About the Journal

1. Focus and scope

Naturaleza y Libertad exclusively publishes scientific material (papers, notes and commentaries, book reviews) related to the subject referred to in its title, which includes:

  • Philosophy of nature with special emphasis on the determination of the position of human being within the universe.
  • Philosophical anthropology from the perspective of its relationships with the disciplines that study man as part of nature (biology, biochemistry, neurosciences, artificial intelligence, complexity sciences).

A distinctive feature of Naturaleza y Libertad is the importance it gives to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aspects, which makes it a useful instrument to try to overcome the separation between science and humanities.

The sequence of the publication is annual. In addition to the publication of miscellaneous issues, monographic issues are planned as well.

The journal publishes papers in Spanish and English, although occasionally texts may be published in other languages of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in other international languages that are common vehicles for the expression of scientific knowledge.

2. Sections of the journal

Since its restructuring (January 2024) the journal has (usually) the following sections:

  • Original papers (wich shows original result of the research, between 6,000 and 8,000 words lenth and double-blind peer review evaluated)
  • Notes and Comments (texts reporting on books, congresses, symposiums and other activities related to the topics of the journal, with a maximum length of 4,000 words and not peer-reviewed)
  • Book reviews (up to 1800 words in length; not peer-revewed)

3. Peer review process

     3.1. Originals evaluation

All sections are evaluated, that is, the board of directors initially decides if the article is appropriate for the journal. In the case of research articles (Studies), if not rejected, the editor chooses an expert reviewer on the subject covered in the article. Then the article follows a more thorough evaluation process that unfolds as follows:

     3.2. Peer review

The review of each article will be carried out by an expert reviewer who will advise on its publication, without knowing in any case the identity of the author.

     3.3. Blind evaluation

To ensure transparency, the reviewers do not know each other nor do they know the identity of the evaluated author

     3.4. External evaluators

The majority of the reviewers are external to the journal, they are doctoral professors belonging to international research institutions, as well as all those authors who have published more than two articles in the journal and have a degree or doctorate in the specialty. If they wish, the authors may propose external experts who are experts in the field. At the end of each year, a list of reviewers of the numbers for each semester will be published.

     3.5. Acceptance or rejection after evaluation

After the expert review, the board of directors decides whether to directly accept the article , ask the author to make the modifications recommended by the reviewers, ask the author for a thorough review of the article, or reject the publication.

4. Publication frequency

The sequence of the publication is annual. The publication of Monographic Content Numbers is also planned.

5. Open access policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Naturaleza y Libertad follows the Open Access Journal policy and is integrated into the association of journals that participate in it through the Public Knowledge Project, a non-profit initiative of the Faculty of Education of the University of British Columbia. It aims to give the widest possible diffusion to all work of quality, published in any medium with limited diffusion. In this way, researchers and institutions that would otherwise be marginalized are integrated into an open universal scientific dialogue.

The journal is an open access Journal, and 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.

6. Publication agenda

Within a normal period of six months, the Board of Directors will communicate the acceptance or rejection of an article, together with the observations or suggestions issued by the evaluators. Authors of articles in the process of publication will receive proof of the text after being typographically composed, for immediate correction (maximum two weeks).

If, in an exceptional case, for reasons beyond the control of Naturaleza y Libertad, the latter were forced to modify or delay the publication period of the selected articles to a later number, each author would be notified to confirm their approval or, if not, have the article available to present it to other magazines.

7. In case of error

The editors are not responsible for errors that may have been slipped due to not following these instructions. In case of encountering difficulties in deciphering, interpretation, format, etc., they will require the author via e-mail to send a new file, and if they do not receive it within a week, they will understand that they renounce the publicationtion of work.

8. Ethical statement on publication and good practices

The editorial staff of the Naturaleza y Libertad journal is committed to the scientific community to guarantee the ethics and quality of the articles published. Our journal is based on the Code of Conduct and Good Practices (http://Publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_ journal_editors.pdf) defined by the Committee on Ethics in Publications (COPE) for editors of scientific journals. At the same time, it guarantees an adequate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of what is published, protecting and respecting the content of the articles as well as their integrity. The Editorial Committee undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

In compliance with these good practices, Naturaleza y Libertad has, as explained, a system for selecting articles that are reviewed by external evaluators -anonymous and by peers- with criteria based exclusively on the scientific relevance of the article, originality, clarity and relevance of the work presented. Naturaleza y Libertad guarantees at all times the confidentiality of the evaluation process, the anonymity of the evaluators and the authors, the evaluated content, the report issued by the evaluators and any other communication issued by the editorial, advisory and scientific boards. In the same way, confidentiality will be maintained in the event of possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author wishes to send to the journal committees or to the reviewers of the article.

Naturaleza y Libertad declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of the works already published. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and texts that are identified as plagiarism or their content is fraudulent, will be removed from the journal if they have already been published or will not be published. The journals of the University of Malaga use the Crossref Similarity Check anti-plagiarism system. The magazine will act in these cases as quickly as possible. By accepting the terms and agreements expressed by our journal, the authors must guarantee that the article and the materials associated with it are original or do not infringe copyrights. The authors also have to justify that, in the case of shared authorship, there was a full consensus of all the affected authors and that it has not been previously presented or published in another media.

9. Copyright and access

     9.1. All content published in Naturaleza y Libertad is open access without limit, and are subject to the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-by-nc-sa). For full information please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es_ES

     9.2. It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the necessary permissions for the images that are subject to copyright.

     9.3. Regarding copyright, please see "Copyright notice".

     9.4. Authors whose contributions are accepted for publication in this journal retain full copyright and publication rights without restriction. Authors may use their contributions for scholarly, research and educational purposes, including self-archiving or deposit in open access repositories of any kind. The electronic edition of this magazine is edited by the Editorial de la University of Malaga (UmaEditorial), being necessary to cite the origin in any partial or total reproduction.

     9.5. This journal allows and encourages authors to publish papers on their personal websites or in institutional repositories, both before and after their publication in this journal, as long as they provide bibliographic information that accredits, if applicable, your posting on it.

     9.6. In no case will anonymous papers be published.

     9.7. Only evaluating the work based on intellectual content, without any bias towards ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious believes origin ethnic, nationality or political ideology of the writer. For this reason, it is guarantees the anonymity of the writer during the selection process.

     9.8. Authors, editors and publishers must accept the code of good practice.

     9.9. Our OJS Platform embeds metadata and uses protocls to exchange them with databases, collectores, etc.

     9.10. The electronic edition of this journal is published by the Editorial de la Universidad de Málaga (UmaEditorial), being necessary to cite the source in any partial or total reproduction.

10. Author Charges (APCs)

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

11. Digital Preservation Policies

Naturalez y Libertad  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.

Naturaleza y Libertad has implemented the following digital file preservation policies: PKP Preservation Network (PN); LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe); CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe).

12. Indexing

This journal is indexed and evaluated in the following databases:

REDIB, Miar, The Philosopher's Index, Google Scholar, ROAD, WorldCat, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), Latindex catálogo 2.0, ÍnDICEs-CSIC, ERIH PLUS, CIRC: Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas,  DOAJ, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Dialnet, Dulcinea, DRJI (Directory of Research Journals Indexing).

13. Antiplagiarism

Naturaleza y Libertad declares its commitment to integrity and good practice in published work. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and texts that are identified as plagiarism or fraudulent in content will be removed from the journal if they have already been published or will not be published at all. The journal will act as quickly as possible in such cases. By accepting the terms and agreements expressed by our journal, authors must guarantee that the paper and associated materials are original or do not infringe copyright.

Naturaleza y Libertad maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, through the professional application of Ithenticate's Crossref Similarity Check services, to scan all proposals.

We use the service on all documents that have passed the editorial classification process and are subject to 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.