Review Process

• Bearing in mind our quality and reliability standards for scholarly texts, every publication sent to our Editorial Board is subject to a preliminary qualification, anti-plagiarism procedure and then sent to external reviewers for further evaluation.

• Doctoral student authors are asked to attach a written recommendation (containing a brief description and justification) by their research supervisor.

• The editorial office appoints two reviewers from outside the Institute of History and Archival Sciences of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, ensuring that the authors and reviewers do not know one another’s identity, which helps to prevent a conflict of interest between the parties.

• Editorial board ensures that reviewers are independent of the authors, i.e. not affiliated with the same institution.

• The reviewer expresses his opinion on the publication(s) in writing, paying special attention to the fulfillment of academic criteria as well as literary style ​​in which it was prepared. Any comments, suggestions and corrections noticed by the reviewers are marked in the text of the printout or in a separate file attached or in the electronic version of the file.

• At the end, the reviewer formulates an unequivocal conclusion and a justification of his position by filling in an appropriate evaluation form.

• After reading the opinions of the reviewers, the editorial board decides whether to accept or reject the text for publication, informing the author at the same time.

• The author, after reading the comments of the reviewer and making corrections and correcting the text, sends the final version to the editor - in an electronic and printed formats (1 copy).

• The method of preparing the manuscript is described in author guidelines, posted in the appropriate tab on the journal’s website.

• Texts sent to the Editorial Board should meet the requirements for academic publications be written in accordance with the principles of reliability and honesty.

• Editors of the Res Gestae journal, for the sake of reliability and quality, require the authors of collective publications to disclose the actual contribution of each of them, their affiliation as well as any research funding. These procedures are aimed at eliminating unethical practices such as ghostwriting or honorary authorship.