Ownership and Management

PUBLISHER

Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia is published by L’Harmattan Könyvkiadó (L’HARMATTAN KÖNYVKIADÓ ÉS TERJESZTŐ KFT.) under Cooperation Framework Agreement No. 36/2025, signed with the owner institution on 24 March 2025.

JOURNAL OWNER

The legal owner of Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia is the Roman Catholic Theological Seminary of Alba Iulia (INSTITUTUL TEOLOGIC ROMANO-CATOLIC ALBA IULIA).

The journal is issued in academic cooperation with the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (FACULTATEA DE TEOLOGIE ROMANO-CATOLICĂ, UNIVERSITATEA BABEȘ-BOLYAI).

JOURNAL MANAGEMENT

The day-to-day operation of the journal is carried out by the Editorial Office, with institutional support from the Roman Catholic Theological Seminary of Alba Iulia (Owner Institution), academic support from the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeș–Bolyai University (Academic Partner), and publishing support from L’Harmattan Könyvkiadó (Publisher).

The Editorial Office is responsible for the editorial planning of the journal, the scholarly management of manuscripts, peer review, scholarly editing, the management of revisions, and the open access publication and hosting of the journal on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, in accordance with the journal’s editorial and publication ethics policies.

The Owner Institution provides the institutional, organisational, and infrastructural framework that supports the operation of the journal.

The Academic Partner supports the journal’s academic cooperation, scholarly environment, and disciplinary visibility.

The Publisher is responsible for copy-editing and proofreading, typesetting, typographic design, cover design, printing, dissemination, metadata registration, DOI management, and support for repository and database connections.

Journal website: https://stthtr.com

EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE

The owner, the publisher, sponsors, or any other funding bodies do not influence editorial decisions, peer review outcomes, or decisions regarding the acceptance, revision, correction, retraction, or rejection of manuscripts.

Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team, on scholarly grounds and in accordance with the journal’s publication ethics policies.

Complaints and appeals are handled in accordance with the journal’s published procedures by an appropriately independent senior editor or ad hoc appeals panel.

AFFILIATIONS / SPONSORSHIP

Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia is institutionally rooted in the Roman Catholic Theological Seminary of Alba Iulia, in close academic cooperation with the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeș–Bolyai University.

The Publisher and the owner institution are committed to ensuring 100% open access to the journal’s content within the framework of their cooperation, thereby supporting Hungarian and international open science objectives.

GOVERNANCE AND OVERSIGHT

The legal representative of the owner institution is Dr István András, Rector.

The legal representative of the Publisher is Ádám Gyenes, Managing Director.

The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is Attila Bodor, PhD.

The journal is supported by the Editorial Board. The names and institutional affiliations of editorial board members are listed on the Editorial Team page.

IDENTIFIERS

CONTACT INFORMATION

Publisher
L’Harmattan Könyvkiadó
Kossuth Lajos u. 14–16.
1053 Budapest
Hungary
Email: szerkesztoseg@harmattan.hu

Editorial Office
Institutul Teologic Romano-Catolic Alba Iulia
Str. Gabriel Bethlen 3
510009 Alba Iulia
Romania
Email: office@stthtr.com

POLICIES AND RELATED INFORMATION