Publication ethics

Principles of publication ethics in force at Univeversity Publishing House of the WSG University in Bydgoszcz

Publisher Policy

  1. The publishing house ensures that its employees, authors and reviewers comply with the relevant standards, including the principles of publishing ethics.
  2. The assessment of the submitted texts is not affected by gender, religion or lack of it, race, ethnic origin, citizenship, political beliefs of the author, but only by the appropriate content and technical criteria of the content.
  3. The editor-in-chief and other employees of the publishing house are obliged to maintain confidentiality regarding the content of the submitted works. They do not disclose information to anyone other than authors, reviewers (or people who are supposed to be reviewers) and other participants in the publishing process.
  4. The publisher decides which submitted works will be published. When making decisions, he is guided by the opinions of reviewers regarding the scientific value of the text.
  5. Unpublished texts may not be used in any way by employees of the publishing house and other persons participating in the publishing process without the consent of the authors, expressed in writing.
  6. The publisher has the right to withdraw a published work if it turns out that the work bears the hallmarks of plagiarism, violates the accepted principles of publishing ethics, the presented research results are unreliable or falsified.

 

Rules applicable to authors

  1. The author should present his research with scientific integrity and provide an objective description of the results. The papers should include appropriate references to sources and be precise enough to enable the research to be repeated by other researchers. Presentation and interpretation of data inconsistent with the principles of publishing ethics, including statements that are untrue or intentionally inaccurate, are unacceptable. 
  2. The author may only submit works that are his original work (he owns the copyright). The research and information of other scientists used in the work should be appropriately marked (as a citation). Plagiarism – the unlawful appropriation of someone else's intellectual property – is unacceptable.
  3. The author is obliged to list in the bibliography all publications that were used in the creation of the work.
  4. In the case of multi-author works, the applicant is obliged to disclose the contribution of individual authors to the work and to provide information on the affiliation of the authors.
  5. Practices such as ghostwriting and guest/gift authorship are not allowed. They are a manifestation of a lack of scientific reliability. Ghostwriting is understood as a situation when a person makes a significant contribution to the creation of a work, without disclosing their participation as one of the authors or without mentioning their role in the acknowledgments included in the work. Guest authorship is a situation when a given person had no or only a negligible share in the creation of the work, and is marked as the author/co-author of the work.
  6. The author is obliged to provide the publisher with information about the sources of financing the work, the contribution of scientific and research institutions, associations and other entities to its creation.
  7. The author is obliged to make every effort to ensure that the work presented to the publisher does not contain factual errors or inaccuracies.
  8. If the author notices significant errors or inaccuracies in the work submitted to the publisher, he is obliged to immediately notify the publisher of this fact and make appropriate corrections. If the work has already been published, the author is obliged to introduce corrections in the next edition or reprint.

  

Rules of reviewers

  1. The reviewer reviews the work on behalf of the publisher.
  2. The reviewer, author and publisher follow the rules described in "Good practices in review procedures in science" (MNiSW 2011).
  3. The reviewer is obliged to deliver the review within the time limit agreed with the publisher. If he is unable to meet the deadline, he should notify the publisher immediately.
  4. The review of the work should be objective. Ad personam criticism is unacceptable.
  5. The reviewer is obliged to make sure that there is no conflict of interest between him and the author of the work or any other circumstance that makes it impossible to accept the order to review the work.
  6. The reviewed work and the review itself are confidential. Their content may not be made available to other persons, except for persons involved in the publishing process.
  7. In necessary cases, the reviewer should indicate appropriate works related to the subject of the work, but not used by the author.
  8. The reviewer must report to the publisher any significant similarities between the reviewed work and other works.
  9. The reviewer may not use the reviewed work for their own needs or for their own benefit.