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Dear fellow scientists and publishers,
Picture this: You are working from home in your own apartment. On the table there is a laptop, a pile of printouts, a piece of paper with a plan for mandatory tasks for tomorrow... A three-year-old child who needed attention all day long is enjoying full communication with the parents... Evening bath. Warm water, foam, favorite toys, and mother's gentle hands... Bang!

It’s Friday, a typical workday in a frontline city. Like most of my compatriots from such cities, I work from home, that is, from my own apartment. Imagine that this is accompanied by constant sirens and messages on social media: “Air raid! Go to shelter immediately!!!” War tests our endurance. The threat of airstrikes, missiles, or kamikaze drones has become painfully commonplace... Despite these circumstances, that morning my colleagues and I finished examining the situation with the two articles retracted by our journals and prepared a response to the СОРЕ request.

The Chartered ABS has published its 2024 edition of the Academic Journal Guide (AJG 2024). AJG 2024 now comprises 1,822 journals, up from nearly 1,700 journals in AJG 2021.

We live in a time when universities in Ukraine continue to operate amidst the extraordinary challenges of a war that has lasted for 10 years, with the past 2.5 years being a full-scale invasion. The war has impacted every university: many universities have been relocated, some even twice. Each of us has our unique experience of survival, adaptation, and resilience in these new realities.
Therefore, we are pleased to announce a special issue titled "Ukrainian Universities in New Realities: 10 Years of War," which will focus on the management, sustainability, and resilience of universities during the ongoing war.

We are pleased to inform you about the forthcoming International Conference on Sustainable Initiatives in Maritime (SIM24), organized in collaboration with a peer-reviewed open access journal «Environmental Economics”. For detailed information about the conference, please refer to SIM'24 | International Conference on Sustainable Initiatives in Maritime Sector.
The SIM24 is a multi-disciplinary international conference on all aspects of Maritime Logistics, Port and Supply Chain Management, Navigation Regulations, Autonomous Navigation, Decarbonization, Digitalization, and Robotics.

In Poland, the list of journals and conference proceedings in which researchers are encouraged to publish has been changed. According to the publishing house Business Perspectives, the situation is as follows: Investment Management and Financial Innovations – 40; Problems and Perspectives in Management – 40; Environmental Economics – 20; Knowledge and Performance Management – 20; Insurance Markets and Companies - 20; Innovative Marketing – 20; Banks and Bank Systems – 20; and Public and Municipal Finance – 20.