Focus and scope

Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina is a biannual journal (since 2016) of the Centro de Historia Argentina y Americana (Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata) which publishes original and unpublished articles and working papers, communications, reviews and bibliographical critiques on Argentine and Latin American political, social and economic history, in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The aim of Anuario is to provide a specialised media communication that contributes to the development of the discipline to researchers, teachers, managers, officials, professionals and students.

Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina (ISSN 2314-257X) is part of the Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT). 

Since 2016 Anuario publishes twice a year (until 2019 june and december) may and november.

Peer review process

Submissions are preliminarily evaluated by the Editorial Board. In case of not responding to Anuario scope and instructions, the submissions are rejected. The accepted submissions are double blind external peer reviewed, each article is submitted to two reviews but in case of a divided opinion, a third review is requested. 

Open access policy

Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina  provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina is an open access journal licensed under Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.

Its contents are available also online in the institutional repositories Memoria Académica and SEDICI.

Our institution, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (UNLP), promotes and supports Open Access movement. Its editions have no charges for the author or for the reader, and encourages authors to deposit their contributions in other institutional and thematic repositories.

Plagiarism policy

The policy of the journal is to publish original works, written by those who declare their authorship, and unpublished works, which may not have been previously published in any print or electronic medium.

At the time of submission of an article, authors are asked to state that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation. In addition, they are asked to state that they are following the Author Guidelines, which state that the articles to be applied for must be original.

Ethical Aspects and Conflict of Interest

The publication of Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina is the collective result of the work and effort of authors, editors and evaluators who are interested in the development of science for social and cultural development. For this reason, and within the framework of the open access policy promoted by the National University of La Plata, the journal will not charge authors any fee for publication, and articles will be immediately available in Open Access.

The editors of the magazine undertake to avoid the existence of any conflict of interest between the actors involved in the production. Any text submitted will be evaluated for its intellectual content, avoiding interference in the process of the authors' ethnic or national affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political philosophy. Similarly, external evaluations that place any personal position on the quality of work will be rejected.

Authors and evaluators are asked to state in advance any relevant conflicts of interest they may have, so that they can be taken into account when allocating evaluations. If any conflict should arise after the publication of the contribution, if necessary, there will be a retraction or manifestation of the fact.

A "conflict of interest" is a situation in which an individual's personal interests diverge from his or her responsibilities for the scientific activities he or she undertakes, whether as an author, reviewer, or member of the editorial board, which may influence his or her critical judgment and the integrity of his or her actions.

Based on an analysis of the specific problems of scientific publishing practice, various international organizations have taken on the task of agreeing on criteria and generating guides and documents that provide support to both editors and authors. The editors of the journal will consider guidelines and guides that have been agreed upon at the international level to solve the specific problems of scientific publishing practice. The instructions given by COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics will be taken into account. Guidelines from other internationally recognized organizations such as theInternational Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Council of Science Editors.

Authors, researchers and reviewers are invited to familiarize themselves with the international guidelines linked to ethics in publication, specifically those linked below, in order to avoid faults that could be generated by their ignorance.

Data availability policy

Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina promotes the transparency and reproducibility of the published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in these articles, either to corroborate or refute the obtained results, under the provisions of the Argentinian National Law No. 26,899 on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories.

To promote the reproducibility of results, the journal requires authors to make available the data sets used to perform the research described in their articles without restrictions. In case of limitations for ethical or legal reasons, authors shall indicate how other researchers should proceed to access such data.

Any information and research data sent to Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina shall be uploaded and made available in SEDICI, the repository of Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), to increase compliance with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (it should be possible to find and access data, which should be located in systems capable of interoperating, and people should be able to reuse them in other investigations).

Authors are encouraged to store data in SEDICI, or any other research data repository (for example, FigShare, Mendeley Data or Zenodo), before sending their contributions to the journal. When the article is submitted, this would allow simply mentioning the URL where the research data are located.

Authors are requested to use formats that maximize data accessibility and reusability (for example, regarding tabular data, using a spreadsheet is suggested). If necessary, it is recommended that, together with the data, they publish the algorithms or pipelines that must be used with the data for their correct interpretation.

Indexing

Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina takes part of  Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT-CONICET). It is included in LATINDEX Nivel I-Catálogo (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal),  Indice de revistas en consolidación AmeliCA, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)- Qualis 2017/2020, SHERPA/RoMEO, RevistALAS,  Journal TOCs, EBSCO Fuente Académica Premier, Dialnet, Biblioteca Virtual CLACSO,  DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), GALE Cengage Learning, REDIB (Red Iberomericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico), LatAm-Studies (Electronic Journals Library), EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliotheky, 4P (UNIRED: Proyecto Padrinazgo Publicaciones Periódicas Argentinas), ACUEDI (Asociación por la Cultura y la Educación Digital).