The journal Kraieznavstvo adheres to international standards of publication ethics and follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including:

• publication ethics for editors, authors, and reviewers;
• procedures for handling cases of ethical misconduct;
• policies on retractions and corrections;
• prevention of plagiarism and academic misconduct.

Key COPE documents followed by the journal:

• Core Practices
• Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• Flowcharts for Handling Misconduct

More information is available at: https://publicationethics.org/

The journal also supports the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) regarding research evaluation:

• it does not use the journal impact factor as the sole criterion for assessing the quality of an article;
• it evaluates articles based on their scientific merit rather than the prestige of the journal;
• it does not promote practices that inappropriately manipulate citation metrics;
• it encourages authors to present a broad range of research outputs and achievements.

More information is available at: https://sfdora.org/