About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The historians working at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow have come up with an idea to establish an international journal promoting knowledge and academic reflection on the history and activity of the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe. None of the Polish universities or institutes has Publisher a journal of such kind until now.
The initiative of establishing the journal has been greatly inspired by the intention of the University founder – John Paul II, who in the foundation act of the University (that time The Pontifical Academy of Theology) expressed his desire for all the scholars associated with the University to make every effort to study the history of the Church with special attention paid to the history of Christianity in Central and Eastern Europe.
It is worth emphasising that the title “Textus et Studia” was chosen and approved for the new academic journal. The intention of the editors is to publish the journal quarterly both in paper and electronic version (with electronic version as the primary one).
APCs
The journal does not charge any fees to authors for any part of the submission or publication process.
Double anonymous peer review
Initial screening is done by the Editorial Board. If the subject is appropriate, all submissions to be considered for publication in the Articles section will be subject to a double anonymous peer review process, i.e. the reviewers will not know the identity of the author(s) and the author(s) will not know the identity of the reviewers (each article will be sent to two reviewers, that are independent of the authors, i.e. not affiliated with the same institution). All other submissions to the journal will be subject to review by the Editorial Board.
Open Access and Repository Policy
The journal provides readers with immediate free access to all published content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors are allowed to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice.
Indexing of the journal in databases
The journal is indexed in international databases:
- RIH PLUS,
- Polish Scientific and Professional Electronic Journals Arianta,
- Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (PBN).
The Ethics and Malpractice
To prevent ghostwriting and guest authorship, the editorial staff requires that the input of each author be disclosed, in particular the authorship of the concept, assumptions, methods and relevant passages. The editorial staff must also be informed of the sources from which the publication has been financed. Since ghostwriting and guest authorship are manifestations of the lack of scholarly diligence, the authors of articles are requested to submit statements to the editorial staff concerning the professional and financial input of entities which have contributed to the publication. In cases of suspected or alleged misconduct, we will follow the COPE flowcharts.
Plagiarism policy
Each submission undergoes a plagiarism check using Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate, prior to the review process. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism will be rejected.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
