Ethical standards

The Publishing House of the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow (WN AIK) and the editors of Perspectives on Culture makes every effort to implement and stay up to date with the generally accepted standards of editing and publishing and to apply good practices in line with the policy of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Reviewers are required to declare absence of any conflict of interest.

Authors, editors and reviewers should follow the principles of good practice in the field of publication ethics.

It is expected of authors to be aware of the ethical principles and apply good practices in the field of publication ethics, in particular:

authorship and co-authorship (for example, avoiding ghost or guest authorship),
avoiding plagiarism,
avoiding data manipulation,
avoiding conflicts of interest, and to stay in compliance with the principles of research ethics.

The authors declare that their texts are original, which will be examined by anti-plagiarism iThenticate.com system.

Please also provide information (in a footnote) about the sources of funding for the publication, such as, for example, national grants, international grants, grants from foundations, associations, or commercial institutions.

In case of suspected violation of ethical principles relating to improper conduct of research or publication, the Editors of Perspectives on Culture will conduct an investigation. If necessary, the Editors reserve the right to contact the authors, institutions, donors and regulators.

In case of suspected or presumed improper conduct, explanatory procedure shall be used in accordance with the COPE. In the case of discovery of any evidence of misconduct, the Editors will take the actions described below to make changes, which may include revision of a text or its withdrawal.

Anti-plagiarism procedure:

suspicion of plagiarism
suspicion of duplicate publication

Anti-data manipulation procedure:

suspicion of data manipulation

Procedure for authorship and co-authorship:

adding an author before publication
removal of an author before publication