Balkan Journal of Philosophy

By submitting their manuscript for publication the authors declare that the submitted text is entirely their own work and that it has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, that all used sources of data and knowledge are acknowledged and appropriately referred to and cited, and that the manuscript does not contain inaccurate, deliberately falsified or fabricated data. The authors should inform the editors about any significant inaccuracies or errors which they notice subsequent to submission or upon the publication of their paper.
The reviewers are expected to evaluate the papers they have agreed to review in accordance with the highest academic standards in their field of expertise, to declare any possible conflict of interest which could bias their review, to decline to review manuscripts that they are not competent to review, and to report in their reviews any kind of noticed academic misconduct, including errors, inaccuracies, a lack of important references, plagiarism, etc. The reviewers may not use any part of the reviewed text in their own research before the text’s publication.
Being the final decision-makers about the publication of each submission, the editors are the guarantors of the integrity of BJP’s publication record.

All received manuscripts which fall under the scope of BJP (as the latter has been described on the journal’s home page) are sent for a blind review to two independent reviewers. Exceptions are made for invited papers and for book reviews which are only subject to non-blind editorial estimation. If the assessments of the two reviewers differ significantly, the paper is sent to a third reviewer. The final decision about the publication of a submitted text is taken by the editor-in-chief. Once taken, the final decision may not change unless, in the case of a positive decision, a serious fraudulence has been discovered in the accepted paper.
The editors’ decision about the publication of a submitted manuscript is based entirely on the manuscript’s relevance to the BJP’s scope and the manuscript’s academic quality. The decision is taken without regard to the author’s gender, nationality, citizenship, academic or institutional position, religious affiliation, political or sexual orientation.

Both the editors and the reviewers are obliged to treat submitted manuscripts as anonymous and confidential during the whole review process.
The editors may not disclose any information about the reviewers of a particular manuscript.

Publication Ethics Statement