Avoiding Conflict of Interest
The editors are responsible for keeping both the name(s) of the author(s) and the names of the reviewers anonymous throughout the peer-review process. It is also the editors’ responsibility to ask the authors whose articles were accepted with minor/major revisions to make the necessary changes and to re-submit their articles.
In order to avoid Conflict of Interest, the author(s) who submit(s) an article/review/review article for a thematic issue of
Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics ,
the editors of the respective volume and the peer reviewers of articles/ review articles included in the respective thematic issue must also submit
the following Declaration of Conflict of Interest (scanned and attached by email).
Please download:
Declaration of Conflict of Interest for Authors
here
Declaration of Conflict of Interest for Editors
here
Declaration of Conflict of Interest for Reviewers
here
Complaints
Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics takes seriously allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication.
The Editorial Board is committed to correcting the literature when needed and following through on requests from institutional investigations.
Any complaints concerning the review process and/or work with the editors of an issue, as well as complaints concerning the post-publication of an article
(1. appeals of editorial decisions by the authors, and 2. complaints about publication ethics, errors, or scholarly misconduct) should be addressed
to Arleen Ionescu at anionescu@sjtu.edu.cn.
Authors’ complaints about articles which were proved to be plagiarized are ignored, as well as those regarding articles which do not engage with
the relevant CFP’s thematic issue and have therefore been automatically rejected.
Complaints from readers who may respond to published articles are carefully considered and a reply will be sent to readers.
Please use the email provided on the site for sending complaints (wordandtext@upg-ploiesti.ro).
In case readers announce the editors about necessary corrections, plagiarism, publications ethics that the editors were not aware of,
the editors take further action (see Corrections and Retraction underneath).
Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics has mechanisms for correcting, revising or retracting articles after publication
in case there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable (untrue or the result of fabrication of data/falsification/ manipulation);
in case plagiarism was detected after publication; in case redundant publication of material has been discovered;
in case of reports (that prove true) about unethical research; in case the peer review process has been compromised in any way;
in case the author(s) failed to disclose a major conflict of interest that was hidden from the editor(s) and the reviewers.
Correction
In case only short corrections are needed, the article will be modified by the author, approved by the editor and republished in the online form, with mention of the date of correction in the article. Correction in the printed issue is no longer possible, but a Note regarding the respective correction will appear in the next printed issue.
Retraction
In case of retraction, the article will be withdrawn from the site and the mention ‘Retracted’ will appear instead. In the printed issue of the next volume a Note will specify that the respective article was retracted.
