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ABOUT THE PUBLICATION

Focus and scope

Dixit is a refereed and indexed academic journal. It publishes original and unpublished research articles. Its focus is on Communication —in the fields of knowledge and professional practice— which may be in dialogue with other disciplines, 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 SciELODialnetEBSCOMIAR, HAPI and CLASE databases, and registered in DOAJTimbóROAD and LatinREV. The journal is member of AURA and the Red de Investigadores en Diseño (Universidad de Palermo), and is also in the social network X.

Editorial policy

The Editorial Team decides whether the papers received are suitable for the focus and editorial style of the journal, and in which volume the papers are published. Since 2024, preprints are accepted.

The authors are responsible for the content of their articles or art works.

Section policies

Research articles. Original and unpublished research papers, with a length between 6,000 and 10,000 words (not including references, tables, or figures). They are peer-reviewed in a double-blind system.

Bibliographic reviews. Between 1,000 and 3,000 words (not including references, tables, or figures), evaluated by the journal editorial team. 

Thematic dossiers. Proposals for thematic dossiers are received and will be evaluated by the Editor, with the Associate Editors, for acceptance and implementation. These proposals must include the names of the persons who will coordinate the dossier as guest editors. Regardless of the chosen theme, the dossiers must present topics related to the region and not to particular territories or countries. These proposals should be sent to the journal by e-mail to the editor in charge.

The journal occasionally publishes other types of articles by invitation.

Frequency of publication

As of 2024, the journal Dixit is published in the continuous publication mode. Articles are published as they complete the editorial process in a single annual volume.

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 accepts works in English and Portuguese. In these cases, if the article is accepted by the Editorial Team and passes the arbitration process, its authors are committed to ensuring the professional quality of the final version of the text.

Open Access Policy

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. 

Review process

Manuscripts are received by the scientific editor and reported to the Associate Editors, who determine the relevance, opportunity or suitability of the article and decides whether to proceed to the peer review phase or to reject it. In the latter case, the author is informed of the decision without any type of return.

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 reviewers suggest the publication or not of the article according to the following possibilities: a) Publishable, b) Publishable with suggestions, c) Publishable with modifications, and d) Not publishable.

Dixit's rejection rate was 51 % in 2023.

When an article receives a "Publishable with modifications" review, the Editorial Team oversees that the corrections have been incorporated. When an article receives a "Not publishable" review, the Editorial Team reserves the right to reject the article. In case of substantial differences between two evaluations, the article is sent to a third reviewer.

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.

The anonymous evaluation is delivered to the authors so that they can make the necessary adjustments for the publication of the article. The evaluated aspects are the following: compliance with editorial guidelines; originality of the article and its contributions to the corresponding field of knowledge; internal coherence; clear statement of the main idea and solid foundation of same; conclusions fitting to the purposes intended, as initially stated; adequate handling of wide-ranging pertinent references; correct spelling and syntax. You can access the evaluation form for research articles here.

Anti-plagiarism policy

In submitting their articles, the authors declare that they are original and unpublished and free from plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. Dixit will not accept works containing more than a 30% of self-plagiarism. Authors should indicate, in a footnote on the first page, whether their articles are based on materials available in previous publications, repositories or on the web. Content reused in manuscripts must be properly referenced according to the Guidelines for Authors.

To ensure the originality and unpublished nature of scientific articles, Dixit uses the services of Similarity Check by Crossref and Turnitin.

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.

Ethical Code

Everyone involved in the editorial process of Dixit (editors, authors, reviewers) must act in accordance with ethical standards to ensure compliance with the best editorial practices and a commitment to the highest professional standards.

The Associate Editors agree to objectively analyze all contributions received, and to comply with a procedure that ensures quality and transparency. Is responsibility of the Associate Editors to select the appropriate reviewers for each article, as well as ensuring the confidentiality of the process. Is its duty to comply with the deadlines for responding to each application. The Associate Editors should be alert for any ethical allegations or claims of any kind on the postulated articles, and give authors the opportunity to defend themselves.

The authors are obliged to ensure the originality of their articles as well as the transparency of the investigation process and the accuracy of its results. Authors will deliver a signed declaration which states that the articles are of his own, are unpublished and are not postulated simultaneously for other publications. Authors who sign an article must have made a substantial contribution to the work. Also, it is the obligation of the authors to attribute the credit to everyone and all kinds of work in which they have based their article or parts of it, according to the format stipulated in the guidelines for contributions. Authors should make explicit the existence of any conflicts of interest or any funding they have received for carrying out the article.

Reviewers perform the evaluation of the articles voluntarily, with the mission to contribute to the improvement of the quality of works, ensuring an objective and constructive review. To do so, they agree to follow the guidelines provided by Dixit and undertake to meet the policies of the peer-review process as well as the deadlines established for the task.
It is the responsibility of the reviewers to alert the Editorial Team of any conflict of interest or circumstance that may prevent them from carrying out a suitable and objective evaluation.

Digital preservation policy

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.

Copyright notice and Creative Commons licenses

Authors agree to assign copyright to the journal and are responsible for the contents and opinions expressed in the articles.

From issue 32, all the content of the journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). 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.

Privacy statement

Names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated in this journal and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.


 

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