About the Journal
Studia UBB Philosophia is a double-blind peer reviewed journal devoted to promote a high level of academic research on innovative subjects and emergent topics at the crossroads of philosophy, social sciences, art and various professional practices, striving to foster a strong collaboration among senior and junior researchers from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and from abroad. The journal is indexed in the following international data bases: WoS ESCI Clarivate, EBSCO, ProQuest - IBSS, Gale MLA, CEEOL, Philosophy Research Index and other catalogs: E-Journals, OLIX-OPAC, LIBRIS, LIRIAS, ESTER, CEEAS, ACNP and it is officialy acknowledged by Romanian National University Research Council (CNCS).
The Philosophia series of the Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai journal appears in 1956, when the publication was initiated, and publishes scientific articles of Romanian and foreign experts in several subfields of philosophy (the history of philosophy, moral philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of culture, aesthetics, logics, the philosophy of science etc.).
Aims and Scope
The editorial office of Philosophia series has put into practice a strategy for increasing the publication quality and its prestige. The measures of this strategy concern the following aspects:
- Creating a dynamic editorial board, made up of young researchers with doctor's degree of the Babes-Bolyai University, willing to get involved in the editorial team work. They will be joined by researchers from abroad, willing to get involved as well in the creation of the publication. Another measure aims at establishing a strict editorial discipline.
- Creation of an editorial staff made up of names of national and international fame.
- Adopting the proper peer review strategy.
- Improving the publication graphic form.
- Publishing the materials only in international languages.
- Creating the publication web page.
- Increasing the cooperation with other scientific publications from abroad and entering on the market of academic specialized publications from abroad on the basis of subscriptions and orders.
Open Access Policy
All articles published in Studia UBB Philosophia are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share.
Studia UBB Philosophia does not charge readers or their institutions for access (read, download, copy, distribute, print for research use, search, or link to the full texts of articles).
Studia UBB Philosophia does not charge authors any kind of publication fees or article processing charges.
Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits, without charge, use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Prevention and Fight against Plagiarism and other forms of fraudulent conduct
Authors of the journal must be aware and understand that Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai intends to prevent, and also sanctions attempts and acts of plagiarism and other forms of fraudulent conduct, including but not limited to the fabrication and/or falsification of data. Therefore, authors are hereby advised that:
– Plagiarism attempts or other fraudulent actions discovered and documented during the review process (Editorial Office, peer review) may lead to: a) rejection of the manuscript for publication; b) official information of the higher education or research institution of the author’s affiliation; and c) information of the scholarly community and public opinion.
– Upon notification on allegation of plagiarism or other fraudulent actions for any article that has been already published in Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, and following the thorough verification of the notification, the Editorial Office may take the following steps: a) contact the Index of allegations of plagiarized works in Romania; b) follow the procedure in place for plagiarism attempts or other fraudulent actions discovered and documented during the review process; c) officially inform the higher education or research institution of the author’s affiliation, making available all necessary documents (including the author’s responsible declaration of originality); d) advise the most important international databases about the allegation of plagiarism; and e) publish (on the site, etc.) its official position on the matter. As conceptual and general guidelines on plagiarism, the journal Studia UBB refers to: “What Constitutes Plagiarism?”, in “Harvard Guide to Using Sources”, available here: https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
The Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement aligns with the recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics): Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
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