiarism, self-plagiarism, the Matthew effect and the Matilda effect

 

Ghostwriting is understood as a situation when a person made a significant contribution to the publication but their role remains concealed, i.e. they are not named either among (a) the authors or (b) in the acknowledgments section of the said publication.

 

Guest authorship or honorary authorship is understood as a situation when a person is named as an author or a co-author of the publication, but their actual contribution to the publication was next to none or none at all.

 

Plagiarism is understood as copying someone else’s work or part of it with the attribution of the right to its authorship.

 

Self-plagiarism is understood as plagiarism of own publication, i.e. re-publication of a previously issued work or part of it without providing information about this fact.

 

Data falsification is understood as a situation when the author changes or omits research results to support claims, hypotheses, other data, etc.

 

Data fabrication is understood as a situation when the author constructs, fabricates or invents events, processes, observations or characterizations that did not take place in reality.

 

Concealing actual sources used to prepare the texts for publication is understood either as:

• all types of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism (see Zenderowski 2008; Ithenticate. Profesional Plagiarism Prevention 2011; Sieńczyło-Chlabicz, Banasiuk 2012);
• failing to quote the correct publications and quoting instead authors who are more likely to draw attention (according to the Matthew effect or the Matilda effect – see Merton 1968; 1988; 1995; Rossiter 1993; Strevens 2006; Kokowski 2015, pp. 160–161).

 

Conflict of interests

A conflict of interests is understood as a situation in which an author, reviewer or editor (or the institution with which such a person is affiliated) is involved in economic or personal relationships that may have an impact on their scientific judgment.

 

There are different forms and degrees of the conflict of interests. Some of them are admissible, and some are completely unacceptable because they negatively affect the objectivity of the scientific judgment.

 

Each case of a conflict of interests will be considered in the light of specialist studies describing good practices in reviewing procedures (see e.g. Elsevier 2017).

 

Promotion and propagation of high ethical standards in science

In order to promote and propagate high ethical standards in science, the Editorial Team recommends becoming familiar with the following studies: Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 2016; 2017; 2019; 2022a; 2022b; European Association of Science Editors (EASE) 2018; 2022; Hames 2016; Ithenticate. Profesional Plagiarism Prevention 2011; STM: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers 2013; Komisja do spraw etyki w nauce PAN 2020; Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego 2011; Sieńczyło-Chlabicz, Banasiuk 2012.

 

Bibliography

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9. Hames, Irene 2016: Peer review golden rules and good practice checklist. Science Editing 2016/3(1), pp. 36–42. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.6087/kcse.61.
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The journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum attaches great importance to fair procedures for peer review of texts submitted for publication in the journal as a means to foster its scientific and editorial development.

 

The journal puts into practice the ideas presented in specialist studies describing the good practices of the reviewing procedure – see Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego 2011; Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 2017; 2022; Hames 2016.

 

Each text submitted to the journal undergoes the following review assessment procedure:

• In the peer review process, the principle of no conflict of interests between the Author and the Reviewers is respected, i.e. the Reviewers cannot remain in professional dependency or direct personal relationship (relatives, legal relationships, conflicts), and are not allowed to have directly collaborated with the Author in the two years prior to the review.
• The submitted text receives an ID number, which will be used in the subsequent stages of the review procedure to ensure the anonymity of the Author.
• To check the originality of the text, it is checked by the Crossref Similarity Check anti-plagiarism service.
• In case of a negative evaluation, the text is rejected.
• In the opposite case, the text is reviewed internally with a particular emphasis on the consistency with the profile of the journal (see bookmark: Focus and Scope).
• In case of a negative evaluation, the text is rejected.
• In the opposite case, the text is checked against the formatting guidelines of the journal (see bookmark: Guidelines for Authors, 6. Manuscript template and text formatting ― guidelines).
• In the case of texts that are: 1) editorial commentaries, 2) interviews or recollections, 3) discussions or publication reviews, 4) reprints, 5) polemics, 6) news and conference reports, and reports on the activity of the PAU Commission on the History of Science, immediately after editorial internal review, the texts are subject to languistic proofreadings (made by the Editorial Team in agreement with the Authors of these texts).
• In the case of texts that are: 1) the so-called research articles or 2) the so-called research notes (limited to 2,000 words, including bibliography, and to 6 pages, including illustrations), after the possible deficiencies of the texts indicated by the Editorial Team have been removed, the texts will be assessed additionally by 2 – 5 independent external Reviewers, whose respective identities will remain concealed (double-blind review). There can also be no conflict of interests between the Author and the Reviewers, i.e. the reviewers cannot remain in professional dependency or direct personal relationship (relatives, legal relationships, conflicts), and are not allowed to have directly collaborated with the Author in the two years prior to the review. The texts are subject subsequently to linguistic proofreading (made by the Editorial Team in agreement with the Authors of these texts).
• Based on the opinion of the Reviewers, the article might be accepted for publication without changes, conditionally accepted (necessary corrections, cuts or amendments by Author indicated) or rejected.
• After the imperfections, which have been indicated by the Reviewers and the Editorial Team, have been removed by the Author, the Editorial Team takes the final decision to accept the text for publication or reject it, and will inform the Author (or the Co-author who is the contact person) about their decision concerning the publication.
• After the possible changes, proofreading and initial DTP, the article will be presented to the Author for final proofreading and then be accepted for publication.
• The Editorial Team refuses to publish the article if: a) the essence of the text is not consistent with the profile and quality of the journal (see bookmark: Focus and Scope); b) the Author has neither moral nor economic rights to the text; c) the text infringes on personal rights of other people (see bookmark: Legal and Ethical Principles); d) the Author does not agree to introduce the necessary corrections proposed by the Editorial Team.
• A list of Reviewers is, with their consent, published once a year on the website of the journal.

BIBLIOGRPAHY

1. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 2017: COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. Version 2. URL: https://publicationethics.org/files/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers-v2_0.pdf (accessed on 8 September 2022).
2. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 2022: Core practices. URL: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices (accessed on 8 September 2022).
3. Hames, Irene 2016: Peer review golden rules and good practice checklist. Science Editing 2016/3(1), pp. 36–42. URL: https://www.escienceediting.org/upload/se-3-1-36.pdf (accessed on 8 September 2022).
4. Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego 2011: Dobre praktyki w procedurach recenzyjnych w nauce [Review procedures in science: good practices]. Warsaw: Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego. URL: https://bbn.uksw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/dobre_praktyki.pdf (accessed on 8 September 2022).

 

Summary of the priciples of Peer review in the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum

TIMING	Preprints	Pre-publication	Post-publication
IDENTIFIABILITY	Double blind	Single blind	Open
MEDIATION	Editors mechate all interactions between reviewers and authors	Reviewers interact with one another openly	Reviewers and authors all interact with one another openly
PUBLICATION	Peer reviews are not published	Peer reviews are published but not signed	Peer reviews are published and signed. In the case of Stud. Hist. Scient. this applies to reviews in the form of complete polemical articles, which are also reviewed
FACILITATION	Reviews facilitated by a joumal	Reviews facilitated by a third-party	Reviews facilitated by authors
OWNERSHIP	Reviews owned by a journal or thir-party.  In the case of Stud. Hist. Scient. this applies to reviews of preprints	Reviews owned by the authors of the reviews.  In the case of Stud. Hist. Scient. this applies to reviews in the form of complete polemical articles to pre-publications or post-publications; there are open reviews.	Shared or mixed ownership of reviews

Note

The figure above describes the reviewing model adopted so far in the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum and based on the solutions promoted by COPE.

According to COPE, many review models are possible, created by selecting at least one option from each row of the table (see COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, p. 2).

In case of the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum, the original COPE table was modified as follows:

1. the variants of solutions so far used by the journal have been marked (these are fragments of the text highlighted in blue),
2. the explanatory additions have been added (these are fragments of the text highlighted in yellow).

 

In the future, the peer-review model of the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum may be subject to change, according to the readers’ needs and a necessity to maintain high review standards, as researchers are well aware of the many problems at the heart of the review procedure – cf. e.g. Csiszar 2016; Fronties. Science News 2016; Burley, Moylan (eds.) 2017; Scholastica 2019.

 

Bibliography

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This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The Editorial Team shares the opinion that open and free access to scientific publications is conducive to the dissemination of knowledge on a global scale.

For that reason, since 2013, our journal (then under the title: the Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU / Proceedings of the PAU Commission on the History of Science) has been a peer-reviewed journal with open access. It assumes the so-called diamond open access model, ie. an open and free access without embargo time.

Moreover, the journal supports the idea of unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data, in accordance with the rules promoted by the Initiative for Open Citations.

Bibliography

1. Fuchs, Christian; Sandoval, Marisol 2013: The diamond model of open access publishing: Why policy makers, scholars, universities, libraries, labour unions and the publishing world need to take noncommercial, non-profit open access serious. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 11(2), pp. 428–443. URL: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/3078/https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/3078/ (accessed on 8 September 2022).

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available free of charge to users or institutions. 

Since 2022 articles published in the journal are available under a licence Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Read more about the license CC BY 4.0: license overview, Legal Code.

 

The articles published in years 2016–2021 are available under a licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Poland (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL).

 

For aricles till 2016 your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation – see: Ustawa z dnia 4 lutego 1994 r. o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych. 

The journal allows authors to retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions. This includes the right of self-archiving. The authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive unlimited license to use the work in accordance with the agreement.

The journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum encourages Authors to archive research data accompanying the creation of their articles (e.g. tables, graphs, photographs, films, sound recordings, data files, field notes, questionnaires, transcripts etc.) in open research data repositories, e.g. Zenodo (CERN), Repozytorium Otwartych Danych RepOD (CEON, Poland), Repozytorium Open Access Most Wiedzy (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland).


A list of the open research data repositories can be found in: Directory of Open Access Repositories; Registry of Research Data Repositories; Data Cite and Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE).


Authors can cite the research data in their articles. It is necessary to provide a statement regarding the availability of these data sets, including a link to the repository where they were deposited, DOI etc.


For more on this topic, see Pampel et al. 2013; Guy 2013; Stromberg 2013; Griffin 2015; Bednarek-Michalska 2015 (in Polish); 2016 (in Polish); Hoffman-Sommer 2016a (in Polish); 2016b (in Polish); European Commission 2017; Kamińska 2017 (in Polish); Psonka 2017 (in Polish); Barrowman 2018; Open Aire 2018; Hrynaszkiewicz, Simons, Hussain, Goudie 2019.

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