Focus and Scope

Valenciana is a biannual journal, published in both printed and electronic version. Each issue consists of original contributions which address new approaches, debates and reflections around literature, with special emphasis in Spanish American studies, as well as classic, modern and contemporary philosophy. Interpretations and analysis are strictly supported by theoretical and conceptual frameworks.

The journal is aimed at specialized readers and national and foreign researchers; those who contribute to generate knowledge in the literature and philosophy fields.

The journal includes three sections: a miscellaneous section with articles and research papers about diverse subjects, a dossier with articles written by express invitation from the editors, and book reviews.

All article submissions are put through review by two anonymous specialists under the double-blind peer review. The final result of the review process is notified to the author within the term of ninety business days after the call closure date.

Valenciana is edited and distributed by the Universidad de Guanajuato through the Departamento de Filosofía y Letras Hispánicas of the División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.

Valenciana has Cross Reference DOI official registration.

Peer Review Process

Review guidelines

All contributions will be initially assessed by the editorial committee in order to validate the suitability for publication in the journal. The next step is the academic review, which operates under the blind peer review system:

1. Articles are sent to a minimum of two independent reviewers with proven expertise in the same disciplinary and thematic area as the article, in order to assess its scientific quality. The identities of authors and reviewers remain anonymous to each part and reviewers must belong to a different institution than the author's. The reviewers have the responsibility to analyze the academic, theoretical and methodological importance of the article.
2. Reviewers are asked to fill a report about the importance and academic quality of the article and, consequently, make a recommendation about the acceptance or rejection for publication. In case of discrepancy in the recommendation, a third expert will be in charge of settling the result.
3. According to recommendations from reviewers, Valenciana’s editorial board will choose one of this options for the article:

• Suggest its publication without changes.
• Suggest its publication with minor changes; a second revision is not needed.
• Its publication is conditioned to major corrections.
• Refuse its publication.

4. The publication of an article requires, at least, two out of three positive reviews.
5. The editors guarantee that all the reviews contain solid arguments to support the final editorial decision.
6. The result derived from the academic review process will be categorical in all cases.
7. In case reviewers suggest a revision of the article, the author has a term of fifteen business days to deliver a new version of it.
8. Once the article is received by the reviewers, they have three weeks to deliver the review.
9. The final result of the reviewing process will be notified to the author in a term of ninety business days after the call closure date.
10. Accepted articles start the edition process (style revision, markup and metadata, layout) to be included in the issue appointed by the editorial direction.
11. Once the editorial process is over, the article’s preliminary version will be sent to the author for one last review and final approval. The author has a term of three business days to give his approval; if commentaries are not sent in this term, the editorial committee will assume the approval is given.

Reviewer responsibilities

• Accepting reviews accord to their area of specialty, in order to do an appropriate evaluation.
• Notifying the editor about any potential conflict of interest ^[1], like suspecting the author(s) identity, and declining the review when this possibility exists.
• Declining immediately the review if unable to deliver in a timely manner.
• Providing a review based on the manuscript’s merits: originality, relevance and contribution to the subject, appropriate methodology and bibliography; and rating the work’s composition: style, coherence, structure and writing.
• Notifying the journal immediately, if —during the review— he/she is unable to rate the manuscript due to lack of expertise.
• Providing objective, specific and constructive feedback.
• Stating clearly whether he recommends the acceptance, rejection or conditionality of the manuscript.
• Delivering the review in time.
• Maintaining confidentiality along and after the review process.
• Not using, sharing, discussing with third parties, or disclosing information from the reviewed work.
• Notifying to the editor any concern about possible plagiarism found in the manuscript.
• Not delegating to other person, assistant or collaborator the responsibility of the review.

^[1] Conflict of interest appears when authors, reviewers or editors have non-explicit interests, which might interfere with an objective review and affect the decision to publish. These interests may be personal, academic, economic, political or religious and must be notified to editors.

Open access policies

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

Author(s) who publish in this journal do accept the next conditions:

According to copyright regulations, Valenciana does recognize and respect the authors’ moral right, as well as the right of property, which will be assigned to the journal for its diffusion in open access.

Valenciana does not charge authors for the submission, editorial process or publication in the journal.

All texts published and distributed by Valenciana (without exception) are supported by the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows third parties to use the publication as long as they mention the author and the first publication.

Authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive use of his article published in Valenciana (e.g. including it in an institutional repository or in printed/electronic media), as long as it is explicitly clarified that the article was published for the first time in this journal. For these purposes, authors must sign and send the letter of submission and copyright transfer form in a PDF file to this email address: revistavalenciana@gmail.com

This journal is under a license by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Digital Content Preservation

Valenciana uses the software LOCKSS in order to distribute digital contents through different partner libraries. With this action, preservation of the journals content is guaranteed in permanent archives.

 Code of Ethics

Valenciana subscribes the ethic values established in the Universidad de Guanajuato Code of Ethics: Truth, Freedom, Respect, Responsibility and Justice. Valenciana also agrees with the copyright conventions subscribed by the World Intellectual Property Organization, to which Mexico belongs.

Valenciana subscribes the Code of Ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (available on publicationethics.org) for the acting and performance of partakers (editors, editorial committee, authors and reviewers) involved in the process of publishing this journal.

Confidentiality

 Editors and reviewers must keep strict confidentiality about the articles submitted for aproval only to exchange with the author and the editorial committee information regarding to the process.

Conflict of interest

Only unpublished and unreviewed articles will be aproved for its publication.

In case of co-authorship, the sender must have express consent of all the authors to submit to review.

A contributor that has previously been published in Valenciana, will be published again after two numbers from its previous contribution.

Respect to authors' rights

Plagiarism detection

Valenciana uses specialized software for plagiarism detection. Articles are checked for plagiarism before entering the editorial or academic reviewing process; if the percentage of similarity with another text already published or available on internet is higher to 50%, the article will be rejected.

In case plagiarism is detected or a possible plagiarism is reported, the procedure is the one that COPE resumes.

Valenciana subscribes the ethic values established in the Universidad de Guanajuato Code of Ethics: Truth, Freedom, Respect, Responsibility and Justice. Valenciana also agrees with the copyright conventions subscribed by the World Intellectual Property Organization, to which Mexico belongs.

About the submissions

In Valenciana the submission, edition and publication process is for free and without any charges.

Publication exchange policy

Valenciana seeks to establish a dialogue through the editorial exchange with educational, scientific and cultural journals and institutions that ensure the difussion and open access to the knowledge generated in the areas of literature and philosophy.

Currently, Valenciana is spread in more than 50 mexican and international educational and cultural institutions.

The exchange of publications between Valenciana will only be carried out accordinf to the following instructions:

• Send an exchange request to the e-mail adress revistavalenciana@ugto.mx adressed to the editor.
• Contribute to the difussion of the journal in the areas of literature and philosophy.