Publication Ethics

Authors who publish with this journal agree to retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Also, authors will retain the rights on their work, even if they will be granting Gaudeamus a non-exclusive right of use to reproduce, edit, distribute, publicly communicate and show their work. Therefore, authors are free to engage in additional, independent contracts for non-exclusive distribution of the works published in this journal (such as uploading them to an institutional repository or publishing them in a book), as long as the fact that the manuscripts were first published in this journal is acknowledged.

​​This section describes the best practice principles applied in Gaudemaus. These principles have been outlined on the basis of Elsevier recommendations and the Best Practice Guidelines  published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In submitting a manuscript to The Grove, authors acknowledge these principles have been applied to the research reported in the article by ticking the corresponding box in the Submission Preparation Checklist.

Publishing in Gaudemus involves the acceptance of the journal 's policy of ethical oversight, and conflict of interest:

Standards

Articles must follow the author’s guidelines of Gaudeamus. Otherwise the articles will be immediately returned to their authors and will not be sent to the two blind reviewers until compliance with the author’s guidelines is satisfactory. Submissions which do not fulfil the word count requisite (about 6000 words in articles and about 3000 in book reviews) or which are plagiarised will be declined immediately.

Authors are required to check off their submissions by ticking the corresponding box in the Submission Preparation Checklist.

If there is shared authorship, the authors should submit an extra document which specifies the criteria chosen for the order of author names and the contribution done by each of the authors.

Research with humans

If the research requires humans’ participation, authors should sign a form stating that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with them stating that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines. We recommend that authors of published works based on research data, including the variable "sex," report whether their conclusions have considered potential sex differences.

Confidentiality

The editors or any member of the editorial board must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers and the publisher.

Conflict of interest 

Unpublished materials of a submitted paper will not be used by the editors, the members of the editorial board and the reviewers for their own research without the author’s consent.

Editors and members of the editorial board will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.

Complaints and appeals

The described procedure applies to complaints to editorial decisions, about failure of processes or about publication ethics. The complaint should in first instance be handled by the Editor-in-Chief(s) responsible for the journal.

The Editor-in-Chief together with the editorial board will investigate the matter. The complainant will be given appropriate feedback.