ISSN: 0121-8417
e-ISSN: 2357-4720

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The Historia y Sociedad journal was founded in 1994 by Professor Luis Antonio Restrepo Arango. It is a publication financed and edited by the History Department from the Human and Economic Sciences Department at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín). The goal of the journal is to create a space for the publication of historical research done by national and international researchers, and to promote the circulation of these contents among undergraduate, master, and doctoral students, and among the general public, to contribute to the ongoing academic discussion and to the strengthening of historical knowledge and human sciences. The journal is intended for a scientific public with an extensive academic background and specialized in local, national and global history (of Colombia, Latin America and the world), and in historiographical and theoretical analyses and research in similar disciplines. Original, unpublished results of research, reviews, book reviews and transcriptions are published in Spanish, English and Portuguese. The journal is published semi-annually, in printed and electronic formats, in January and July. Free-access contents are available in PDF and XML formats in the digital version.

The journal runs all manuscripts through a plagiarism and content similarity detection tool. Authors or readers do not have to pay, under any circumstances, any fee for submitting, publishing, or accessing the electronic contents of the journal.

The sections of the journal are the following:

Editorial

Section that presents the contents of each number. It is written by the director-editor or by guest editors (in case of a dossier)

Dossier

Section that gathers unpublished research or review papers on a specific topic. The texts present research results obtained from primary sources, methodologies and up to date literature.

Open topic

Section that gathers research or review papers on diverse topics. The texts present research results obtained from primary sources, methodologies and up to date literature.

Documents

Section that gathers critical transcriptions of documents from historical archives and from other patrimonial repositories.

Book Reviews

Section that gathers critical reviews of history books published in the past 3 years. Book reviews are selected by the editorial team.

The editorial roles in the journal are the following:

Authors

All manuscripts submitted to the journal, Historia y Sociedad, must be reviewed and approved by each of the authors. By doing so, authors guarantee that the texts are written according to the editorial policies of the journal. Authors must submit unpublished research works: papers whose content has never been published in any other academic publication (be it in indexed or bibliographical repositories). Translations of original and previously published or public works are not considered original contributions. Papers being reviewed in another journal must not be submitted. From the beginning, authors agree to disclose the origin of the article and to specify whether it was financed or supported by any institution. Authors must also submit any required authorization from the persons or organizations involved in the elaboration of the manuscript. In case of co-authorship, all authors are responsible for specifying their contributions or functions in the research and writing of the text (analysis and writing). Intellectual contributions must be significant enough to merit co-authorship. Individuals whose contribution is only partial may be included in the acknowledgments section. Authors who belong to the editorial team of the journal are immediately disqualified to make any decision regarding their own texts.

Reviewers

For the reviewing process, the editorial team of the journal asks for the participation of experts on each specific topic (at least 50% of them with international affiliation). Reviewers agree to submit, before the date established by the editorial team, an academic review using the Formato evaluación de artículos Historia y Sociedad. The review must be written in an academic, clear and non-offensive language. Additionally, the qualitative and quantitative evaluations must be explicit and conclusive. The use by reviewers of any content prior to its publication is unauthorized and considered against scientific publishing ethics. Reviewers are herein informed that plagiarism or misuse of the reviewed texts is an action with legal consequences.

Director-editor

The director-editor is the highest authority in the journal. In case of contradiction between the collegiate bodies, the director-editor makes all final decisions regarding the publishing process of the journal. The director-editor oversees all academic matters, including the historiographical focus and the proposal of monographic issues. The director-editor presides over the preliminary review of manuscripts during each submissions period, and preselects papers to be sent to an external review. The director-editor reports on the operation of the journal, ensures the accomplishment of editorial tasks, and watches over the visibility and impact of the journal according to the criteria established by Publindex (Colciencias) and international indexing systems. The director-editor can only publish once a year in the Dossier or Open Topic issues.

Editorial coordinator

The editorial coordinator assists the director-editor in the formulation of editorial policies and academic guidelines, establishes a timeline for the editorial processes and ensures their timely completion. The editorial coordinator oversees the following processes: reception of contents, review, edition, layout, publication (in print and electronic), and circulation (indexing systems and academic networks). From the submission of manuscripts to referees, to their definitive publication in the journal, the editorial coordinator guarantees the existence of a confidential, ethical and transparent reviewing process that ensures the protection of intellectual property. Names and electronic addresses will be exclusively used to the ends stated by the journal and will not be available, for any purpose, to any other person or institution. The coordinator assists the editor in the decisions and actions required to guarantee that the journal meets the indexing criteria.

Editorial Council

The members of the editorial council are consulted to define changes regarding the focus, content and editorial image of the journal. They may propose topics for the monographic issues. When required by the director-editor, they may suggest lists of peer reviewers, or they may serve as reviewers. They will be the main promoters of the circulation (in print and electronic) of the journal (opening of submissions, news, and recently published issues) in national and international publishing media.

Guest editors

Guest editors are researchers invited by the editorial team or by the editorial council to coordinate a dossier. Proposals of monographic issues suggested by researchers with extensive experience in a specific field are also considered. Guest editors must send a proposal containing: title, objectives and a thematic focus (500 words maximum). Their functions are to announce the opening for submissions in national and international academic networks; to review and select the papers for external evaluation; to suggest at least two reviewers per paper; to select, with the help of the editorial team, the best-evaluated papers to be published in the dossier; and to write the dossier’s introduction.

The publication of this journal is financially supported by School of Human and Economic Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín). http://medellin.unal.edu.co/