About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Metafísica y Persona is an international academic journal, co-edited by the Universidad de Málaga (UMA, Spain) and the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP, Mexico), whose main driver is the reality of the person. The journal pays special attention to philosophical anthropology and, in particular, to the metaphysics of the person, for said disciplines provide meaning and serve as a foundation for the rest of knowledge about human beings. Nevertheless, the journal is open to different points of view, including those of theology, sociology, psychology, medicine, etc.
Essential identification
Title: Metaphysics and Person
Subtitle: Philosophy, knowledge and life
Topic: Philosophical journal
Frequency: Biannual (Jannuary and July)
Scope: International
ISSN online: 1989-4996
Printed ISSN: 2007-9699
Peer Review Process
The selection of articles and critical notes is regimented by the next system of evaluation.
1. Refereeing. All the works will be evaluated by two reviewers, namely, two top-level academics and specialists in the subject on which the article or note is about. The reviewers will always be outside the Board of Directors and the Editorial Board.
The refereeing is a double-blind procedure. Articles require two favorable reviews in order to get published. In the case of critical notes, one favorable review is enough for publication and one negative review could prevent it.
Regardless of the reviews, the reviewers’ opinions and remarks or suggestions will be communicated to the authors through the OJS Website of the journal.
— In case a contribution is considered as publishable, but the review includes suggestions, the authors will be free to take them into account and incorporate them into the work, always within due time.
— In case the publication of a contribution is conditioned on certain improvements, the final acceptance will depend on the actual adequacy between the incorporated changes and the opinion of the reviewers.
— When a contribution is not accepted for publication, authors will have full freedom to assume the corrections and incorporate them into the manuscript in order to resubmit it for publication in a later number of Metafísica y Persona, which in due course should be submitted, like any other contribution, for a new process of review.
2. Authorship. Once the manuscript has been edited, their authors will be able to use and disseminate them freely, always referring to Metafísica y Persona as the place where they were initially published.
3. Certification and delivery of copies. Authors whose papers are published will receive two physical copies of the number in which their article/note was published by post mail. If they request it, they will also be sent a certificate that the work has been accepted for publication and that it will be published in due course.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its contents based on the principle that offering to the public free access to research contributes to a greater exchange of knowledge.
Metafísica y Persona adheres to the Open Access Journal policy and is part of the network of journals participating in it through the Public Knowledge Project, a non-profit initiative of the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia.
All its content is available free of charge, with no costs for the user or the institution. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided that intellectual property is respected, and proper citation and referencing are maintained.
Scientific Indexing Services
Metafísica y Persona is included in the following indexes and data bases:
Ethical code
Metafísica y Persona keeps an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are previously unpublished through the professional application of iThenticate’s Crossref Similarity Check services.
We use these services on all documents that have passed the editorial classification process and are subject to double-blind peer review. The journal reserves the decision to reject articles with an inappropriate percentage of similarity. We also have specific plagiarism detection tools such as Unicheck, an open access platform that monitors originality and controls plagiarism.
Author charges
Authors are not asked to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) for this journal in any case.
Digital Preservation Policies
Metafísica y Persona uses DOI that is a persistent identifier, so it ensures that the link is to be preserved, and DOAJ that is a community peer initiative, which maintains the project of the directory of journals in open access collaborated to identify principles of transparency and good practices of academic publications
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