Focus and Scope
The journal’s goal is to create an interdisciplinary platform supporting Polish humanities, a forum for exchange of views for specialists from various humane disciplines that deal with the same issues from different perspectives. It shall integrate research on humanities and social studies. Each issue will present a different interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research topic. The first volume of the journal Artes Humanae will be dedicated to issues and perspectives connected to the research in humanities. The following topics may be discussed:
- fields of humanities in shaping of society and development of culture;
- monodisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in humane research;
- methodology of humane research;
- visions of humanities in the contemporary world;
- changes and strategies of humanities development;
- new technologies in humanities research;
- bibliometric systems in humanities;
- humanities in Polish education system.
Section Policies
Articles
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Materiały
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
Reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reports
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Biograms
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
1. All submitted texts (articles, reviews, reports) are subject to initial qualification and checked whether they comply with the issue’s subject and the journal’s profile. The article is evaluated by members of editorial office and theme editor of a given issue. Accepted texts are then reviewed internally.
2. Two independent Reviewers from outside the department of the article’s Author
review the text qualified for publishing.
3. The reviewers have a degree of at least an assistant-professor (doktor habilitowany)
and are chosen according to the subject of the submitted text.
4. For texts written in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers has a degree of at
least an assistant-professor (doktor habilitowany) in a given language or is a native speaker from an affiliated institution.
5. The reviewer must sign a declaration stating that there is no conflict of interest between him and the Author. The following situations are regarded as a conflict of interest: direct personal relations (family or legal relationship, conflict); work relationships, especially for subordinates; direct scholarly cooperation in the two years preceding the review.
6. The review has a written form and ends with a clear conclusion on whether the article should be published (possibly including changes and additions) or not.
7. When the reviews are not unanimous, the text is reviewed by a third person who
makes the final decision.
8. The Author receives both reviews of his/her article. If the reviewer suggests changes, the Author is entitled to voice an opinion about them through the editorial office. In extraordinary circumstances, when the Author proves the suggested changes or comments to be unjustified, the editorial office shall decide whether or not the text is to be published.
9. Reviews are archived by the editorial office in electronic and/or paper form.
10. The list of Reviewers cooperating with the journal is published in each issue of the journal an on its website.
11. Names of Reviewers for particular issues will are not published.
12. According to Ministry of Science and Higher Education guidelines, the editorial office should implement the double-blind review process procedure as well as ghostwriting barrier and guest authorship. It finds application also in instances when the authors are members of the editorial office and Academic Board of the journal.
13. In case of double-blind review process procedure and a positive review, the Reviewer is entitled to obtain information about the identity of the Author. When the review is negative, the editorial office discloses no such information.
Rejection criteria for articles submitted to Artes Humanae:
- non-compliance with the journal’s profile (scholarly works in the area of humanities: literature, cultural studies, linguistics, art history) or the thematic scope of the given issue;
- exceeding the recommended volume of text (max. 30.000 characters including abstract/summaries and references – for more details, see Editorial Guidelines);
- failure to adhere to the adopted editorial rules (see Editorial Guidelines);
- negative reviews: two negative reviews result in automatic rejection of an article. In the case of a single negative review, another negative review results in article rejection; In particular cases the final decision on text rejection is made by the Editorial Board of the journal;
- ignoring reviewer’s recommendations.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Editorial board
Academic Board:
Stefan Bednarek (Wrocław)
Michał Buchowski (Poznań)
Izabella Bukraba-Rylska (Warsaw)
Wojciech Burszta (Warsaw)
Wojciech Chlebda (Opole)
Małgorzata Karwatowska (Lublin)
Małgorzata Kita (Katowice)
Oksana Kogut (Ukraine)
Natalia Korina (Nitra)
Eva Krekovicova (Bratislava)
Robert Litwiński (Lublin)
Katia Michajłowa (Sofia)
Borys Norman (Minsk)
László Kálmán Nagy (Kraków-Debreczyn)
Tokimasa Sekiguchi (Tokyo)
Barbara Szacka (Warsaw)
Zuzanna Topolińska (Skopje)
Reviewers
2017
Dorota Filar, Andrzej Juszczyk, Wojciech Kruszewski, Piotr Krzyżanowski, Marcin Lachowski, Dariusz Nowacki, Paweł Nowak, Dariusz Pachocki, Paweł Panas, Marek Piela. Mariusz Rutkowski, Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Rafał Szczerbakiewicz, Paweł Tański, Andrzej Tyszczyk, Jacek Wasilewski. Marcin Wodziński, Witold Wołowski, Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec, Rafał Zimny
2018
Paweł Dybala, Wacław Forajter, Tomasz Garbol, Ireneusz Gielata, Wojciech Kruszewski, Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi, Waldemar Kuligowski, Aleksander Madyda, Paweł Nowak, Dariusz Pachocki, Mariusz Rutkowski, Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Beata Śniecikowsk, Dariusz Trześniowski