Ethical Issues

The publishing activities of the Works and Days are guided by the Commission on Publication Ethics (COPE) and strictly adhere to the standards of academic integrity at all stages of publishing. Authors are required to ensure that their texts have not been previously published anywhere or simultaneously submitted to other publishers. They must be free of false and/or unverified data, or contain information that is degrading to human dignity, invasive of human privacy, or contrary to ethics and the law. Co-authorship must be based on a clear contribution from each author, and all authors are equally responsible for their submissions.

When submitting manuscripts, authors must declare to the publishers any potential institutional, financial or personal conflicts of interest, where issues unrelated to the research may affect the neutrality and objectivity of the assessment of the article. Publishers and external reviewers must not have any professional (recent co-authorship, joint projects) or personal relationship with the authors. If a conflict of interest becomes apparent during the evaluation, the article may be rejected. If the article has been published, it may be retracted.

The work of the Editor-in-Chief is not published in the journal, and the publication of the work of the Editorial Board and Vytautas Magnus University authors is balanced with the work of authors from other institutions. All authors are asked to provide information on the sources of funding, if any, for their research. Acknowledgements for non-financial support are encouraged.

If the article is based on data, authors are invited to archive the data in the Vytautas Magnus University Research Management System (VDU CRIS) or in any other repository, where it is given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Deeds and Days comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in particular the protection of sensitive personal data. A paper is only accepted if the authors have the consent of all participants in the surveys or experiments.

Manuscipts are subject to plagiarism checking. The following rules govern the use of artificial intelligence technologies (link). The Editorial Board follows the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in assessing cases of questionable ethics.