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ABOUT THE PUBLICATION |
Focus and scope
Dixit is
an open access, refereed and indexed digital journal of the Universidad
Católica del Uruguay. It publishes original and unpublished research articles
in Spanish and, occasionally, at the Editorial Board's discretion, in English
and Portuguese. Its focus is on Communication, which can be in dialogue with
other disciplines of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, with an
editorial style that promotes agile reading of rigorous work. It is aimed at
individuals and institutions interested in the field of Communication and
related disciplines. Dixit is indexed in ESCI (Web of Science), and Catálogo Latindex 2.0; distributed in SciELO, Dialnet, EBSCO, MIAR, HAPI and CLASE databases,
and registered in DOAJ (Directory
of Open Access Journals), LA
Referencia, LatinREV, ROAD, SILO and Timbó. The journal is member of AURA and the Red de Investigadores en Diseño (Universidad de Palermo), and is also in the
social network X. Frequency of publication Starting
in 2024, Dixit is published in the form of a continuous publication in an
annual volume. Types of contributions
Since
2024, the journal receives manuscripts for early publication (preprints), which
have been published as such on a specific platform (e.g, SciELO
Preprints, Preprints.org, among others). Occasionally, essays are also
published at the invitation of the Editorial Board. In
all cases, the Editorial Board of Dixit decides whether the contributions
received are in accordance with the focus and editorial style of the journal,
and in which volume they are published. Free of charge publication Authors
are not charged for publishing in Dixit. The expenses of the
editorial process of the articles are covered by the Universidad Católica del
Uruguay. Dixit does not charge for subscriptions; access to
the full text of published articles has no cost. Dixit publishes
articles in Spanish and, occasionally, at the discretion of the Editorial
Board, accepts articles in English and Portuguese. In these cases, if the
article is accepted by the Editorial Board and passes the reviewing process,
its authors undertake to ensure the professional quality of the edition of the
final version of the text. Review process 1. First
phase of evaluation Manuscripts
are received by the scientific editor and submitted to the Editorial Board. The
Board determines the relevance, timeliness or adequacy of the article to the
focus and style of the publication and decides whether to proceed to the peer
review phase or to reject it. This
first phase of the process takes a maximum of 2 months. 2.
Peer-review Papers
submitted to refereed sections that approve the first phase of evaluation are
sent to two external reviewers according to the double-blind system, i.e., the
author does not know the identity of the reviewers and the reviewers do not
know the identity of the authors. The
evaluators suggest whether or not to publish the article, according to the
following possibilities: a) Publishable, b) Publishable with minor
modifications, c) Publishable with major changes and resubmit for review, and
d) Not publishable. When
an article receives an opinion of “Publishable with minor modifications”, the
Editorial Team is in charge of corroborating that such corrections have been
incorporated; when the opinion is “Publishable with major changes and resubmit
for review”, the reviewer has the possibility of revising the manuscript once
it has been corrected, if he/she so wishes. If an article receives one of the
two opinions as “Not publishable”, the Editorial Board reserves the right to
reject the article. In case of substantial differences between two evaluations,
the article may be sent to a third referee. The
anonymous evaluation is given to the authors so that they can incorporate the
necessary corrections for the publication of the article. The aspects evaluated
are: compliance with editorial standards; originality and contributions to the
field of knowledge; solid foundation of the topic; internal coherence; clear
enunciation of the main idea of the article; presentation and discussion of the
findings or results of the research; adequacy of the conclusions to what was
initially proposed; ample and pertinent handling of the bibliographic
references; spelling and syntactic correctness. You can access the evaluation
form for research articles here. The
judgment is delivered to the authors within a 6-month period, counted from the
date the work was received. Also, the Editorial Team reserves the right to
define in which volume to publish the articles. Dixit’s
acceptance rate for 2023-2024 was 47 %. Ethics and editorial policies Ethical guidelines The
journal ensures good practices in academic publishing by following the
guidelines established by the Committee
on Publications Ethics (COPE). The
ethical principles and other policies related to transparency, accountability,
intellectual property, accessibility and reproduction rights, among others, are
detailed below. Authors’ responsibility and authorial contribution Authors
of a manuscript are considered to be those persons who have made a significant
contribution to the final product. Authors
should present results of rigorous, transparent and ethical research processes,
assuming responsibility for the published research. Their research methods
should be described, in such a way that the scientific community can
corroborate or replicate the study. When
submitting their papers, authors must complete, sign and attach this Authorship Responsibility Statement in which, among other information, they declare
that their work is original and unpublished. Authors should refrain from
submitting the manuscript simultaneously to two or more journals. Authors
should carefully select the order of appearance of their names in the submitted
paper. The first author will be considered the senior author and, unless
otherwise specified, will oversee correspondence with the journal. After the
article has been submitted, changes can only be made to the list of authors,
both in the order and in adding or deleting people, by sending an e-mail to the Editorial Board and explaining the
reasons for the changes. For
reasons of transparency, each author of a manuscript must declare his or her
specific contribution, for which the CRediT taxonomy of roles is followed. Any
controversy related to the authorship of a manuscript should be communicated by
e-mail to the journal, and will be resolved by the Editorial Board and communicated
to the parties involved in the shortest possible time. Conflicts of interest All
those involved in the editorial processing of a manuscript must make explicit
and/or alert, at any stage of the process, about any personal, academic,
political, financial or other interest that may influence or compromise in any
way the evaluation and publication of the work. When
submitting their manuscripts, authors must make explicit any possible conflicts
of interest, as well as inform if their work has received any type of funding
or economic support from agencies, projects or individuals, and make explicit
any possible link with parties interested in the research submitted for
consideration by the journal. The
reviewers convened by the journal for the evaluation of manuscripts are
responsible for alerting the Editorial Board of any conflict of interest or
circumstance that may prevent them from carrying out the task in a suitable and
objective manner. In
cases in which a member of the Editorial Board has a conflict of interest or is
an interested party in the publication process of an article submitted to the
journal, he/she will be replaced in his/her responsibilities by another member
of the team, who will be in charge of managing the editorial process with independence
and without compromising the principles of confidentiality and privacy of
information. Plagiarism detection Authors
are committed to submit original and unpublished articles. This implies the
absence of plagiarism (appropriation of ideas or phrases from third parties) or
self-plagiarism (duplicate publication without attribution or excessive
self-citation). Authors
should indicate, by means of a note on the first page of the article submitted,
whether it was prepared from materials available in previous publications,
repositories or on the web. The contents reused in the manuscripts must be duly
referenced in accordance with the APA 7 citation guidelines. The degree of
self-citation allowed will be at the discretion of the editor in charge, according
to each case and in accordance with the guidelines mentioned above. As
part of the initial process of receiving articles and the formal review of
submissions, the journal performs a plagiarism check of the manuscript
using Crossref and Turnitin software. If
plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected in an article, the editorial team has
the authority to reject the submission directly or to contact the authors to
request the corresponding explanations and the necessary adjustments. When
the submitted articles require modifications by the authors —as part of the
result of peer review— the new version of the paper will be subjected to the
analysis of anti-plagiarism software. Beyond
the technical analysis performed by the journal, all participants in the
editorial process (editors, reviewers, as well as readers of an article once it
has been published) can alert the responsible editor or the journal to a possible
detection of plagiarism by sending an e-mail. Actions to be taken when
plagiarism is reported are addressed in the subsection “Corrections, complaints
and malpractice claims management”. Use of generative artificial intelligence Generative
artificial intelligence (AI) is not recognized as the author of the work and
the ultimate responsibility for the content lies with the undersigned authors. The
use of AI tools should be explicitly stated by the authors in the manuscript,
in the methodological section, detailing which tool was used and for what
purpose. Data availability Following
the SciELO Guidelines for Transparency and Openness Promotion in
Journal Policies and Practices (Transparency and Openness Promotion) on data transparency, authors of articles
resulting from original research should report whether the dataset used in
their study is available and, if so, where to access it. Some
possible repositories for open data are: SciELO Data, Mendeley Data, Zenodo, DANS, DataHub, FigShare. In
case the authors have their data in any server, they should state it alongside
the submission as follows: “The dataset supporting the results of this study is
available at [name and link to repository]”. If
not, they should include the following statement: “The dataset supporting the
results of this study is not available”. In
all cases, authors should make the research data available to the referees, if
required. Review and responsibility of reviewers Articles
published in the journal are submitted to external peer review, using the
double-blind refereeing system. Details of the evaluation process can be found
in the Review process subsection. Reviewers
undertake to referee articles on a voluntary and honorary basis, in order to
contribute to improve the quality of the papers through an objective and
constructive review. They must be free of conflicts of interest in relation to
the study submitted for evaluation. They
should follow the evaluation guidelines provided by the journal and comply with
both the policies of the evaluation process and the deadlines stipulated for
the task. The
manuscript under review is a confidential document, implying that reviewers may
not quote or use the material or distribute copies of the work to others. If a
reviewer intends to consult a third party about any aspect of the work, he/she
must ask permission from the editor beforehand. The
responsible editor and the Editorial Board are committed to supervise the
publication processes, following the highest ethical standards. The
editors will ensure that the articles are peer-reviewed by specialists in the
subject, clearly informing about the rules of publication and respecting the
confidentiality and anonymity of the arbitration process. Editors may not
distribute copies of a manuscript under review to persons outside the review
process, nor cite the material in their own publications until it has been
accepted and published. Manuscripts
submitted for review must meet the international ethical standards set forth by
the American Psychological Association and the Declaration of Helsinki. For
all research involving human subjects and animal experimentation, the
submission of an Ethics Committee approval will be considered. This approval
should provide specific details regarding the institution and the committee
that granted it, including the corresponding number and date. The Method
section should include a subsection on ethical considerations, detailing the
main aspects related to procedures and informed consents pertinent to the
study, as well as mentioning the approval (identification number and/or issuing
institution) if available. In
research involving potentially vulnerable persons or groups (whether due to
age, disability, gender, racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation,
socioeconomic level, institutionalization, among others, as well as their
possible intersections), the procedures and specific care taken to ensure
compliance with the ethical guidelines that apply to research with these
populations will be detailed. Open access and copyright policy Open Access This
journal provides open access to all its content. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
(CC BY 4.0), users have the
right to view, download, store, print, search, index and create links to the
texts, provided that the original source and the person in charge of its
authorship are cited in all cases and situations. Authors
are free to archive their published article in institutional repositories
and/or on their personal web pages, always mentioning the publication in Dixit with
the corresponding data. Following the Guidelines for Transparency
and Openness Promotion (TOP)
in Journal Policies and Practices,
and
in compliance with Level 1 of Guideline 2
(Data Transparency), authors are required to include in the articles that result from original research a section on "Data Availability" in which they report whether the dataset used in their research is available and, if so, where to access it Licenses From
issue 32 onwards the Creative Commons Attribution/Attribution 4.0
International License is
in force. Issues
number 29-31 are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
International License. The
contents corresponding to number 28 and earlier editions are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
4.0 International License. Copyright If
the manuscript is accepted, the authors agree to transfer the copyright to the
journal according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
(CC BY 4.0), open access
system, with the authors retaining responsibility for the content and opinions
expressed, which do not reflect the views or scientific policy of the journal. The
authors hereby declare that their work does not infringe on the rights of third
parties and that they are the sole holders of the property rights being
transferred, allowing them to dispose of these rights without any limitations
or encumbrances. They also declare that, in creating the work subject to this
transfer, they have not violated any third-party intellectual property rights.
Consequently, the authors are obliged to guarantee the authorship and
originality of the work’s content to the journal and ensure the peaceful
exercise of the transferred rights. The authors will be responsible for any
claims made by third parties regarding intellectual property rights over the
work, thus exempting the journal from any liability. They will also be liable
for any damages that may be caused to the journal due to such claims. The
article’s content will not be subject to any other rights by any other
publication, nor has it been previously published. If tables or figures from
other publications are reproduced, written permission from the authors or
copyright holders will be provided as appropriate. In all cases, the APA
guidelines for presenting tables and figures will be followed. Editorial policies and best practices Corrections, complaints and malpractice claims
management The
journal will receive via e-mail indications
of corrections in the content of published articles, complaints of any kind
involving the content of publications, and allegations of research misconduct
or plagiarism. These communications may be made at any time during the
publication process of an article by any of the parties involved in it or by
the community of readers after the publication of the articles. The
Editorial Board will analyze each case following the guidelines provided
by COPE for
each scenario and will take the corresponding measures for each situation. In
all cases, we will proceed with maximum transparency and the complainant will
receive a response on the actions taken by the magazine based on his or her
complaint. The persons or institutions involved in the particular case will
also be contacted, following up as necessary in each circumstance. The
magazine will communicate, by means of notices published on its website and
available to all readers on the home page, any significant news related to the
content of the articles. In
the case of errors made by the authors or controversies related to authorship,
a correction will be published; whereas, if the error was made by the editorial
team, an erratum will be published. Communications about errors will be made
only when the information is incorrect or affects the content of the research;
minor corrections such as spelling or typographical adjustments will not be
announced. Retractions
are reserved for cases of plagiarism, duplicate publication, or research that
presents errors of such seriousness as to compromise its results or
conclusions. Any retractions will be analyzed by the responsible editor in
consultation with the Editorial Board, the reviewers and the authors of the
article in question. All authors involved must be notified, and declare to the
journal that they accept the retraction. In
such cases, the article will be withdrawn and a notice will be published
identifying the title of the retracted article, the names and affiliations of
the authors of the article, and the reasons for the decision taken. The
retraction will also be included as a document in the Table of Contents of the
issue corresponding to the retracted article. More
details on the retraction process can be found in COPE. Complaints
or denunciations against the journal, its staff, the Editorial Board or the
responsible editor can be sent to the Vice Rector’s Office for Research and
Innovation (vii@ucu.edu.uy). Use of language Authors
are encouraged to use language that does not discriminate or reproduce
discriminatory biases based on gender, race, age, disability, socioeconomic
status, sexual orientation, etc. Digital preservation Through
the LOCKSS system
(Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), the journal Dixit guarantees
a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open-source program developed by
the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to preserve selected web
journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect and archive
newly published content. Each file is continuously validated against records
from other libraries, so that any damaged or lost content can be restored. The
articles have DOI (Digital Object Identifier) granted by the Crossref registration
agency. Through the PKP Preservation Network, preservation is also provided for
any journal that is in Open Journal Systems. Privacy Statement The
names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for
the purposes set forth therein and will not be provided to third parties or for
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