Dear Readers,
With issue 57 (129), I have to say goodbye to you and my role as the Editor-In-Chief of the journal. On the
1st of February 2019, the Rector entrusted me with a new mission and asked me to oversee the entire publishing
house of the University as its Head and Editor-In-Chief. I would like to express my gratitude for the trust
placed in me by the University’s authorities. I would also like to thank the outgoing Editor-In-Chief of MUS
Press, Prof. Bernard Wiśniewski, who has devoted several decades to MUS Press.
During the last four years, I have managed to successfully complete many tasks, such as gaining sponsors
and external funding from the Ministry of Science, establishing a recognised and international Scientific
Board for the journal, designing and implementing detailed publication procedures in accordance with COPE
regulations, designing and implementing an editorial system, designing and implementing an online journal
repository with complete publications, modernising and uploading content to the journal’s website, gaining
numerous renowned authors from around the world and introducing the quarterly to over a dozen indexes
and bibliometric databases, such as Web of Science, DOAJ and InfoBase Index. All of those activities resulted
in a continuous improvement in citability and other bibliometric indicators (Chybowski, 2018). I would like
to use this opportunity to thank the members of the Scientific Board, the reviewers and the members of the
editorial team for their cooperation and their efficient completion of the tasks related to the publication process.
The time I spent as Editor-In-Chief taught me a lot about successful teamwork and shaping interpersonal
relations.
As of the 1st of February 2019, the role of Editor-In-Chief will be assumed by Dr Robert Jasionowski – Assistant
Professor at the Institute of Basic Technical Sciences of the Maritime University of Szczecin. I am very
happy that the mission relating to the further improvement of the journal’s ratings has been entrusted to
this ambitious man. I sincerely hope that the new Editor-In-Chief will continue my quest of introducing the
quarterly to the JCR database and gaining IF points. To achieve those goals, it is crucial to attract more international
authors and continuously increase the citability of the published articles. I wish the new Editor-In-Chief
all success in constantly improving the ranking of the Scientific Journals in peer-reviewed journal rankings and
hope that the readers will continue to enjoy reading our quarterly publication.