Ethics statement
Guidelines for Editors
General Responsibilities
The editors are accountable for all content published in their journal. The editors must be ready to publish corrections and apologies when necessary (see Post-publication discussions and corrections).
The editors must follow transparent editorial policy. Submission guidelines and requirements for potential contributors to the journal must be published.
Conflict of Interest
The editors require authors, reviewers and editorial board members to disclose potential conflicts of interest.
The editors make decisions to accept or reject submissions based on the quality of the submission and its suitability for the journal. The editors must make sure that commercial considerations do not interfere with their editorial decisions.
The editors must make sure that non-peer-reviewed sections of the journal are clearly marked as such.
Peer-Review Practice
The editors must ensure that all research submissions are peer-reviewed. A description of the peer review practice must be published for the benefit of potential contributors to the journal.
The editors are accountable for recruiting qualified reviewers. The editors must strive to obtain highly competent reviewers and discontinue using reviewers who consistently deliver poor quality reviews.
The editors must ensure that reviews are relevant, courteous and timely. The reviewers should judge the quality of the research and not comment on the researcher’s gender, race, beliefs, and the like.
Academic Integrity
The editors and reviewers must treat all submissions under review as confidential.
The editors must protect the identity of reviewers and the identity of authors if a double-blind review process is used.
The editors must ensure that all submissions comply with ethical research standards, particularly in research involving human or animal subjects.
The editors must make sure that all submissions comply with academic integrity standards, particularly with respect to plagiarism, citation manipulation, data falsification/fabrication, image manipulation, and the like. Suspicions of scientific misconduct must be promptly investigated and response from authors suspected of misconduct must be sought. In the event that a journal’s editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the editors shall follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Ethical oversight
The editors adhere to the principles of the COPE.
Post-publication discussions and corrections
The editors allow post-publication debate on the journal’s website. If the journal receives a critique of an article previously published in the journal that contains reasonable content, it will be published here.
Following the COPE Retraction Guidelines, the editors shall consider correcting, revising, or retracting a publication if:
- They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, it constitutes plagiarism
- The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper attribution to previous sources or disclosure to the editor, permission to republish, or justification (ie, cases of redundant publication)
- It contains material or data without authorisation for use
- Copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue (eg, libel, privacy)
- It reports unethical research
- It has been published solely on the basis of a compromised or manipulated peer review process
- The author(s) failed to disclose a major competing interest (aka, conflict of interest) that, in the view of the editor, would have unduly affected interpretations of the work or recommendations by editors and peer reviewers.
Journal policies on authorship and contributorship
The editors adhere to the principles of the COPE.
The editors support and adopt the following four authorship criteria proposed by ICMJE:
- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
- Final approval of the version to be published; AND
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Guidelines for Authors
General Responsibilities
Authors are accountable for all aspects of their research submitted for publication to a journal. Authors of a multi-author submission have joint responsibility for their research, unless stated otherwise.
Authors must promptly notify editors if they discover any errors in their research. This applies to research that has been submitted, is under review or has been published. Authors must cooperate with editors to rectify any errors.
Authors must comply with submission guidelines and requirements published by the editors. Authors are aware that failure to meet these requirements may result in rejection of their research for publication.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must disclose potential conflicts of interest.
Authors must publish all sources of their research funding, including both financial and non-financial support.
Authors must disclose their relationship to the journal, particularly when editors and reviewers seek publication in a journal that they are affiliated with.
Peer-Review Process
Authors must cooperate with editors at all stages of the publication process. Authors must notify editors if they choose to withdraw their submission at any stage of the peer-review and publication process.
Authors must respond to comments of reviewers in a relevant and timely manner. Authors must carefully check proofs supplied by editors before authorising them.
Academic Integrity
Authors must not seek publication of their research in more than one journal concurrently, unless all parties agree on co-publishing.
Authors are accountable for the soundness and honesty of their research. Authors must use appropriate methods for reporting their research and provide sufficient detail for other researchers to repeat their experiments. Authors must publish the complete results of their research and not withhold findings that are inconsistent with their hypothesis.
Authors must comply with ethical research standards, particularly in research involving human or animal subjects, and must be prepared to provide sufficient proof on request.
Authors must comply with academic integrity standards, particularly with respect to plagiarism, citation manipulation, data falsification/fabrication, image manipulation, and the like. Authors must appropriately quote and cite all sources used in their research and refrain from including indirect quotations from sources that they have not consulted. In the event that the journal’s editors are made aware of any complaints or allegations of research misconduct relating to an article published in the journal, the editors shall follow the COPE guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Authors must obtain permission to use any third party images, figures and the like from the respective copyright holders.
Journal policies on data sharing and reproducibility
The journal supports research data being shared, discoverable, citable, and recognized as an intellectual product of value. Accordingly, it adheres to the principles of the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles. Authors are encouraged to include data citations as part of their reference list.
Intellectual property
As from issue 30 (2018), Romanica Olomucensia is an Open Access journal.
Authors give Palacký University an unlimited non-exclusive publisher licence, which is transferable to a third party, i.e. Romanica Olomucensia allows the authors to hold the copyright without restrictions.