Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie

The submitted articles may not be previously published in any form or submitted for publication in any other editorial office. The texts are evaluated and qualified for printing. Each article is evaluated by two reviewers. Authors and reviewers do not know each other. Both, the assessment criteria and the reviewers list can be found on the website. The authors are informed about paper acceptance or rejection as well as about the guidelines as to make the necessary corrections. After completion of the editorial the writer receives the text for approval. The editorial board reserves the right to publish the article on the website „The Koszalin-Kolobrzeg Studies”. The editorial board introduces time limits for the publication of the reviewed books. The Polish-language books cannot be older than two years since the release of „The Koszalin-Kolobrzeg Studies”. However, the foreign language books cannot be older than 4 years.

The criteria for reviewing scientific articles

Reviewers use the following criteria when evaluating articles:
1. Compliance with the content of the title.
2. Compliance abstracts and keywords of the article with its content.
3. Substantive value of the work.
4. Competent approach to work structure.
5. The correctness of applied scientific terminology.
6. Proper conclusions.
7. The correctness of citations of literature.
8. The suitability of the manuscript.

The formula review is attached (skk_formularz_recenzji.doc).

The procedure of review
1. All articles submitted by authors are to be reviewed.
2. The review is a two-stage process.
3. The Scientific Council together with scientific editors review the articles on the first stage of the procedure of reviewing.
4. The accepted texts - initially improved - are given to reviewers, the experts in the field.
5. Reviewers are not the members of the editorial board of „The Koszalin-Kolobrzeg Studies”.

Reviewers do not know the name and affiliation of the author of the article, and the author of the article does not know the names of the reviewers (“double-blind review process”). Within a period not exceeding three months, reviewers submit their detailed opinions to the editor-in-chief, who then forwards them to the author. Reviews are in written form and end with an unambiguous conclusion as to the conditions for publication of the article, or an unambiguous and appropriately justified conclusion regarding its rejection. If the reviewers conditionally approve the text for publication, i.e., if they recommend appropriate changes (corrections) to the author, the author must respond to their proposals within two months.

A scientific text submitted for review is a confidential document, which means that the Reviewer may not disclose it to other persons, except those authorized by the Editor. Furthermore, the Reviewer may not review an article if there is a conflict of interest between him/her and the Author resulting from cooperation or any other mutual relations. They also cannot use a text that has been rejected for publication without the Author's consent.

Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) skk_cope_eng.pdf