Best Article Award 2025

Rules of the competition

(acc. to Regulation No. 020 – 10/2025 of 14.02.2025)

General information

  1. Awards will be awarded each quarter in the following amounts (gross amounts):
  • First award – PLN 1,000.00
  • Second award – PLN 500.00.
  1. By submitting a paper to the CA journal, the authors agree to participate in the competition and the use of the authors' data in the results information, unless the authors decide otherwise when submitting the paper.
  2. Awards will be made within 3 months of the date of publication in CA of the last article assigned to the quarter being evaluated.
  3. Articles are assigned to a given quarter based on the date of submission of the paper to CA. If more than 40 calendar days elapse between the date on which the last of the peer-reviewed papers is sent to the correspondent author and the date on which the version of the paper ready for publication is sent to the editor, the article is not included in the competition.
  4. Authors of award-winning papers will be notified of the award via email. In the case of co-authorship, the award will be given to each co-author in proportion to the percentage contribution to the article shown in the correspondent author's statement submitted when the paper is submitted to CA.
  5. Non-Polish authors receive the equivalent of the award in euros at the exchange rate on the day the award is awarded
  6. The time limit for providing the details necessary for the award transfer is 14 days from the date on which the award information is sent to the Author(s). After this time, the award will be forfeited.

 

Evaluation

  1. Publications are evaluated by a 5-person committee consisting of members of the Editorial Committee. The committee consists of the editor-in-chief and four members appointed by the editor-in-chief. A member of the editorial committee is excluded from the committee if they are the author or co-author of one of the articles being evaluated.
  2. Each member of the Committee shall evaluate individual publications, awarding each of them between 4 and 20 points.
  3. The Editor-in-Chief summarises the marks given by each member of the Commission. An evaluation report is drawn up from the summary, indicating the works in the CA quarter and the sum of the points obtained in descending order. If two (or more) papers receive the same highest number of points, or two (or more) papers receive the same second highest number of points, the order of the papers is determined by the result of the vote of the members of the Committee.
  4. The awards are awarded by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of the scores included in the evaluation protocol. The decisions of the Editor-in-Chief are final, do not require justification, and there is no appeal procedure.
  5. The names of the awarded authors and the scores of the awarded articles are made public within 14 days of the evaluation. Scores are given as the average number of points per article per assessor.
  6. In assessing the works, points are awarded acc. to evaluation sheet:

CA article evaluation sheet

Evaluation criteria

Score

A.         Significance of the research problem

1–5 points

B.         Original contribution of the author(s) to the development of the scientific discipline

1–5 points

C.         Methodological soundness, statistical criteria and visualisation of research results; in review papers, comprehensiveness of approach

1–5 points

D.         Proficiency and linguistic correctness in the presentation of the literature review and the discussion and debate of the research findings

1–5 points

Total score

4–20 points