Studies
of BUN

Editors of the scientific journal BUN Studies complies with the Code of Conduct of the Publishing Ethics Committee in order to maintain the high quality of published articles and scientific integrity (COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics). All parties involved in the publication process (journal editors, author, reviewer) become familiar with the standards of ethical behavior.

Authors’ obligations

Authorship of the work

Authorship should be limited to those people who have made a significant contribution to the concept and implementation of research and the interpretation of published research results. Before submitting an article to the editor, make sure that all authors have been indicated and approved the final version of the text.

Ghostwriting and guest autorship, which are a manifestation of scientific misconduct, are considered to be violating ethical principles. Authors are obliged to indicate the contribution of individual persons to the creation of the text. For this purpose, an appropriate declaration is made available on the journal’s website.

We deal with ghostwriting when someone has made a significant contribution to the publication, but his role has not been disclosed or his role in the acknowledgments contained in the publication has not been disclosed.

We are dealing with guest authorship (“honorary authorship”) when the participation of a given person is negligible or did not take place at all, and yet he / she is given as the author / co-author of the publication.

Disclosure and conflict of interest

The author should disclose all sources of funding for projects in his work, contributions from research institutions, associations and other entities, and any material conflicts of interest that may affect its results or interpretation.

Text folding standards

Articles submitted to the journal may only be original works that do not infringe the copyrights of third parties and have not been published so far and have not been submitted to another publishing house. In the scientific text submitted to the editorial office using the author’s own research, the methodology of the conducted research should be discussed in detail. Apart from a scientific text, the author should provide the editorial office with raw data used in the work. It is unethical to make false or knowingly false statements.

The author should not publish material describing the same research in more than one journal or original publication. Submitting the same work to more than one editorial office of the journal at the same time is unethical and is not allowed. It is also considered unethical to submit a scientific article that is a translation of a text published or submitted to another journal.

Data Access and Data Maintenance

The author should provide or be ready to access raw data about the work submitted for review. Moreover, he should keep this data for one year from the moment of publication.

Errors detected after folding the text

If, after submitting the article, the author discovers an error or inaccuracy in the text, he is obliged to immediately notify the editors of this fact.

Originality and plagiarism

The author only submits the original work to the editorial office. He should ensure that the names of the authors cited in the work and / or excerpts from the works of the works cited are correctly quoted or mentioned. Plagiarism is treated as unethical and unacceptable behavior.

Any violations of the above-mentioned ethical principles constitute grounds for rejecting the article.