About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The purpose of Geograficando is to contribute in the co-production of a reflection matrix which emphasizes “from where?”, “how?”, “with whom?”, “what for?” and “for whom?” we construct a socially responsible geographical thinking.

The journal’s Committee receives original, unpublished works on Geography or areas related to this discipline for evaluation. Geograficando promotes the publication of theoretical-epistemological and methodological reflections; the analysis of regional issues and their various implications; the production of diagnosis referring to contextualized socio-territorial selections, prospective studies and alternatives for intervention policies.

Peer Review Process

Submissions with a maximum of three authors will be accepted for evaluation. Those with four o more authors will not be considered for publication.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to accept or reject the work, in accordance with the scope and editorial standards.

Those works that match the aforementioned criteria will be considered for publication and will enter the external evaluation process, which will be communicated to the authors.

The double blind external evaluation process will be carried out by recognized specialists in the area or subject matter treated in each work.

Open Access Policy

Geograficando 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.

Geograficando is an open access journal licensed under Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.

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The policy of Geograficando is to publish original works, written by those who declare their authorship, and unpublished works, which may not have been previously published in any print or electronic medium.

The journal considers the practices listed and explained below as plagiarism:

Direct plagiarism (There is omission of the authorship, what has been taken from another text is not indicated with quotation marks, changes are made to the text of another and it is presented as original).
Plagiarism for the improper use of paraphrase.
Plagiarism with loose quotation marks (there are not indicated with inaccuracy, absence of quotation marks in words and phrases of the original text that are reproduced textually).
The "self-plagiarism" or recycling fraud (the appearance of a job is changed and presented as if it were a different job, the indication that the work is being recycled is omitted.

Geograficando implements procedures to avoid plagiarism practices - translations, fragmentation of results or "salami slicing", duplication, among others -:

The authors are asked to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and to declare that the text is original.
It is evaluated through reviewing specialists, who are also asked to pay attention to possible indicators of plagiarism, since they are the ones who know the sources and literature on the subject.
Geograficando uses iThenticate: Plagiarism detection Software provided by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata through Crossref.

If plagiarism and dishonest declaration are detected, the authors will be notified so that they can make a discharge or withdraw the submission within a period of 10 days. If plagiarism is confirmed, Revistas de la FaHCE will remove the text, indicating in the bibliographic record (if it exists) “Excluded due to plagiarism.”

Ethical Aspects and Conflict of Interest

The publication of Geograficando 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 Universidad Nacional de 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 journal 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. Conflicts of interest can be:

Economic: when the participant (author/reviewer/editor) has received or expects to receive money for activities related to the research and its dissemination.
Academics: when reviewers or editors adhere to a particular methodological or ideological trend in such a way that they may be biased to evaluate the work of others. For this reason they are asked to express themselves beforehand.
Personal or work relationships: when the participants (authors/reviewers/publishers) have some kind of friendship, enmity or work relationship. To avoid this, editors should take into account funding sources and author affiliation to choose evaluators who do not belong to those specific circles.

International guidelines

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. 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

Geograficando 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 Geograficando 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.

Digital Preservation

Geograficando uses PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).

This system allows OJS journals safeguard their contents by permanent archives of journal for conservation and restoration purposes.

Geograficando issues (from 2004 to 2016) were preserved by PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN).

Indexing

Geograficando takes part of Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT-CONICET), Catálogo LATINDEX (Nivel 1) -Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal- and Indice de revistas en consolidación AmeliCA. It is included in Dialnet, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal), ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science), LatAm (Estudios Latinoamericanos), EBSCO Essentials, Google Scholar and 4P (UNIRED: Proyecto Padrinazgo Publicaciones Periódicas Argentinas), GALE Cengage Learning y SHERPA/RoMEO. It is also included in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Research, EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek and RevistALAS.

Online Submissions

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Copyright Notice

Works are released under a Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional which provides unrestricted use, copy and redistribution in any medium or format and remix, transform and build upon the original work properly cited. The Creative Commons License stipulates that: "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)."

The assignment of non-exclusive rights also implies the authorization by the authors for the work to be deposited in the institutional repositories Memoria Académica and SEDICI and disseminated through the databases that the publisher considers suitable for indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the publication and its authors.

The citation of articles published in Geograficando must include: the name(s) of the authors, the name of the journal, the full URL of the article (in a hyperlinked format if distributed online) and the DOI number of the article.

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