Editorial Instructions

Submitted articles should include comparative aspects. Please also read the information on scientific integrity and the author’s statement as well as Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement. 

We do not publish Ph.D. students’ papers unless in coauthorship with a Ph.D. thesis supervisor.

We encourage you to submit your papers in the electronic form, according to editorial requirements, to the e-mail address of the journal: comparative@uni.lodz.pl

For more information please call: 42 635 55 42, +48 42 635 53 63 or send your questions to the above e-mail address.

 

Safeguarding scientific integrity

Editorial staff of Comparative Economic Research is implementing procedures to ensure the scientific integrity of published articles. The most common violations of applicable ethical principles in science are “ghost writing” and “guest authorship”.

As interpreted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the “ghost writing” occurs when the author uses the scientific achievements of others (to use the results of empirical research, theoretical contributions, specialist consultation) without acknowledging that fact in the form of footnotes or acknowledgments printed in the article. A similar guideline explains the essence of “guest authorship”, a situation when someone may have contributed very little, or perhaps nothing to the publication but is still listed as author or co-author.

In order to eliminate the above-described manifestations of scientific misconduct the journal editors require authors to disclose the contribution of individual authors in the development of publications (by giving their affiliation and information who is the author of concepts, principles, methods, protocol, etc., used in the preparation of publications), while the main responsibility lies with the author who submits the manuscript.

At the same time editors inform that all detected cases of “ghost writing” and “guest authorship” will be reported to relevant institutions (institutions employing the authors, scientific societies, associations of scientific editors, etc.).

When authors submit an article they should acknowledge all financial support for their work, contributions from R&D institutions, associations and other institutions.

Each author while submitting an article for publication confirms that he/she has read the above information by signing appropriate statement. The content of the statement is available on journal website.

 

The pdf file includes the requirements for authors regarding:

  • the volume of the publication taking into account the editorial requirements,
  • layout of the publication,
  • technical requirements.