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Why do we need to think of ethics? Development of reviewer and author guiedlines in Annual of social work

Due to the active editorial policy, journal „Annual of Social Work“ recently redefined authors' and reviewers' guidelines. This process included several steps ; first step was the analysis of the guidelines in similar prospective scientific journals, which resulted in draft document including main issues important for the authors and reviewers collaborating with „Annual of Social Work“. In the second step, the draft was presented and discussed at the editorial board meeting. After receiving the suggestions of the editorial board, the document was revised and sent for the review to the expert in scientific publishing. The last step included finalizing the document and sending it for copying, editing and translation. Lastly, it was presented to authors and reviewers, and published at the web page of the journal „ Annual of Social Work”. Ethical questions are significant part of the guidelines, including editorial ethics, but also ethics in presenting the research findings. As the research in the field of social sciences are often conducted with people, sometimes with vulnerable groups, ethical questions should be considered in research design and ethical standards should be carefully set to minimize the risk of interfering with the research. Online research that focused on ethical questions was conducted with editorial board members of eight journals published by the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. The research was done via web survey and the results were interpreted using content analysis. The research findings will reveal the attitude of editorial board members towards ethical questions raised during the evaluation of articles published in the journals within the field of social sciences.

Scientific publication, ethical guidelines, review process, editorial role, social sciences

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