The Editorial Board of the RES HUMANITARIAE is committing to ensuring that high ethical publishing standards are maintained in the journal. As a benchmark, the RES HUMANITARIAE subscribes to the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/core-practices.
RES HUMANITARIAE Ethics Policy is also based on the publishing ethics recommendations on Lithuanian University Rectors' Conference: https://lurk.lt/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5_publikavimo_etikos_gaires_2019.doc
The RES HUMANITARIAE investigate, any allegations of misconduct, pre- and postpublication (e.g. editors or reviewers requiring authors to cite their own work, or authors withdrawing papers after acceptance then submitting their work to a high impact factor journal)
The RES HUMANITARIAE expects transparency around who contributed to a submitted piece of work and in what capacity. The list of authors should accurately reflect who carried out the research and who wrote the article. The names of individuals who have not contributed significantly to the work should not be included.
Authors have the right to appeal against editorial decisions. Appeals or complaints can be addressed directly to Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Team. E-mail: res.humanitariae@ku.lt .
We will investigate and respond to all appeals and complaints in a timely manner.
Conflicts of interest/competing interests
We will seek to handle and resolve conflicts of interest of authors, reviewers, editors, our journal and publisher. All authors and peer reviewers must declare any conflicts of interest relating to submitted work. Sources of support for the research to be published must be acknowledged by authors. Authors are invited to suggest specialist peer reviewers, and can also indicate the names of certain experts whom they would prefer not to be included in the peer review process for stated reasons (e.g. a strong personal conflict), although the final decision on selection of peer reviewers will be taken by the Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Team.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that they hold intellectual property rights to the work that they submit to the journal, including copyright on all illustrations. They are also responsible for any costs associated with obtaining such rights. Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript will always be investigated, and―if proven―authors will be presented with the evidence. The RES HUMANITARIAE will not consider any paper submitted simultaneously to another journal. We do not publish work that has been previously published elsewhere (partly or in full), including in a different language. Full acknowledgement to other works used to produce the paper must be given. Fully published versions of articles with copyright are held by the RES HUMANITARIAE and cannot, therefore, be published elsewhere by authors or modified by them without permission.