About the Journal
1. Focus and Scope
IBEROAMERICANA is an interdisciplinary journal of literature, history and social sciences aimed at an international scientific readership. From the perspective of different disciplines and bearing in mind current debates, IBEROAMERICANA contributes to the analysis of the history, literature, cultural life and socio-political dynamics of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, acting as a bridge between research undertaken in different academic fields and regions.
IBEROAMERICANA publishes contributions of high academic calibre presenting the results of innovative research. Papers that transcend national frontiers and disciplines are particularly welcome, as well as those that employ comparative approaches or which adopt a position in relation to international and regional debates, contributing to the renewal of their particular fields.
2. Sections
IBEROAMERICANA is comprised of four sections:
Dossier, focusing on a special subject dealt with simultaneously by various disciplines and made up of original articles that are the fruit of scientific research;
Articles and Essays, containing original scientific contributions by researchers at the forefront of their fields;
Forum for Debate, containing shorter original contributions presenting rigorous analysis of contemporary problematics relevant to the regional and disciplinary subject area;
Notes. Iberoamerican Reviews, containing reviews and original bibliographic articles dealing with significant publications and research on literature, history and social sciences.
IBEROAMERICANA is published by the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin) in collaboration with the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (Hamburg) and the publisher Iberoamericana/Vervuert (Madrid/Frankfurt am Main).
3. Peer Review Process
The contributions published in the sections Dossier and Articles and Essays are subject to a process of peer review by mostly external experts. Articles should be sent to Iberoamericana. The submission should fully comply with the guidance for authors.
After receipt, all submissions are subject to an initial review to determine if they comply with the requirements set out in the Guidelines for Authors. Secondly, the papers are examined according to the academic and thematic profile of the journal.
If they pass this review, submissions are sent for peer review to at least two specialists. This process is a double blind peer review, so reviewers will not know the identity of the author nor will the author know the identity of the reviewers. Where reviewers make different recommendations, all points of view will be taken into account, additional reports may be requested and the Editorial Board will make the final decision.
The possible outcomes of this review are: 1) accepted, 2) rejected or 3) resubmission recommended after carrying out proposed modifications. In this latter case, the author will have the opportunity to correct the article and resubmit it for further review.
4. Indexes and Databases
Indexes
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
CSA Sociologial Abstracts
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences)
ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science)
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index)
Historical Abstracts
HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
IBR (Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literatur)
ISOC - Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CSIC)
LATINDEX - Catálogo
LATINDEX - Catálogo 2.0
LATINDEX - Directorio
MLA International Bibliography
Qualis (CAPES)
REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico)
Romanische Bibliographie
SCOPUS (Elsevier)
Databases
CSA IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
CSA PAIS International Database
DIALNET
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
EBSCO
EZB (Elekrtonische Zeitschriften Datenbank)
IBZ (Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur)
JSTOR
MLA Master Directory of Periodicals
REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina)
REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico)
ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources)
ULRICHSWEB Global Serials Directory
ZDB (Zeitschriftendatenbank)
5. Open Access Policy
IBEROAMERICANA provides instant and free access to all of its contents via its electronic edition. There is no cost of publication for authors.
This work is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
6. Ethics Statement and Editorial Best Practice
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal complies with COPE REGULATIONS OF GOOD PRACTICE (Committee of Publication Ethics). The selection criteria for contributions published in the journal therefore refer exclusively to their scientific relevance, originality, clarity and pertinence. IBEROAMERICANA guarantees the confidentiality of the peer review process and the anonymity of reviewers and authors. The journal fully commits to not publishing any work that contains any element of plagiarism, self-plagiarism or fraud. Where a text is identified as having plagiarised, self-plagiarised or includes fraudulent content, it will be removed from the journal. The editors of the journal are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications or apologies where necessary.
Authors
It is the responsibility of the authors to verify that the content of the manuscript is originally theirs and to adequately cite all statements, ideas and results that come from other sources. An author submitting an article to the journal must guarantee they are authorised to do so by any co-authors, that they are in possession of suitable authorizations to reproduce images and photographs included within the article and that it is an original piece, it has not been published previously and its publication in the journal does not infringe authorial rights.
Reviewers
It is the responsibility of reviewers to prepare reports objectively, to avoid personal comments on the author and express their points of view clearly and based on solid argumentation. Reviewers accept the confidentiality of the peer review process and commit to not discussing the content of unpublished manuscripts with their colleagues. Reviewers commit to immediately informing the editors in case of discovering a case of plagiarism or double publication, or should they find themselves in a position of conflict of interests.
7. Frequency of Publication
IBEROAMERICANA appears three times a year in March, July and November. The March issue covers the period from January-April; the July issue covers May-August; and the November issue covers September-December of the corresponding year.
The journal appeared in a quarterly format from 2001 to 2015.
8. Subscriptions and Sales
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