Focus and scope

Cartaphilus.  Journal of Research and Criticism in Aesthetics was born in 2007. From 2007 to 2009 it was published on a biannual basis. Since 2010 Cartaphilus has been published once a year, in December.

Cartaphilus,  Journal of Research and Criticism in Aesthetics is a peer-reviewed journal  which publishes original scientific research in the areas of philology and aesthetics. The journal also includes a section for interviews and book reviews.

 

 Review process

All manuscripts submitted are initially checked by one or several members of the Editorial Board to determine whether they meet the requirements for authors set by the journal. Once being approved in this initial phase, manuscripts will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Reviewers, who cannot be part of the Editorial Board,  have a maximum of six weeks to communicate their decision on the manuscript. In the event of major discrepancies between the two reviewers’ decisions, the Editor will invite a third reviewer before making a final decision.

Based on the reviewers’ reports, the Editorial Board will decide whether to accept or reject the manuscript or ask the author for minor or major revisions. Authors will be sent a justified and detailed decision report which, when applicable, will include specific instructions on the aspects to modify, together with the assessment of the submitted work according to the criteria made public by the journal.

The acceptance date of the manuscript will include the time authors devoted to undertaking suggested revisions.

The journal does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges (APCs).

 

Plagiarism Policy
With the end of guarantee the originality delivery, we use Turnitin program to detect plagiarism and auto-plagiarism recognising non-original documents which not be quoted correctly. When an irregularity is detected or doubts exist about a proposal, the committee will act ex officio. It will also intervene if it detects irregularities, in order to clarify the situation, applying an ethical code that corresponds to the following flow chart created by COPE (Committee On Publication Ethics For ethics in publications), directly accessible from: http://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_English.pdf. Their decisions will be final.

 

Ethical statement and editorial best practice

Code of conduct and best practice

Our journal's Code of Good Practices involves all the agents that participate in it, both the members of its Editorial Team and the contributors, and also the people in charge of evaluating them, taking as a reference the code of conduct and best practices as defined by the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors of scientific journals.

The Publishing Guidelines established by the journal must be respected by those who submit their contributions for evaluation, works that must be original and unpublished, and they must alert the journal of any error they may notice in order to withdraw it, retract it or, if necessary, to publish an errata sheet.
The Editorial Team will guarantee the published contents' quality, keeping total confidentiality about the received works and ensuring that every evaluation follows an impartial and fair process. The Editorial Team will also respect intellectual independence, allowing the right to reply in case of a negative evaluation.
The persons in charge of evaluating the contributions must keep them confidential, objectively judging their quality. They must respect the deadline for the evaluation too, notifying the Management of any possible delay that may occur.

 

Open Access policy

The works published in this journal are subject to the following terms:
1. The Publications Service of the University of Murcia (the publisher) retains the property rights (copyright) of published works, and encourages and enables the reuse of the same under the license specified in paragraph 2.

© Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2019

2. The works are published in the online edition of the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (legal text). You can copy, use, distribute, transmit and publicly display, provided that: i) you cite the author and the original source of publication (journal, editorial and URL of the work), ii) are not used for commercial purposes, iii ) mentions the existence and specifications of this license.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

3. Conditions of self-archiving. Is allowed and encouraged the authors to disseminate electronically pre-print versions (version before being evaluated and sent to the journal) and / or post-print (version reviewed and accepted for publication) of their works before publication, as it encourages its earliest circulation and diffusion and thus a possible increase in its citation and scope between the academic community. RoMEO Color: Green.

Sponsors

• Universidad de Murcia

History of the journal

The e-journal Cartaphilus. Journal of Research and Criticism in Aesthetics is supported by Editum (Murcia University Press) and was born in 2007. Published on a biannual basis from 2007 to 2009, in 2010 started being published once a year.

 

Digital Preservation Policy