Code of Ethics for Reviewers

Reviewers should not undertake to give an opinion on a text the thematic scope of which is beyond their competence and scholarly expertise. By agreeing to collaborate with the editors of Przegląd Historyczny, the reviewers undertake to thoroughly and fairly evaluate the texts submitted to them.

All texts sent for review are confidential. The reviewers must not disclose their content to anyone and should keep their opinions about them to themselves until their publication.

The reviewers should focus on assessing the scholarly merits of submissions, that is their contribution to the development of historical sciences, the novelty of their approach to a problem, the application of new research methods or discussion with the previous findings of historiography. In addition, the reviewers assess the use of the literature on the subject, the linguistic quality of the submissions, their structure and style. The reviewers should focus primarily on the scholarly merits of the submissions and never on the persons of their authors.

The reviewers are obliged to inform the editors of all potential or actual conflicts of interest known to them. A conflict of interest is a situation in which personal, financial or institutional links negatively affect the work of a reviewer, editor or author, that is, when they hinder or prevent them from acting in accordance with the best ethical practices of a scholar.