Publication ethics

Comprehensive information about our Publication ethics and Malpractice statement is available here.

Linguistica Brunensia  is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices.

The ethics statement of the journal Linguistica Brunensia is based on the Code of Conduct guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at www.publicationethics.org. It contains five parts discussing, respectively, the responsibilities of authors, editors, reviewers, the editorial board and the publisher.

Authors’ responsibilities:

• The authors are obliged to participate in peer review process, respond to reviewers’ comments and make suggested modifications based on these comments. In disputable cases they can appeal to editorial board (executive editor) of the journal with particular objections or retract the paper respectively.
• The collective of authors should only comprise those members, who have significantly contributed to achievement of research results presented.
• The main topic of the paper must not be previously published in any other journal.
• Authors have to follow the Formatting Guidelines incl. prescribed citation standard.
• By submitting of manuscripts for publication consideration give all authors guarantee that submitted works represent their own original contributions and have not been copied or plagiarised in whole or in part from other works.

Editorial responsibilities:

• The editors are responsible for the content of the journal and quality of articles published.
• The editors maintain objectivity with all articles submitted, i.e. they are obliged to avoid conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept, and respect the main criteria of article selection:
  • professional level and relevance of the article;
  • conformity of the topic with professional focus of the journal.
• The editors evaluate manuscripts on the basis of their intellectual content regardless of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political opinions of the authors.
• The editors are obliged to preserve anonymity of both reviewers and authors within the peer review process.
• The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, the reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial board members, and the publisher, as appropriate.
• In cooperation with editorial board, the editors address possible appeals of the authors against reviewers’ comments and other complaints.
• The editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject or accept an article.
• The editor will be guided by COPE’s Guidelines for Retracting Articles when considering retracting, issuing expressions of concern about, and issuing corrections pertaining to articles that have been published in Linguistica Brunensia.
• Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in the editor’s own research without the explicit written consent of the author(s). Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
• The editor is committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Reviewers’ responsibilities:

• The reviewer has to be objective in his/her assessment.
• The reviewer must not misuse information stated in the article under review for personal or other gain.
• The reviewer can reject to assess a paper for reasons of competing professional interests:
  • professional, financial or personal benefit from accepting or rejecting the paper under review;
  • cooperation on given project in the past five years;
  • fundamental difference in opinions on the main topic of the paper under review;
  • close professional or personal relationship to the author or some member of the collective of authors.
• Unless the reviewer rejects to make an assessment for the above reasons, editorial office takes it for granted that no conflict of interests exists.
• The reviewer should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited by the author.

Responsibilities of editorial board:

• Editorial board constantly makes efforts to improve the professional and formal quality of the journal, supports the freedom of speech, and in compliance with generally accepted ethics it is always willing to publish corrections, retractions and apologies by prior arrangement.
• Editorial board issues instructions concerning the whole editorial work (instructions for authors, guidelines for peer review process and reviewers etc.).
• Editorial board guarantees observation of the above rules.

Publisher Responsibilities

• The publisher ensures the autonomy of editorial decisions, without influence from advertisers or other commercial partners.
• The publisher protects the intellectual property and copyright of Linguistica Brunensia, its imprints, authors and publishing partners by maintaining each article’s published version of record.
• Linguistica Brunensia ensures the integrity and transparency of each published article with respect to: conflicts of interest, publication and research funding, publication and research ethics, cases of publication and research misconduct, confidentiality, authorship, article corrections, clarifications and retractions, and timely publication of content.
• In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of a correction statement, erratum or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of such articles.