Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu

About Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu

About Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu

Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu — in English, the Research Journal of the WSB University in Poznań — is an interdisciplinary scientific journal with an economic profile, published in Poznań, Poland, by Uniwersytet WSB Merito w Poznaniu (WSB Merito University in Poznań). The journal's own description explains its character precisely: the wide thematic range of its publications brings economics, finance, management, law, sociology, security studies and politics into contact with one another, and that overlap is what defines the specificity of the contemporary economic processes the journal studies. Each issue is devoted to a separate theme and concentrates on current socio-economic problems, so the title operates less like a narrow specialist bulletin and more like a recurring, themed conversation about how a modern economy actually works.

That design matters for readers arriving from a directory listing. A researcher searching for a Polish outlet for work on banking, regional development, public finance, economic security or the social consequences of economic change will find, in this journal, a venue that deliberately places those subjects side by side. Articles in recent volumes move from the structure of Ukraine's industrial sector under global challenges, through cross-sector relations in Polish mechanical engineering and theoretical models of interregional integration, to the linguistics of legal texts and the place of environmental, social and governance criteria in sustainable portfolio investing. Few single-discipline journals would hold that range together; here the range is the point, because the economic problems themselves refuse to stay inside one discipline.

History and Development

The journal belongs to the publishing tradition of the Poznań banking school from which it takes its name. Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa w Poznaniu — the Poznań School of Banking — built its academic publishing around the practical and theoretical problems of a transforming Polish economy, and its Zeszyty Naukowe (Scientific Journals / Research Papers) series became the school's vehicle for presenting staff and guest research to a wider readership. The institution itself has since taken the name Uniwersytet WSB Merito w Poznaniu, and the journal's official pages now appear under that publisher name, but the journal title has been kept, preserving continuity with the long back-run of volumes that libraries hold.

The volume numbering tells the longevity story better than any slogan. A 2015 volume is numbered t. 65 (volume 65, issue 8), while the 2023 volumes run from t. 100 to t. 103 and a 2024 volume is t. 106, nr 3 — a sequence that implies well over a hundred volumes across the journal's life and a publication rhythm of several issues a year in its recent form. Surviving, with numbering intact, through Poland's post-1989 economic transformation, European integration and the digital migration of scholarly publishing is itself evidence of an institutionally anchored journal: titles of this kind continue because a university keeps funding, editing and archiving them year after year.

The digital migration is visible in the journal's current presentation. Issues are published through the university's journal platform with article-level PDFs, bilingual Polish-English presentation of contents, author identifiers such as ORCID in recent articles, and abstracts that travel into Polish and international bibliographies. The 2023 issue imprint records that the publication is financed by the university and that the electronic version is the source version — a small line that captures a large change: this began as a print series for a regional academic community and now functions primarily as an openly reachable online journal whose readers can be anywhere.

Scope and Thematic Profile

The official scope statement names the journal's intellectual territory as the meeting point of economics, finance, management, law, sociology, security and politics in the study of contemporary economic processes. In practice, recent issues show how that plays out. Economic and industrial analysis appears in studies of manufacturing efficiency, regional real-sector problems and the structural change forced on Ukraine's industry by war and global shocks. Finance appears in work on sustainable and socially responsible investing. Management appears in studies of strategic management of commodity flows and organisational change. Law and language meet in analyses of nominalisation and passivisation in legal texts — a reminder that economic life runs on documents, contracts and regulations whose wording has real consequences.

Each issue being devoted to a separate theme gives the journal a second, editorial layer of scope: the theme concentrates contributions, so an issue can be read as a small edited collection on one current problem rather than as a miscellany. For authors, that means the fit question is twofold — does your topic belong to the journal's broad interdisciplinary territory, and does it speak to the kind of current socio-economic problem around which the editors build themed issues? Work that connects a local or national empirical case to a wider European or global process fits the pattern of the strongest recent articles, several of which were written by research teams from the M. I. Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv together with Polish colleagues — evidence that the journal's community is genuinely international within Central and Eastern Europe.

Editorial Home, Indexing and Evaluation

The journal is edited and published from within the university, with theme (scientific) editors drawn from the field of each issue — a recent issue lists a scientific editor from the Dolishniy Institute in Lviv — and with Polish-language editing, typesetting and cover design credited in the issue imprint. That imprint transparency is a useful trust signal: a reader can see who financed the publication, who edited the texts and where the publisher sits. The journal's official page names its indexing as Index Copernicus, BazEkon, ERIH Plus and PBN, and records a score of 40 points on the Polish Ministry of Education and Science journal list in its 2021 listing, together with an Index Copernicus value of 100 for 2021. Those dated figures are reproduced here exactly as the journal states them; Polish ministerial point values are revised between list editions, so authors who need the points for evaluation should confirm the current value on the ministry's latest list rather than relying on the 2021 figure.

A note on the publisher is warranted because directory data elsewhere has confused it. Index Copernicus is an indexing and evaluation service in which the journal is listed; it is not the journal's publisher. The publisher, as the official journal site and the issue imprints both state, is Uniwersytet WSB Merito w Poznaniu. Keeping that distinction straight matters practically: submissions, editorial correspondence and copyright questions belong with the university publisher in Poznań, not with an indexing company.

Understanding the Metrics and Standing of Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu

Readers who meet Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu in a directory often ask first about an impact factor, a quartile or an h-index. Those questions deserve a careful answer rather than a single confident number, because journal-level indicators are only meaningful when the database, the year and the exact title version are stated together. A title that has changed its name, its publisher or its ISSN over time can carry several different bibliometric identities, and a figure quoted for one title form does not automatically belong to another. For that reason this profile does not invent a current impact factor, quartile or h-index where a dated, checkable source could not be verified during research. Where an official evaluation is cited, it is cited with its year, so that a reader can return to the issuing body and confirm whether a newer evaluation has superseded it.

For this journal the meaningful verified signals are the ones the publisher itself publishes: presence in ERIH Plus (the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which applies its own inclusion review), in BazEkon (the Polish economics bibliography maintained for the national research community), in PBN and in Index Copernicus, plus the dated ministerial evaluation already described. No Scopus or Web of Science listing is claimed on the official page consulted for this profile, and none is claimed here; authors whose institutions require those specific databases should treat this as a strong national and regional journal rather than assume international citation-database coverage that its own publisher does not advertise.

The practical way to judge standing is therefore threefold. First, confirm the title in the indexing services that matter for your purpose — a national evaluation list, a regional bibliography or an international citation database — using the ISSN rather than the title alone, because titles repeat across countries. Second, read recent issues directly: the quality of peer review, the clarity of articles and the standing of the authors who choose the journal say more about day-to-day quality than any single score. Third, check how the journal handles the basics of scholarly record-keeping: persistent identifiers for articles, stable issue archives, named editors and reviewers, and clear statements of scope. A journal that does those things consistently is a safer home for a manuscript than a journal that advertises an impressive but unverifiable metric.

Citation behaviour also needs context. Journals serving a national or regional research community are cited mainly inside that community, so their raw citation counts are naturally smaller than those of large international titles, even when their influence on local policy, teaching and professional practice is substantial. Conversely, a journal in a fast-moving international field accumulates citations quickly because the global literature is large. Comparing citation indicators across fields, languages and communities without adjusting for those differences misleads authors and evaluators alike, which is why this profile explains the community each journal serves before it discusses any numbers at all.

Publishing in Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu: Process, Preparation and Pitfalls

Submissions and issue information are handled through the university's journal platform at journals.wsb.poznan.pl, where current and archived issues, author information and the review procedure are published. The platform's author-information and review-procedure pages describe how manuscripts are assessed before they appear in a themed issue, and the editorial office can be reached through the publisher's address given in the facts table above.

Whatever the route, preparation decides most outcomes. Editors desk-reject manuscripts that ignore the journal's stated scope, that arrive without the required abstract and keyword structure, or that cite the journal's field so thinly that the contribution cannot be placed in conversation with earlier work. Before submission, read at least one full recent issue of Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu from beginning to end, note how articles frame their research questions, how much context they give readers outside the home country or discipline, and how references are formatted, then shape your manuscript to that pattern rather than to the pattern of a different journal you may know better.

A strong submission package normally contains the manuscript itself in the requested format, a title page with full author affiliations and contact details for the corresponding author, an abstract that states the problem, the method, the main result and the implication in plain language, and declarations covering originality, conflicts of interest and, where human or animal subjects are involved, ethical approval. If the journal asks authors to confirm that the work has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration at another journal at the same time, treat that confirmation as binding: simultaneous submission is one of the fastest routes to rejection and reputational damage in a small research community.

Peer review then tests the work. Expect reviewers to probe whether the research question is genuinely new, whether the data support the claims, whether limitations are acknowledged honestly and whether the literature review engages the strongest contrary evidence rather than only friendly sources. A revise-and-resubmit decision is a normal and often positive outcome; the journals described in this batch all operate in communities where constructive revision is part of how scholarship improves. Respond to every reviewer point in a separate response letter, quote the change you made and the page where it appears, and disagree only where you can give evidence for your position. Courtesy and completeness in revision measurably raise acceptance chances.

Finally, plan for what happens after acceptance. Check proofs carefully — author names, affiliations, funding statements and numerical results are the author's responsibility at that stage — and then help the article find its readers: deposit the permitted version in your institutional repository where the licence allows, link it from your academic profiles, and cite it accurately in later work with its persistent identifier so that the citation record the community builds on remains clean.

Is Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu the Right Home for Your Work?

The natural authors for this journal are researchers in economics, finance, management and neighbouring social sciences — especially those working on Central and Eastern European economies, regional development, banking and finance, economic security and the social dimensions of economic policy — who want their work read inside the Polish and regional scholarly conversation and recorded in the Polish national bibliography. Doctoral candidates and early-career researchers in Poland also value the journal's ministerial-list standing, subject to confirming the current points value as advised above.

Three questions usually settle the decision. First, audience match: will the people who need to read, cite and apply your findings actually encounter them in this journal, in a language they read, in an issue they browse? Second, timing: does the journal's publication rhythm fit the deadlines you face for graduation, promotion, grant reporting or policy relevance, remembering that a slower journal with the right audience often serves a career better than a faster journal nobody in the field opens? Third, requirements: if your funder or institution requires a specific indexation status, an open-access licence or a national evaluation category, verify that status from the evaluating body's own current list before you submit, not from a third-party page that may be years out of date.

Cost belongs in the same calculation. Where a journal charges for publication, the official site is the only safe source for the current amount, what it covers and when it is payable; where no fee information could be verified during the research for this profile, that is stated openly rather than filled in with a guess. Authors should also beware of imitation titles and unsolicited invitations that borrow a respected journal's name: always navigate to the journal through its publisher or university rather than through a link in an unexpected email, and confirm that the ISSN on the invitation matches the ISSN recorded in this profile.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the full name of the journal behind the abbreviation ZN WSB Poznań? Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Poznaniu, the research journal of the WSB university in Poznań, now published by Uniwersytet WSB Merito w Poznaniu.

What ISSN should I cite for this journal? The official journal site currently lists ISSN 2719-6798. Bibliographic records for the title's earlier period also carry ISSN 1426-9724; when citing a specific older article, copy the ISSN printed in that article's own issue.

Who publishes the journal — the university or Index Copernicus? The university. Index Copernicus is one of the services in which the journal is indexed and evaluated; it does not publish the journal.

What subjects does the journal cover? An interdisciplinary economic profile: economics and finance at the core, with management, law, sociology, security studies and politics where they bear on contemporary economic processes.

Is every issue general or themed? Themed. The journal states that each issue is devoted to a separate subject and concentrates on current socio-economic problems.

Where is the journal indexed? The official page names Index Copernicus, BazEkon, ERIH Plus and PBN. No claim of Scopus or Web of Science coverage is made on that page.

Does the journal have a ministerial points value in Poland? The official page records 40 points on the MEiN list in the 2021 listing. Confirm the current value on the latest ministry list before relying on it for evaluation.

Where do I find current issues and author information? On the university journal platform, journals.wsb.poznan.pl, which hosts the journal's issues, author information and review procedure.

Verification Notes

This profile is based on the journal's official page on the WSB journal platform (publisher, ISSN, indexing, discipline and evaluation figures as stated there), on published issue imprints and contents from 2015 and 2023–2024 volumes hosted on the same platform, and on the bibliographic record for the title. A current article-processing charge, acceptance rate and review turnaround are not published in the sources consulted, so they are stated here as not publicly disclosed rather than estimated. Impact-factor style figures from third-party aggregator pages were not used.