About the Journal

Aims and Scope

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae (SHO) is a refereed journal published two times a year. The journal is addressed to historians (particularly economic historians), economists, sociologists and social scientists who are interested in economic life in social and cultural contexts, both from theoretical and empirical points of view.

The general objective of the journal is to be open to the results of research on both past and contemporary social and economic phenomena, mainly from a historical, economic and sociological point of view.

In the era of progressive specialization of scientific research, the SHO has consistently been promoting the idea of the interdisciplinary character of research on economic history since its funding. For this reason, the SHO provides a platform that brings together socio-economic historians from various faculties, including economics, social sciences, humanities and history.

The SHO sites serve as a forum for scholars from around the world, particularly those with an interest in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, to present their research and exchange ideas and engage in discussions on socio-economic history.

The first issue appeared in 1967 and the founder were Prof. Czesław Łuczak and Prof. Jerzy Topolski. In the beginning, the journal was to share research results of Polish scholars in the field of economic and social history with international readers.

SHO is published in English.

The journal is published both in print and online.

No publication fee.

The Studia Historiae Oeconomicae is a peer-review publication, and the papers received are submitted to double-blind refereeing.

The referral process is blind and is supervised by the Editors.

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Instruction for Authors

The editors of SHO accept for publication in the journal original, previously unpublished, problem and review articles on economic and social history, in accordance with the subject matter specified each time in Call for Papers. The journal is open to both research and theoretical texts. In accordance with the mission of the SHO, which consists in promoting the scientific achievements of Polish economic and social historians in the world, their texts constitute an essential part of each volume. Apart from them, articles sent from other countries are also published.

SHO is an annual published in collaboration with Sciendo De Gruyter. The editorial office accepts texts in Polish and English. Articles are published in English. The journal is published in a printed and electronic version.
All SHO articles are published under the Open Access clause: they undergo a full peer review process, are freely available on the Sciendo and PRESSto platforms, can be freely downloaded from the Sciendo and PressTo platforms, and can be used under a chosen Creative Commons user license.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely ovailable without charge to the user or his/her institution. By submitting their text, the authors agree that all SHO texts are published in accordance with the Open Access clause: they undergo a full scientific review process, are made available free of charge on the Sciendo and PRESSto platforms, can be downloaded free of charge from the Sciendo and PressTo platforms and may be used under a Creative Commons user license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Copyright

Copyright is regulated by the author's statement made during the submission process and also by the license agreement for online publication concluded between the Author and the University of Adam Mickiewicz. The authors are responsible for the originality of the textual material and the regulation of copyrights regarding illustrative materials. In the event that the materials come from the editorial office - the editorial office of the journal is responsible.
 
The author retains unlimited copyright.

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Plagiarism Policy

The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.

Editorial and publishing rules

The SHO is a refereed journal published two times a year. The journal is a peer-review publication, and the papers received are submitted to double-blind refereeing. The referral process is blind and is supervised by the Editors (Login or Register to make a submission).

The editors of SHO accept for publication in the journal original, previously unpublished, problem and review articles on economic and social history, in accordance with the subject matter specified each time in Call for Papers.

The journal is open to both research and theoretical texts. In accordance with its mission, the SHO consistently promotes the idea of interdisciplinary research on economic history. Because of it, each issue is dedicated to a different topic and in results each issues is a platform that brings together socio-economic historians from various departments, including economic, social, humanities and history from around the world.

The SHO sites serve as a forum for scholars from around the world, particularly those with an interest in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, to present their research and exchange ideas and engage in discussions on socio-economic history.

SHO is published in collaboration with Sciendo De Gruyter. The editorial office accepts texts in Polish and English. Articles are published in English. The journal is published in a printed and electronic version.

All SHO articles are published under the Open Access clause: they undergo a full peer review process, are freely available on the Sciendo and PressTo platforms, can be freely downloaded from the Sciendo and PressTo platforms, and can be used under a chosen Creative Commons user license.

Peer Review Process

1) Submitting the text by the Author (text and statements regarding consent to the rules of ethics and related to the open access system)
2) Editors’ decision on compliance or non-compliance with the journal’s profile.
3) Removal of the author’s identification data from the text.
4) Submitting the text for evaluation by two independent Reviewers.
5) Providing the Editorial Board with the prepared opinions.
6) Sending the opinions of the Reviewers to the author of the text.
7) The Author’s response to the opinions of the Reviewers.
8) The Editor’s final decision to accept or reject the text for publication.

Reviewing rules

Reviewing the submitted articles is a two-stage process. At the first stage, the article is subject to an initial editorial review, mainly in terms of formal requirements and compliance with the subject of the journal. After receiving a positive evaluation, the article is forwarded to external reviewers. At least two independent reviewers from outside the unit affiliated by the author of the publication are appointed to evaluate each scientific publication. The author or authors of the reviewed scientific publication are not disclosed to the reviewer (double-blind review process). In a special situation, reviewing in the single-blind review process system is allowed.

The following are assessed in the review: compliance of the subject matter with the journal’s profile, formulation of the research purpose and research thesis, novelty of the study, implementation of the assumed purpose, methodology used, editorial and linguistic correctness, completeness of the bibliography as well as conclusions and their relationship to the purpose and thesis. A written review of a scientific publication contains the reviewer’s request regarding the conditions for accepting the publication for publication or its rejection.

In a situation where the article receives one negative review, the editor decides to appoint a third reviewer or reject the article. Two negative reviews qualify the article for rejection. An integral part of the reviewing procedure is checking the text in the anti-plagiarism system and an analysis of the author’s compliance with the rules of scientific ethics required by the SHO. Disclosure of plagiarism or unethical behavior is the basis for rejection of the text at the stage of editorial work or withdrawal of the text from printing.

REVIEW FORM

Reviewers

Code of Ethics

The journal Studia Historiae Oeconomicae has adopted and applies the rules of publishing ethics in line with the guidelines of the COPE Committee on Publication Ethics.

Ethics and editorial work

Because the editorial board of the SHO journal takes responsibility for the editorial process and for the content published on its pages during editorial work, it uses the principle of academic accuracy and verifies the texts submitted to the journal both in terms of content and in terms of compliance with the rules of publishing ethics. In the event of serious doubts regarding ethical issues, the editorial office reserves the right to reject the text at the editorial stage or withdraw the text from print.
When accepting texts for publication, their compliance with the scientific profile of the journal and the opinions of reviewers regarding the scientific value of the work, reliability and originality of the approach to the problem, achievement of the assumed goal, methodology used, editorial and linguistic correctness, and others, are taken into account.
The rules for qualifying articles for publication are transparent, and the procedures applied ensure high substantive and editorial quality of the publication. The editors of the journal apply the principles of equality, neutrality and independence: race, sex, religion, origin, citizenship or political beliefs of the authors in no way affect the evaluation of the texts. They are assessed only in terms of content.
The SHO editorial office uses all available means to prevent plagiarism and the publication of false data. In the case of suspicions of unfair practices (plagiarism, falsification of research results), the editorial office will investigate the matter and reserve the right to reject the text at the editorial stage or withdraw the text from print.
The editorial board of SHO takes actions to counteract the phenomena referred to as “ghostwriting” and “guestauthorship”. Manifestations of ghost authorship, guest authorship and courtesy authorship are a manifestation of academic misconduct. All detected or reported cases of the above-mentioned behavior and related conflicts of interest will be checked by the Editorial Board . Until the matter is resolved, editorial work on the article will be suspended.
The SHO editorial office ensures the confidentiality and security of personal data and unpublished texts, which, until the publication of the next volume of the journal, may be made available only to members of the editorial board and reviewers, and may not be used in any other way without the written consent of the authors.

Ethics and authors

Authors may submit only their own original texts for publication in the SHO. All data and information taken from the work of other scientists used in the preparation of the work should be indicated by the authors in a way that clearly indicates their origin.
Due to the fact that the Editorial Board of SHO puts emphasis on the independence and originality of research, all forms of plagiarism or data falsification are unacceptable. The submitted works are checked using an anti-plagiarism program. In case of suspicion of plagiarism, the matter will be thoroughly investigated and the author asked for explanations. Appropriate proceedings will be implemented depending on the degree of plagiarism and explanations provided by the author. If an obvious plagiarism is identified, the work will not only be rejected, but the author’s / authors’ superiors will also be informed about the event.
The author is obliged to provide a reliable description of the research work carried out and an objective interpretation of the results. Cases of manipulating the results constitute grounds for rejecting the publication, and in particularly flagrant cases, the author’s / authors’ superiors will be informed about the matter.
The author should not submit for publication in the SHO works that have already been published in other journals or books, or those that have been submitted to other editorial offices. If at any stage of the editorial work it is suspected that the work has been published or submitted for publication in another journal, the SHO Editorial Board will investigate the matter. If the suspicions are confirmed, the text will be rejected at the editorial stage or withdrawn from printing.
The author should inform the SHO Editorial Board about all entities that took an active part in the creation of the submitted publication. Authors submitting multi-author texts for publication are required to disclose the contribution of individual authors to its creation (including the affiliation of the authors and information about who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, protocol, etc. used to create the text). All the researchers listed as authors of the work must make a real contribution to its creation.
Authors and co-authors should expose all manifestations of ghost authorship, guest authorship and courtesy authorship as they are a manifestation of scientific misconduct and inform the SHO Editorial Office about such cases. If the specter author is detected, depending on his contribution, it is possible to remove him from the list of authors or including it in one of the footnotes (as the author of a small part of the study) or listing it in the part devoted to acknowledgments. At the same time, in the event of requests to change the list of authors of a given study, occurring at every stage of editorial work, the editorial office reserves the right to thoroughly investigate the matter and possibly reject the text at the editorial stage or withdraw the text from print.
If the authors discover any errors before the end of the editorial work, they are obliged to immediately report them to the editorial office.

Ethics and reviewer’s work

The reviewer works on the article anonymously. At the same time, all reviewed papers and their reviews are confidential. Their disclosure to third parties who are not involved in the publishing process is unacceptable.
The review should be objective, in line with the principles of scientific integrity. All comments of the reviewer should be properly justified and personal criticism of the author of the work is considered inappropriate and discredits the reviewer for the future.
It is the duty of the reviewer to report and indicate to the SHO Editorial Board any significant similarities of the reviewed text to other works.
The reviewer should not have any relationship with the authors of the text. If it is suspected that the text sent for review was written by a person with whom the reviewer has a personal or professional relationship, he or she should immediately notify the editors and resign from reviewing.
The reviewed text may not be used by the reviewer in any way until its publication.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

When the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal as well as to cooperate with the Editor-in-Chief to retract or correct the paper. If the editors or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, then it is the authors’ obligation to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the correctness of the paper.

History

In 2017, 50 years have passed since the publication of the first issue of „Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” in 1967. The idea of the founders of this scientific journal was to break the language barrier and present the scientific achievements of Polish economic and social historians on a global scale.

In the 1960s, the negative effects of language isolation were felt not only by Poland, but also other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, whose languages are not world languages. This concerned, to a greater or lesser extent, all fields of culture and science, but it was particularly noticeable in the field of historical sciences. Also today, despite the increasing use of English as a lingua franca, the language barrier remains one of the main obstacles hindering communication and dissemination of research results in various linguistic areas.

In this state of affairs, the logical and necessary solution was and is to disseminate Polish research achievements by publishing them in one of the main Western European languages. In Poland, for 50 years, an important function in this area has been performed by “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” (SHO), established in 1966 in Poznań by prof. Dr. Cz. Łuczak and prof. Dr. J. Topolski, the first issue of which was published in 1967.

The genesis of the SHO is related to the Congress of Economic Historians in Munich, which took place on August 23-27, 1965. Under the influence of the experience of the congress, the Polish delegation, which included, among others, Professors: Witold Kula, Czesław Łuczak, Marian Małowist, Jerzy Topolski, Izabela Bieżuńska-Małowist, Bronisław Geremek and Antoni Mączak, discussed the necessity of publishing a foreign-language economic journal in Poland, whose task would be to familiarize academics from other countries with the achievements of Polish economic history. It was a reaction to the opinions of many academics from all over the world who pointed out that due to the language barrier, the achievements of Polish historiography are unknown. Meanwhile, in the 1960s, Polish economic history enjoyed increasing recognition abroad, establishing a dialogue with world science through a few publications in Western languages and through the increasing presence of its representatives at international congresses and conferences. Therefore, in the unanimous opinion of the members of the Polish delegation, strengthening the position of Polish science gained in this way required dissemination of its achievements through publications in foreign languages.

Influenced by the discussion in Munich, prof. Cz. Łuczak at the turn of 1965 and 1966 conducted a series of talks with economic historians from the most important academic centers in Poland and at the Ministry of Higher Education, as a result of which it was decided to create in Poznań an academic journal on economic history in foreign languages, the publisher of which was to be AMU.

The final concept of the journal was the result of collaboration between prof. Cz. Łuczak and prof. J. Topolski, who became co-editors of the planned journal. The functions of the editorial office secretary were entrusted to Witold Szulc, MA.

The first official meeting of the editorial team took place on March 1, 1966 in Poznań. During the proceedings, it was decided that the planned notebooks would include review and problem articles on economic and social history, as well as a selection of bibliography of works on the above-mentioned topics published in Poland starting from 1965. During subsequent meetings of the editorial team, from March to October 1966, issues related to: names, languages, rules for qualifying texts for publication and publishing procedures, were decided.

In the initial phase of organizational work, five titles were proposed for the journal under development: Acta Poloniae Oeconomice-Historica, Comentationes Rerum Oeconomicarum, Commentaria Universitatis Poznaniensis, Studia ad Historiam Oeconomicam Pertinentia, Studia Historiae Oeconomicae. As it was recorded in the minutes of the editorial team meeting, “after a long discussion”, the last one was chosen.

It was also decided that individual articles would be published in one of four languages, namely English, French, German or Russian. The choice of the foreign language in which the article was to be published was made dependent on the author’s wish or the possibility of obtaining a competent translator. At the same time, the concept according to which the individual issues were to be alternately entirely printed in one of the languages mentioned was rejected. The bibliography, in turn, was to be fully translated into English.

It was decided to address a request to send articles for the first issue to the following professors: B. Baranowski, W. Długoborski, S. Hoszowski, P. Korzec, W. Kula, G. Labuda, H. Łowmiański, Cz. Madajczyk, G. Missalowa, I. Pietrzak-Pawłowska, W. Rusiński and Dr. R. Łangowski. Moreover, the articles were promised to be delivered by prof. Cz. Łuczak and prof. J. Topolski, and a bibliography of works published in Poland in 1965 by W. Szulc.

Ultimately, the first issue of Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, which was published in 1967, contained 10 articles and a bibliography. The authors included J. Topolski, H. Łowmiański, B. Baranowski, P. Korzec, I. Pietrzak-Pawłowska, Cz. Łuczak, T. Filipiak, W. Rusiński, H. Słabek, R. Łangowski and W. Szulc, who prepared the bibliography.

Since 1967, 38 volumes have been published to date. In retrospect, it can be said that “Studies” fulfilled the tasks set before them. For 50 years, they have been a forum where Polish economic and social historians publish the results of their research in congress languages, thus becoming participants in international academic life.

Among the thirty-seven published volumes, four special volumes from the early 1970s stand out, namely the number 5 published for the 6th International Congress of Economic History in Leningrad in 1970 (36 publishing sheets) and number 9, which appeared before the 7th Congress in Copenhagen in 1974 (34 publishing sheets). In addition, volume 8 includes some papers presented at the symposium in Zamość (1972), devoted to forced displacement of people during the last war, and volume 10 contains the results of an international colloquium on rural economy before and during the early industrial revolution, which was held in Białowieża in 1973. In later years, volumes 21 from 1994, 23 from 1998 and 27 from 2009, dedicated to successive editors of this journal, professors Cz. Łuczak and J. Topolski and S. Kowal, are worth attention. The aforementioned volumes gathered an exceptionally large group of authors who analyzed a wide range of issues covering the period from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The narrow framework of this article does not allow for a more detailed characterization and a deeper substantive evaluation of hundreds of articles on a wide variety of topics published in “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” over the last 50 years. Nevertheless, it should be emphasized that “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” throughout its existence consistently informed about the main directions of historical and economic research in Poland, reflected their dynamics and presented the most important achievements. For a long time, “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” was the only journal of its kind in socialist countries, becoming a good showcase of progress in Polish scientific life, especially in historical and economic sciences.

Due to the publication of research in congress languages, the “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” were readily acquired by Western scientists dealing with the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the libraries of the world’s leading universities and research institutes. Foreign readers highly appreciated the substantive level of the presented articles and emphasized the value of the extensive bibliography of works on socio-economic issues published in “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae”.

From the first issues, the most prominent representatives of Polish historiography have been publishing in this journal, including J. Topolski, Cz. Łuczak, M. Bogucka, W. Długoborski, J. Dobosz, M. Eckert, B. Geremek, D. Jarosz, A. Jezierski, J. Kaliński, S. Kowal, Z. Landau, H. Łowmiański, Cz. Madajczyk, J. Kochanowicz, A. Mączak, H.Madurowicz-Urbańska, J. Orczyk, I. Pietrzak-Pawłowska, J. Pomorski, W. Rusiński, H. Samsonowicz, W. Szulc, A. Sulik, J. Tomaszewski, A. Wyczański, S. Wykrętowicz, J. Zabłocka and J. Żarnowski.

Nowadays, “Studia Historiae Oeconomicae” is a yearbook aimed at historians, economists, sociologists and representatives of other social sciences who are interested in issues concerning theory and practice of management in the context of social and cultural conditions.