All submissions to Studia Turistica
must be original and free of unethical practices.
Unethical practices include
plagiarism, data falsification, data fabrication, paper slicing, paper written
by someone else for the authors, and other practices that violate the generally
accepted research ethics principles.
The Editor-in-chief is responsible
for investigating all alleged unethical practices.
In case of an alleged unethical
practice, the Editor-in-chief informs the authors of the paper, provides the
necessary evidence and invites the authors to provide explanation.
Concerns about unethical practices
can be expressed by the Editor-in-chief and Editorial board members, paper
reviewers, authors, readers and other people who have encountered such
practices.
If an unethical practice is
identified during the review process, the review process is stopped until the
case is clarified. The review process continues if the alleged unethical
practice is not substantiated.
If an alleged unethical practice is
substantiated for a paper that has not been yet sent for review, is currently
under review or has been accepted but not published yet, the paper is rejected.
If an alleged unethical practice is
substantiated for a paper that has already been published, the paper is
retracted and a retraction notice is published in the next available volume of
the journal. For completeness of the bibliographic records, the text of the
retracted paper remains online, but with a watermark “Retracted”.
In case of a second substantiated
unethical practice, the author receives a life-time ban for publication it Studia
Turistica.
