Journal of Water and Land Development

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Plagiarism detection
The editorial board is using iThenticate plagiarism software for the initial plagiarism detection but still if later on any article is found to be plagiarized then appropriate action will be taken as per our ethical policy and that article might get retracted. Overall similarity index of the manuscript should not be more than 15% for research articles and 20% for review articles with a limitation of less than 3% similarity from any individual source.

Due to the current situation, the Journal of Water and Land Development has suspended scientific cooperation with Russian and Belarusian institutions as of February 24, 2022. Unfortunately, manuscripts from these countries will not be accepted for publication in our journal until further notice.


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For Authors from outside Poland:
500€ including 23% VAT*
(Original papers should not exceed 12 pages including text, figures and tables (A4, font: Times New Roman, 12 pts., line spacing: 1.5, normal margins. If the volume exceeds 12 pages, an additional fee in proportion to the excess will be charged).
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For Authors from Poland:
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ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Editors of the "Journal of Water and Land Development" pay attention to maintain ethical standards in scientific publications and undertake any possible measure to counteract neglecting the standards. Papers submitted for publication are evaluated with respect to reliability, conforming to ethical standards and the advancement of science. Principles given below are based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, which may be found at: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing

Authors’ duties

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have significantly contributed to the conception, project, execution, and interpretation of the results. All such contributors must be listed as co-authors. Other individuals who influenced key aspects of the study should be acknowledged or mentioned as co-workers. The author must ensure that all co-authors have been properly included, have reviewed and approved the final version of the paper, and have agreed to its submission for publication.

When it comes to changes in authorship, it is crucial that authors carefully consider the authorship list and order before the original submission, as changes are generally not considered by the editors of the “Journal of Water and Land Development” once the manuscript has been submitted. According to the journal’s policy, all authors must be listed in the manuscript and entered into the submission system. Any addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors should be made only prior to acceptance and only with the approval of the journal editor. Requests to change authorship must come from the corresponding author, who must provide a valid reason along with written confirmation from all authors, including those being added or removed, stating their agreement with the proposed changes. These requests must be submitted through a designated form (FORM),and those that fail to follow the instructions in the form will not be considered. Only under exceptional circumstances will changes be considered after acceptance. During the evaluation of such requests, publication may be paused. If approved after publication, changes will be documented through a corrigendum. Unauthorized changes to authorship may lead to rejection of the article.

Authors must disclose all sources of funding for their study, as well as the involvement of scientific institutions, associations, and any other entities. They must also disclose any significant conflicts of interest that could influence the outcomes or interpretation of the study.

In the case of applying AI and AI-assisted technologies in the work, the author is obliged to make a proper declaration within the manuscript. This declaration must include the name of the AI tool or service used and the reasons for its use. Importantly, AI cannot be credited as an author of the manuscript. Since texts generated with the use of AI may be fragmentary or incorrect, the author—who remains fully responsible for the entire submitted article—is obliged to carefully review any AI-generated content and make necessary corrections before submission.

Authors reporting original research should provide an accurate and detailed account of the work performed, along with an objective discussion of its significance. All source data must be accurately presented in the manuscript, and sufficient detail and references should be included to allow others to replicate the study. Deliberate falsification or misrepresentation is unethical and will not be tolerated by the editors.

Authors should also be ready to provide the raw data used in their study for editorial review if requested and must retain this data for a reasonable period after publication.

In terms of publication ethics, authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to multiple journals is considered unethical and is prohibited.

Proper citation is essential; authors must always acknowledge and cite all works that influenced the development of the manuscript and confirm any use of other authors’ work.

If an author identifies a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, it is their responsibility to promptly notify the Editorial Office.

Only original works should be submitted. Authors must ensure that all cited authors and quoted material are properly credited and referenced. Any instances of ghostwriting or guest authorship are considered forms of scientific misconduct and will be addressed accordingly, including notification of relevant authorities. All indications of scientific dishonesty or breaches of ethical standards will be thoroughly documented by the Editorial Office.

Editors’ duties

Editors assess submitted manuscripts solely based on their academic value, including significance, originality, validity of the study, and clarity, as well as their alignment with the journal’s focus. This evaluation is conducted without consideration of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, religion, political beliefs, or affiliations. Editorial decisions regarding publication are independent of governmental policies or any external influences. The Editor-in-Chief of JWLD holds complete authority over the journal’s editorial content and the scheduling of its publication.

Editors refrain from utilising AI or AI-assisted technologies for decisions that require critical analysis or the formulation of substantive opinions. They and the editorial team will keep all information related to a submitted manuscript confidential, only sharing it with the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, relevant editorial advisers, and the publisher as necessary.

Editors and editorial board members will not use unpublished information from a submitted manuscript for personal research purposes without the explicit written permission of the authors. Any privileged information acquired during the manuscript review process will remain confidential and not be exploited for personal gain. In cases where there is a conflict of interest, such as competitive or collaborative relationships with authors, editors will recuse themselves and assign the manuscript to another editorial board member.

All manuscripts under consideration for publication will undergo peer review by at least two experts in the relevant field. The Editor-in-Chief will determine which manuscripts are published based on the validation of the work, its relevance to researchers and readers, feedback from reviewers, and adherence to legal standards regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may consult with fellow editors or reviewers in this decision-making process.

Additionally, journal editors may seek guidance on submitted papers beyond technical reviews, particularly regarding ethical concerns or issues involving data or materials accessibility. This advisory process typically occurs concurrently with the technical peer-review.

Reviewers’ duties

Peer review plays a crucial role in aiding editors with their decision-making and can also help authors enhance their manuscripts through communications facilitated by the editorial team.

If any reviewer feels unqualified to assess a manuscript or realises they cannot complete the review promptly, they should inform the editor and withdraw from the process.

All manuscripts reviewed must be regarded as confidential and should not be shared or discussed with anyone unless authorised by the editor.

Reviews need to be conducted impartially. Personal criticisms of the author are not acceptable. Reviewers should clearly articulate their opinions and back them up with solid reasoning.

Reviewers are also responsible for identifying relevant works that have not been referenced by the authors. Any claim that a finding, derivation, or argument has been previously noted should include the appropriate citation. Additionally, reviewers should inform the editor if they notice significant similarities or overlaps between the manuscript in question and any other published work they are aware of.

Reviewers must refrain from using AI to make decisions that require critical thinking or to form substantive opinions regarding the manuscript.

Any privileged information or insights gained during the peer review process must remain confidential and should not be exploited for personal gain. Reviewers should avoid evaluating manuscripts where there exist conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or any other relationships with the authors, organizations, or institutions involved.

Editors treat any misconduct by reviewers with seriousness and will address any claims of confidentiality breaches.

Publishers’ duties

In instances of alleged or confirmed scientific misconduct, fraudulent publications, or plagiarism, the publisher will work closely with the editors to address the issue and amend the article in question. This may involve the swift publication of an erratum, a clarification, or, in the most serious cases, retraction of the affected work. Furthermore, alongside the editors, the publisher will take responsible measures to identify and prevent the publication of papers involving research misconduct, and will never condone or knowingly permit such misconduct to occur.

The publisher is dedicated to the ongoing availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by collaborating with organisations and maintaining a digital archive.

Corrections, retractions and updates after publication

Sometimes after an article has been published it may be necessary to make a change. This change will be made after careful consideration by the journal’s editorial team to make sure if there are grounds for these changes.

Aside from cases where a minor error is concerned, any necessary changes will be accompanied by a post-publication notice, which will be permanently linked to the original article. These changes can be in the form of a Correction notice, an Expression of Concern, a Retraction, and in rare circumstances, a Removal.

The purpose of linking post-publication notices to the original article is to provide transparency around any changes and to ensure the integrity of the scholarly record. Note that all post-publication notices are free to access from the point of publication.

Authors should notify us as soon as possible if they find errors in their published article, especially errors that could affect the interpretation of data or reliability of information presented. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure consensus has been reached between all listed co-authors prior to requesting any corrections to an article.

If, after reading the guidance, you believe a correction is necessary for your article, please contact the Editorial Office journal@itp.edu.pl.

Correction notice

A Correction notice will be issued when it is necessary to correct an error or omission, where the interpretation of the article may be impacted but the scholarly integrity or original findings remains intact.

A correction notice, where possible, should always be written and approved by all authors of the original article.

Please note that correction requests may be subject to full review, and if queries are raised, you may be expected to supply further information before the correction is approved.

Major and minor errors could be distinguished. For correction notices, major errors or omissions are considered changes that impact the interpretation of the article, but the overall scholarly integrity remains intact. Minor errors are considered errors or omissions that do not impact the reliability of, or the readers’ understanding of, the interpretation of the article.

Major errors are always accompanied by a separate correction notice. The correction notice should provide clear details of the error and the changes that have been made to the published version. Under these circumstances, Editorial team will:

• correct the published online article;
• issue a separate correction notice electronically linked back to the corrected version;
• add a footnote to the article displaying the electronic link to the correction notice.

Minor errors may not be accompanied by a separate correction notice. instead, a footnote will be added to the article detailing to the reader that the article has been corrected.

Concerns regarding the integrity of a published article should be raised via email to the Editorial Office journal@itp.edu.pl.

Retractions

A Retraction will be issued where a major error (e.g., in the methods or analysis) invalidates the conclusions in the article, or where it appears research or publication misconduct has taken place (e.g., research without required ethical approvals, fabricated data, manipulated images, plagiarism, duplicate publication, etc.).

The decision will follow a full investigation by the journal’s editorial team. Authors and institutions may request a retraction of their articles if they believe their reasons meet the criteria for retraction.

Retractions are issued to correct the scholarly record and should not be interpreted as punishments for the authors.

The COPE guidance can be found here https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing.

Retraction will be considered in cases where:

• there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g., data fabrication or image manipulation) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error);
• the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper referencing, permission, or justification (e.g., cases of redundant or duplicate publication);
• the research constitutes plagiarism;
• the Editor no longer has confidence in the validity or integrity of the article;
• there is evidence or concerns of authorship for sale;
• citation manipulation is evident within the published paper;
• there is evidence of compromised peer review or systematic manipulation;
• there is evidence of unethical research, or there is evidence of a breach of editorial policies.
• the authors have deliberately submitted fraudulent or inaccurate information.

Where the decision has been taken to retract an article, Editorial team will:

• add “Retraction” on the published version of article;
• issue a separate retraction statement, titled ‘Retraction: [article title]’, that will be linked to the retracted article.

Article removal

An Article Removal will be issued in rare circumstances where the problems cannot be addressed through a Retraction or Correction notice. Editorial team will consider removal of a published article in very limited circumstances where:

• the article contains content that could pose a serious risk of harm if acted upon or followed;
• the article contains content which violates the rights to privacy of a study participant;
• the article is defamatory or infringes other legal rights;
• an article is subject to a court order.

In the case of an article being removed from “Journal of Water and Land Development” website, a removal notice will be issued in its place.

Expressions of concern

In some cases, an Expression of Concern may be considered where concerns of a serious nature have been raised (e.g., research or publication misconduct), but where the outcome of the investigation is inconclusive or where due to various complexities, the investigation will not be completed for a considerable time. This could be due to ongoing institutional investigations or other circumstances outside of the journal’s control.

When the investigation has been completed, a Retraction or Correction notice may follow the Expression of Concern alongside the original article. All will remain part of the permanent publication record.

Expressions of Concern notices will be considered in cases where:

• there is inconclusive evidence of research or publication misconduct by the authors, but the nature of the concerns warrants notifying the readers;
• there are well-founded concerns that the findings are unreliable or that misconduct may have occurred, but there is limited cooperation from the authors’ institution(s) in investigating the concerns raised;
• there is an investigation into alleged misconduct related to the publication that has not been, or would not be, fair and impartial or conclusive;
• an investigation is underway, but a resolution will not be available for a considerable time, and the nature of the concerns warrant notifying the readers;

The Expression of Concern will be linked back to the published article it relates to.

 

EDITORIAL PROCEDURE

Preliminary evaluation

All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial evaluation by the Editors to ensure they meet the requirements and editorial policy of the “Journal of Water and Land Development” (JWLD). Submissions that are incomplete or not formatted according to the journal’s guidelines will be returned to the authors with recommendations for correction. Upon successful registration on the editorial platform, authors will receive a reference number for their manuscript. The Editor-in-Chief or a designated Section Editor reviews every submission and assigns it a priority status, resulting in one of the following decisions: (a) the manuscript is forwarded directly for peer review; (b) the manuscript is returned to the authors with suggestions for revising the presentation of data; or (c) the manuscript is rejected. If the authors revise the manuscript adequately, it will be sent to at least two independent reviewers. This preliminary evaluation phase typically takes 1 week.

Authorship statement

As part of the submission process through the editorial platform, authors must confirm the originality of their work, validate the listed authorship, agree to copyright transfer, and accept the terms of the peer review process.

Conflict of interest

Authors are required to disclose any financial or personal relationships that could be viewed as potential conflicts of interest at the time of submission. This information is treated confidentially during the review process and does not influence editorial decisions. Similarly, reviewers and editors must disclose to the Editor-in-Chief any relationships that could be perceived as conflicts of interest in relation to a manuscript under review.

Review process

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are sent to independent experts for peer review. The Editorial Office retains the right to select appropriate reviewers. Typically, reviewers return their feedback within 3–4 weeks of submission. Authors are expected to address and respond to all reviewer comments thoroughly.

The objective of the peer review is to provide a qualified evaluation of the manuscript’s scientific quality. Reviewers offer constructive feedback to help authors improve their work and enhance its suitability for publication. While confidential remarks to the editors are considered, comments intended to improve the manuscript should also be shared with the authors.

It is important to note that review times can vary depending on factors such as the availability and responsiveness of reviewers, the complexity of the manuscript, and the extent of revisions needed.

Acceptance

The review process at JWLD follows a double-blind model, ensuring that both the authors and reviewers remain anonymous. Manuscripts are accepted for publication only after receiving favourable recommendations from independent reviewers. Reviewers are asked to complete a standardised "Reviewer’s Questionnaire" and provide a clear recommendation regarding the manuscript’s suitability for publication.

If there is a significant difference of opinion among reviewers, the Editor-in-Chief may: (a) share all reviews among the reviewers for additional insight, (b) seek further opinions from additional reviewers, or (c) carefully weigh all feedback and make a balanced final decision. To support this process, reviewers are encouraged to provide detailed justifications for their recommendations. Reviews that clearly outline both strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript are especially valuable.

If a revised manuscript is submitted or if authors believe their arguments were misunderstood during review, reviewers may be asked for further comments. However, the Editorial Office is cautious about repeated reviewer contact to avoid undue pressure and will assess the necessity and relevance of any follow-up requests.

In the case of rejection, authors have the right to appeal if they believe the reviewers have misunderstood or overlooked key aspects of the manuscript. Editors will then evaluate whether the appeal justifies reconsideration.

Common reasons for rejection

Manuscripts may be rejected outright—without being sent for peer review—if they are of insufficient quality. Common reasons for rejection include:

• A high Similarity Index detected by plagiarism detection software.
• Absence of key components of a scientific manuscript.
• Poor English language quality.
• Incomplete or low-resolution figures and tables.
• Non-compliance with the journal’s “Instructions for Authors.”
• A topic of limited significance or relevance to the field.
• Poor manuscript structure or missing sections.

 
OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

The ownership and management of the “Journal of Water and Land Development” (JWLD) belong to the Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute (https://www.itp.edu.pl/) and Polish Academy of Sciences (https://pan.pl/).

Editor-in-Chief – Professor Dr Hab. Mohamed Hazem KALAJI
Managing Editor – PhD, DSc, Associate Professor Adam BRYSIEWICZ


Guidance from COPE ( https://publicationethics.org/ ):

Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers (English)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.9


Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.7


How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2018.1.1


Text recycling guidelines for editors
URL: http://publicationethics.org/text-recycling-guidelines


A short guide to ethical editing for new editors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.8

Guidelines for managing the relationships between society owned journals, their society, and publishers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2018.1.2


Retraction guidelines
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.4

Reviewing procedure

Procedure of reviewing submitted papers agrees with recommendations of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education published in a booklet: „Dobre praktyki w procedurach recenzyjnych w nauce”.

Reviewing form may be downloaded from the Journal’s web page.

1. Papers submitted to the Editorial Office are primarily verified by editors with respect to merit and formal issues. Texts with obvious errors (formatting other than requested, missing references, evidently low scientific quality) will be rejected at this stage.

2. Primarily accepted papers are sent to the two independent referees from outside the author’s institution, who:

- have no conflict of interests with the author,
- are not in professional relationships with the author,
- are competent in a given discipline and have at least doctor’s degree and respective scientific achievements,
- have unblemished reputation as reviewers.

3. In case of papers written in foreign language, at least one referee is affiliated in a foreign institution other than the author’s nationality.

4. Reviewing proceeds in the double blind process (authors and reviewers do not know each other’s names) recommended by the Ministry.

5. A number is attributed to the paper to identify it in further stages of editorial procedure.

6. Potential referee obtains summary of the text and it is his/her decision upon accepting/rejecting the paper for review within a given time period.

7. Referees are obliged to keep opinions about the paper confidential and to not use knowledge about it before publication.

8. Review must have a written form and end up with an explicit conclusion about accepting or rejecting the paper from publication. Referee has a possibility to conclude his/her opinion in a form:

- accept without revision;
- accept with minor revision;
- accept after major revision,
- re-submission and further reviewing after complete re-arrangement of the paper,
- reject.

9. Referee sends the review to the “Journal of Water and Land Development” by Editorial System. The review is archived there for 5 years.

10. Editors do not accept reviews, which do not conform to merit and formal rules of scientific reviewing like short positive or negative remarks not supported by a close scrutiny or definitely critical reviews with positive final conclusion and vice versa. Referee’s remarks are presented to the author. Rational and motivated conclusions are obligatory for the author. He/she has to consider all remarks and revise the text accordingly. Referee has the right to verify so revised text.

11. Author of the text has the right to comment referee’s conclusions in case he/she does not agree with them.

12. Editor-in Chief (supported by members of the Editorial Board) decides upon publication based on remarks and conclusions presented by referees, author’s comments and the final version of the manuscript.

13. Rules of acceptation or rejection of the paper and the review form are available at the web page of the Editorial House or the journal.

14. Present list of cooperating reviewers is published once a year.

15. According to usual habit, reviewing is free of charge.

16. Papers rejected by referees are archived by Editorial System.

Download:
Review Sheet

Journal of Water and Land Development List of reviewers 2024

• Dr. Yahiaoui Abdelhalim Institute of Technology, University of Bouira, Algeria
• Dr. Ozan Artun Cukurova University in Adana, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Turkey
• Prof. Arkadiusz Artyszak Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Zulfa Hanan Ash’aari Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
• Prof. Atilgan Atilgan Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Engineering Faculty, Alanya, Turkey
• Prof. Sugiarto Badaruddin Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang, Makassar, Indonesia
• Dr. Ananya Baidya Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Kolkata , India
• Master Jan Baiker University of Zurich, EClim Research Group, Switzerland
• Assoc. Prof. Doru Bănăduc Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences, Romania
• Dr. Andres Barajas-Solano Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta, Colombia
• Prof. Sandor Bartha Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary
• Dr. Anna Baryła Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Wojciech Bąba Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Master Sergio Bedmar Estación Biológica de Doñana-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EBD-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
• Dr. Aziz Benhamrouche University of Constantine 1, Algeria
• Dr. Lynn Besenyei self employed resercher, prevoiusly University of Wulverhampton, United Kingdom
• Dr. Barbara Bielowicz AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Bonisławska West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Department of Aquatic Bioengineering and Aquaculture, Poland
• Dr. Barbara Borawska-Jarmułowicz Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Department of Agronomy, Poland
• Prof. Rachid Bouamri National School of Agriculture of Meknes, Morocco
• Dr. Housseyn Bouzeria Abou Bakr Belkaid University of Tlemcen, Algeria
• Assoc. Prof. Elke Bozau Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
• Prof. Nafaa Brinis University of Batna 2, Algeria
• Assoc. Prof. Irena Burzyńska Forest Research Institute, Laboratory of Natural Environment Chemistry, Sękocin Stary, Poland
• Dr. Marek Chalecki Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Makwiyah A. Chaliluddin Faculty of Marine sciences and Fisheries, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
• Prof. Tzu-Chia Chen Krirk University, International College, Bangkok, Thailand
• Master Grzegorz Chrobak Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Spatial Management, Department of Environmental Protection    and Development (DEPD), Poland
• Prof. Péter Csontos Csontos Institute for Soil Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research, Budapest, Hungary
• Dr. Agnieszka Cupak University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Poland
• Dr. Ralf Dannowski Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Land Use Research, Institute of Landscape Hydrology (retired since 2015), Müncheberg, Germany
• Assoc. Prof. Piotr Dąbrowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences — SGGW, Department of Environmental Management, Poland
• Dr. Agnieszka Dąbska Warsaw University of Technology, The Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Ander M de Lecea University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
• Dr. Oussama Derdous Kasdi Merbah University, Ouargla, Department of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Algeria
• Assoc. Prof. Andrea Desiderato University of Lodz, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Poland
• Dr. Fabiana Di Ciaccio Parthenope University of Naples, Department of Science and Technology, Italy
• Prof. Bohdan Dobrzański University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland
• Prof. Tiago dos Santos Universidade do Oeste Paulista, Brazil
• Prof. Anabela Durao Instituto Politecnico de Beja, Portugal
• Dr. Helmut Durrast Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
• Dr. Yahya El Hammoudani National School of Applied Sciences, Morocco
• Prof. Hossain El Ouarghi Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Research Team of Water and Environment Management (G2E), Laboratory of Applied Sciences, ENSAH, Tetouan, Morocco
• Prof. Nabil Elshery Tanta University, Faculty of Agriculture, Agriculture and Botany Department, Egypt
• Prof. Evens Emmanuel Université Quisqueya, Ave Jean Paul II, Haut Turgeau, Haiti
• Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Faligowska Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agronomy, Poland
• Dr. Stanisław Famielec University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Marcin Feltynowski University of Lodz, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Barbara Futa University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, Institute of Soil Science, Environment Engineering and Management, Poland
• Dr. Małgorzata Gałczyńska West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, Department of Bioengineering, Poland
• Dr. Bernard Gałka Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Renata Gamrat West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin , Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Maciej Gąstoł University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Horticulture, Poland
• Dr. Maciej Gliniak University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, Department of Bioprocess Engineering, Power    Engineering and Automation, Poland
• Dr. Tomasz Głąb University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Dr. Januarius Gobilik Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
• Dr. Stefan Gödeke Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
• Prof. La Ode Muhammad Golok Jaya Halu Oleo University, Makassar, Indonesia
• Assoc. Prof. Dariusz Gozdowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Department of Biometry, Poland
• Prof. Renata Graf Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Institute of Physical Geography and     Environmental, Poznań, Poland
• Prof. Andrzej Greinert University of Zielona Gora, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental Design, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Mateusz Grygoruk Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland
• Prof. Francisco Guerrero Universidad de Jaén, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Spain
• Prof. Vasyl Guryn National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Ukraine
• Dr. Majour Habiba Badji Mokhtar  Annaba University, Laboratory of Geology, Algeria
• Prof. Josef Hakl Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Department of Agroecology and Crop Production, Czech Republic
• Dr. Wiktor Halecki Instytut Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Poland
• Dr. Mateusz Hammerling Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Dino Hasanagić Univeristy of Banja Luka, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dr. Małgorzata Hawrot-Paw West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Salim Heddam 20 Août 1955 University, Agronomy Department, Hydraulic Division, Skikda, Algeria
• Dr. Entin Hidayah University of Jember, Faculty of Engineering, Indonesia
• Dr. Muhammad Hilman Fu’adil Amin Universitas Airlangga, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Biology, Surabaya, Indonesia
• Dr. Tomasz Horaczek Institute of Technology and Life Sciences - National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Prof. Lyudmyla Hranovska Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture of NAAS, Department of Irrigated Agriculture and Decarbonization Agroecosystems, Odesa,    Ukraine
• Prof. Valentina Iurchenko Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Dr. Jan Jadczyszyn Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, State Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Andrzej Jaguś University of Bielsko-Biala, Department of Environmental Protection and Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Mateusz Jakubiak AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Management and Protection, Kraków, Poland
• Dr. Elżbieta Jasińska AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Bartosz Jawecki  Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture, Poland
• Dr. Marcin Jewiarz University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Dr. Hari Joshi Nepal College of Management Kathmandu University, Nepal
• Prof. Krzysztof Jóżwiakowski University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Poland
• Dr. Marta Jurga Wroclaw University of Environmentla and Life Sciences, Department of Plant Protection, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Grzegorz Kaczor University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Grzegorz Kaczor The University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Marek Kalenik Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary    Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Andrzej Kapusta Inland Fisheries Institute in Olsztyn, Department of Ichthyology, Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecology, Poland
• Dr. Nikolaos Karkalos National Technical University of Athens, Department of Manufacturing Technology, Greece
• Assoc. Prof. Robert Kasperek Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Wiesława Kasperska-Wołowicz Institute of Technology and Life Sciences - National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Dr. Jan Kazak Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Spatial Economy, Poland
• Dr. Cezary Kaźmierowski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
• Prof. Nahed Khairy Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt
• Master Safia Khelif University of Batna 1, Laboratory for the Improvement of Agricultural Production and Protection of Ecosystems in Arid Zones, Department of Agronomic Sciences, Algeria
• Prof. Özgür Kişi Technical University of Lübeck, Germany
• Prof. Teodor Kitczak West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Department of Soil Stience, Grassland and Environmental Chemistry, Poland
• Dr. Krzysztof Klamkowski The National Institute of Horticultural Research, Skierniewice, Poland
• Dr. Kamila Klimek University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Poland
• Master Joanna Kocięcka Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Land Improvement, Environmental Development and Spatial Management,    Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Kolada Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. Anita Konieczna Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Radovan Kopp Mendel University in Brno, Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Czech Republic
• Prof. Viktor Kovalchuk National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Ukraine
• Prof. Pyotr Kovalenko Institute of Water Problems and Melioration of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Kowalczyk Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Environmental Protection and Development, Poland
• Dr. Anna Krakowiak-Bal University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Prof. Krzysztof Kukuła University of Rzeszów, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poland
• Dr. Jerzy Kupiec Poznan University of Life Science, Poland
• Dr. Alban Kuriqi Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
• Dr. Renata Kuśmierek-Tomaszewska Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Department of Agrometeorology, Plant    Irrigation and Horticulture, Poland
• Dr. Stanisław Lach AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering, Department of     Environmental Management and Protection, Kraków, Poland
• Prof. László Lakatos Eszterhazy Karoly University (The University of Eger), Hungary
• Dr. Okanlade Lawal-Adebowale Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
• Dr. Aleksandra Loba Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Ramin Lotfi Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Iran
• Prof. Biljana Lubarda University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Biology Department, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Prof. Jurik Lubos Slovak University of Agriculture, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (WREE), Slovak Republic
• Prof. Andrzej Łozicki Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Department of Animal Nutrition and Biotechnology, Poland
• Dr. Jamal Mabrouki Mohammed V University in Rabat, Faculty of Science, Morocco
• Dr. Robert Machowski University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Earth Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Agricultural Engineering Research Institute (AEnRI), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt
• Dr. Peter Malik State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, Department of Hydrogeology and Geothermal Energy, Bratislva, Slovak Republic
• Assoc. Prof. Mateusz Malinowski University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, Poland
• Prof. Myroslav Malovanyy Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
• Dr. Karolina Migdał University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Sanitary Engineering    and Water Management
• Dr. Dijana Mihajlović University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Agriculture, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Prof. Glenn Miller University of Nevada, Reno, United States
• Dr. Florentina Mincu National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Bucharest, Romania
• Dr. Ali Mokhtar Cairo University, Egypt
• Dr. Emiliano Mori National Research Council, Rome, Italy
• Prof. Maria Mrówczyńska University of Zielona Gora, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Magdalena Myszura University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Institute of Soil Science and Environment Shaping, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Manju Nair University of Calicut, India
• Dr. Gauri Nerkar ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Crop Improvement Division,Coimbatore, India
• Dr. Arkadiusz Nędzarek West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Department of Aquatic Sozology, Poland
• Prof. Gniewko Niedbała Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poland
• Prof. Vahid Nourani Tabriz University, Iran
• Dr. Elida Novita University of Jember, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Indonesia
• Prof. Beata Olszewska Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Operacz University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, Poland
• Dr. Avinash Pandey International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Borlaug Institute of South Asia, New Delhi, India
• Dr. Ramesh Pant Tribhuvan University, Nepal
• Prof. Taras Pastenrnak Univesidad Miguel Hernandez, Laboratory of Adventitious Rooting and Organogenesis, Elche, Spain
• Assoc. Prof. Katarzyna Pentoś Wroclaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Nature and Technology, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Dušica Pešević University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department of Ecology and Geography, Bosnia and     Herzegovina
• Dr. Agnieszka Petryk Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland
• Dr. Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Karol Plesiński University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Poland
• Prof. Stanisław Pluta Institute of Horticulture – National Research Institute, Skierniewice, Poland
• Prof. Joanna Podlasińska West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Marek Podlasiński West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
• Master Krzysztof Podwysocki University of Lodz, Poland
• Prof. Alla Polyanska Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ukraine
• Prof. Jos T. Puthur Calicut University, Department of Botany, Calicut University, India
• Dr. Erik Querner Querner Consult, Wageningen, Netherlands
• Assoc. Prof. Magdalena Raftowicz Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Maimun Rizalihadi Universitas Syiah Kuala, Indonesia
• Prof. Oskar Romar Linkoping University, Sweden
• Dr. Banpu Ruan Hangzhou Normal University, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, China
• Dr. Sadeq Salman Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia
• Assoc. Prof. Burak Saltuk Alanya Alaaddin Kekubat Univertitesi, Turkey
• Salma Sami University College for Applied Science and Technology, Gaza, Palestine
• Dr. Biju Sayed Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman
• Dr. Mehrdad Shokatian-Beiragh University of Tabriz, Iran
• Assoc. Prof. Aida Shomali University of Tehran, Iran
• Dr. Leszek Sieczko Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Department of Agriculture and Biology, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Edyta Sierka University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
• Dr. Hanna Siwek West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Janusz Siwek Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Department of Hydrology, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Monika Skowrońska University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Poland
• Prof. Jacek Sosnowski University of Siedlce, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Waldemar Spychalski Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agronomy, Horticulture and Bioengineering, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Piotr Stachowski Poznan University of Life Science, Poland
• Prof. Mariola Staniak Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Department of Forage Crop Production, Puławy, Poland
• Prof. Ryszard Staniszewski Poznan University of Life of Science, Department of Ecology & Environmental Protection, Poland
• Prof. Ljiljana Stojanović Bjelić Pan-European University “APEIRON”, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Assoc. Prof. Agus Suharyanto Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
• Master Sunčica Sukur University of Banja Luka, Department of Chemistry, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Prof. Barbara Symanowicz University of Siedlce, Poland
• Dr. Jan Szatyłowicz Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental     Management, Poland
• Dr. Daniel Szejba Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental     Management, Poland
• Dr. Paulina Śliz Krakow University of Economics, Poland
• Prof. Fatima Zohra Tebbi University of Batna, Algeria
• Master Gabriella Tocchi University of Naples Federico II, Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, Naples, Italy
• Dr. Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak Wrocław Universiy of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Poland
• Dr. Milena Truba University of Siedlce, Department of Grasslands and Landscape Architecture Development, Poland
• Dr. Chinweoke Ugwu University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
• Dr. Marek Urbaniak Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Construction and Geoengineering, Poland
• Dr. Iryna Vaskina Sumy State University, Department of Applied Ecology, Ukraine
• Dr. Ignacio Villanueva Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras «Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff», Azul, Argentina
• Dr. Mykola Voloshin Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University, Ukraine
• Assoc. Prof. Jacek Walczak Institute of Technology and Life Sciences - National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Prof. Wayan Wangiyana University of Mataram, Indonesia
• Dr. Anne Weeler Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
• Dr. Ewelina Widelska Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Life Sciences in Lublin Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Poland
• Dr. Magdalena Wijata Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Jakub Wojkowski University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Microbiology and Biomonitoring, Poland
• Prof. Katarzyna Wolny-Koładka University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Microbiology and Biomonitoring, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Michał Woszczyk Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
• Dr. Barbara Wróbel Institute of Technology and Life Sciences - National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
•  Michał Wróbel Forest Research Institute, Sękocin Stary, Poland
• Dr. Maria Zabala Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras “Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff”, Azul, Argentina
• Dr. Kateb Zakaria Tlemcen University, Algeria
• Prof. Jarosław Zawadzki Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Construction, Hydrotechnics and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Rachid Zegait Ziane Achour University of Djelfa
• Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Ziernicka-Wojtaszek University of Agriculture in Kraków, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Ecology, Climatology    and Air Protection, Poland
• Dr. Anna Źróbek-Sokolnik University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Poland
• Prof. Jacek Żarski University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Laboratory of Plant Irrigation and Agrometeorology, Poland
• Prof. Grzegorz Żurek Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - National Research Institute, Department of Bioenergetics, Quality Analysis and Seed    Science, Radzików, Poland

Journal of Water and Land Development List of reviewers 2023

• Assoc. Prof. Salman Dawood Ammar University of Basrah, College of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Basrah, Iraq
• Prof. Jacek Antonkiewicz University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Poland
• Dr. Ozan Artun Cukurova University in Adana, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Turkey
• Assoc. Prof. Habib-ur-Rehman Athar Bahauddin Zakariya University, Institute of Pure and Applied Biology, Multan, Pakistan
• Prof. Meryem Atik Akdeniz University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Antalya,Turkey
• Prof. Atilgan Atilgan Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Antalya, Turkey
• Prof. Doru Bănăduc Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences, Romania
• Dr. José Miguel Barrios Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
• Dr. Anna Baryła Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Prof. Arjan Beqiraj Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Geology and Mining, Earth Sciences Departament, Albania
• Dr. Małgorzata Biniak-Pieróg Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Development and Protection, Poland
• Prof. M. Bisri Bisri University Brawijaya, Indonesia
• Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Bonisławska West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Barbara Borawska-Jarmułowicz Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Department of Agronomy, Poland
• Dr. Łukasz Borek University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Land Reclamation and Environmental Development, Poland
• Prof. Marian Brzozowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Filip Bujakowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Irena Burzyńska Forest Research Institute, Laboratory of Natural Environment Chemistry, Sękocin Stary, Poland
• Prof. Tzu-Chia Chen Krirk University, International College, Bangkok, Thailand
• Master Grzegorz Chrobak Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Spatial Management, Department of Environmental Protection and Development, Poland
• Dr. Wojciech Ciężkowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Department of Remote Sensing and Environmental Assessment, Poland
• Dr. Agnieszka Cupak University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Poland
• Dr. Isa Curebal Balikesir University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Dr. Wojciech Czekała Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Przemysław Czerniejewski Westpomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Department of Fisheries Management, Poland
• Dr. Ewa Dacewicz University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, Poland
• Dr. Ralf Dannowski Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Land Use Research, Institute of Landscape Hydrology (retired since 2015), Müncheberg, Germany
• Dr. Jarosław Dąbrowski Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Piotr Dąbrowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Department of Environmental Management, Poland
• Prof. Piotr Dąbrowski Institute of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. Agnieszka Dąbska Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Oussama Derdous Kasdi Merbah University, Department of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Ouargla, Algeria
• Prof. Sina Dobaradaran Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Systems Environmental Health and Energy Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr, Iran
• Dr. Mariusz Dudziak Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Water and Wastewater Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Helmut Durrast Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
• Dr. Tomasz Dysarz Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, Poland
• Prof. Nabil Elshery Tanta University, Faculty of Agriculture, Agriculture and Botany Department, Egypt
• Prof. Evens Emmanuel Université Quisqueya, Haut Turgeau, Haiti
• Prof. Andrzej Eymontt Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Dr. Paweł Falaciński Warsaw University of Technology, Department of Hydro-Engineering and Hydraulics, Poland
• Faculty of Building Services, Hydro- and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Prof. Ewa Falkowska Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology, Poland
• Dr. Tomasz Falkowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Stanisław Famielec University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Dr. Francesco Faraone Cooperativa Silene, Palermo, Italy
• Assoc. Prof. Marcin Feltynowski University of Lodz, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Romilda Fernandez Felisbino Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Assoc. Prof. Barbara Futa University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, Institute of Soil Science, Environment Engineering and Management, Poland
• Prof. John Galbraith Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States
• Assoc. Prof. Marwan Ghanem Birzeit University, Department of Geography, Palestine
• Dr. Andrzej Giza University of Szczecin, Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Maciej Gliniak University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, Department of Bioprocess Engineering, Power Engineering and Automation, Poland
• Dr. Arkadiusz Głogowski Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Environmental Protection and Development, Poland
• Dr. Januarius Gobilik Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
• Prof. Renata Graf Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental, Poznań, Poland
• Prof. Andrzej Greinert University of Zielona Gora, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Geoengineering and Reclamation, Poland
• Dr. Leon Grubišić Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Laboratory for Aquaculture, Laboratory of Aquaculture, Split, Croatia
• Dr. Łukasz Gruss Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Poland
• Dr. Maciej Gruszczyński Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Antoni Grzywna University of Live Sciences in Lublin, Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Poland
• Dr. Andrej Halabuk Institute of Landscape Ecology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
• Master Wiktor Halecki Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Kraków, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Mateusz Hammerling Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, Poland
• Dr. donny harisuseno University of Brawijaya, Indonesia
• Dr. Sigid Hariyadi IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
• Prof. Salim Heddam 20 Août 1955 University, Agronomy Department, Hydraulic Division, Skikda, Algeria
• Dr. Leszek Hejduk Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Yevheniy Herasimov National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Research Department, Rivne, Ukraine
• Dr. Jakub Hołaj-Krzak Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Dr. Tomasz Horaczek Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Prof. Lyudmyla Hranovska Institute of Climate – Smart Agriculture of NAAS, Department of Irrigated Agriculture and Decarbonization Agroecosystems, Odesa, Ukraine
• Dr. Věra Hubačíková Mendel University in Brno, Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Czech Republic
• Prof. Piotr Hulisz Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Aniza Ibrahim Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Master Svetlana Ilić Institute for Protection and Ecology of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dr. Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Romania
• Dr. Eva Ivanišová Ivanišová Slovac Agricultural University in Nitra, Department of Technology and Quality of Plant Products, Slovak Republic
• Dr. Mateusz Jakubiak AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Management and Protection, Kraków, Poland
• Dr. Michał Jankowski Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Bartosz Jawecki Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Raimundo Jiménez-Ballesta Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Spain
• Prof. Krzysztof Jóżwiakowski University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Poland
• Dr. Carmelo Juez Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), Spain
• Dr. Marta Jurga Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Plant Protection, Poland
• Prof. Edmund Kaca Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Grzegorz Kaczor University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, Poland
• Prof. Hazem M. Kalaji Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Marek Kalenik Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Kałuża Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, Poznań, Poland
• Dr. Andrzej Kapusta Inland Fisheries Institute in Olsztyn, Department of Ichthyology, Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecology, Poland
• Prof. Vasyl Karabyn Lviv State University of Life Safety, Ukraine
• Dr. Beata Karolinczak Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Robert Kasperek Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Wiesława Kasperska-Wołowicz Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Dr. Ewa Kaznowska Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Prof. Nahed Khairy Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt
• Dr. Eyad Khalaf Science & Technology Center of Excellence, Cairo, Egypt
• Dr. Adam Kiczko Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Prof. Sungwon Kim Dongyang University, Department of Railroad Construction and Safety Engineering, Korea (South)
• Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Klaiber Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Horticulture and Bioengineering, Poland
• Prof. Zbigniew Kledyński Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Dr. Tomasz Kleiber Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Plant Nutrition, Poland
• Dr. Kamila Klimek University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Poland
• Prof. Oleksandr Klimenko National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine
• Dr. Anna Kocira Institute of Agricultural Sciences, The State School of Higher Education in Chełm, Poland
• Prof. Marek Kopacz AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Radovan Kopp Mendel University in Brno, Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Czech Republic
• Dr. Tomasz Kotowski University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Prof. Viktor Kovalchuk National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine
• Prof. Pyotr Kovalenko Institute of Water Problems and Melioration of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Dr. Agnieszka Kowalczyk Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Kowalczyk Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Anna Krakowiak-Bal University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Prof. Leszek Książek University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Prof. Maciej Kubon University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Prof. Lech Kufel Siedlce University, Poland
• Dr. Jerzy Kupiec Poznan University of Life Science, Poland
• Dr. Karolina Kurek University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Dr. Alban Kuriqi Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
• Dr. Renata Kuśmierek-Tomaszewska Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Department of Agrometeorology, Plant Irrigation and Horticulture, Poland
• Dr. Stanisław Lach AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental Management and Protection, Poland
• Prof. Lenka Lackóová Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Department of Landscape Planning and Ground Design, Slovak Republic
• Prof. Zoubida Laghrari Moulay Ismaïl University, Meknes, Morocco
• Dr. Fares Laouacheria Badji-Mokhtar Annaba University, Laboratory of Soils and Hydraulic, Annaba, Algeria
• Prof. Krzysztof Lejcuś Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Sławomir Ligęza University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Institute of Soil Science and Environment Shaping, Poland
• Dr. Marta Lisiak-Zielińska Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Mirko Liuzzo Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
• Prof. Svjetlana Lolić University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Assoc. Prof. Ramin Lotfi Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Maragheh, Iran
• Assoc. Prof. Yufeng Luo Hohai University, College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Nanjing, China
• Prof. Andrzej Łachacz University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Soil Science and Microbiology, Poland
• Dr. Jamal Mabrouki Mohammed V University in Rabat, Faculty of Science, Morocco
• Dr. Nenad Malić EFT – Rudnik i Termoelektrana Stanari d.o.o., Stanari, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Assoc. Prof. Mateusz Malinowski University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Paweł Marcinkowski Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Michał Marzec University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Poland
• Dr. Grażyna Mastalerczuk Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Institute of Agriculture, Poland
• Dr. Agnieszka Mąkosza West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, Poland
• Dr. Grzegorz Mikiciuk West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
• Prof. Sarah Milton Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, United States
• Dr. Florentina Mincu National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Bucharest, Romania
• Assoc. Prof. Dariusz Młyński University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
• Dr. Ali Mokhtar Cairo University, Egypt
• Master Mohamed Moustafa Agricultural Engineering Research Institute (AEnRI), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt
• Assoc. Prof. Karol Mrozik Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Lince Mukkun Nusa Cendana University, Faculty of Agriculture, Kupang, Indonesia
• Dr. Gianina Necualu University of Bucharest, National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Romania
• Dr. Yantus A.B. Neolaka Nusa Cendana University, Kupang, Indonesia
• Dr. Arkadiusz Nędzarek West Pomeranian University of Technology, Department of Aquatic Sozology, Szczecin, Poland
• Dr. Jadwiga Nidzgorska-Lencewicz West Pomeranian University of Technology, Work Group of Climatology and Atmospheric Protection, Szczecin, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Alicja Niewiadomska Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of General and Environmental Microbiology, Poland
• Prof. Ljiljana Nikolić Bujanović University Union Nikola Tesla, Belgrade, Serbia
• Dr. Alessandra Nocilla Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
• Prof. Vahid Nourani Tabriz University, Iran
• Prof. Laftouhi Noureddine Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco
• Dr. Elida Novita University of Jember, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Indonesia
• Dr. Sławomir Obidziński Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Ryszard Oleszczuk Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Prof. Beata Olszewska Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Operacz University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, Poland
• Dr. Wojciech Orzepowski Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Andreas Pacholski Leuphana University of Luneburg, Institute of Ecology, Luneburg, Germany
• Dr. Iwona Paśmionka University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Microbiology and Biomonitoring, Poland
• Dr. Juan Patino-Martinez Maio Biodiversity Foundation (FMB), Cidade Porto Ingles, Cape Verde
• Prof. Katarzyna Pawęska Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Dušica Pešević University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department of Ecology and Geography, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Assoc. Prof. Slaveya Petrova University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• Dr. Agnieszka Petryk Cracow University of Economics, Poland
• Dr. Decho Phuekphum Suranaree University of Technology,School of Geotechnology, Institute of Engineering, Geological Engineering Program, Thailand
• Dr. Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Dariusz Piwczyński Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology and Animal Genetics, Poland
• Prof. Karol Plesiński University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Poland
• Prof. Joanna Podlasińska West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
• Prof. Cezary Podsiadło West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Department of Agriculture, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Zbigniew Popek Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Prof. Paweł Popielski Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Tatjana Popov University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Assoc. Prof. Dorota Porowska Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology, Institute of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Poland
• Dr. Anu Printsmann Tallinn University, Estonia
• Dr. Grzegorz Przydatek State University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz, Engineering Institute, Poland
• Dr. Erik Querner Querner Consult, Wageningen, Netherlands
• Dr. Anizar Rahayu Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
• Prof. Anabela Ramalho Durao Instituto Politecnico de Beja, Portugal
• Assoc. Prof. Maimun Rizalihadi Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
• Assoc. Prof. Joanna Rodziewicz University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Roman Rolbiecki Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Dr. Tomasz Rozbicki Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Poland
• Dr. Michał Rzeszewski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
• Dr. Sadeq Salman Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia
• Assoc. Prof. Abdel-Lateif Abdel-Wahab Samak Menoufia University, Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering Department, Shebin El Kom, Egypt
• Assoc. Prof. Saad Shauket Sammen Diyala University, Iraq
• Dr. Seddiki Sara University of Science and Technology Oran – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algeria
• Dr. Veronica Sarateanu Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Agriculture Faculty, Romania
• Dr. Biju Sayed Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman
• Dr. Magdalena Senze University of Life Sciences in Wrocław, Department of Limnology and Fishery, Poland
• Dr. Madina Serikova L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
• Dr. Tamara Shevchenko O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Prof. Omar Shihab University of Anbar, Iraq
• Dr. Kuo Shih-Yun Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
• Dr. Mehrdad Shokatian-Beiragh University of Tabriz, Iran
• Assoc. Prof. Edyta Sierka University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
• Prof. Brbara Skowera University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Ecology, Climatology and Air Protection, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Monika Skowrońska University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Poland
• Prof. Joaquín Solana-Gutiérrez Joaquín Solana-Gutiérrez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Dr. Jacek Sosnowski University of Siedlce, Poland
• Prof. Tomasz Sosulski Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Division of Agricultural And Environmental Chemistry, Institut of Agriculture, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Waldemar Spychalski Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agronomy, Horticulture and Bioengineering, Poland
• Prof. Ryszard Staniszewski Poznan University of Life Sciences, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poland
• Prof. Ryszard Staniszewski Poznan University of Life of Science, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poland
• Prof. Matthew Stocker University of Maryland, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States
• Prof. Ljiljana Stojanović Bjelić Pan-European University “APEIRON”, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Master Sunčica Sukur University of Banja Luka, Department of Chemistry, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Prof. Wayan Suparta Menoreh University, Indonesia
• Dr. Marta Sylla Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Spatial Management, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Barbara Symanowicz Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Serhiy Syrotyuk Lviv National Agrarian University, Department of Energy, Ukraine
• Prof. Szilard Szilard Szabo University of Debrecen, Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformation Systems, Hungary
• Dr. Paulina Śliz Krakow University of Economics, Poland
• Master Gabriella Tocchi University of Naples Federico II, Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, Italy
• Prof. Serghiy Vambol Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture after P. Vasilenko, Ukraine
• Dr. Irina Vaskina Sumy State University, Department of Applied Ecology, Ukraine
• Dr. Luca Vecchioni University of Palermo, Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Italy
• Dr. Lorenzo Vergni Università di Perugia, Italy
• Dr. Grzegorz Wałowski Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Wan Zakiah Wan Ismail Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Nilai, Malaysia
• Prof. Qiao Wei China Agricultural University, College of Engineering, Beijing, China
• Prof. Mirosław Wiatkowski Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Dr. Magdalena Wijata Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Dr. Marta Wojewódka-Przybył Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. Agnieszka Wolna-Maruwka Poznań Univeristy of Life Sciences, Department of General and Environmental Microbiology, Poland
• Dr. Barbara Wróbel Institute of Technology and Life Sciences – National Research Institute, Falenty, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Bagyo Yanuwiadi Brawijaya University, Postgraduate Program of Environmental Science, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
• Assoc. Prof. Ewelina Zając University of Agriculture in Krakow, Department of Land Reclamation and Environmental Development, Poland
• Dr. Francisco Zavala-García Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Agronomía, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico
• Prof. Jarosław Zawadzki Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Construction, Hydrotechnics and Environmental Engineering, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Elżbieta Zębek University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Law and Administration, Poland
• Assoc. Prof. Agnieszka Ziernicka-Wojtaszek University of Agriculture in Kraków, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Ecology, Climatology and Air Protection, Poland
• Prof. Deki Zulkarnain Universitas Halu Oleo, Kota Kendari, Indonesia
• Prof. Krystyna Żuk-Gołaszewska University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

Plagiarism Policy

1. The Editorial Team of the “Journal of Water and Land Development” (JWLD) is strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) plagiarism is defined as: When somebody presents the work of others (data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgement. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All manuscripts submitted for publication to JWLD are cross-checked for plagiarism using iThenticate/Turnitin software.
2. Plagiarism is the unethical act of copying someone else's prior ideas, processes, results or words without explicit acknowledgement of the original author and source. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author utilises a large part of his/her own previously published work without using appropriate references. This can range from getting the same manuscript published in multiple journals to modifying a previously published manuscript with some new data.
3. Manuscripts found to be plagiarised (overall similarity index of the manuscript should not be more than 15% for research articles and 20% for review articles with a limitation of less than 3% similarity from any individual source) during initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. In case a manuscript is found to be plagiarised after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct a preliminary investigation, may be with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose.
4. If the manuscript is found to be plagiarised beyond the acceptable limits, the journal will contact the author's Institute / College / University and Funding Agency, if any. A determination of misconduct will lead JWLD to run a statement bi-directionally linked online to and from the original paper, to note the plagiarism and provide a reference to the plagiarised material.
5. The paper containing the plagiarism will also be marked on each page of the PDF. Upon determination of the extent of plagiarism, the paper may also be formally retracted.

Types of Plagiarism

The following types of plagiarism are considered by JWLD:

1. Full Plagiarism: Previously published content without any changes to the text, idea and grammar is considered as full plagiarism. It involves presenting exact text from a source as one's own.
2. Partial Plagiarism: If content is a mixture from multiple different sources, where the author has extensively rephrased text, then it is known as partial plagiarism.
3. Self-Plagiarism: When an author reuses complete or portions of their pre-published research, then it is known as self-plagiarism. Complete self-plagiarism is a case when an author republishes their own previously published work in a new journal.

JWLD respects intellectual property and aims at protecting and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarised material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles to JWLD are expected to abide by ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism, in any form.

The authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript:
- describes completely the original work;
- is not plagiarism;
- has not been published before in any language;
- the information used or words from other publications are appropriately indicated by reference or indicated in the text.
Existing copyright laws and conventions must be observed. Materials protected by copyright (for example, tables, figures or large quotations) should only be reproduced with the permission of their owner.

In case, an author is found to be suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published manuscript then, JWLD shall contact the author(s) to submit his/her/their explanation within two weeks, which may be forwarded to the special commission constituted for the purpose, for further course of action. If JWLD does not receive any response from the author within the stipulated time period, then the Director / Dean / Head of the concerned College, Institution or Organization or the Vice Chancellor of the University to which the author is affiliated shall be contacted to take strict action against the concerned author.

JWLD shall take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism and shall completely remove them from the JWLD website and other third party websites where the paper is listed and indexed. The moment, any article published in the JWLD database is reported to be plagiarised, JWLD will constitute a special commission to investigate the same. Upon having established that the manuscript is plagiarised from some previously published work, JWLD shall support the original author and manuscript irrespective of the publisher and may take any or all of the following immediate actions or follow the additional courses of actions*:

1. JWLD editorial office shall immediately contact the Director / Dean / Head of the concerned College, Institution or Organization or the Vice Chancellor of the University to which the author(s) is (are) affiliated to take strict action against the concerned author.
2. JWLD shall change the PDF copy of the published manuscript from the website and the term Retraction shall be appended to the published manuscript title.
3. JWLD shall disable the author account with the journal and reject all future submissions from the author for a period of 03 / 05 / 10 years or even ban the authors permanently.

*Any additional courses of action, as recommended by the commission or as deemed fit for the instant case or as decided by the Editor-in-Chief, implemented from time to time.