Psychē is an open-access, student-run journal of psychology published at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. The journal welcomes empirical and theoretical work from all areas of psychology and aims to provide students with an opportunity to engage in the complete academic publishing process. All articles are freely available online and may be used for educational and non-commercial purposes with proper attribution. Psychē is registered under ISSN 2748-5530 (online).

The journal publishes original research papers, reviews, theoretical contributions, and other scholarly work relevant to the field of psychology. Psychē supports the development of academic writing and methodological skills among students while maintaining high editorial and ethical standards. The journal encourages submissions from undergraduate and graduate students as well as early-career researchers and is published annually.

Authors retain the copyright to their articles. All published content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which allows non-commercial use, sharing, and reproduction with appropriate citation. Psychē does not charge submission or publication fees.

All issues of the journal are permanently preserved and openly accessible through Hrčak – the Portal of Croatian Scientific Journals  which ensures long-term digital archiving and stable public access to the journal’s full content. Psychē is published with institutional support from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and student organizations, while all editorial decisions remain independent from financial or institutional influence.

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All submitted manuscripts undergo a multi-stage review procedure designed to ensure clarity, academic quality, and methodological soundness. After submission, each manuscript is assigned to a student editor who works closely with the author to develop a polished and clearly structured version of the text. This stage focuses on improving clarity, argumentation, organization, adherence to author guidelines, and overall readability. When the author approves this revised version, the manuscript is circulated within the editorial board for an additional internal review. A second editor provides independent feedback to reduce bias and ensure consistency across submissions. Authors then address these comments, either by incorporating the suggested changes or by providing a reasoned explanation for declining them.

Once the internal editorial stages are complete, the manuscript proceeds to external academic peer review, which is conducted by a university professor or qualified researcher with expertise in the relevant domain. Psychē employs a double-blind review model, meaning that neither the authors nor the reviewers are aware of each other’s identities. The academic reviewer provides detailed comments on the manuscript’s scientific contribution, theoretical grounding, methodological adequacy, clarity of interpretation, and overall coherence. The reviewer also completes a formal evaluation form and recommends one of three outcomes: acceptance with minor revisions, acceptance with major revisions, or rejection.

Authors then revise their manuscripts in accordance with the reviewer’s comments. For manuscripts requiring substantial changes, the revised version may be returned to the same reviewer to confirm that the issues raised in the initial review have been appropriately addressed. Only after all stages have been completed, and once both the editorial board and academic reviewer are satisfied with the quality and integrity of the manuscript, can the submission be accepted for publication.

Psychē adheres to international publication ethics guidelines and follows COPE Core Practices. The journal has established policies on authorship, conflicts of interest, research integrity, data transparency, use of generative AI, and the handling of complaints or ethical concerns. Full ethical guidelines are available in the journal’s Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement.