About the Journal

OBJECTIVES & PERIODICITY

MHNH Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas was founded in 2000 by Dr. Aurelio Pérez Jiménez [see Letter by the Founders]. Since then, the Journal publishes scientific papers focused on Magic, Astrology, and Religion in Antiquity, addressed to both scholars in the discipline and a wider public interested in these topics. 

Original papers can focus on different perspectives on content or in material aspects, such as epygraphical, papirological, codicological or linguistic issues of magical and astrological texts. 

MHNH publishes one issue per year. 

SECTIONS

Each number contains three sections which, nevertheless, will be subject to change according to the contributions in each case. These are the following: 

  1. Studia. This section will contain long articles on cultural, historical, technical, linguistic, textual or archaeological aspects relating to ancient Magic and/or Astrology. We set as chronological limit the sixth century AD, which will only be obviated in the case of a study clarifying -by means of later texts- ancient magic or astrological questions. Approximately 100 pages will be devoted to it. 
  2. Notabilia. This section will contain brief notes and information on the basic subjects of the Journal, such as textual or archaeological novelties. It will also contain the editing of brief documents from manuscripts, papyri or inscriptions, or the revision and reediting of others already published. Translation and Commentary on the text will be included. About 50 pages will be given over for this section.
  3. Reviews and critical surveys, either short or long, of new books on Magic and Astrology received by the Editors of MHNH. Again, about 50 pages will be kept for this section.

INDEXATION

All originals must follow the anonymous peer review process by external experts to be accepted for publication. The journal is currently indexed in the following specialized data bases: DIALNET, LATINDEX, MIAR, L’Année Philologique. Its Impact index has been acknowledged in R?SH (Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas-CSIC: 13 CNEAI, 15 ANECA, IMPACTO 2004-2008: 0.056).

Author charges

Authors are not asked to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) for this journal in any case. 

                   

ETHICS & GOOD PRACTICES 

MHNH has a commitment with the academic community and ensures the ethics and quality of its published papers by adhering to the Code of Conduct and Good Practices for scientific journals defined for editors by the PUBLICATION ETHICS COMMITTEE (COPE).

ARCHIVING POLICY

MHNH uses DOI, which is a persistent identifier, thus ensuring that the link will be preserved, and is hosted by DIALNET, which maintains the collaborative open access journal directory project to identify transparency principles and good practices for academic publications. .

ANTIPLAGIARISM

MHNH maintains a policy against plagiarism that ensures that all published works are original, through the professional application of the services of Crossref Similarity Check of Ithenticate, to scan all proposals.
We use this service in all documents that have passed the editorial classification process and are susceptible to be sent to a peer review. We also have specific plagiarism detection tools such as Unicheck, an open access platform that monitors originality and controls plagiarism.
The Journal reserves the right decision to reject articles with an inappropriate percentage of similarity.

USE OF AI

AI use must be declared and clearly explained, the paper must be the author's own, and not present others' ideas, data, words or other material without adequate citation and transparent referencing. Authors are accountable for the accuracy, integrity and originality of their research papers, including for any use of AI.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

The journal is an open access Journal, which means that all its content is freely available without charges for the user or the institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the texts of the articles or use them for any other legal purpose without asking the publisher or the author for permission.