Governing principles

Reliability, research integrity, and adherence to the highest editorial standards, including the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, guide the editorial practices of Glottodidactica. Authors are responsible for complying with ethical standards, properly acknowledging all sources used in their work, and following the journal’s Author Guidelines (see Wytyczne dla Autorów / Author Guidelines).

Glottodidactica adheres to internationally recognized standards of publication ethics and editorial best practices, including the recommendations and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, and applicable data protection regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

COPE: https://publicationethics.org/
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing: https://doaj.org/bestpractice
GDPR: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj

Authors should also comply with the regulations of the country and institution they represent that apply to the conduct of research involving human subjects or animals. Authors should therefore verify with their affiliated institutions whether their research complies with the relevant ethical policies for studies involving human or animal participants (e.g., policies governing the collection of informed consent for participation and/or publication, participant anonymity, etc.). Evidence of ethical clearance for the research may be requested during the review process.

The journal's editors make every effort to prevent conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers. Reviewers are bound by Reviewer's Code of Ethics. In particular, reviewers are encouraged to declare any instances of potential conflicting interests. In addition, selected reviewers who do not feel that they are the right fit for an article or know that writing an appropriate review is not possible should report this to the Editor and decline to write a review.

The editors encourage members of the journal's Boards, reviewers, authors and readers to cooperate in improving the quality of the journal, especially in cases of suspected plagiarism, unethical use of AI and lack of scientific ethics (e.g., falsification or generation of research results by artificial intelligence) and falsification of authorship.

Principles governing Corrections, Retractions and Expressions of Concern

Glottodidactica is committed to maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record. If errors, inaccuracies, ethical concerns or evidence of misconduct are identified before or after publication, the Editorial Board will investigate the matter and take appropriate action in accordance with accepted standards of publication ethics, including the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Corrections may be published when an article contains an error that does not invalidate the scholarly findings but requires clarification or amendment. Corrections will be clearly linked to the original article.

Retractions may be issued when the published article is found to contain at least one of the malpractices: plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, unethical research practices, unreliable findings, serious undeclared conflicts of interest or other major breaches of publication ethics. Retraction notices will clearly identify the retracted article and will remain permanently available on the journal website.

Expressions of concern may be published when serious concerns have been raised about a published article, but the investigation is still ongoing or inconclusive.

Decisions concerning corrections, retractions and expressions of concern are made by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Editorial Board and, where necessary, relevant institutional bodies. 

In cases of doubt, the editors and authors may consult the COPE Retraction Guidelines: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools

Authors may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support language editing or improve the readability of manuscripts. Any use of AI tools in the preparation of a manuscript must be disclosed in a separate section entitled “AI Disclosure” placed before the References section. The disclosure should specify the name of the tool and the manner in which it was used.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, scientific integrity, and authorship of the submitted work. AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.

The use of AI tools for the fabrication, falsification, manipulation, or misrepresentation of research data, references, analyses, or findings constitutes scientific misconduct.

Authorship

Authorship of a publication should be understood as a significant and creative contribution to its creation, hence you should conscientiously consider your authorship if the publication was created using artificial intelligence. The author also bears legal responsibility for the published content and its consequences. In cases of doubt, contact the ethics committee at your university or the journal's editorial board in the first instance. You may also find helpful the information on authorship marking developed by COPE.

In particular, authors are required to disclose any conflicts of interest occurring in connection with the potential publication of the text in the journal Glottodidactica.
Personal data and information requested by and provided to the Editor should be factually correct.
Authors are required to sign a statement prepared by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and provided to them by the Editorial Board, as well as a license agreement for the publication of the article online.

In order to counteract the practices of ghostwriting and guest authorship, the editors of Glottodidactica ask the Authors to:

-declare that their publication meets the ethical requirements for articles submitted to our journal;

-define the percentage of actual intellectual contribution to the development of the article (providing affiliation and information about the authorship of concepts, methods, assumptions, etc.);

-provide information about the sources of funding (e.g., the number and title of the grant and the name of the granting institution in a footnote).

By meeting these criteria, authors sign the Author's Declaration.

Since Glottodidactica publishes only original texts, the submission of a previously published text in whole or in large part will be considered a violation of scientific ethics. In the event that parts of it have already been published, they should be clearly marked (with an appropriate footnote), and the decision to publish the text will be at the discretion of the Editorial Board.

Authors are obliged to reliably annotate with appropriate footnotes passages cited or referred to in the text of a study or thesis of someone else's authorship.
If the Authors find errors in their submitted text that is at the review stage or in other phases of the editorial process, they are obliged to notify the Editor as soon as possible.

Copyright infringement may also be discovered after the article has been published. Readers of the journal are encouraged to report such violations. Any abuse involving scientific dishonesty or violation of ethics will be exposed (relevant institutions will be notified). In this regard, the Editor-in-Chief will decide on appropriate steps based on the ethical principles in force at Adam Mickiewicz University and in Polish law.

The above regulations were drawn up on the basis of the principles developed by Suspected ethical problem in a submitted manuscript | COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics.

Anti-plagiarism policy

In order to counteract ghostwriting and guest authorship practices and to ensure the originality and high quality of published articles, articles are checked with an anti-plagiarism system. Articles that do not meet good publishing practices are rejected. The journal follows the latest procedures for evaluating them, and uses the Crossref Similarity Check  anti-plagiarism system using iThenticate software. The system makes it possible to identify similarities in a text by comparing it with publications available on the Internet and indexed databases, and identifying the sources of passages. Works found borrowing from other authors inappropriately cited or plagiarized will be rejected by the editors, while any abuse involving copyright infringement, scientific dishonesty or ethical violations will be exposed and reported to the management of the author's employing institutions. If plagiarism is found in a published work, the journal's editors will withdraw the text and post information about it on the journal's website and/or in the printed version.