Reviewing procedure

The reviewing practices used by Schulz/Forum comply with the recommendations of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education:

  • Members of the editorial office of Schulz/Forum make an initial selection of texts and assign them to a specific section of the journal.
  • Articles that have been assessed by the editorial office as formally and thematically consistent with the journal profile are submitted to two independent readers.
  • Reviewing procedures take into account “the double-blind peer-review process” model, whereby authors and readers do not know their identities.
  • All readers are university professors, unless the specificity of the text requires consultation with specialists from outside the academic fields.
  • The editors ensure that there is no conflict of interest between the readers and the authors, for example: direct personal relationships (kinship, legal relationships, personal conflict), professional subordination relationships, scientific cooperation in the last two years preceding the preparation of the review.
  • The written report ends with an unequivocal request for the article to be published or rejected.
  • The eligibility rules for publication and the reader report form are made public on the journal website.
  • The names of readers of individual articles and issues are not disclosed prior to publication. At the end of every year, the journal publishes a list of readers on the website in the tab Reviewers.

Reader resposibilities

  • Readers formulate reliable opinions on the basis of which it will be possible to accept or reject the submitted articles by Schulz/Forum.
  • Readers provide the authors with substantive comments, thanks to which it will be possible to adapt the article to the highest scientific standards.
  • Readers follow the principle of impartiality in the evaluation process.
  • Readers will not use the submitted articles for their own research purposes before the issue is published.
  • Readers inform the editorial office about the possibility of a conflict of interest. In this case, a different reader is selected.
  • Readers immediately inform the editorial office of suspected plagiarism, ghost authorship or an attempt to publish a given text a second time.
  • Readers will keep the content of the publication and the content of the report confidential.

The review form in English is available here.