Revista de Historiografía (RevHisto) is a annual scientific publication dedicated to the study of the conditions and circumstances in which historical production is constructed. RevHisto only admits originals that contribute to the advancement of knowledge. Its interdisciplinary interest makes it a forum not only dedicated to the analysis of historical narratives in their contexts, but also to the historiographic study of any field of knowledge, generated by and intended for qualified experts and scholars.
Revista de Historiografía adheres to all quality standards and has its own Scientific Committee and Editorial Board. To ensure the highest level of rigour, articles approved by the Editorial Board are sent for double-blind peer review within a maximum period of one month, with external reviewers who are unaffiliated with the journal's publishing entity or institution. In cases of conflicting evaluations, the article is referred to a third reviewer. Based on the reports received, the final decision regarding publication rests with the Editorial Council. Authors may indicate potential conflicts of interest, which will be duly considered by the journal in the ethical selection of reviewers.
The content of this publication is available online in open access, immediately after its publication and at no cost to the user, who can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of articles published for academic purposes. Authors are also encouraged to deposit the final version of their published work in institutional or thematic open-access repositories federated within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), such as Zenodo, Dryad, or the e-CienciaDatos repository of the Madroño Consortium (see Author guidelines).
Revista de Historiografía does not charge authors any article processing charges (APC).
The documents are licensed under Creative Commons 4.0: Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Copying, reproduction, distribution, and public communication of the work are permitted, provided that the original author is cited and acknowledged. Derivative works may not be created or used for commercial purposes.
Revista de Historiografía ensures the dissemination of its contents through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), a standard that facilitates interoperability between digital repositories, allowing the automated collection and distribution of metadata to enhance the visibility and accessibility of published materials.
Additionally, to ensure the preservation of its contents, Revista de Historiografía performs daily backups, which are stored by the Information and Communication Development Service (SDIC) of the Carlos III University of Madrid (uc3m). This backup system guarantees the integrity and long-term availability of the documents, protecting them against loss or alteration and ensuring their future accessibility.
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Revista de Historiografía is indexed in the following databases:
- SCOPUS
- Historical Abstracts (HA) de Ebsco.
- ISOC (CSIC).
- REGESTA IMPERII.
- Quality seal FECYT (renovated in 2019, valid until 2023).
- Catálogo 2.0 LATINDEX.
- Dialnet (Universidad de La Rioja).
- MIAR (Matriu d'Informació per a l'Avaluació de Revistes) (Universidad de Barcelona).
- CIRC (Clasificación de revistas científicas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas).
- RESH (Revistas españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades).
- DICE (Difusión y Calidad Editorial de las Revistas Españolas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas).
- CARHUS Plus+ 2014, el sistema de clasificación de revistas científicas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades desarrollada por AGAUR (Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación) de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Revista de Historiografía, in order to ensure the academic integrity of the publication, uses the application Feedback Studio to review documents by detecting incorrect citations or possible plagiarisms.
ETHICS AND GOOD PUBLICATION PRACTICE GUIDELINES OF REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA (RevHisto)
Aiming to preserve and promote a scientific output that suits the principles of integrity, honesty and transparency which reflect the ethics applied within the academic community, this editorial team lets its readers know the guideline on ethics and good publication practice, following, among others, those stated by the Code of Conduct of the COPE (Committee On Publication Ethics).
1. Object, ownership, management and publishing policy.
a) Revista de Historiografía is a journal edited at the University Carlos III of Madrid.
b) It is edited by the Institute of Historiography Julio Caro Baroja.
c) The Revista de Historiografía journal dedicated to the study of the conditions and circumstances in which historical production is constructed. Revista de Historiografía only admits originals that contribute to the advancement of knowledge. Its interdisciplinary interest makes it a forum not only dedicated to the analysis of historical narratives in their contexts, but also to the historiographic study of any field of knowledge, generated by and intended for qualified experts and scholars.
d) Revista de Historiografía has an annual periodicity.
e) Editors are responsible to identify and prevent the publication of papers in which malpractices have taken place. Revista de Historiografía will by no means tolerate, admit or promote that kind of misconduct.
f) In case misconduct was detected after having taken place, Revista de Historiografía is committed to publish corrections and retractions whenever needed.
2. Definition, duties and obligations of the editors.
a) The editorial team of this journal is made up by: its Director, its Secretary, its Assistant Secretaries, its Drafting Committee, and its Scientific Committee. All of these positions are designed to ensure the scientific and academic quality of the journal, and to make sure that the ethical standards are met. The full names and affiliations of the editorial team’s members are provided on the website of Revista de Historiografía.
b) Editors must answer the requirements and complaints of both readers and authors.
c) Editors must work for a constant improvement of the journal.
d) Editors must ensure the quality of the material they publish, through a series of processes, such as the peer review and the anti-plagiarism system (currently, Feedback Studio).
e) Editors must look after the implementation of the freedom of expression.
f) Editors must respect published works, keeping them unaltered, except when retractions or corrections are needed.
g) Editors must prevent any political or economic needs from affecting academic standards.
h) Editors must be willing to publish any corrections or apologies when required.
i) Editors must promote academic integrity.
j) Editors must encourage debate and exchange of ideas.
k) Editors must ensure that the performance of their duties is always balanced and fair, avoiding any discrimination on grounds of the gender, age, sexual, religious or political orientation of the authors, and of the contents of their articles.
3. Guarantees offered to readers and digital archive policy.
a) All contributions that reach readers via this journal will have passed a rigorous evaluation process, carried out by specialists, whose qualification is certified by the editors.
b) The evaluation process will be impartial and objective in all cases, avoiding any possibility that personal criteria could affect the publication.
c) All contributions will be written in accordance with the publication guidelines.
d) Readers can address the editorial team whenever they have any suggestions or complaints.
e) Revista de Historiografía is an open access journal. The content of this publication is available online in its digital version, immediately after its publication and at no cost to the user, who can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of articles published for academic purposes.
f) The published contents of Revista de Historiografía, should the journal cease its activity, would still be accessible through its website, which would in any case be kept as an article repository.
4. Relationship with authors and authors’ obligations.
a) Publishing and submitting to Revista de Historiografía does not involve the payment of any fee from authors.
b) Authors are obliged to submit the work that they want Revista de Historiografía to publish to the double blind peer review process established by this journal.
c) All authors that sign a paper must have significantly contributed and participated in its research.
d) Authors are obliged to make the appropriate corrections when they are asked to.
e) All authors must acknowledge and cite properly the works that they have used and from which their research has profited, adapting references to the publication guidelines stated in the journal’s website. Likewise, papers must be accompanied by a list of references cited and used by authors.
f) Should authors need to reproduce any content from other sources, it is their responsibility to obtain the appropriate permissions.
g) When a research if the product of a specific funding source, authors must state this clearly in their papers.
h) All manuscripts must be strictly original. It is forbidden to send for publication a paper that has already been published, or to submit an article to Revista de Historiografía at the same time as to other journals. When authors consider that their paper could overlap with the contents of previously published works of their own, they must warn the editors, and facilitate those other texts so that editors can compare them properly.
i) It is also not acceptable for authors to break up or segment data from a single research and create from it different manuscripts for publication.
j) Each paper will be appropriately and explicitly signed with its authorship. Revista de Historiografía will also state clearly the date of receipt and acceptance.
k) Whenever an author detects a significant error in his or her work, whether it has been already published or is still being evaluated, it is the author’s obligation to notify this information to the editors, and to cooperate with them to retract the paper.
l) The editors’ decision on accepting or not a contribution will always be based on its importance, relevance, originality and clarity, and it will be subject to its adequacy within the journal’s research areas.
m) For accepted articles, authors have one month to implement the required revisions.
n) Once the first proofs have been received, authors have two weeks to review layout aspects.
o) Once a paper has been accepted it cannot be rejected even though there were changes within the editorial team, except if there were any severe problems with the paper that had gone unnoticed before.
p) The journal is fully committed to publish its publication guidelines, so that authors can adapt their manuscripts to suit them. The same applies to the process of evaluation of contributions.
q) Authors have the right to know the reasons of rejection of their works, and may appeal the editorial decisions on them.
r) All of the information needed to submit work for publication, as well as the selection criteria, is accessible through the journal’s website.
5. Evaluation process and relationship with reviewers.
a) All contents published by Revista de Historiografía will have passed successfully the established evaluation process.
b) The evaluation process will involve external reviewers, experts in the field to which the contribution belongs.
c) Reviewers must not keep, use, or alter the manuscripts that they receive. The aim of giving them access to such manuscripts is exclusively for the purpose of the evaluation.
d) The evaluators' duty is to ensure the scientific and academic quality of the manuscripts they review, and therefore their evaluations must be based on these criteria, regardless of whether they agree with the content.
e) Reviewers must inform duly to editors if they detect any kind of dishonest practices or misconduct in the article they evaluate.
f) The evaluation process, a double blind peer review, will be carried out in a completely anonymous way. After the reception of a manuscript, two external evaluators, unconnected with each other, will be given a copy of the text. They will not know the authorship of the manuscript that they are evaluating. After reading the text, reviewers will issue a report to the editors, in which they must specify and reason if they consider that the article should be published or not. In case of finding mistakes or problems, reviewers should include corrections and recommendations, so that authors have the opportunity to modify their manuscripts and make them suitable for publication. In addition, all articles will be reviewed through an anti-plagiarism software (Feedback System). Once this process is over, and in case of obtaining a favourable result, the article may be published.
g) Reviewers must also notify whenever they detect the author has not cited major works considered relevant for the research.
h) Reviewers will be informed clearly and precisely of what is expected of their evaluation task, including a form that has to be completed.
i) The identity of the reviewers will remain anonymous, although their names will be published in a list every three years.
j) Honesty is required, and reviewers must let the editorial team know if they think there may be a conflict of interests in a particular evaluation, which may compromise the process’s impartiality.
Within the processes relevant to investigation, the gender perspective aims at eliminating traditional patriarchal biases and expanding content and approach of research. Thus, the correct use of information will guarantee gender balance, offer reliable data disaggregated by gender for the study of irregularities and make visible the scientific contribution of women. Revista de Historiografía (RevHisto) is committed to promoting equality and overcoming gender discrimination in academia. For this reason, Revista de Historiografía (RevHisto) guarantees a balanced presence of women and men in the management team, in the secretariat, in the editorial board and in the advisory board, as well as among the evaluators chosen for the peer review process. Likewise, Revista de Historiografía promotes good editorial practice in gender equality, introducing the correct use of inclusive language in its editorial regulations (see the corresponding section for authors rules).
The anonymous peer review process depends heavily on the willingness of the academic community to participate and on mutual trust between reviewer and journal. For the process to work properly, all those involved must act responsibly and ethically.
Reviewers have an obligation to conduct their reviews in an ethical and responsible manner. Clear communication between journal and reviewer is essential to facilitate a review that is consistent, fair and timely. The Revista de Historiografía expects the reviews to give useful guidance for researchers and provide the journal editors with a sound basis for decision-making. Reviewers must respect the confidentiality of the work they review throughout the review process and until the work is published in the journal. They should decline to conduct a review in case of possible suspected any conflict of interest, be it a family relationship, friendship or enmity, joint publications, belonging to the same institution or any other circumstance that could influence the review. Under no circumstances should reviewers disseminate or use the information, texts, images, details, hypotheses, arguments, interpretations or conclusions contained in the text under review for their own benefit or the benefit of others, or to the detriment of third parties. Before accepting a review, reviewers must rule out any circumstances that could lead to a conflict of interest. If they are unable to do so, they must decline the invitation to carry out the review.
Unethical behaviour or the failure to comply with the principle of confidentiality on the part of a reviewer shall exonerate the Revista de Historiografía and the editorial board from any liability whatsoever, as this notification advises reviewers of the obligation to act ethically.
The Revista de Historiografía, in its commitment to transparency, provides annual statistical data on editorial management for the last three volumes, including the number of articles received, reviews requested, reviews received, and articles published and the acceptance rate in the miscellaneous section:
o Articles received: 32 (25 in miscellaneous, 7 in monographic section).
o Reviews requested: 155.
o Reviews received: 64.
o Articles published: 23 (16 in miscellaneous, 7 in monographic section).
o Acceptance rate in miscellaneous: 64%.
o Articles received: 29 (23 in miscellaneous, 6 in monographic section).
o Reviews requested: 110.
o Revisiones recibidas: 51.
o Articles published: 15 (10 in miscellaneous, 5 in monographic section).
o Acceptance rate in miscellaneous: 43,5%.
o Articles received: 20 (24 in miscellaneous, 6 in monographic section).
o Reviews requested: 88.
o Revisiones recibidas: 49.
o Articles published: 20 (14 in miscellaneous, 6 in monographic section).
o Acceptance rate in miscellaneous: 48%.
Average Review and Publication Time
The Revista de Historiografía also provides public statistical data on the average time between manuscript submission and publication, as well as the average time until acceptance or rejection notification, for the last three volumes:
o Average time from submission to publication: 14 months and 25 days.
o Average time from submission to acceptance or rejection notification: 5 months and 24 days.
o Average time from submission to publication: 14 months and 28 days.
o Average time from submission to acceptance or rejection notification: 6 months and 4 days.
o Average time from submission to publication: 17 months and 29 days.
o Average time from submission to acceptance or rejection notification: 7 months and 26 days.
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