Editorial policies
Scope and focus
Objective
Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana was born as a response to the situation of political conflict that democracy and Latin American society are currently going through. But it is also born as a committed response to the philosophical analysis and historical interpretation of culture and social sciences in the face of the crisis of Modernity. Response that seeks the creation of new actors and scenarios from which unprecedented alternatives for critical theory and effective social change become possible. An answer in two senses: the utopian because every authentic existential project must be framed and defined by the universe of its human evaluations; practice because, unlike the necessary theory, it implies a type of action whose movement is capable of dialectizing the understanding of reality, but also of transforming the subjects that constitute it. With which the notion of praxis leads us back to politics, ethics and, today, to science and technology. It is a response from Latin America, because it is from the Latin American being and thinking that the praxis of our utopian project becomes feasible.
Public
Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana is aimed at members of the academic world who are involved in research and teaching in the area of political and social philosophy, in the social sciences and humanities, who seek a space for dialogue from critical perspectives.
Thematic coverage
The thematic areas that define the editorial profiles of the journal are inserted in the following lines of Ibero/Latin American thought: Latin American political philosophy, history of ideas, epistemology, theories and methodologies of the social sciences, social, political and philosophical anthropology, ethics and pragmatics, philosophy and intercultural dialogue, gender studies. The respective subareas of each general area will be defined by the editorial committee, with the help of their respective national and international advisors, in order to establish the relevance of the papers presented. Preferably, the research will be carried out in the field of political and social philosophy and interculturality.
Frequency of publication
Utopía y praxis latinoamericana is a quarterly journal that publishes during the first month of the quarters: January-March; April-June; July-September; October-December.
Journal sponsor
University of Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela), attached to the Center for Sociological and Anthropological Studies (CESA) of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. Funded by the Council for Scientific and Humanistic Development (CONDES) of this same University. All the management is carried out by the Utopraxis Center.
Open access policy (OA)
Declaration of Open Access non-commercial
Utopía y praxis latinoamericana adheres to the open access initiative of Budapest (BOAI 2002) and the Declaration of Mexico in favor of the Latin American ecosystem of open non-commercial access, of December 15, 2017, for this reason it offers free and open access to all the material published in their regular issues, extras or of any nature. This journal does not have embargo periods, so its issues are freely available to the public since the moment they are published. The only limitations that those who use our materials will have are the ones imposed by the Creative Commons CC BY NC SA 4.0 license, which is the only license with which our journal publishes.
Scope of Open Access
Those who access this journal may perform the following actions for free: read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or use in any digital or physical media and for any legal purpose the material published here.
- The declaration of Mexico (2017) can be found in the following LINK.
- More information about the BOAI 2002 can be found in the following LINK.
File policy and third-party repositories
Declaration of free non-commercial use
Any editor can use the archives of our journal to be stored in institutional or personal repositories, provided that they do not have commercial purposes. The articles can not be part of new edited works. Only the storage of the work without modifications is allowed.
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, which allows creating permanent archives of the journal for conservation and restoration purposes. For more information click the following LINK.
Simultaneous archiving policy
Our journal allows simultaneous publication in self-archiving system and institutional repositories. In all these cases it must be done respecting the license of our publications.
If you want to harvest our editions, use the OAI-PMH address: https://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/utopia/oai
Policy for the preservation of digital archives
In order to ensure the preservation of the content published by Utopía y praxis latinoamericana, Since April 2018, our editions have begun to be deposited on the preservation platform in open Access: Zenodo and Internet Archive.
License and Copyright Terms
Utopía y praxis latinoamericana publishes exclusively with a Creative Commons license CC BY NC SA 4.0 that demands:
Attribution
The authorship of each material must be recognized, which implies presenting the name of the person who wrote it in a visible place. In the same way, you must mention where you retrieved it, indicating an electronic address.
Non-commercial
All the material published by the journal is distributed free of charge. The journal does not allow third parties to make commercial use of the material offered here. Many of the publications are products of public resources and the journal has published them free of charge to ensure their distribution. It is strictly forbidden to commercialize any of the publications of the journal.
Share Alike
This material can be used freely, but you must always respect the license with which we have published. It is required that when using our material it is under this same license.
International
Our license requires that the material be available without regional restrictions.
Utopía y praxis latinoamericana does not allow derivative works to be created from the material published here. If you want to use this material in a new work you must request authorization from the journal.
Additionally, we inform that we do not allow derivative works. All use of our material for third-party works must be authorized by Utopía y praxis latinoamericana.
The copyright of each published work recognizes authorship to those who have written them. Even so, they must make use of it respecting the conditions established by the license. In all circumstances, the publication rights belong to Utopía y praxis latinoamericana and these are shared with any person or institution for non-commercial and preferably educational purposes.
No costs for article processing (No APC)
Utopía y praxis latinoamericana has no costs for processing the contents.
Evaluation results and publication
The papers had a waiting period of 2 or 3 months, however, due to the large number of articles received between 2018 and 2020, our current response time is 12 months and publication is 18 months.
Plagiarism detection policy
Plagiarism cannot be considered as a mistake of who submits an article for review, but as a crime because it has intentionally concealed the recognition of the authorship of the work and is intended to appropriate the intellectual effort of others for their own benefit. For this reason, Utopía y praxis latinoamericana uses an anti-plagiarism program, which at the moment is Plagiarism Checker X. This program is used when receiving the articles and before any submission for evaluation.
Policy for detecting adulterated and artificial citations (since 2021)
In collaboration with Ediciones nuestrAmérica desde Abajo Ltda. (Chile) we implemented a reference table analysis report called References checker. The analysis reviews the recurrence of citations to the same journal and verifies whether its use is justified or is a bad practice. The analysis allows Utopia y praxis latinoamericana to have a broad perspective of the impact that citations have when considering a period of between 1 and 2 years. The work is a pioneer in the Latin American region at the level of magazines and demonstrates the interest of Utopia y praxis latinoamericana to increasingly improve its editorial management (the report is under construction in January 2021).
Anti-scam policy on website (since 2021)
The explosive growth we have had by further internationalizing our work, reaching distant continents, has also meant a constant cyber attack and scam attempts. In collaboration with Ediciones nuestrAmérica desde Abajo Ltda. (Chile) we implemented TOC checker which is an authentication system in which an unalterable record of the tables of contents of our editions is deposited. This will allow our readers and potential authors to verify what our publications are. This can prevent an author from falling victim to a scam. TOC checker acts as a witness to any security breach. You can read more in the LINK.
Guarantee of publication to external persons of our association
Utopia y praxis latinoamericana is committed to open publications and calls that reach the greatest number of people. For the same reason, and to avoid endogamic material, the publication of people external to our publishing entity is guaranteed, establishing that those who participate in the different councils of our journal cannot publish in it, except in justified circumstances.