About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía is an international philosophy journal aimed at researchers, lecturers, students, and academics in the field. It publishes original works on any academically recognised philosophical topic, preferably in Spanish, English, French, German, or any Romance language. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process conducted by external experts. Each article is preceded by a full abstract and keywords in both the original language and in English.

Property and Governance

Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía is a publication affiliated with the University of Málaga since its inception. The journal is part of a public academic entity and promotes the development of the dissemination of high-quality scientific knowledge, open access, and not-for-profit.

The Editorial Team is divided into the Executive Board, Board of Associate Editors, and Scientific Committee. (https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/contrastes/about/editorialTeam).

Executive Board: Composed of specialists in the field from the Department of Philosophy, with the following roles and responsibilities. Members are appointed every four years by the Departmental Board of the University of Málaga, which decides on their appointments and dismissals following a bureaucratic procedure, ensuring that this does not imply that the journal may cease to belong to UMA Editorial.

  • Editor-in-Chief, First and Second Deputy Editors: (The highest responsible for the content of the journal): to direct the general strategy of the journal, review and make decisions on submitted manuscripts to ensure a sustainable and timely flow of copies, and act as ambassadors of the journal.
  • Editorial Secretary: To oversee the design, layout, and graphics of the publication, ensuring adherence to the required quality standard.
  • Administrative Secretary: To supervise the administrative procedures of the Executive Board.

Board of Associate Editors: Comprised of specialists in various fields of philosophical knowledge, both national and international, nominated by the Executive Board every four years in a meeting where appointments and dismissals are decided through a democratic procedure. Their functions include selecting external reviewers to carry out the blind reviews of each manuscript, overseeing the review process, and communication with authors. They also submit a decision on whether or not to publish manuscripts to the Executive Board for approval. From Volume 28 (2023), the journal includes a list of external reviewers to acknowledge and highlight their contribution to the quality of the articles published in the External Reviews section.

Scientific Committee: A group of nationally and internationally renowned experts who advise the Executive Board and Editorial Board on specific academic matters and, when necessary, may act as external reviewers. Members are chosen by the Executive Board every four years in a meeting where appointments and dismissals are decided through a democratic procedure.

Statement of periodicity

Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía is published quarterly (three issues per year, one of which may be a monographic volume).

Sections

The journal accepts the following contributions for its regular issues: studies (articles), critical translations or research materials, bibliographic reports, and reviews. Monographic volumes will consist of an introduction (typically written by the editors) and the accepted contributions (studies).

Peer Review Process

Authors will receive an automatic notification through the Open Journal System (OJS) upon submission of the article, initiating the editorial process according to the following phases:

  1. Receipt of the manuscript and initial evaluation
    Once the manuscript is received, the Associate Editors will verify compliance with formal requirements (author guidelines) and assess its relevance to the thematic scope of Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Additionally, plagiarism detection software will be used to ensure the manuscript adheres to the journal's anti-plagiarism policy. Based on this evaluation, the Associate Editors will determine whether the manuscript meets the basic requirements to proceed in the process. If not, it will be rejected.

  2. Evaluation of submissions (double-blind peer review)
    The selection of published works is governed by a double-blind peer review system, conducted by external reviewers who are specialists in the academic field of each contribution and selected by the Editorial Board. The reviewers will provide a report on the suitability of the manuscript for publication, indicating whether the article is publishable, publishable with revisions, publishable with substantial revisions, or not publishable. Upon receipt of the reviews, the Associate Editors of the journal will communicate the evaluation results, as well as the entire review process.

Reviewers will evaluate the manuscript based on the following criteria: relevance of the topic, engagement with current and relevant literature, argumentative coherence, appropriateness of the title in relation to the abstract and keywords, orthotypographic correctness, and writing style. Evaluation reports, which will not be made publicly available to ensure anonymity, will focus on the originality of the topic, innovation, and relevance to the journal. In any case, the reports will also include a rationale for the evaluation, which will be sent to the authors in cases of acceptance and may be requested as a summary in cases of rejection.

If the opinions of the two reviewers differ significantly, the manuscript will be sent to a third reviewer. The approximate duration of this phase is 3 months, although it may be shorter if reviewers submit their evaluations more quickly, or longer if deadlines are not met. Nevertheless, the editorial team ensures adherence to deadlines with the highest possible quality. The categories used by Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía to decide on manuscripts are detailed in the External Reviewers section.

  1. Notification of editorial decision
    After receiving the evaluations, the Editorial Team will inform the authors of the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript, and provide feedback, recommendations, and suggestions issued by the external reviewers. Once the contribution is accepted for publication and the DOI is assigned, it will be published in the "Advance Publication" section within a maximum of two weeks.

  2. Production and layout
    Once the volume in which the article will appear is assigned, during the production process, a proof of the article will be sent to the authors for review. The author must submit any corrections within one week.

  3. Publication
    After completing the galley proof revisions, the article will be published on the scheduled date for the assigned volume and issue.

Open Access Policy

The journal is indexed in the Open Access platform of Spanish and Latin American electronic scientific journals, a project promoted by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) with the aim of contributing to the dissemination and visibility of scientific journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.

The journal is an Open Access Journal, meaning that all of its content is freely available without any charges for the user or institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the articles or use them for any legal purpose without prior permission from the editor or author. This aligns with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access.

Content Dissemination Policy

Authors are encouraged to link published articles to their supplementary material deposited in public repositories and social media. The dissemination of published articles in all their versions is permitted.

Indexing

The articles published in Contrastes are indexed in SCOPUS (Q3), The Philosopher’s Index, Latindex, ISOC-Filosofía and the Spanish Index of Humanities, FRANCIS-Philosophie, Répertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie, Bulletin Signalétique Philosophie, Informationsdienst für Philosophie, Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB), and Dulcinea.

Antiplagiarism policy

Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía maintains an anti-plagiarism policy ensuring that all published works are original, through the professional application of Crossref Similarity Check services by Ithenticate, which scans all submissions.

We use this service for all documents that have passed the editorial classification process and are subject to blind peer review.

The journal reserves the right to reject articles with an unacceptable level of similarity.

Additionally, we employ specific plagiarism detection tools, such as Unicheck, an open-access platform that monitors originality and detects plagiarism.

Digital Preservation Policies

All of our electronic content (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored in multiple sources. The content is hosted on a server that is online and accessible to readers. A copy of this content is kept as an additional backup, as the OJS software performs weekly backups using the LOCKSS and CLOCKS systems. The journal is assigned a DOI, which also ensures the long-term accessibility through Crossref. The journal's information is also available in open access across various databases such as REBID and DIALNET, ensuring content preservation through more than one information source.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

The OJS system allows authors to register for free and upload files. There are no charges for article processing (APC) in this journal.

Ethics and Best Practices

Authors
Authors must accept the terms and conditions set out in Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, ensuring that the articles and associated materials are original and do not infringe on copyright. Authors must also justify that, in the case of co-authorship, there was full agreement among all authors regarding the order of authorship based on their contributions to the article. Additionally, authors confirm that the article submitted to Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía has not been previously submitted or published elsewhere.

Reviewers
Researchers who agree to review an article for Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía must critically and honestly assess the scientific quality of the original work. These criteria are available in the section External Reviews.

The reviewer must not have a conflict of interest with the assigned article. Furthermore, the reviewer commits to meeting the evaluation deadlines set by the editorial team.

Editorial Team
The editorial team will ensure the confidentiality of the evaluation process and the anonymity of both reviewers and authors, as well as the content of the article, the reviewers' reports, and any other communication issued by the reviewers. Similarly, confidentiality will be maintained in relation to any complaints, claims, or clarifications from third parties that an author may wish to address to the editorial team or reviewers. The editorial team affirms its commitment to the respect and integrity of the articles published. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited, and texts identified as plagiarised or containing fraudulent content will be removed from the evaluation process. The editorial team is responsible for ensuring compliance with review deadlines. The review process is expected to take approximately three to four months from initiation to the acceptance or rejection of the article. The editorial team is committed to the scientific community in ensuring the ethics and quality of the articles published. The publication adheres to the code of conduct and best practices defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for journal editors.

Editorial Best Practices in Gender Equality

UMA Editorial, as the academic imprint of the University of Málaga (UMA) managed by the Service of Publications and Scientific Dissemination of the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer of the University of Málaga (UMA), shares the values of the institution. Among these is the principle of "equality" between women and men.

In this regard, we follow the guidelines set forth in the Style Guide for Editing by the Service of Publications and Scientific Dissemination, which is based on the Guidelines for the Equal Use of Language and Image at UMA (2015), a useful tool that offers resources and strategies to avoid linguistic sexism in editorial, teaching, research, and management activities.

From 2024 onwards, as part of our commitment to improving the journal and promoting best practices in gender equality, we will include the following information in the Statistics section of the journal: the percentage of women in editorial decision-making bodies, the percentage of women as external reviewers, and the proportion of studies published by women.

 

Sponsors

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