Ethical standards

The editorial team accepts for publication only texts that are original works and do not reproduce previously published content. The submitted work cannot be accepted for publication or undergo a review process in another journal.

The editorial team does not allow the publication of articles containing content that is offensive, slanderous, defamatory, or otherwise subject to legal sanctions.

Authors should adhere to high ethical standards and good publishing practices. The following are unacceptable: falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, including duplicating the publication of one's own work without proper citation. We take every case of ethical or publication misconduct very seriously. We will deal with them in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

In order to counteract the phenomenon of "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship", authors are obliged to indicate all persons who participated in the creation of the article (including their affiliation and contribution, i.e. information who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, etc. used in the publication). "Ghostwriting" and "guest authorship" are a manifestation of scientific dishonesty

Handling allegations of violating publication standards

Plagiarism

The editorial office does not downplay any cases of copyright infringement. In case of justified doubts, the editors analyze the submitted text with the anti-plagiarism program used at the University of Gdańsk. In the event of subsequent detection of plagiarism or other infringement of third party copyrights without their consent, the editorial office reserves the right to take appropriate actions, including: publishing a correction, withdrawing the article, contacting the head of the institution where the author is affiliated, and also taking appropriate legal actions.

Copyright

Authors are requested to obtain all necessary permissions from copyright owners to reproduce any illustrations, tables, figures or long quotations previously published elsewhere.