Ethics Policy

The editorial policy aimed at ethical norms accepted by the international scientific community.

The Editorial Board of Kyiv Historical Studies is guided by the following recommendations and program documents on publishing ethics and academic integrity when selecting and accepting manuscripts of articles:

An important condition for acceptance of articles for publication is the availability of new original research results that had previously never published.

If the material has been previously published, the author must provide the wording of bibliographic references about previous publications and relevance of publications to justify a new version, explaining the nature of additions and changes made to the latest version of the article.

Any controversial issues (financial, academic, personal, etc.). Carefully considered members of the editorial board. In the case of confirmation of suspicions relating to the possible plagiarism or falsification of Article unequivocally rejected.

There are many parties involved in the publication, each of which plays an important role in achieving the set goals. Therefore, all authors, editors, peer reviewers, publishers and journal owners are responsible for adhering to ethical standards at all stages of their participation in the submission of manuscripts and their subsequent publication.

The editors of the journal draw attention to the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models, cannot be credited as the author of the article, as they do not meet the requirements of authorship and cannot be held responsible for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.