General duties

By accepting the manuscript for publication in Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne, the Editorial Board:

• assess its compliance with the thematic profile of the Journal,
• make sure whether all the authors have been indicated and have accepted the final version of the manuscript,
• assess whether the analysis which is carried out in the article is original and is of the scientific character,
• diagnose and eliminate instances of ghostwriting and guest authorship,
• endeavor to eliminate cases of plagiarism and inform the Contributor of their suspicion, as well as notify the institution which the author is affiliated with,
• analyze in detail all cases or manifestations of violation of the principles of ethics applicable to scientific publications and inform the author concerned of their objections, requesting the Contributor to respond to the allegation,
• forward the text to be published provided it satisfies the binding ethical principles and has been positively opinioned by two Reviewers,
• notify the author of the need to make substantive corrections to the manuscript in the case of conditional acceptance of the manuscript for publication, once the Reviewers have pointed to the necessity of introducing changes or/and complementing the text,
• notify the author – in the case of obtaining two reviews in the negative – of rejecting the manuscript concerned and not considering it for further editing and publishing process.

Impartiality

• Accepting a manuscript for publication, the Editorial Board is concerned primarily with its originality, quality and compliance with the scientific profile of the Journal. The Editor shall not consider the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy as pertinent to selecting the text for publication.
• The sole criteria for the selection of the text shall include:

    - the submission's relevance to the field of study and the scope of the journal

    - the submission's originality

    - the quality of the submission's language

    - observance of all legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

Confidentiality

The Editorial Board do not disclose to the Reviewers the data relating to the author; neither do they reveal to the Contributors the data relating to the Reviewers. The editorial board of the journal is under the obligation to keep confidential any information related to the editorial process. Until the moment of the admission of the article for publication, the Editor and any editorial staff shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to any third party other than:

- corresponding Author

- peer referees

- members of the editorial team

- the publisher

- copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters involved in the production of the journal as appropriate.

Preventing conflicts of interests

The Editorial Board do not appoint Reviewers for reviewing of works submitted by authors who are in any way directly related to the former on the functional basis or remain in other forms of direct relation to them, either of the professional or personal character.

Responsibility for the published texts

The Editorial Board exact from the Contributors and Reviewers respecting the principles of ethics which are in force for the Journal and take care of abiding by good editorial practices. As regards this respect, the Board take responsibility for texts published in the columns of Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne. The Editorial Board are obliged to take care to ensure the scientific integrity of the published works. If dishonest practices are suspected, the editors are obliged to withdraw the text from publication and to take steps to explain and remedy the situation. The detected cases of the transgression of ethics (plagiarism, etc.) should be reported in writing to the journal's Editor-in-Chief (e-mail: redakcja.osap@gmail.com). The report may be submitted by any person who holds suspicions as to the integrity of the text. The editorial board acts in compliance with the principles formulated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org. If transgression of the ethical tenets concerns a text, the editors will remove the paper from the website, providing information on the reasons for withdrawal and, in the case of a text published in print, the editors will publish an appropriate statement in the next edition of the journal. The editorial board will notify of the matter, the Author, the institution he/she is affiliated with, reviewers, the aggrieved persons, and also, if necessary, other ethical oversight bodies.