Samlaren adheres to the ethical guidelines for scholarly publishing established in collaboration among DOAJ, COPE, OASPA, and WAME: ”Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing”.
For the journal's operations, this means that the following areas of responsibility are distinguished:
The editor receives manuscripts for publication and assesses whether they should be sent for peer review. In doing so, the editor must act impartially and base the decision solely on the scientific quality of the submission. In cases of conflict of interest, the responsibility must be delegated to another person (for example, a review editor or a member of the editorial board) who will act in the editor’s place.
Information about submitted manuscripts must not be shared with anyone other than members of the editorial board and the reviewers involved.
Editors, editorial board members and reviewers may not use information from submitted manuscripts for their own purposes without the author’s written consent.
Invited reviewers must immediately notify the editor if they suspect any circumstance (such as a conflict of interest) that may make them unsuitable as a reviewer for a particular manuscript.
The review must be submitted within the timeframe agreed upon with the editor.
Unpublished manuscripts must be treated confidentially. Reviewers must not discuss the manuscript or the review process with anyone who is not involved in the process.
Reviews must be conducted impartially and objectively. Evaluations, including any proposed revisions, should be justified based on the manuscript’s content. Suggested revisions must be clearly communicated. The review must indicate whether the reviewer recommends acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection. See also the Instructions for Peer Reviewers.
Reviewers have a special responsibility to inform the editor of any noticeable similarities between the reviewed manuscript and other publications they are aware of.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that the research presented is conducted in accordance with good research practice.
Authors must confirm that the work presented is their own and that any contributions by others are clearly acknowledged through appropriate citation and referencing.
If the author has presented similar or related findings in another work, this must be clearly stated. Samlaren does not publish previously published material. If the manuscript is under consideration by another journal, this must be disclosed upon submission.
Authors may submit their manuscript for review and assessment to only one journal at a time.
If the research requires ethical review, the author is responsible for ensuring this has been conducted. If not, the author should be prepared to justify why ethical review is not necessary.
In the case of co-authored articles, authors must agree among themselves on the order of authorship. Only those who have made a substantial contribution to the article should be listed as authors. All co-authors must agree to the submission and approve any revisions.
The author agrees to inform the editor of the research funding sources upon request.
Should the author later become aware of any inaccuracies in the published work, the editor must be promptly notified. If the editor or a member of the editorial board becomes aware of significant errors in a published article, the author is expected to either retract the work or provide a justified rebuttal.
Authors may not simultaneously serve as editors for Samlaren or as members of the executive committee of the Swedish Society of Literature (Svenska Litteratursällskapet).
All manuscripts submitted to the journal undergo an initial review by the editor. If the manuscript is deemed of scholarly interest and relevant to Samlaren’s scope, it is sent for review by at least two independent reviewers. Both reviewers and authors remain anonymous to each other.
Reviewers submit their assessments and publication recommendations within the timeframe set by the editor, in accordance with the Instructions for Peer Reviewers. Based on these assessments, the editor decides whether to publish the manuscript and informs the author, including anonymized reviewer comments.
Anonymity between author and reviewer may be lifted by the editor after a publication decision has been made, and only if both parties consent.
Reviewer reports may be shared with others beyond the author provided that both the author and the reviewer agree.
The review process is expected to take 6 to 8 weeks but may vary.
The overall editorial responsibility lies with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. Supporting the editor is a qualified editorial board, as well as a review editor and an associate editor, who assist with the evaluation of individual manuscripts and the overall development of the journal.
Research articles are externally peer-reviewed, while miscellanea and book reviews are approved by the editorial board without external peer review.
In cases where an author is affiliated with the journal, they will be disengaged from all tasks related to the specific manuscript. A fully independent editor, unaffiliated with the author’s institution, will oversee the review process. The author's affiliation with the journal will be indicated in the published article.
All authors must meet the following criteria:
Those who do not meet these criteria but have nevertheless made a substantial contribution to the final manuscript should be included in the Acknowledgements section. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written consent from those mentioned in this section.
These authorship criteria are based on the Vancouver Recommendations (or ICMJE Recommendations) regarding authorship and contributorship. They align with the principles outlined in the ALLEA European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and the guidelines described in the Swedish Research Council’s Good Research Practice (2024, p. 79, in Swedish).
All cases of ethical misconduct will be handled in accordance with COPE's recommendations and guidelines.
In accordance with COPE’s position statement, artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as large language models, chatbots and image creators cannot be attributed authorship of any manuscript submitted to this journal. Authorship implies taking responsibility for the integrity, originality, accuracy and validity of the work, and AI tools cannot take such responsibility.
In cases where generative AI tools have been used to create written text, generate images or graphical elements, or collect and analyze data within a submitted work, authors must report this use in the manuscript. This acknowledgment should include detailed information about the specific tasks performed by AI tools, including identification of the tools and their versions. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject manuscripts where it is judged that the use of AI tools has been made in a way that is not consistent with scientific work and acrimony. AI tools used to improve or correct spelling and grammar need not be mentioned.
Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including the parts generated using AI tools. As a consequence, they bear responsibility for any breaches of publication ethics. Authors must ensure that all cited and referenced material is properly attributed
Authors of manuscripts and reviewers of the same manuscript must not be close colleagues, family members, work on the same research project, or otherwise have a close collaboration.
Reviewers should only accept to assess manuscripts that fall within their own subject area.
Reviewers should respond to invitations without delay and submit completed reviews within a reasonable time.
Reviewers' comments must not be influenced by the author's nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or commercial interests.
Reviewers' comments must not contain hostile or provocative language and must not include personal attacks, slander or other derogatory comments.
As open research data requirements from research funders and universities become increasingly common, some authors may be required to make their empirical material open and publicly available.
Where this applies to the journal's authors, the journal's editors encourage making the data available according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Authors should, in these cases, link from the submitted manuscript to the material made available. Research data should then be made public when the article is published. Empirical material obtained from other researchers must be cited in the same way as other scientific sources. For questions regarding guidelines for open data and handling and publishing of data, please contact your university.
Beginning when the journal joins Publicera, its current and future content is made available via Publicera and stored long-term on a secure and central server at the National Library of Sweden (KB).
In the event that the journal ceases publishing, the journal's content on Publicera will remain archived at KB.
Article authors have the right to self-archive the submitted ("preprint") version of the manuscript and the published version without any embargo period.
Submitted manuscripts and published versions of articles can, for example, be archived on:
The journal's editors strongly recommend that authors who submit manuscripts register an "Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier" or ORCiD.
This registration provides a unique and stable digital author identity that ensures that the article is attributed to the correct person and improves the searchability of all the author's publications. This helps to ensure that the author receives recognition for their work. As a person's ORCiD remains the same as long as the account exists, any name changes, change of employment, department affiliation or research field do not affect the searchability of previous publications. This facilitates correspondence between research colleagues.
The journal's editors encourage all authors to include ORCiD along with other author information when the manuscript is registered in the system. If the article is accepted, this will be published with the article.
The journal's editors allow authors to make available earlier drafts of manuscripts/articles on the condition that authors agree to the following:
Authors retain all rights to any previously published version and are permitted to submit their updated manuscript to the journal.
Authors accept that the journal's editors cannot guarantee full anonymity in the review process, even if the author anonymizes his manuscript when earlier versions of the manuscript are made available.
If the manuscript is published in the journal, the author is expected to cross-link, with DOI link, the different versions of the manuscript/article.
The conditions of publication with persistent identifiers such as DOIs include that the published object is final and not changed without readers being clearly informed.
Articles published in the journal cannot therefore be changed without a) an erratum or b) a change notice being published and linked to the original article.
If a factual error in an article is discovered, this should be reported to the editor-in-chief, who decides on possible actions and corrections.
In the case of formal complaints, disputes, or appeals, authors should contact the Editor-in-Chief, who is responsible for ensuring that a fair, deliberative, and thorough investigation is conducted.
About the Journal
Samlaren is the oldest literature journal in Sweden, published since 1880 by the Swedish Society of Literature, seated in Uppsala. The journal is published as a yearbook containing an article section and a review section. Its intended primary audience comprises scholars and teachers in the field of literature.
Samlaren | ISSN (Online) 2002-3871 | ISSN (Print) 0348-6133
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