Quality criteria

 
The criteria the Revista Latina de Comunicación Social meets and which position it as a reference in this area are:

EXTERNAL CRITERIA

  • Impact and Prestige: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social is positioned in the first quartile of the quality indexes of the most prestigious publications for their impact in the world: Q2 in SCOPUS (SJR) in Cultural Studies, Education, Communication, and Q1 in SCOPUS (CiteScore) in Cultural Studies, Education, Communication. In Google Scholar Metrics it is in 13th place.

 

  • Visibility and Access: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social maintains a policy of access to open and shared knowledge, having all its 1,810 articles published, in a double version (Spanish and English), available online completely free of charge. The international visibility of Revista Latina de Comunicación Social is generated by its presence in different academic (AcademiaEdu, ResearchGate) and generic social networks (Facebook, Twitter), video and image channels (Flickr, YouTube), author identifiers (ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus), as well as in document managers such as Mendeley, RefWorks, and EndNote.

 

EDITORIAL QUALITY CRITERIA: REFERENTS

 

                                                            

 

Total CNAI criteria met: 17/18
Total ANECA criteria met: 21/22
Total LATINDEX criteria met: 36/36

 

 

Impact: 1.81
Position: 4/66
CIRC: Social Sciences A

 

 

 

Indexed in: CARHUS Plus+ 2018, Directory of Open Access Journals, LATINDEX. Catalogue v1.0 (2002 – 2017) Age = 21 years (start date: 1998) Preservation: log10(21) = +1.3 ICDS = 9.8

 

 

Information and communication: A

 

 

       

The internationality of contributions: 23.58
External evaluators: Yes
The external opening of the authors: Yes

 

 

 

(Unofficial) simulation that aims to visualize how the journals in the Education and Communication categories of the Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI) would be positioned according to their Impact Factor for 2018*: 28th place out of a total of 114 international journals indexed.

*List published in July 2019 with impact factor 2018 Decile: D3 Impact: 0,595 Percentile: 75

 

 

INTERNAL CRITERIA

Timeliness and seriousness: The periodicity of the publication (biannual) guarantess a regular flow of manuscripts. Strictly explicit in the regulations, the author can punctually follow the different parts of the process:

 

  1. Previous phase of acceptance/rejection of manuscripts (maximum 30 days);

  2. Manuscript evaluation phase for rejection or acceptance (maximum 100 days);

  3. Editing of preprint texts in Spanish and English;

  4. Every step of the process is meticulously established. Authors receive direct communication from the Editorial Committee of the entire process: changes suggested by reviewers, stylistic improvements.

 

Rigor of the process: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social guarantees a rigorous and transparent anonymous peer review system through an International Council of Reviewers (CIR) of 781 researchers from fifty countries of the five continents, specialized in communication and education. As a journal of excellence, a model with a tight and demanding process is launched in which each article is subjected to a minimum of two blind reviews, by experts on the subject, excluding endogamy and always tending to the dissemination of original knowledge with international projection.

Ethics and commitment: The Revista Latina de Comunicación Social has a code of ethics that guarantees the rights and duties of the entire scientific community: authors, reviewers, and editors. The ethical code of Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, based on the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), regulates the commitments acquired by all authors of originality in the authorship of works, access to data, conflict of interest, correction of errors, and responsibility. The reviewers, for their part, are committed to honest and constructive criticism, respect of deadlines, confidentiality, and maximum objectivity that avoids redundancies or conflicts of interest. Finally, the editors guarantee the ethics and commitment of Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, assuming an honest and objective practice, ensuring the optimal selection of reviewers, confidentiality, and maximum respect for the established times.

Editorial management: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, guarantees the quality of the editorial process through the Open Journal Systems platform in all its phases, review, editing, and online publication in different formats (PDF, XML, HTML, and ePub). The journal offers a serious and rigorous editorial process, accessible on its website and transparent for the author throughout the process, explained in detail, with downloadable documents: publication standards, template for articles with the submission format, summary of the APA standard 7th edition, letter of originality and transfer of rights, form for reviewers, etc. On the other hand, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social guarantees translation by experts in each area to achieve translations that respect the semantics of each particular topic.

Scientific community: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, has a powerful scientific community of unique authors (1773), reviewers (781), and readers around the world. A solid editorial team collaborates intensively in the growth and consolidation of this community made up of: Editorial Board (Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors), Scientific Committee (from different countries and Universities), International Board of Reviewers, Drafting Board (with academics specialized in different areas), as well as a Technical Council specialized in e-learning and web design. This entire human team ensures the highest scientific, stylistic, formal, and ethical quality of the editorial process in Revista Latina de Comunicación Social.

 

International representation of the scientific community of Revista Latina de Comunicación Social

Emerging technologies: Both the editorial process and the dissemination and impact processes are continually adapting to the advancement of emerging technologies, which implies an adjustment and flexibility of formats, an update of communication models with authors, as well as the usage platforms for editorial management, and the process necessary for the global and international dissemination of published articles. That is why Revista Latina de Comunicación Social is among the leading journals with a network of international collaborators and strategic use of networks to achieve the maximum reach and impact in the published articles.

Originality and Progress: In Revista Latina de Comunicación Social the originality of the presented works is one of the priority objectives, for this reason, all the articles presented are subjected to plagiarism controls with the professional program of scientific journals Plagiarisma. According to the journal's regulations, plagiarism or self-plagiarism is an automatic reason for the rejection of a paper. Only unpublished and original works are published that guarantee true progress in the results presented and that provide relevant and interesting data to the scientific community.

The author is our priority: In Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, the author is the fundamental figure that supports and gives meaning to the entire publication process, prioritizing originality and novelty. The journal aspires to the highest visibility, academic excellence, and respect for authorship. Each published manuscript offers detailed information on how to cite it, its web update (Crossmark), its international support (FundRef), statistical data, hyperlinked primary sources, impact metrics (PlumX, Dimensions).