Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The aim of this journal is to present results of research on philosophy and sociology conducted in various Polish and foreign academic centres. Its areas of interest are history of philosophy, modern philosophy and philosophy of the Spanish-speaking circle, as well as basic issues connected to sociology in general and Polish sociology.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Reports

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Biograms

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Chronicle

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Content

Unchecked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

  •  At least two independent external reviewers from outside of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University are appointed to evaluate a paper.
  •  I fan issue includes foreign language texts, one of the reviewers must be affiliated with a foreign institution.
  •  The review is a double-blind process, which means that the author and reviewer do not know their identities.
  •  The review must have a written form and be prepared in the journal’s panel. It must contain information on whether or not a text should be published.
  •  The list of outside reviewers is published in each volume and on the journal’s website.

 

Publication Frequency

Articles for issues can be submitted until April and October respectively. The planned publishing dates in 2015 are the end of June and the end of December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

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Reviewers

2014

  • prof. dr hab. Mieczysław Jagłowski
  • prof. dr José María Ariso (Universidad Internacional  de La Rioja)
  • prof. dr Juan Cano de Pablo (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja)
  • prof. dr hab. Krystyna Szafraniec
  • prof. dr hab. Wojciech Świątkiewicz
  • dr hab. Leszek Korporowicz

 

Indexing

CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), Celdes, CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CNPIEC, De Gruyter - IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), De Gruyter - IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), EBSCO - Academic Search, EBSCO - Humanities Abstracts/Humanities Full Text (Wilson), EBSCO - Humanities International Complete/Humanities Source, EBSCO – MegaFILE, EBSCO - Religion & Philosophy Collection, EBSCO - Social Sciences Abstracts (Wilson), EBSCO - TOC Premier, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, INIST Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique, International Philosophical Bibliography - Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie J-Gate, Microsoft Academic Search, Naviga (Softweco), Philosopher's Index, Philosophy Documentation Center - Philosophy Research Index, PhilPapers, Primo Central (ExLibris), ProQuest - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), ProQuest - Social Science Journals, ReadCube, Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest), TDOne (TDNet), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb, WorldCat (OCLC)

 

Principles of editorial ethics

Editorial Staff „Annales UMCS Sectio I”, in order to prevent dishonest publishing practices, introduces principles used in human sciences, especially described by COPE Committee on Publication Ethics and COPE Code of Conduct, and especially takes actions representing good practice and social responsibility of the faculty by careful selection of incoming publications. The text contains ethical standards recommended by COPE (COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors). (https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf and https://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20Polish%20flowcharts.pdf )

 

Rules for Editors

  • Consequent adherence to the standards and ethical principles related to article publication.
  • Texts submitted for publication are only checked in terms of content.
  • Editorial Staff when approving article for printing bases its decision solely on scientific qualities of the text and uniqueness of the problem. On the second plan there is clarity and whether the subject fits the theme of a journal.
  • Editorial Staff guarantees the author reliability of a published work.
  • Text must be withdrawn from printing in case of negative result of anti-plagiarism software or when there is significant evidence proving unreliability of the research results.

Rules for Reviewers

  • For review of each tome, two independent reviewers are called from outside the UMCS
  • If the tome contains foreign language texts, then one of the reviewers should be affiliated with a foreign institution.
  • Double-blind review process, which means that the author and the reviewer have never met.
  • Review must be filed in writing in an editorial panel of the journal and contain an unequivocal conclusion whether the research should or should not be printed.

 

Rules for Authors

  • scientific honesty
  • uniqueness of work
  • sharing of data
  • source integrity
  • autorship

 Each decision of the „Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio I – Philosophia-Sociologia” Editorial Staff is binding.

Sending a research text for publishing in „Annales UMCS Sectio I” does not mean the Editorial Staff will publish it.