Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Introduction
The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine is appointed by the Academic Council of the Institute of Archaeology. The Editor-in-Chief forms the Editorial Board of the Journal in accordance with the regulatory documents of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the rules for indexation of scientific journals in the Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection databases.
The editorial board of the scientific journal Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine follows the international ethical rules of scientific publications, including the concepts of decency, confidentiality, supervision of publications and prevention of possible conflicts of interests etc.
We follow the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics, OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) and the Elsevier Publishing Ethics Resource Kit. Adherence to the rules of ethics of scientific publications by all participants of the publishing process helps to secure the rights of the authors to the intellectual property, to improve the quality of the publication, and to prevent the possibility of misuse of the copyrighted materials in the interests of individuals.
These principles meet the journal’s policies, and are the main components of the journal’s reviews and publication.
Responsibilities
The editor-in-chief, the members of editorial board and editorial staff of the scientific journal, Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine are responsible for the publication of the submitted manuscript, according to the following fundamental principles:
The editor-in-chief is responsible for decisions concerning the acceptance or rejection of submitted papers, for guiding the journal’s policy, and adheres to the juridical principles for preventing copyright infringement and plagiarism.
The editor-in-chief does not allow the submitted paper to be published if there is a sufficient reason to believe that it is plagiarism.
The Editor-in-Chief should not have any personal interest in the articles he/she rejects or accepts.
Taking the decision concerning publication the editor-in-chief should consider the accuracy of the submitted data and the scientific significance of submitted work.
The editor-in-chief evaluates the paper only according to its scientific content.
The editor-in-chief and editorial staff as well as members of the editorial board cannot disclose information about a submitted paper to anyone other than to the author(s), assigned reviewers, and (if necessary) the publisher.
Objectivity
The Editor-in-Chief evaluates a paper solely by its scientific content, regardless of the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, citizenship, origin, social status or political views.
The editor should use the journal's standard electronic submission system for all journal materials.
The editor should establish, together with the publisher, a transparent mechanism for appealing editorial decisions.
In a case of conflict situation, the editorial office should take all necessary measures to restore violated rights, and if errors are identified, facilitate the publication of corrections or refutations.
The objectivity in evaluation of a manuscript by the reviewers is reached by using the 'double blind' type of peer-review in which the referees remain anonymous to the authors and the authors are likewise unknown to the reviewers.
Confidentiality
All persons preparing the paper for publication cannot use the unpublished data in any way.
Persons involved with the publication process should ensure the confidentiality of the information concerning the reviewers. If an additional reviewer is recruited, he/she may be informed of the names of the previous reviewers. Principles followed by the peer-reviewers and their responsibilities are stated in a Peer-review Process and are part of publication ethics of the journal.
New information or ideas gained through peer review should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.
The complete unpublished manuscript is provided for review only after reviewers consent to review and after negotiations during the selection of appropriate reviewers.
Authorship
Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine journal publishes original papers with confirmed authorship. The published paper is available in open access and the copyright is owned by the authors and by the publisher (see details in Open access statement).
Author presents the original manuscript only. The paper that has been submitted to another issue, as well as the paper published in another issue, will not be accepted in the journal. Disregard of this principle is considered as violation of the publication ethics. Verbatim copying of own works and their rephrasing are unacceptable; they can only be used as a basis for new conclusions.
The authors are collectively responsible for the work. Each author is responsible for ensuring proper research and addressing issues related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work.
The editorial board of the Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine journal does not tolerate the plagiarism in any form and considers it the ostent of academic dishonesty. Publications with the features of plagiarism will be rejected without any explanation. Plagiarism policy is stated separately and is an integral part of publication ethics of the journal. If plagiarism is detected in the published work or if the author violates in the published work the rights of a third party, the editor should verify the claims are true. Author, in whose work the fact of plagiarism is revealed, loses the right to be published in the next issues of the journal.
Authors hold the copyright without restrictions. Authors are permitted to post their final PDF-files provided by the Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine journal on their personal or institutional websites and transfer, if necessary, these files into archives.
Agreements
The relations between the journal and authors are regulated by the License Agreement. The responsibilities of the authors on the correctness and originality of the information, absence of the conflict of interests with the authors of the excavations, the report and archive documentations, etc. are stated in the Сonflict of Interests.
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Research misconduct policy
The journal shares the Ukrainian Code of Ethics of Professional Archaeologists and does not accept the publications violating its principles of academic virtue and respect to the exclusively legal provenance of the archaeological materials.
Materials of dubious origin, or those held in private collections, without accurate provenance or considered stolen are not published in the journal. If a paper discussing such materials is submitted, the decision regarding its publication is put before the editorial board.
In the case of proven scientific dishonesty after the publication of materials, the retraction procedure Retraction is applied to the article by decision of the editorial board.
