ABOUT THE JOURNAL

CENTRAL EUROPEAN PAPERS (C.E.P.)

ISSN 2336-3312 (Print)
ISSN 2336-369X (Online)

The Central European Papers (C.E.P.) is a peer reviewed academic journal published bi-annually, in open access, by the Faculty of Public Policies in Opava of the Silesian University in Opava. The journal is focusing on the politics, society and history of Central Europe in modern times and reflects different problems of social, economic and political transformation of Central European countries in modern times. The Journal was founded in 2013 and is published twice a year in printed and electronic versions. From 2025 the articles are published in English language. All articles are subject to anonymous peer review procedure; each manuscript is reviewed by two independent reviewers. (See also the "Review Process" section.)

The Journal is indexed in the following international databases:

• The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH)
  The CEJSH international database was founded in 2004 in compliance with joint decision adopted by the presidents of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), the Slovakian Academy of Sciences and the general secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Prague in October 2003. The database publishes English abstracts and full wordings of articles from professional journals focused on social sciences and humanities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, etc.
• Central and Eastern European Online Library (C.E.E.O.L.)
  The C.E.E.O.L. international database is an online archive allowing access to full wording of articles in PDF format from 1 135 journal from the area of humanities and social sciences and re-digitalized documents concerning the topics of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
• European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS)
  ERIH PLUS is a prestigious European reference index containing bibliographic information on academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Originally established in 2007 as ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities) by European Science Foundation (ESF). In 2014 was transferred to the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). At the same time it was extended to also include social science disciplines and renamed ERIH PLUS.
• EBSCO
  EBSCO provides access to full-text and bibliographic databases and is a leading provider of research databases, electronic journals and books.