About the Journal

History and Aims: Literary History [Књижевна историја] was founded in 1968 as a journal of the publishing house “Obod” from Cetinje, and later of the publishing house “Vuk Karadžić” as well. Its founder and first Editor-in-Chief were Aleksandar Petrov, succeeded by Jovan Deretić. The journal relied on the cooperation of the research projects’ associates at the Institute for Literature and Art during its entire existence. In 1991 Literary History became the official organ of the Institute, and its newly appointed Editor-in-Chief, Dušan Ivanić, continued with the distinct literary-theoretical and literary-historical orientation of the journal. With Miodrag Maticki taking the position of Editor-in-Chief in 2001, Literary History broadened its concept to include interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific studies and articles as well. 

As one of the leading scientific journals in Serbia, Literary History [Књижевна историја] represents a place for the presentment of outstanding scientific results and innovative interdisciplinary research. It also helps to strengthen international cooperation in science, literature, and Slavic studies and improves standards and quality of academic writing in-country and abroad. The editorial board pays special attention to the transparency principle of authors' work. 

Scope: Literary History [Књижевна историја] publishes papers in the field of literary studies, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary papers, within the following sections:

  • Readings of Tradition [Читање традиције];
  • The Heritage of Modernism [Наслеђе модернизма];
  • Terminological Guide [Појмовник];
  • Intertwinings [Преплитања];
  • Occasions [Поводи];
  • Literary Material [Књижевна грађа];
  • Intersections [Укрштања];
  • Contexts [Контексти];
  • Studies, Еssays, Contributions [Студије, огледи, прилози];
  • In Focus [У средишту]
  • (Critical) Reviews and Notes [Оцене, прикази, белешке]. 

The requirement to publish at least a third of our texts in other languages is only one of those standards, but a particularly important one. Intending to further improve the quality of texts and contributions on offer, the editorial board of Literary History [Књижевна историја] has added new text categories to the usual, partially renewed columns (Studies, Essays, Contributions; Terminology Guide; [Critical] Reviews and Notes). Within the framework of new categories, particular attention will be devoted to publishing thematic sections and problem-oriented texts. Readings of Tradition and The Heritage of Modernism are intended for contemporary insights into the literary heritage of previous centuries, i.e. a recapitulation of the literary heterogeneous and in a way still “living“ the twentieth century, while Contexts will publish selected papers with a comparative, intercultural and multimedia approach. The section titled In Focus is set apart for scientific discussion of issues of particular importance for the scientific and the broader cultural public.

Frequency: The journal is issued three times a year. The Editorial Board accepts papers throughout the year. All papers are free of charge. 

Literary History [Књижевна историја] is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge and used by the license that is published below each published article. This journal provides immediate Open Access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Literary History encourages readers, authors and librarians to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allows a wider readership to use them for any other lawful purpose. The journal does not charge any fees for submission, reviewing, and production.

Authors reserve the copyright to published articles and have the right to use the article in the same manner as third parties by the license Attribution-Non-Commercial-Non-Derivative 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Thereby they must quote the basic bibliographic data of the source article published in the journal (authors, article title, journal title, volume, pagination).

Indexing: Since January 2015, the journal has been included in the international list ERIH PLUS. Since June 2017. the journal has been included in CEEOL. The journal is also indexed in the MLA - Modern Language Association and Italian Anvur (Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Slavistics) as a journal of "A classe". Literary History [Књижевна историја] is a journal with an M23 ranking allocated by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia. This ranks us among the leading scholarly journals in Serbia, open to all authors from the country, the region and abroad whose articles pass through a carefully elaborated system of editorial and blind peer-review readings. In this manner, the journal's international Editorial Board endeavours to raise the quality of published articles in each new issue and to establish exact criteria and high standards of academic writing and scholarly research. The International Committee of Slavists categorized Literary History [Књижевна историја] as a journal of the first category on its Reference List of Slavic Journals.

Self-archiving: The journals allow authors to deposit the final paper in PDF format in an institutional repository and/or non-commercial subject-based repositories, or to publish them on their websites (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or on the website of the institution in which they are employed, one year following the publication in the journal. Thereby they must state the primary bibliographic data on the article published in the journal (authors, article title, journal title, year, volume, pagination). Authors can deposit all versions of their works in an institutional or another repository of the author’s choice without an embargo period.

Archival systems: Literary History [Књижевна историја] journal is included in LOCKSS and CLOCKSS archival systems. Literary History has been preserved in doiFil - Repository of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) since 2019. Issued by Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade and in the Digital repository of the National Library of Serbia. The papers of this journal are also archived in the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

   

   

 

 According to the categorization of Serbian scientific journals in humanities from 2022, the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development classifies Literary History [Књижевна историја] as an international journal (category M23).

 

Review process: This journal uses a double-blind review.

The submitted manuscripts are subject to a review process by two anonymous reviewers. The purpose of the review is to assist the editor in deciding whether a manuscript should be accepted or not and to improve the quality of the manuscripts through communication with their authors. Reviews are anonymous.
The reviewer must finish his review within two weeks from the date the manuscript has been received. If prevented to finish his job within the given period, the reviewer must notify the editor-in-chief without delay. Reviews are free of charge. The choice of reviewers is at the editor's discretion. The reviewers must have relevant knowledge about the subject area of the manuscript and they must not be from the author's institution and they should not have recent joint publications with any of the authors (as co-authors) of the manuscript. During the review process, the editor may request the author to provide supplementary information (including raw data), if such information is necessary for making a judgment on the scientific contribution (merit) of the manuscript. The editor and reviewer will keep such information confidential and will not use it for personal gain. The editorial board shall ensure quality control for the review. In case authors have serious and grounded objections to a review, the editorial board shall l check whether the review is objective and whether it meets academic standards. In case of any doubt about the objectivity or quality of the review, the editor will seek the opinions of the third reviewer. 

Reviewers' responsibilities: Two reviewers shall deliver a well-argued and unbiased evaluation of the scientific value of the manuscript to the editor by a given deadline. The reviewers shall assess the manuscript to confirm whether it complies with the profile of the journal, the validity of the topic investigated and the applied methods, the originality of the information and data presented in the manuscript, as well as whether it is appropriately presented in a readable academic style. Reviewers must notify the editor of any violations of ethical standards by the authors or any knowledge thereof. Reviewers are to note any published works that have not been cited by the authors that may prove relevant to the work. Reviewers are to notify the editor of the substantial similarities between a reviewed manuscript and any other considered, published, or reviewed for publication by any other journal. Reviewers must also alert the editor if the same manuscript is submitted to several journals at the same time.

Reviewers must not be in a conflict of interest with either the authors or the sources of funding for the manuscript under review. If the reviewer is in such conflict, it must be reported to the editor immediately for another reviewer to be assigned. Any reviewers who deem themselves to be incapable of carrying out their reviewing duties are to notify the editor for another reviewer to be assigned.

Reviews must be conducted objectively. Any personal criticism of the author is deemed inappropriate. The reviewers must express their views accompanied by supporting arguments. Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents. The reviewers must not use any unpublished material from the submitted manuscripts without the explicit written consent of their authors and the information and ideas presented in the submitted therein must be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

 

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

The ethical policy of LH is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with IR codes of conduct.

1. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

  • The submitted manuscript must be the original work of the author(s); The only unpublished manuscript should be submitted;
  • It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently;
  • Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated;
  • Acknowledge the sources of data used in the development of the manuscript;
  • The submitting (corresponding) author is responsible for ensuring that all the other co-authors have approved the manuscript article's publication;
  • All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes

2. Submission Declaration

Submission of an article implies that:
The work described is authentic and valid and neither this manuscript nor one with considerably similar content under this authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or another language, without the written consent of the copyright holder.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

  • The Reviewers of the journal should assist the Editors in deciding for publishing the submitted manuscripts;
  • The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review;
  • The Reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to decide on whether the submitted manuscript to be published or not;
  • The Reviewers' comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective;
  • The Reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

4. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
Editors must confirm the following:

  • That all manuscript is evaluated in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry, or political values of authors;
  • The Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for a submitted manuscript based on the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restraint acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement;
  • preserve the anonymity of reviewers.

5. Publishing ethics issues

  • Monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board;
  • Guidelines for retracting articles;
  • Maintain the integrity of the academic record;
  • Preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;
  • Always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

5.1. Plagiarism detection
Plagiarism occurs when someone presents the work of others (data, text, or theories) as if it was his/her own without proper acknowledgment. 

5.2. Duplicate submission/publication and redundant publication
Translations of articles without proper permission or notification and resubmission of previously published Open Access articles are considered duplications.

5.3. Citation Manipulation
Citation Manipulation is including excessive citations, in the submitted manuscript, that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely to increase citations to a given author’s work, or articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.

6. Violation of Publication Ethics
Sanctions: If there are documented violations, the following sanctions will be applied:

  • Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript,
  • Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to the journal published by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript,
  • Prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 24 months against all of the authors for any new submissions to the journal, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript.