Publishing Policies and Editorial Standards

Pyrrhic Press Publishing is an independent open access publisher committed to accessible scholarship, editorial transparency, research integrity, responsible publishing, and the preservation and discoverability of scholarly work.

1. Open Access Policy

Scholarly articles published as open access by Pyrrhic Press are made available online without a reader subscription or registration requirement. Pyrrhic Press supports broad public access to scholarly knowledge.

2. Author Fees

Pyrrhic Press does not charge authors an article processing charge, submission fee, editorial review fee, or publication fee for scholarly journal articles unless a specific publication clearly states otherwise before submission.

No payment is required for favorable editorial consideration.

3. Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their original scholarly work unless a separate written agreement explicitly provides otherwise.

Authors grant Pyrrhic Press the rights necessary to publish, distribute, archive, preserve, display, and provide access to the accepted work according to the applicable publication agreement and license.

4. Licensing

Open access scholarly articles must display the license under which the work is distributed. Pyrrhic Press supports the use of recognized open licenses, including appropriate Creative Commons licenses.

The specific license applicable to an article should be identified on the article, its publication record, or associated metadata.

5. Editorial Independence

Scholarly editorial decisions are based on the content and suitability of the manuscript and are not determined by advertising, sponsorship, commercial relationships, author status, or an author's ability to pay.

6. Initial Editorial Screening

Submissions may undergo initial editorial screening for journal scope, completeness, readability, originality, research integrity, ethical concerns, citation quality, and compliance with submission requirements.

A manuscript may be returned to the author, declined, or referred for additional review following this screening.

7. Peer Review

Content identified by Pyrrhic Press as peer reviewed must undergo the review process applicable to its journal and article type.

For scholarly research requiring external peer review, reviewers should possess knowledge relevant to the subject or methodology and should be independent of material conflicts of interest involving the manuscript or its authors.

Pyrrhic Press distinguishes peer reviewed research from editorials, commentary, professional perspectives, archival material, foundational works, announcements, and other content that has not undergone the same external peer review process.

8. Reviewer Conduct

Reviewers are expected to evaluate manuscripts fairly, constructively, confidentially, and within their areas of knowledge.

Reviewers should disclose material conflicts of interest and should not use unpublished information obtained during review for personal or professional advantage.

9. Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should reflect meaningful intellectual or scholarly contribution to the work.

Individuals who made significant contributions should be appropriately credited. Individuals who did not make a meaningful contribution should not be listed as authors solely because of status, position, financial support, or personal relationships.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of authorship and contribution information supplied to Pyrrhic Press.

10. Originality and Prior Publication

Authors must accurately disclose whether submitted material has been previously published, distributed, deposited, presented, or submitted elsewhere when that information is relevant to editorial evaluation.

Previously published material must be appropriately identified and cited. Pyrrhic Press will not knowingly present previously published work as original unpublished research.

11. Research Integrity

Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, manipulated evidence, deceptive citation practices, misrepresentation of authorship, and other serious violations of research integrity are not acceptable.

Credible concerns may result in additional review, requests for evidence, correction, editorial notice, rejection, or retraction as appropriate.

12. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, analysis, conclusions, and integrity of submitted work regardless of whether artificial intelligence or automated tools were used during research or preparation.

Artificial intelligence systems should not be identified as authors because authorship requires human responsibility and accountability.

Material use of generative artificial intelligence should be disclosed when its use could reasonably affect interpretation of the authorship, methods, analysis, or provenance of the work.

13. Conflicts of Interest

Authors, editors, and reviewers should disclose financial, professional, personal, academic, institutional, or other interests that could reasonably be perceived as affecting their judgment.

Editors and reviewers with material conflicts should recuse themselves when appropriate.

14. Funding Disclosure

Authors should identify funding sources relevant to the submitted research and disclose the role of a funder when the funder participated in study design, analysis, manuscript preparation, or publication decisions.

15. Human and Animal Research

Research involving human participants or animals must comply with applicable ethical, legal, institutional, and professional requirements.

Authors should identify relevant ethical review, approval, exemption, consent, or oversight information when applicable to the research.

16. Data and Reproducibility

Authors should accurately describe the data and evidence underlying their research.

When appropriate and legally and ethically permissible, authors are encouraged to make supporting data, methods, materials, code, or other research resources available to facilitate verification and reproducibility.

Restrictions involving privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, security, contractual obligations, or ethical requirements should be identified when relevant.

17. Corrections

Pyrrhic Press may issue corrections when an error affects the accuracy, interpretation, attribution, metadata, or scholarly record of a published work but does not require withdrawal of the work as a whole.

18. Retractions

Pyrrhic Press may retract a publication when reliable evidence demonstrates that its findings or content are seriously unreliable because of misconduct, major error, unethical research, plagiarism, duplicate publication, or another substantial integrity problem.

Retraction notices should identify the affected work and explain the reason for the editorial action to the extent appropriate and legally permissible.

19. Post Publication Discussion

Pyrrhic Press welcomes responsible notification of substantive errors or research integrity concerns involving published material.

Credible concerns will be evaluated and may result in clarification, correction, editorial notice, or retraction when appropriate.

20. Complaints and Appeals

Authors and readers may submit a complaint concerning editorial procedures, publication ethics, research integrity, or published material.

Authors may also request reconsideration of an editorial decision when they believe a material factual or procedural error affected the decision. An appeal does not guarantee reversal of an editorial determination.

Whenever practical, a complaint or appeal involving an editor should be reviewed by another appropriate individual who was not the subject of the complaint.

21. Privacy and Confidentiality

Submitted manuscripts, reviewer communications, author information, and editorial records will be handled with reasonable confidentiality consistent with editorial operations, legal requirements, research integrity investigations, and publication requirements.

22. Persistent Identifiers and Metadata

Pyrrhic Press supports accurate scholarly metadata and the use of persistent identifiers when available and appropriate.

Metadata may include author names, affiliations, titles, abstracts, publication dates, journal information, citations, identifiers, licensing information, and other information necessary for scholarly discovery and preservation.

23. Preservation and Archiving

Pyrrhic Press seeks to preserve scholarly content through its publishing infrastructure and appropriate external repositories, archives, or preservation services when available.

Preservation arrangements may vary by publication and should not be interpreted as participation in a particular preservation service unless that participation is specifically identified.

24. Author Self Archiving

Authors may preserve and share their work in appropriate scholarly, institutional, disciplinary, or general purpose repositories subject to the license applicable to the published work and any applicable third party rights.

25. Publisher Transparency

Pyrrhic Press Publishing is an independent publisher based in New Jersey, United States.

Pyrrhic Press does not claim endorsement, accreditation, certification, membership, or indexing by an outside organization unless that relationship has been established and can be independently verified.

26. Policy Review

These policies may be updated as scholarly publishing standards, technologies, legal requirements, and Pyrrhic Press publishing practices develop.

Material policy changes should be reflected on this page with an updated revision date.

Contact

Questions concerning publishing policies, ethics, corrections, complaints, or research integrity may be directed to:

Pyrrhic Press Publishing
New Jersey, United States
editor@pyrrhicpress.org

Last updated: September 2026