REVIEW PROCESS

All the articles presented in Horizons of Politics are reviewed. There are two stages in the article submission process for print publication.

STAGE 1:  INTERNAL REVIEW (PRELIMINARY)

After an article has been submitted to Open Journal System, it is subject to internal review by at least one member of the Editorial Board using a review procedure referred to as single-blind review procedure. The objective of internal review is to accept an article for further procedures or to reject it already in the early stage of the editorial procedure. In case of doubt, an article is unconditionally reviewed by two Board members. Following a favourable decision, an article is sent for the external review. The internal review procedure follows the principles of professional peer review.

STAGE 2: EXTERNAL REVIEW (PROPER)

After the initial approval of an article by the Editorial Board for further procedures, it is subject to external review by two external reviewers selected by the Board using a review procedure referred to as double-blind review procedure (neither the reviewer nor the author know each other’s identities, the data of the reviewer and the author are removed by the Editorial Board). External review procedure also follows the principles of professional peer review.

STAGE 3: QUALIFICATION

An article along with its internal and external review is sent to the Issue Editor, who takes a preliminary decision about the approval or rejection of the given article. All the articles are discussed and qualified for publishing during the next meeting of the Editorial Board. In borderline cases, it is the editor-in chief who makes the final decision.

Open Access Policy

The journal is published based on open access policy, which allows unrestricted access to its resources in full compliance with copyright of the authors. Therefore readers are obliged to comply with the generally accepted rules of citing and referencing as in the case of the published form.

The electronic version of the journal is posted on the website within a month since the printed (original) version is published.

The article has not been published before nor is it considered for publishing in other publication (or an explanation has been presented in the commentary for the Editorial Board).