Editorial Policy

ANALI PAZU HD is an internationally priced scientific periodical, with an international editorial board and open access (Open Access Journal). The main purpose of publishing the magazine is to publish peer-reviewed scientific and professional articles with social sciences and humanities, thus informing the professional public in particular about what is happening and novelty in these fields. Particular attention is paid to obtaining articles addressing topics related to Pomurje and the wider Pannotic space and minorities. The core of the journal is a scientific article. Each issue of the magazine comprises at least 80% of the reviewed scientific articles. The magazine ANALI PAZU HD has been published since 2015. The beginnings of scientific publication in the field of social sciences and humanities date back to 2011, when the journal ANALI PAZU began to be published, which until 2014 also included contributions from these two sciences. In 2011, the journal ANALI PAZU was published in the journal ANALI PAZU, and continued in 2015 in a special journal ANALI PAZU HD.

The journal Anali PAZU HD is issued twice a year.

The journal Anali PAZU HD is indexed in Digital Library Slovenia and the digital copies of the journal are archived in the Repository NUK (National and University Library).

Review process

  • When reviewing and publishing, we follow the highest publishing and academic ethical standards.
  • The magazine's editorial board ensures that all contributions are double-blindly reviewed before publication. The reviews are carried out by experts in the field covered by the paper.
  • The acceptance or rejection of a contribution shall be decided by the editor responsible on the basis of the reviewer's assessment and the opinion of the area editor, and may also consult the other members of the editorial board. The assessment of the appropriateness of the contribution shall be without prejudice to the nationality, race, gender, language, religion, political beliefs or any other personal circumstance of the author.
  • Members of the editorial board may not disclose the content in the publication of the contribution received to anyone other than reviewers, other editorial advisers and publishers, who are also obliged to respect the confidentiality of the content.
  • Editorial members and others who become familiar with the content of the paper may not use unpublished data from the paper for their own research work without the express consent of the author.

Obligations of reviewers

  • Reviewers must treat the contributions received as confidential and shall not provide their content in any way to others. They may not use unpublished data from a paper for their own research work without the explicit consent of the author.
  • The review must be carried out objectively. The findings must be made clearly and in line with the findings.
  • If the reviewer considers that he is not qualified enough to perform the review, he or she must report it to the editorial board and withdraw from the review.

Similarity Check

All submitted manuscripts are screened using the software Detector of Similar Content of the producer University of Maribor, Faculty of Computer and Information Science and other resources to check for instances of overlapping or similar text in previously published articles. For english conten the iThenticate is used.

Reporting guidelines

Link to research reporting standards such as those by the EQUATOR Network: https://www.equator-network.org/toolkits/selecting-the-appropriate-reporting-guideline/ 

White Paper on Publication Ethics

Link to recommendations of global editorial associations such as the Council of Science Editors: https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/resource-library/editorial-policies/publication-ethics/