Publication Policy

Editorial Responsibilities

  • Editors are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to Anthropology will be published.
  • Editors are guided by the policies of the Journal's Editorial Board, taking into account the quality of papers, their originality, relevance, and readability, and their accord with the aims and scopes of the journal.
  • Editors are obliged to provide clear and transparent guidelines for Authors in preparing manuscripts for publishing. Instructions for Authors are available at journal's web site. Instructions for Authors are published in the first Issue of every Volume.
  • Editors are obliged to provide clear and transparent guidelines for Peer Reviewers, to provide confidentiality of peer review and to protect Peer Reviewers' identity. Instructions for Reviewers and List of Peer Reviewers for every year are published in the last Issue of every Volume.
  • Editors take into account legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. Editora are due to react if there is any justified suspicion about ethical misconduct in both published and unpublished papers.
  • Editors must hold no conflict of interest with regard to the articles considered for publication. Since the identity of the authors and reviewers is unknown to each other, the Editors are obliged to guarantee their anonymity.

Authors’ Responsibilities

  • Author/s warrants that his/their manuscript is an original work that has not been published before and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere either in printed or electronic form.
  • Authors warrant that all who have contributed significantly to the manuscript are indicated as authors.
  • Authors warrant that the rights of third parties will not be violated, and that the publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
  • Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions, the validity of the results and must make sure that they have permission from all involved parties to make the data public.
  • Authors wishing to include figures, charts or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
  • It is the responsibility of each author to ensure that papers submitted to Anthropology are written with ethical standards in mind and that they do not contain plagiarism. Authors affirm that the article contains no unfounded or unlawful statements and does not violate the rights of others.
  • When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal Editors or publisher and cooperate with the Editors to retract or correct the paper.

Peer Review Process

Anthropology is a triple-blind peer reviewed journal.

All submitted manuscripts are initially pre-reviewed by the Editors, who reserve the right to accept or reject the manuscript. If the Editors conclude that the manuscript is within the scope of the journal and meets the standards and requirements for publication, the Editors proceed to send the manuscript to three peer reviewers.

Reviewers are chosen based on their eminence and competence in the research area to which the submitted manuscripts are related. Reviewers are selected from the highest university teaching and research titles. The choice of reviewers is at the discretion of the Editors. The Journal list of reviewers is updated and expanded with new reviewers annually.

Reviewers must not have conflict of interest with respect to the authors. If such conflicts exist, the reviewers must report them to the Editors without delay.  The reviewer that feels unqualified to review the research reported in the particular manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editors.

Reviewers are obliged to send the review to the Editors within one month upon receipt of the manuscript. Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is deemed inappropriate. Reviewers are expected to express their views clearly, with supporting arguments. If there is any justified suspicion about plagiarism or ethical misconduct in the manuscript, the peer reviewer is obliged to inform the Editors about it.

Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviews are conducted in a standardized way by using the Peer Review Form, which is, along with Instructions for Reviewers, sent by the Editors to reviewers without revealing the author’s identity. 

Reviewer must fill in data related to the manuscript (title, area of research, subject of analysis, adequacy of methodology and interpretation, quality of literature used).

In the Reviewer’s Conclusions section, the peer reviewer needs to check the category of the paper appropriate for the reviewed manuscript (original scientific article or review article), and proceed to check one of the three following options: Paper to be published as it is; Paper to be published with mandatory changes with relevant explanation; Paper should not be published with appropriate explanation.

In the next section, the peer reviewer is requested to fill in his/her name, surname, title, the full name of the institution where he/she is employed and the place and date of the peer reviewing. These data are confidential and stay with the Editors, and are not sent to the author of the reviewed manuscript.

During the review process, reviewers act independently, and without insight into each other’s identities. 

Authors that receive conditionally positive reviews are required to take into account the comments made by the reviewers, or if they do not wish to do so, they can withdraw their submissions and report their decision immediately to the Editors. Authors are required to send the amended manuscripts to the Journal within 15 days after they received the reviews. The final evaluation of the manuscripts related to the fulfillment of reviewers’ requests is made by the Editors.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism, where someone assumes another's ideas, words, or other forms of creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation of scientific ethics. Plagiarism may also involve a violation of copyright law, punishable by legal action.

Plagiarism may constitute the following:

-              Word for word, or almost word for word copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragment (for example, by using quotation marks);

-              Copying figures or tables from someone else's paper without properly citing the source and/or without permission from the original author or the copyright holder.

If an attempt at plagiarism is found in a paper after having been published in Anthropology, the author will be required to publish a written apology to the authors of the original paper, and further collaboration with the author of plagiarized papers will be terminated. 

Declaration on the of use of AI tools

Anthropology conforms to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s position statement on Authorship and AI tools  and  World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) recommendations on chat bots, ChatGPT and scholarly manuscripts .

Authors must provide a Declaration regarding the use of AI tools and LLM.

  • AI bots cannot be listed as authors on your submission.
  • Authors must clearly indicate the use of tools based on large language models and generative AI in the manuscript (which tool was used and for what purpose), preferably in the Methodology section of the manuscript and in the form of Declaration of the use of AI tools.
  • Declaration of the use of AI tools in the manuscript must appear before References.
  • Authors are responsible for the accuracy, validity, and appropriateness of any content generated by tools based on LLM and generative AI and they must ensure that the cited references are correct and that the submission is free from plagiarism.

  • Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.

Retraction Policy

Manuscripts published in the Journal shall remain extant, exact and unaltered as long as it is possible. However, occasionally, circumstances may arise where a published manuscript will later have been retracted. The main reason for withdrawal or retraction is to correct the mistakes overseen in the period prior to publishing with the aim of preserving the integrity of science and not for the purpose of punishing the author.

Legal limitations of the publisher, copyright holder or author(s), infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like require retraction of an article. Occasionally a retraction can be used to correct errors in submission or publication.

Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this practice has also been adopted by Anthropology.  In the electronic version of the original article, a HTML link is made to the retraction note where it is clearly stated that the article has been retracted. The original article is retained unchanged; save for a watermark in the PDF indicating on each page that it is “RETRACTED.”

Self-archiving Policy

The journal Anthropology allows authors to deposit Author's final, i.e. Publisher's version/PDF in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories, or to publish it on Author's personal website and departmental website including social networking sites, such as SHERPA/RoMEO, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc., at any time after publication, and in accordance with Terms of Use of license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged and a link must be made to the article's DOI.

Publication Ethics Statement

The Journal Anthropology is the product of the joint efforts by the authors, journal editors and the peer reviewers. Therefore, it is of great importance to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior.

The ethics standard used by the Anthropology is based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Procedures for Dealing with Unethical Behaviour 

Anyone may inform the Editors at any time of suspected unethical behavior or any type of misconduct by giving the necessary information/evidence to start an investigation.

Investigation

Editors shall decide regarding the initiation of an investigation.

During an investigation, any evidence should be treated as strictly confidential and only made available to those strictly involved in investigating.

The accused will always be given the chance to respond to any charges made against them.

If it is judged at the end of the investigation that misconduct has occurred, then it will be classified as either minor or serious.

Minor misconduct

Minor misconduct will be dealt directly with those involved without involving any other parties, e.g.:

  • Communicating to authors/reviewers whenever a minor issue involving misunderstanding or misapplication of academic standards has occurred.
  • A warning letter to an author or reviewer regarding fairly minor misconduct.

Major misconduct

The Editors and, when appropriate, further consultation with a small group of experts, should make any decision regarding the course of action to be taken using the evidence available. The possible outcomes are as follows (these can be used separately or jointly):

  • Publication of a formal announcement or editorial describing the misconduct.
  • Informing the author's (or reviewer's) head of department or employer of any misconduct by means of a formal letter.
  • The formal, announced retraction of publications from the journal in accordance with the Retraction Policy.
  • A ban on submissions from an individual for a defined period.
  • Referring a case to a professional organization or legal authority for further investigation and action.

When dealing with unethical behaviour, the Editorial Board will rely on the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): http://publicationethics.org/resources/.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in the published works do not express the views of the Editors. The authors take legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. Publisher shall have no liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.