HORIZON

: 20 June 2014

Publication Ethics

Peer review policy
Authorship policy
Conflict of interests policy
Privacy policy
Fee for publication policy

Policy regarding the readers
Author's duties
Editorial board duties
Ethics policy
Policy on the use of artificial intelligence services by authors, reviewers, editorial boards, and employees of the St. Petersburg University Press when working with publications of St. Petersburg State University (SPbU)

Editorial policy of the Journal is based on the recommendations of international organizations on the ethics of scientific publications:

All the participants of the preparation for publication in the Journal: authors, reviewers, Editorial Board members, publishing house representatives should follow the standards of the publication ethics set forth below. In case any malpractice of the principles is suspected, the Editorial Board will follow the instructions of COPE.

The scientific peer-reviewed journal "Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology" is a non-commercial publication.

The journal's policy regarding the readers:

The Editorial Board seeks to constantly improve the journal.
The Editorial Board disposes of procedures aimed at assuring the quality of scientific publications.
The Editorial Board is faithful to the principles of scientific honesty.
The Editorial Board assures that all the publications are refereed by well-qualified specialists.
The Editorial Board assures that all the materials published by its members are refereed on equal terms as those by other authors.
The Editorial Board makes efforts to broaden the base of reviewers.
The journal only publishes original studies and articles.
The journal is distributed to the leading university and research centers in Russia and Europe.
The journal is on open access. All the content of the journal is available, as a rule, immediately upon publication.
The journal is available online in the PDF format. Therefore Adobe Reader has to be installed on the computer.

The author's duties:

Authorship statement. Journal’s authors must sign a License Agreement before publication.
The Editorial Board requests that authors who submit their articles to "Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology" do not submit the same articles to other journals at the same time.
Republishing a paper is possible by way of exception, for example in case it is published in a different language and only with the copyright holder's consent.
The author is obliged to participate in peer-review process.
The author accepts responsibility for evaluations, views and attitudes expounded in the paper. The Editorial Board, the Editor-in-chief and members of the Advisory Board assume no liability for the author's attitudes and reserve the right to share them or not.
The author assures that the results of research presented in the submitted papers are original. If some ideas or expressions are borrowed from other authors, the title and author of the source should be indicated. Any form of plagiarism (including citing without indicating the source or appropriating another person's results of research) is unacceptable.
Persons who significantly contributed to the research should be indicated as the coauthors of the paper. It is unacceptable to indicate as coauthors persons who did not take part in the research.
If the author finds grave mistakes or inaccuracies in the paper after its submission or publication, he or she should inform the Editorial Board.
Authors send their texts to the electronic address of the Editor-in-chief in attachment which includes two files:
1. information on the author
  — institutional affiliation
  — scientific interests
  — recent publications
2. the manuscript proper
The Editorial Board reserves the right to decline an article if it does not meet the formatting requirements. The authors are invited to read the corresponding requirements. When formatting their articles, they may consult the last issue of the journal for guidelines.
The authors are asked to consider carefully the reviewers’ comments. If the article is accepted for publishing, assuming that it is duly revised and approved by the reviewers, the authors are asked to send the revised version of the article and their reactions to the reviewers’ comments in a separate file.

The reviewers' responsibilities and the procedure of reviewing:

All the texts submitted to the Editorial Board are peer-reviewed.
Texts are refereed by two independent reviewers. Both members of the Editorial Board and independent experts can be invited to write a review. For the sake of impartiality all the articles, after being selected by the Editor-in-chief, are subjected to double-blind reviewing, the author's identity remaining unknown both to reviewers and to Editorial Board members; the reviewer also remains anonymous to the authors.
The articles to be reviewed should be anonymous, all the references to the author's other works being concealed. Information on the author and his or her electronic address should be indicated in a different file.
Reviewers and Editorial Board members should not show papers sent for scientific assessment to third parties.
Plagiarism check is part of the referees’ duties. The referee is to specifically indicate the result of plagiarism check and the way it was conducted.
Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.
The Editorial Board assures that the authors will be responded to in a timely manner (from one month to three months).
After the procedure of reviewing is over, the author is notified in written, whether:
— his or her article is accepted for publication
— it is accepted on condition of introducing some corrections
— it is declined
Reviewers are required to keep the reviewed papers secret.
Reviewers are encouraged to comment on the degree of originality of the article being refereed and are obliged to check the possibility of plagiarism.
Reviewers should provide an impartial and well-founded assessment of the results of research expounded in the paper.
Unpublished data contained in manuscripts under analysis should not be used for the reviewer's personal advantage.
Scientific translations and commentaries are published only with copyright and, therefore, with copyright holders' consent. The authors of translations are to obtain the necesssary copyright from copyright holders. The Editorial Board assumes the editing work on translations. Scientific translations are published only after being edited, reviewed and revised.
Information about the reviewer and the text of the review are sent to the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY) in a closed access for users. The reviews are taken into account in the profile of the scientist registered in the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY). At the request of the reviewer, the reviews can be published in the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY) in open access.

The responsibilities of the Editorial Board:

The Editorial Board commits itself to selecting and inviting competent reviewers with no possible conflict of interest with a given author.
The Editorial Board assures that all the materials published by its members are reviewed on equal terms with those by other authors.
The Editorial Board assures double anonymity in peer-review and the impartiality of review.
The Editorial Board publishes full requirements to the authors in every issue as well as on the website of the journal. The rules are regularly renewed, with references to recommendations to authors by international associations being provided.
The Editorial Board announces online the dates and deadlines of submission of articles for the next issue.
Decisions on accepting or rejecting an article are made based on its scientific significance, originality, clarity, data trustworthiness and its conformity to the subject matter of the journal.
Decisions concerning publication are not revoked unless new circumstances arise.
The Editorial Board publishes only original studies and articles that were not previously published in whole or in part and were not submitted to another journal.
Book-reviews and announces submitted are analyzed at the Editorial Board meetings and are not peer-reviewed. A book sent to the editorial office will not be "automatically" reviewed without further contact with the author.
The Editorial Board seeks to broaden the base of reviewers and assures that it is representative of the general orientation of the journal.
Reviewers are selected and invited from a wide range of institutions.
Privacy statement. Information about the authors (surname, name, family name, affiliation, e-mail, contact number), which is provided by them for publication in the journal, is available only for the Editorial Board. The following data is published for the convenience of the authors with the aim of the full and correct account of publications and their citation by the corresponding bibliography companies and providing the possibility of contacting the authors ans the scientific society. Personal information provided by the authors in addition to the enumerated below include additional e-mails and phones. These will be used only for contacting the authors in the process of preparing the publication.
The Editorial Board may not transmit this information to the third party, who can use in for some other purposes.

The ethical policy of the journal:

The journal is willing to publish revisions, explanations, apologies and refutations when necessary.
The Editorial Board bounds itself not to leave without an answer any claims or complaints regarding the submitted manuscripts or published materials and to take all measures to restore rights if a conflict situation arises.
The Editorial Board abides by the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and by the principles of the Comittee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
All the authors are equal in their rights as well as duties. The Editorial Board does not pursue the waiver policy for any particular group of authors.
The Editorial Board is faithful to the principles of intellectual honesty.
The Editorial Board assures that no unpublished materials from submitted or declined papers will be used by its members for personal advantage or passed to third parties.
When editing special issues of the journal the Editorial Board reserves the right to change the structure of the journal (e. g. to reduce the number of sections) and to invite co-editors for preparing a thematic issue.
Fee for publication statement. No publication fee is charged for papers published in "Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology". Article processing charges are not applied. Publication of articles and other materials in the journal does not entail any royalty to the authors thereof.
Conflict of interests statement. Reviewers and authors are required to reveal any possible conflict of interests before taking up the review. In case of revealing of concealment of information regarding any possible conflict of interests and (or) providing the unauthentic information, the author may be refused in publication. The Editorial Board assures the absnet of any conflict of interests during the peer-review procedure.
In case of conflict of interests the Editorial Board assures to take any measure possible to eliminate it.

Policy on the use of artificial intelligence services by authors, reviewers, editorial boards, and employees of the St. Petersburg University Press when working with publications of St. Petersburg State University (SPbU)

Purpose and scope. The use of AI services in SPbU publications is permitted as auxiliary tools in the preparation of manuscripts to improve the quality of the text, provided that the use of AI services is fully disclosed and that authors subsequently verify each result obtained with the use of AI.
This Policy applies to all SPbU publications, except for those directly devoted to artificial intelligence, where AI services are the subject of study or serve as illustrations of the manuscript content.
The purpose of this Policy is to uphold the principles of academic openness and the ethics of scholarly publishing in the University’s publications.
General principles. AI is not and cannot be indicated as a co-author.
Authors are required to disclose any use of AI or AI services in their manuscripts, including specifying the name and version of the service, and to provide a description and purpose of their use. This information must be included in the introduction as a separate paragraph. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation checks, as well as the translation of fragments of an article into a foreign language, do not require disclosure.
Authors bear responsibility for the content of manuscripts created using AI services. Prior to submission to the editorial office, the content of the manuscript must be carefully checked, including the bibliography and the accuracy of citations, and must be edited by the authors themselves.
Manuscripts, reviews, texts or images that have not previously been lawfully published, as well as personal data, must not be uploaded to public AI services. A public AI service is understood as an external online platform on which the provider may store and/or use the data entered by the user.
Results obtained with the use of AI must be verifiable; authors are required to retain evidence of use (prompts, scripts and parameters) and to provide such evidence to the editorial office upon request.
Results obtained with the use of AI must be verifiable; authors are required to retain evidence of use (prompts, scripts and parameters) and to provide such evidence to the editorial office upon request.
Prohibited uses. Writing the text of the manuscript and creating substantive sections of the text without the participation of the author.
Altering or modifying the research data underlying the publication.
Preparing or substantially editing illustrative material (data visualisations), except for colour correction of illustrative material that does not alter the content.
Responsibilities of reviewers and editorial board members. The use of AI by reviewers, editorial board members, and employees of the St. Petersburg University Press when preparing reviews and analysing manuscripts, is prohibited in order to prevent breaches of confidentiality, except for checks carried out by plagiarism detection systems under agreements with aggregators that ensure the confidentiality of manuscript texts. Reviewers, editorial board members, and employees of the St. Petersburg University Press are not entitled to submit manuscripts to AI services, nor to upload excerpts from manuscripts, illustrations, tables, unpublished data or parts of reviews.
Responsibilities of authors. Authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and ethical compliance of all materials, including those produced with the use of AI services.
Term of the Policy. This Policy shall be reviewed regularly, but at least once a year, in order to ensure that it remains up to date in light of developments in AI services and standards of publication ethics.

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