Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society

Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by AFM Publishing House of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University. Established in 2001, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for high-quality research on the relationships between public institutions, health systems, social structures, governance, education, spatial development, and organisational performance.

Since 2026, Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society has been published as an annual journal with continuous publication. This means that articles are published online on an ongoing basis after editorial acceptance, peer review, copyediting, and production, and are subsequently included in the annual volume. This publishing model supports faster dissemination of accepted research while maintaining the journal’s annual publication structure and editorial continuity.

The journal publishes articles in English and Polish. In line with the journal’s international development strategy, authors are strongly encouraged to submit manuscripts in English, which is the recommended language for new submissions. Manuscripts in Polish may also be considered, particularly when their subject matter is relevant to the journal’s scope and readership. Regardless of the language of the manuscript, the journal aims to ensure clear, complete, and internationally readable article metadata.

The journal is committed to publishing methodologically rigorous and intellectually relevant scholarship that advances understanding of contemporary societies and the institutions that shape them. Its scope reflects the complexity of modern public life, where health, governance, management, education, communication, psychology, and the built environment increasingly intersect.

State and Society welcomes original research articles, review papers, case studies, and editorial commentaries in health sciences, social sciences, management and quality sciences, public administration, pedagogy, psychology, communication and media studies, architecture, and urban planning. The journal particularly values empirical, comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy-relevant contributions that offer clear theoretical, methodological, or practical insight.

A substantial part of the journal’s profile is devoted to health sciences, public health, healthcare organisation, quality improvement, and system performance. At the same time, the journal remains open to broader social, institutional, educational, psychological, managerial, communicative, and spatial perspectives on the development of contemporary societies.

Archive and publishing continuity
The journal’s complete historical archive of issues and articles published before the launch of the current OJS platform remains publicly available at the previous journal website: www.panstwoispoleczenstwo.pl. The current OJS platform is used for new submissions, editorial workflow, current publication, and the further development of the journal’s digital presence. The archival content remains freely accessible and forms part of the journal’s continuous publishing history since 2001.

The journal does not accept or publish any commercial advertisements on its website or in its published articles.

Any direct marketing activities, including the solicitation of manuscripts, are conducted appropriately, unobtrusively, and in a well-targeted manner. All information provided about the journal is intended to be accurate, transparent, and not misleading.

Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society is published in open access. The journal does not charge authors any submission fees, editorial processing charges, article processing charges, page charges, colour charges, or publication fees.

Audience
The journal addresses researchers, academics, healthcare professionals, policymakers, public administrators, institutional leaders, and scholars interested in the intersection of health systems, governance, institutional development, quality sciences, social structures, education, communication, and quality of life.