About journal

Přehled výzkumů (PV) is a scientific peer-reviewed journal that has been published since 1956 by the Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno. The first section presents original archaeological research of superregional significance with a focus on Central Europe. The second section presents a comprehensive summary of excavation reports from all authorised archaeological organisations in Moravia and Silesia. Since 2020, the third part of the journal has consisted of the non-peer-reviewed section, Varia. Since 2011, the journal has been published bi-annually in print and electronic format with a separate specialisation on prehistory (1), Middle Ages and Modern Times (2). The journal is indexed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) and the List of Non-Impact Peer-Reviewed Periodicals Published in the Czech Republic. Since February 2018, the Přehled výzkumů journal has been included in the Scopus database of journals, indexed from Volume 58. Since 2020, the PV articles have been provided with a DOI identification.

Publication ethics

Authors publishing their articles in the Přehled výzkumů journal must observe the following rules and obligations:

Authors’ responsibities:
- Authors are obliged to participate in the review process, respond to reviewers’ comments and make the suggested modifications based on the reviewer’s comments. In disputed cases, the authors may appeal to the editors of the journal stating their objections in order to defend their statements or retract the paper.
- Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the research outcomes presented in the paper.
- An author should not publish manuscripts that essentially describe the same research in more than one journal of a primary publication.
- Authors must follow the guidelines for authors and the citation rules.
- Authors must sign a statement declaring that all data in their article are original and genuine (see Author’s statement – download).
Editors’ responsibilities:
- Editors are responsible for the content of the journal and the quality of the articles published.
- The editors maintain objectivity for all submitted articles, i.e. they are obliged to avoid any conflict of interest concerning articles they reject/accept, and respect the main criteria for article selection:
– professional standards and relevance of the article;

– conformity of the topic with the professional focus of the journal.
- The editors are obliged to preserve the anonymity of both the reviewers and the authors in the peer-review process.
- In cooperation with the editorial board, the editors address any appeals from the authors against the reviewers’ comments and any other complaints.
- The editors have the final responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
Reviewers’ responsibilities:
- The reviewers must be objective in their assessment.
- Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal or other gain (see Review form – download).
- The reviewers may reject a request to review an article for reasons of competing professional interests:
– professional, financial or personal gain from accepting/rejecting the paper under review;

– collaboration on the project in question within the past five years;

– fundamental difference in opinion on the main topic of the paper under review;

– close professional or personal relationship with the author or a member of the author’s team.
- Unless the reviewer rejects an assessment for one of the reasons above, the editorial office assumes that no conflict of interest exists.
- The reviewers should point out any relevant published work that has not been cited by the author.
Responsibilities of the editorial board:
- The editorial board continually endeavours to enhance the professional and formal quality of the journal, supports freedom of speech, and in compliance with generally accepted ethics, is willing to publish corrections, retractions and apologies by prior arrangement.
- The editorial board issues instructions concerning the editorial work (guidelines for authors, peer-review process, reviewers, etc.).
- The editorial board guarantees that the above-stated rules are observed.

License terms

1. Author’s statement
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2.6 By granting the license, the author agrees to include the Work into scientific and bibliographical databases (e.g. EBSCO, CEEOL) as well as information systems providing informational services where PV is currently indexed as well as those where it will be indexed in the future.

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3. Further use of the Work

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4.2 If the Work is rejected for publication by PV, the license shall, from the time of the decision of rejection, be restricted in such a way that it shall only cover the use of Work to the necessary extent within the related editorial activities (e.g. review and archiving).

The authors retain the copyright for all the materials published in the journal.

Open access policy

This journal adheres to the Open Access policy and publishes contributions in “Libre Open Access” mode under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license (full text available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode (dále hereinafter referred to as “CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International”).

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