About
About the Journal
1.Focus and Scope
2.Peer Review Process
3.Open Access Policy
4.Indexation in databases
5.Partnered with AMNIS
6.Ethical and good practices statement
7.Plagiarism and scientific fraud
8. Sponsors
9.Sources of Support
Focus and Scope
Hispania Nova publishes original research articles and book reviews on the 19th and 20th centuries, thus Contemporary History. Its goal is to promote greater knowledge in this field and to encourage discussion amongst historians and other social scientists worldwide interested in this area of study. It focuses on a comparative and multidisciplinary approach and presents a critical and rigorous view of History. The journal's editors, as well as its Editorial and Advisory Board, invite researchers to submit original and unpublished texts that help promote knowledge about History. As it is published using the Open Access system, it can be published at no cost for the authors, with no cost during the text review by the peer-review process or once they have been accepted for publication.
Peer Review Process
Receiving an original text does not entail its publication. No articles being assessed by other journals will be accepted. The original texts will be first read by the Editorial Board to confirm that they fulfil the editing standards as well as minimum scientific content and alignment with the journal's editorial lines and objectives. Once this assessment has been done, two or more external experts on the article’s topic, using a double-blind and peer system that preserves the authors’ anonymity as well as that of the reviewers, will review the articles. If the two reports received on an original text are contradictory, a third external reviewer will assess it. Authors participate in the peer-review process by implementing the improvements suggested and resubmitting the articles with the corrections made. Authors will be informed of the publication decision and the reasons behind it. The journal is committed to informing the authors about a favourable or unfavourable publication decision in a period of two months since the text was received.
The reviewers follow objective guidelines for the assessment, based on the following aspects: 1) article’s length, internal structure and approach, as well as clear and appropriate writing; 2) Clear objectives, hypotheses and methodology applied, sources used and reference literature; 3) Content originality and contribution to knowledge. Reviewers must suggest changes or inclusion of relevant works that have not been included with maximum rigour. They are obliged to inform the publishers if there are any conflicts of interest in the text assigned to them and must treat texts with utmost confidentiality.
As well as selecting expert reviewers on the different topics, Hispania Nova has an anti-plagiarism and originality system for research that uses the Turnitin software.
Open Access Policy
The intellectual property contained in the articles is the property of the authors. Editorial and publication rights are the property of the journal. HISPANIA NOVA provides open access to its content, as it believes that this fosters a greater exchange of global knowledge.
After their publication in the journal, all articles and material published will be freely accessible if they are to be used solely for education or scientific purposes, and as long as there is express reference to the year and edition of the publication in the journal. Any commercial gain is considered a criminal offence by law.
Hispania Nova does not charge authors any article processing charges (APC).
The documents include the Creative Commons 3.0 license: Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Indexation in databases
HISPANIA NOVA is indexed in the following databases:
- SCOPUS
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), included in Web of Science platform
- ISOC database produced by CSIC.
- It is included in the LATINDEX catalogue.
- It is referenced in Dialnet (Universidad de La Rioja).
- It is analysed in Miar (Matriu d'Informació per a l'Avaluació de Revistes) (Universidad de Barcelona)
- Reviewed in CARHUS Plus+ 2014, the classification system for social sciences and humanities scientific journals developed by AGAUR (Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación) of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- It is one of the journals included in the prestigious ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences)
- It is indexed in Q1 in REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico), an aggregation platform of scientific and academic content in electronic format produced in the Latin American region.
- It has obtained the excellent journal certificate and the FECYT quality seal in 2021. Renewed in 2023.
- Included in ANVUR Italia (Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca),: Classe A, Area 11 – Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche
Partnered with AMNIS
Amnis (ISSN 1764-7193) is a French on-line journal. Amnis' objective is to put at the disposal of researchers a tool that fosters a broad and diversified reflection on the recent past, present and future of European and American societies (from the 19th to the 21st centuries).
Ethical and good practices statement
The co-editors and the Editorial board of Hispania Nova, The First Journal of Contemporary History on-line in Spanish, declare that the main aim of the journal is the advance and diffusion of the knowledge about the Contemporary History. The authors of all published articles assume the responsibility of all the contents of their writings, based always on diverse sources, on originality, rigor, the respect to historical evidences and to the opinions exposed by specialists. The honesty in the treatment of the above-mentioned sources, both primary and secondary, is an essential part of the scientific ethics that assumes and defends this publication.
Plagiarism and scientific fraud
Plagiarism is the act of reproducing a text or any other material from other publications without accrediting or quoting adequately the source. It is considered that this material has been plagiarized or copied independently if the text has been modified or paraphrased. The appropriation of works from other authors by presenting them as own it is not a scientific behaviour neither an ethical conduct. Even more, it is considered a serious violation of the ethical procedure of investigation and research procedures. Plagiarism represents a serious ethical violation and can lead to a violation of the copyright if the reproduced or plagiarized material has been published before. Any text detected with evidences of plagiarism and of this fraudulent behaviour will be immediately rejected. The authors who want to do quotes of other published works must mention the whole original complete reference and always include, between quotation marks, any textual quotation. The graphs and the illustrations can be only reproduced with the pertinent authorization. Also, they must be adequately mentioned in the foot of the graph or the illustration, always following the standards specified in our web page.
Scientific fraud is committed when all the participants of the investigation are not recognized properly in the elaboration of the work. Scientific fraud is committed when the work is sent simultaneously to several publications. Finally, also, scientific fraud is committed when the work is divided into different reports that share the same hypotheses and methods or false, distorted, or not proven information or data are used.
The publication of any work that commits an outrage against the rights established in the articles 138 to 143 of the Law 22/11, of November 11, 1987, of Intellectual Property is an exclusive responsibility of the author. The Editorial board of Hispania Nova is not responsible, in any case, of the credibility and the genuineness of the published works. The Editorial board does not necessarily identify with the opinions expressed in the published works. The authors preserve the copyright of their works without restrictions.
Evaluation
In the publication agreement, the authors guarantee that their work is original and that it has not been published in any other place. The results of the research must be expressed in a clear and coherent manner, to allow the analysis and the review and the following investigation. The method of external evaluation is “the double blind” (“el doble ciego”), guaranteeing both, the anonymity of the author and the impartiality of evaluators in their decision. It is the obligation of every author to remake the suggestions and corrections of mistakes that suggest the reports of the texts evaluators, they must also correct and/or retract themselves before possible mistakes are detected later. The evaluators will be responsible of making proposals for improvement in the assigned articles, in an objective and fair manner, using always their approach of their knowledge as recognized specialists. The information that the evaluators will receive by reading the articles must not be spread or used, being this a fundamental commitment when they accept the order of review and evaluation.
Conflict of interests
If the evaluators detect any conflict of interests, they must advise the Editorial board of the journal to reassign other specialists. Other cases include the possibility of family ties up to the third degree, being colleagues in the department, being students or researchers whose work they direct or members of research projects and groups in which they participate. The Editorial Board is committed to monitoring possible conflicts of interest, and are obliged to disqualify themselves whenever there is a real or apparent conflict such as those mentioned above.
Confidentiality
Except in cases where the evaluators explicitly renounce their anonymity with the publisher’s agreement, all the evaluations will be carried out under the conditions of strictest confidentiality. The journal and the editors will not reveal the evaluators identity or the contents of reports and the correspondence derived from the evaluation process itself to any individual external to them. The strictest confidentiality binds the evaluators; neither the manuscripts nor the contents of the correspondence of authors with editors in the evaluation process will be able to be shared by third parties without the written permission of the publishers. Strictly speaking, the authors are not forced by similar requirements (they can choose to ask co-authors and colleagues for advice in the review process of a text once they receive the evaluation reports), but the public spreading of the contents of the evaluation reports and the correspondence with the editing team is not appropriate. Any author who acts in this regard loses his rights to the protection of his privacy by the journal.
Commitments of the Editorial Board
The Editorial board of Hispania Nova undertakes to monitor and preserve the ethical principles and the scientific quality of the publication. It has also the responsibility and the authority to accept or to reject an article based on the reviews made by the specialists. It reserves the right to withdraw any received work, accepted or already published in case of plagiarism, scientific fraud, falsification, or duplicated publication. Likewise, it will promote the publication of corrections or retractions against detected errors and detected mistakes.
We expect from the different collaborators an understanding of the ethical expectations expressed in the norms, the standards and in this declaration, assuming them as the basic standards among the community of professional historians.
Good practices in Gender Equality
Hispania Nova is committed to promoting equality between men and women, to giving visibility to the scientific work of women, and to promoting the use of inclusive language in scientific publications. This principle is reflected in the presence of women in management positions in the journal, in the publication of the full names of the authors of the articles published in order to make them visible, and in the rules on inclusive language included in the Submissions section and in the guidelines for the submission of articles.
