Municipal Finance [Finanse Komunalne] is the quarterly journal of the Regional Chambers of Audit, which has been published since May 1994.
The publisher of Municipal Finance is Wolters Kluwer Polska Sp. z o.o. The company is a part of the international publishing house, Wolters Kluwer, which, as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), https://publicationethics.org, applies this organization’s standards and recommendations in the publishing process.
The Code of Ethics in publishing and the principles of publication integrity in ‘Municipal Finance’ can be found at: Ethical principles regarding publications in academic journals. When sending the article to the editorial office, the author declares that he/she has read these principles and agrees to abide by them.
The journal’s mission
The journal publishes reviewed academic texts (articles and commentaries), reports and reviews. All materials submitted for publication in the journal are examined for compliance with the principles of ethics, integrity, value and academic utility. Its regular sections, articles, budget, local taxes and charges, property, public procurement, the climate and the environment, supervision and audit, judgments, dilemmas, and varia, discuss the theoretical and practical problems encountered in the budgeting and financial activities of the municipalities and the functioning of the Regional Chambers of Audit.
The board consists of the presidents of the Regional Chambers of Audit who have connections with the academia. They have held their posts since the chambers were founded and have been board members since the journal was established. The editor-in-chief is Prof. Dr. Hab. Mirosław Stec, in 2006–2021 the head of the Department of Territorial Self-Government Law at the Jagiellonian University, and has been in charge of ‘Municipal Finance’ since its first issue. The outstanding membership of the academic council demonstrates that the periodical has the ambitious goal of approaching the issues it deals with thoroughly, in close cooperation with the academic environment.
Financing, fees:
• the journal is financed by the publisher with its own funds, including funding from subscriptions;
• royalties are paid for publications in ‘Municipal; Finance’;
• the journal does not collect fees from authors for closed access publications.
Open access policy:
• the ‘Municipal Finance’ quarterly is available through hybrid access, i.e. partially closed and partially open;
• articles are published in the open access system at the request of the authors in accordance with Wolters Kluwer Polska’s principles of open access publication.
Points, databases:
• Authors receive 40 points (according to the Annex to the Communication of the Minister of Science of 5 January 2024, regarding the list of academic journals and reviewed materials from international conferences, issued on the basis of Article 267(3) of the Act on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018, Polish Journal of Laws of 2023, item 742, as amended) for publication in ‘Municipal Finance’.
• The journal is included in the international European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+) database.
• The journal is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2024 (ICV 2024 = 64.25).
• The journal is indexed in the BAZEkon database.
• The journal is indexed in the LEX database.