About the journal
Folia Oecologica is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
The journal publishes original research articles, review papers, and short communications focusing on forest ecology and related environmental sciences. ...
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The aim of the peer review procedure is to ensure the publication of high-quality original papers in Folia Oecologica. Reviewers must ensure that no conflicts of interest exist that could compromise their objectivity
Reviewers must not be affiliated with the same institution as the authors. Reviewers may be based in any country, provided they have appropriate expertise.
When sharing sensitive or protected information with AI tools, reviewers must pay particular attention to issues related to privacy, confidentiality and intellectual property rights. Input generated or uploaded (e.g. text of the reviewed manuscript, data, prompts, images, etc.) could be used for purposes such as training AI models. Therefore, reviewers should protect unpublished or sensitive work by ensuring that it is not uploaded to an external AI system unless there are assurances that the data will not be re-used for purposes such as training future language models or for untraceable and unverifiable reuse.
The Peer Review form can be downloaded here.