The journal Historical Thought strives for a high level of ethical scientific standards and principles. Although the positions and opinions presented in the papers are only the positions of the authors, the journal's editors will make maximum efforts to ensure compliance with the basic principles of academic integrity, among which are:
- honesty
- accuracy
- efficiency
- objectivity.
The editorial board of the journal will also make maximum efforts to recognize and remove the biggest professional and moral violations in scientific work:
- falsification
- forgery
- plagiarism
- parasitism.
The editors will pay special attention to recognizing and eliminating plagiarism in all its forms. Plagiarism is the biggest professional and ethical offense in science. Plagiarism is understood as:
- presenting someone else's work as one's own
- copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
- verbatim citation without quotation marks
- giving incorrect information about the source of the quote
- changing the words but copying the sentence structure of the source without giving credit
- copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of one's work, whether one gives credit or not.
As plagiarism will also be considered self-plagiarism, i.e. publishing the same text several times using a different title or in a different journal without citing one's previous work (this also applies to the case of publishing the same article in different languages).
Given that every scientist and a scientific worker is responsible for what he or she writes and publishes, unwitting plagiarism will not constitute a mitigating circumstance.
In case of the subsequent discovery of any form of plagiarism, the editor-in-chief is obliged to request the withdrawal of the disputed work and a written apology from the author.