Peer Review Process

All articles submitted for publication in FSP are subject to a double-blind peer review procedure. The review procedure carried out at FSP meets the requirements of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Here is a step-by-step description of our peer review procedure:

• The Assistant to the Editor at FSP receives the manuscript.
• The article is read by the FSP editorial staff. First, we check whether your text meets our basic requirements, e.g. we make sure that it has all the necessary references and that it follows our layout requirements. Papers that are outside of the journal’s scope or do not follow our submission guidelines may be rejected already at this stage. Otherwise, you may be asked to make necessary changes to the manuscript, including ones aimed at anonymizing the manuscript. If the FSP staff have no objections at this point, they choose the text’s potential reviewers.
• The manuscript’s title and abstract are sent to the potential reviewers. When choosing referees for a particular manuscript we try to make sure that there is no conflict of interest between the author(s) and either of the reviewers.
• If the potential reviewers agree to review the manuscript, a timeline will be agreed upon (preferably around a month) and the author will be notified that the manuscript is now under review. An anonymized version of the text will then be sent to the two anonymous referees, who do not know your particulars and will not know them until the article is published.
• The referees send their reviews of your text to the editorial team. On the basis of the reviews, FSP’s Editors decide whether the article can be published in its current form. If the two referees' reviews and opinions on the article vary significantly from each other, a third review may be required.
• The author receives anonymized versions of the reviews, often along with the Editors’ guidelines as to what adjustments need to be made (if any).
• The author sends the final version of the text to the Assistant to the Editor.
• If there are no further objections to the article’s content, FSP’s editorial staff prepare the article’s final version.
• The author receives the final version for a final proof reading and acceptation.
• The article is published in FSP.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publishing ethics

The editorial staff at Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia are committed to a policy of academic fairness and transparency. In our editorial work we follow the recommendations of The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Our staff make sure that the published research output is original (i.e. not published or considered for publication elsewhere), relevant in terms of the journal’s scope and the respective research disciplines as well as of high quality. See Our review procedure for more details.
Any allegations of research misconduct relating to articles published in our journal should be reported to the editorial staff and will be considered by the Editor-in-chief, the approach being chosen on a case-to-case basis.
The journal is open to post-publication discussions with regard to the journal’s content. In such cases please contact our editorial staff.
We expect the authors of the submitted papers to recognize the contributions of other researchers to the respective fields and provide all the necessary references to previous research.
Papers submitted for publication elsewhere or previously published will not be considered for publication with our journal.
It is one of our duties as editors of a scholarly journal to prevent ghost-writing, guest authorship and honorary authorship. This applies mainly to texts that are co-written by multiple authors. When submitting articles for publication in FSP, authors may be asked to reveal how much each of the authors has contributed to the creation of the text in question and how.
Authors may also be asked to submit a financial disclosure, i.e. state what institutions have financed the research that a submitted article is based on (if applicable).
Papers submitted to FSP are subject to a double-blind review procedure. We expect our reviewers to remain objective, to provide a review that is to the best of their abilities and to always provide explanations for their remarks regarding the reviewed papers.
Reviewers who feel that they cannot remain impartial in the review process, e.g. due to a potential conflict of interests with one or more of the authors, are expected to inform the editor of such instances and request to be excluded from the review process. So should potential reviewers who feel that the proposed manuscript is outside of their areas of expertise.
The reviewed articles should be treated confidentially until they have been published.

Reviewers

Artur Jazdon, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Henrik Jørgensen, Aarhus University
Dr hab Wojciech Krawczuk, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Gert Kreutzer, University of Cologne
Michał Larek, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Svein Lie, University of Oslo
Christer Lindqvist, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
Witold Maciejewski, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warszawa
Jakub Morawiec, University of Silesia in Katowice
Bolesław Mrozewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Randi Nilsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Elisabeth Oxfeldt, University of Oslo
Bernard Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
lse Ryen, University of Oslo
Sylwia Izabela Schab, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Stephan Michael Schröder, University of Cologne
Maria Sibińska,  Gdańsk