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Editorial Policy

About the journal. Anali PAZU is a scientific journal that combines natural sciences, engineering and medicine. Substantively iIt publishes home and international scientific results of academic excellence in all scientific fields; especially scientific articles that deal with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics beyond the frames of scientific disciplines and cover all scientific and technical fields. At theThe core of the journal are original scientific research articles in the fields mentioned above (empirical and review articles).

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  • Editorial members and others who become familiar with the content of the paper may not use unpublished data from the paper for their own research work without the express consent of the author.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 They may not use unpublished data from a paper for their own research work without the explicit consent of the author.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 content 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/