About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Logos i Ethos is a scientific semi-annual reviewed journal published since 1991 by the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow (formerly the Academy of Theology). The journal was created to disseminate national and international research in broadly understood philosophy. 

According to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 1, 2021 on the list of scientific journals and reviewed materials from international conferences, the title: LOGOS I ETHOS (ISSN 0867-8308 druk, ISSN 2391-6834 online) has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 200367, number of points: 70, assigned scientific disciplines: PHILOSOPHY.

Logos and Ethos use the digital ID of electronic documents (DOI), while the scientists' identifiers (ORCID) will be successively implemented from the nearest LiE 2018(2).

PUBLICATION

1. We publish:

• scientific articles
• translations and comments
• reviews and reports
• interviews

2. We conduct recruitment of texts on a continuous basis.
3. We do not impose leading themes for individual issues.

INDEXES

Logos i Ethos is on the following indices of scientific journals:

• CEJSH (Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities)
• ERIHPLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities),
• BAZHUM
• POL-INDEX
• PBN (Polish Scientific Bibliography)
• PHILOSOPHER'S INDEX   

 

Open Access Policy

The journal appears in open access. This means that the entire content of the journal is available free of charge for users, including institutions. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of each article, as well as publish links to it without obtaining the consent of the publisher or author.

Articles in the magazine are available under license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Poland (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL) 

The open access policy can be checked on the website Sherpa/RoMEO.

The Ethics and Malpractice

Reliability in science is one of its qualitative foundations. For this reason, the editorial staff of "Logos and Ethos" thank authors for their ethical attitude, but at the same time requires them to disclose the contribution of individual authors in the publication. According to the editors, "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship" are a manifestation of scientific misconduct, and any detected cases will be unmasked, including notifying the relevant units.

Accountability

The editor of the reviewed journal is responsible for making decisions regarding the selection of articles for publication, and in addition is responsible for everything that has been published in the journal. By making these decisions, the editor is guided by the editorial policy of the journal, as well as the legal requirements for defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor consults with other editors or reviewers when deciding whether to publish. The editor should follow ethical standards and always be ready to publish corrections, explanations, appeals or apologies if necessary.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, the scientific council members, other editorial advisers and publishers, as appropriate.

Fairness

The editor should evaluate manuscripts for intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s).

Duties of authors

1. The authors of articles are required to submit only original texts written by themselves, never published before. Sending an article simultaneously to more than one Editor at the same time is a violation of the ethics of publication.

2. In the case of collective work, the authors are obliged to indicate the percentage of co-authorship; in the absence of such an indication, it is assumed that the contribution of each author in the creation of this article is equal.

3. The author's obligation is to disclose all sources used in the work on the publication.

4. The author is obliged to sign a contract containing a statement of the originality of the work. The contract templates: [lie_license_en.pdf]

5. In the situation where the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his own published work, it is his duty to immediately notify the editor of the journal and collaborate with the editor in order to publish explanations.

In cases of suspected or alleged misconduct, we will follow the COPE flowcharts (Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE).

Disclosure, conflicts of interest, and other issues

In case of suspicion of unethical practices, the Editor will be guided by the COPE principles – he will consider withdrawing or submitting amendments to the article.

Unpublished materials disclosed in the submitted article cannot be used in the own research of the editorial office without the express written consent of the author. The reviewers and the editorial staff guarantee the confidentiality of the described research and the results of the research will not serve personal gain.

 

Editor’s roles and responsibilities

• Is responsible for the fast, clear and objective review process;
• selects reviewers, taking into account their knowledge in particular thematic areas; constantly monitors the review process. It is expected of the reviewer that they undertake to prepare the assigned review as soon as possible. The reviewer may, for personal reasons, decline to prepare a review of an article. They should inform the journal’s editorial team of this fact without delay;
• sets the review period with the selected reviewer, taking into account the publication process;
• decides whether an article must be rejected due to a suspicion of the conflict of interests between the author and reviewer of the manuscript – in this case the reviewer is obligated not to prepare a review;  
• ensures that each author is treated with due dignity, courtesy and fairness;
• evaluates articles in cooperation with the members of the Scientific Council, in accordance with the principle of fairness, transparency, equality and tolerance;
• makes the final decision in case of encountering any problem associated with the publication;
• consults all changes in the publication process with the author of the article;
• is obliged to ensure confidentiality of information related to the author, reviewer and contents of the manuscript;
• is responsible the publication deadlines - in case of delays, the editor contacts the reviewers, authors or UPJPII Press in order to expedite the publication process;
• is responsible for the efficient functioning of the publication process, in coordination with the UPJPII Press;
• is responsible for exacting adherence to the guidelines and protocols provided by the UPJPII Press.

The Scientific Council’s roles and responsibilities

The Scientific Council oversees the operations of the Editorial Board of Logos i Ethos, in particular:

• resolves any disputes
• evaluating and accepting the annual publication plan,
• supervising execution of the annual plan,
• ensuring high quality of publications,
• evaluating the size of the print run
• gives opinions in case of any doubts at the Editorial Board level,
• gives an opinion on matters brought by the Chief Editor of Logos and Ethos