ACTA SCIENTIARUM POLONORUM Oeconomia is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer-review together with ethical policies. Ethical standards for publication are essential to ensure highquality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas.
The ACTA SCIENTIARUM POLONORUM Oeconomia follows the codes of conduct and international standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and available free of charge on its website
(http://publicationethics.org/)
D uties of Editors
Publication decision: The Editor in Chairperson of the Scientific Board of the Acta Sci. Pol. Oeconomia series is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The Editor in Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and subjected to such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor in Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair play: Manuscripts shall be evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to authors’ race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality: The Editor in Chief/editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decision
Promptness
Confidentiality
Standards of Objectivity
Acknowledgement of Source
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Duties of Authors
Authors submitting manuscript to the journal should ensure that this submission is original work and is neither currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, nor has been published as a copyrighted material before.