Crisia is recognized by the National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (NCSRHE), code 308, cataloged in category C between 2008-2009, category B+ between 2010-2012, and category C between 2012-2020. Since 2016 it is indexed ERIH PLUS, since 2021 it is indexed in Index Copernicus, and since 2023 in DOAJ.

Crisia can be found in the collections of the National Library of Romania, in those of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova and also in 34 public libraries, of museums and university centers.

Crisia does not charge any fees for publishing, and does not publish advertisment.

Access policy, copyright, license, ethics

Crisia magazine offers readers open access to published articles, respecting the principle of free access to science and knowledge.

The authors agree that Crisia magazine has the right of first publication of the submitted article. Authors have the right to publish the article on their personal website or on other websites, referring to the first publication. Authors retain the copyright of their articles without restrictions. Authors assume responsibility for the content of published articles and no changes to the content will be accepted after their publication.

Crisia magazine uses the CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license. Therefore, other users have the right to download and use the article only if they credit the author and the journal in which the material was first published. Also, the articles can be copied and distributed, but can’t be adapted, remixed, transformed, translated or updated in any way it would make them derivates.

Copies of the article published in the journal may be used for academic purposes only, not for commercial purposes. The Crisia journal does not allow the publication of advertising materials.

Publication ethics

The authors of articles submitted for publication in Crisia assume responsibility for their content, both from a scientific point of view, for meeting the publication conditions, and for the way in which the information is expressed, and also for information such as their name and institutional affiliation. At the same time, the authors assume that the submitted works are entirely original and produced by them. Both the authors of the articles and the editorial staff will ensure that the texts submitted for publication are written in a manner that is understandable to the reading public and do not contain terms or modes of expression that are potentially hostile to ethnic, sexual, age or health differences. The person submitting the article for publication will be the main person responsible for communicating with the editorial staff of Crisia, from the moment the text is delivered until its publication.

1.      Publication policy regarding authors and contributions:

The Crisia journal is open to researchers, museographers, teachers and doctoral students in the fields of archaeology, history and museography for the dissemination of their studies and articles. The materials submitted to Crisia must not have been published or issued for publication before in another periodical or volume of works, partially or totally. In the event that there are passages that have been previously published, they will be mentioned by clear reference in a footnote to the place where they appear and it is preferable that they are not identical, to avoid self-plagiarism. Texts and passages from texts included in dissertations, conferences and doctoral theses are exempt. Translations of already published articles are also exempt, but it is mandatory to mention the exact place where the original material is found. If the author used artificial intelligence to generate or correct the text, this is mentioned in a footnote;

2.     Resolving complaints and appeals:

Any complaints and appeals will be brought to the attention of the editorial office for resolution. They will be clearly formulated, with the points to be clarified/resolved. The editorial office will formulate responses alone or together with the referees, if the complaints concern aspects of the content of the articles, within a maximum of 30 days from receiving the complaint;

3.     Conflict of interest policies:

A conflict of interest represents anything that may interfere with the peer-review process or with the publication of a text and may represent the affiliations or personal, financial or professional relationships of the authors, but not only. Authors who submit articles for publication in Crisia are required to communicate to the editorial office any conflicts of interest that may interfere with the appearance of the study, with the author or with the publication, which may include academic competition and personal beliefs. If the article is the product of funded research, the name of the funder and the funding program will be specified. To avoid conflicts of interest in the case of authors who are also members of the Crisia editorial board, their works are verified through the same peer-review system as all others;

4.     Data sharing policies:

With open access, all information contained in studies and articles published in Crisia is visible without restrictions, including the authors’ first and last names, their institutional affiliation and e-mail address;

5.     Ethical oversight policies:

Crisia journal is committed to preventing misconduct in the publication of studies, with reviewers ensuring, during the peer-review process, that papers are not plagiarized, do not contain fabricated or false data, that citations are correct and not manipulated (see the COPE Guide), that the peer-review process itself is not manipulated (see the COPE statement), and that the author’s general conduct appears correct;

6.     Intellectual property policies:

Crisia journal offers open, free, free and direct access to readers to published articles, respecting the principle of free access to science and knowledge. Authors retain the copyright on the articles, without restrictions, and can upload them to other websites by referring to the first publication. Crisia uses the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license, the publication being not the subject of any commercial transaction;

7.     Post-publication corrections policy:

If errors are identified in a published article, authors have the opportunity to submit a correction to be added to the Crisia website, alongside the already published article. Changing the name of the author(s) is not permitted.