About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Tirant (Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries) is an international journal and newsletter, open access, peer-reviewed, which publishes original research on Hispanic and European medieval texts of history and fiction, seeking to maintain a rigorous and fruitful scientific communication, and bibliographic information updated.

Peer Review Process

Tirant has a list of expert reviewers in its main field (medieval literature, narrative of chivalry). The originals sent are evaluated and reported in accordance with the system of scientific peer reviewed. Each original is evaluated by two external reviewers to the editorial team. After confirming that the original received is adapted to the field of research of the journal and its standards, the editorial board sends it to two reviewers, who forwarded a report to the editor in period of two months. In case of difference of opinion, the item is sent to a third reviewer, who may in this case be a member of the scientific or advisory board.

Open Access Policy

Last numbers

Link:

http://parnaseo.uv.es/tirant.htm

Bibliographical identification and periodicity

Title: Tirant (Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries)

Abbreviation: Tirant

ISSN: 1579-7422

Other identifications: every article within Tirant will have its own DOI identifier.

Frequency of publication: Annual.

First publication year: 1998

Inici de la publicació: desembre 2014.

Editorial and academic boards

Publisher:

Universitat de València

http://www.uv.es

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 10

46010 València (Espanya).

Tel UV: (+34) 963 86 41 00


Director: Rafael Beltran Llavador

Departament de Filologia Espanyola

Universitat de València

València (Espanya)

rafael.beltran@uv.es


ACADEMIC BOARD


DIRECTOR


Rafael Beltran, Universitat de València


EDITORIAL BOARD


Rosanna Cantavella, Universitat de València

José Manuel Lucía, UCM

Xiomara Luna, UNAM, México

Stefano Neri, Università di Verona

Emilio Sales, IES Tavernes


SECRETARY


Karolina Zygmunt, Universitat de València


ACADEMIC BOARD


Prof. Rafael Alemany, Universitat d'Alacant

Lola Badia, Universitat de Barcelona

Anna Bognolo, Università di Padova

Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua, Universidad de Zaragoza

Cesàreo Calvo, Universitat de València

Axayácatl Campos, UNAM, México

Jaume Chiner, Biblioteca Valenciana

Ivy Corfis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Anton Espadaler, Universitat de Barcelona

Dr. Antoni Ferrando Francés, Universitat de València

Isabel Grifoll, Universitat de Lleida

Giuseppe Grilli, Università dei Roma Tre

M.ª Carmen Marín Pina, Universidad de Zaragoza

Llúcia Martín, Universitat d'Alacant

Vicent Martines, Universitat d'Alacant

Tomàs Martínez, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló

Rafael Mérida, Universitat de Lleida

Joan Perujo, Universitat d'Alacant

Montserrat Piera, Temple University

Josep Pujol Gómez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Rafael Ramos, Universitat de Girona

Michelle Szkilnik, Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle

Jaume Torró, Universitat de Girona

Reproduction rights and subscription

Copyright: All documents in OJS are free and owned by their authors, by license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

To submit their manuscripts to Tirant, authors must accept this type of copyright.

Subscriptions: Via RSS alerts.

Price: This is a free-of-charge journal in open format.

Diffusion

As an Open Journal Systems journal, Tirant has a global diffusion. Its editorial team are committed to further the journal's dissemination by applying for inclusion to all possible indexes and databases (see Indexing).

Authors who publish in Tirant must commit themselves to disseminate their articles in those repositories to which they have access (green way of global diffusion), and in researchers' social networks; at least in Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.es/) and Academia.edu (http://www.academia.edu/).

Information is sent periodically via email to mailing lists of medieval, romance and hispanic subjects, such as AHLM, Mediber, Portal de Hispanismo, etc.

Indexing

Tirant appears in numerous international databases; among others Dialnet, DOAJ, ERIH+, MLA, IB, Qüern, REDIB, Rebuin, Regesta Imperii, Sudoc, WorldCat, ZDB. Tirant is indexed in CIRC, CCHS, Dice, Journal Scholar Metrics,Latindex, MIAR, RESH.

You can check it at the tool bar Indexing.

Ethical principles in research and publication

Ethical principles in research

The current economic insignificance of the humanities in the social scene makes the appearance of ethical conflicts between the objectivity of researchers and economic interests of its sponsors less likely than in other areas, as sponsors are usually public, non-profit institutions. However, the editorial board states its requirement of the authors’ academic independence from the interests (economic, political or other) of their sponsors.


Ethical principles in publication

- Academic fraud:

There is academic fraud when a publication is not true in whole or in part, and is the product of deception. Ways of academic fraud: making up results out of fabricated data; falsifying data; deliberately omitting facts or data, and plagiarism. There is plagiarism when an author introduces results, ideas, or data created by others as his/her own. Also, when a text is copied without appearing within quotation marks, or without indication of source. Also when this preexistent text appears as the author’s own with a few words changed, or in paraphrase, and lacks acknowledgement of the significant assistance of others.

Measures to be taken:

Tirant warns that this practice will not be tolerated. If detected in the editorial process, publication will be immediately rejected, and the journal will reprimand the author, reminding him/her that this is a very serious criminal practice. If the way of academic fraud is plagiarism, the paper will be sent immediately to the real author, so that the latter can undertake appropriate legal action.

If the journal detects academic fraud once the work has been published, it will add within the article a statement in which the author’s fraud will be denounced in full. This statement will also appear on the journal’s website under ‘Announcements’; and also, following the ICMJE recommendations, in a statement visible at the bottom of the following issue’s table of contents (including the bibliographical reference to the said article), in which the statement text added to the article will be reproduced, containing the following sections:

A title beginning with the word “Statement” and including the reason. For example: “Statement: falsifying of data”. Then the fraud committed will be specified in full.

In the event of a severe fraud, Tirant holds the right to denounce it to the academic and the judicial authorities.

- Duplicate Publication

Redundant (or duplicate) publication is publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published. In this, Tirant follows the ICMJE rules, and does not accept manuscripts that would result in duplicate publication. The author, therefore, has the duty to warn in the journal, when s/he submits her/his work, of any factor that could represent conflict in this area. If there is any overlap with prior publications by the author, this also should be made explicit in the text of the paper submitted to Tirant.

The following are not considered duplicate publications, and therefore may be published in Tirant without conflict: (a) a work developed out of an oral conference paper (but not if the paper has already been published); (b) the translation or adaptation of an article first published in another language (but in this case the editor of the first version’s written agreement must be produced). However, in both cases the author must declare the circumstance when submitting his/her work to Tirant, and this fact must also appear within the text, for example in a footnote.

To prevent duplicate publication, the journal requires the author’s declaration of originality, as well as a statement that it is not being sent simultaneously elsewhere, when s/he submits her/his work. An attempt at redundant publication without notification will be looked upon severely by the journal, which will take measures identical to those set out in the case of academic fraud, whether the case is discovered in the editorial process, or when the article is already published.

In the latter case, the journal will make a statement of redundant publication in its pages (identical in all respects to that indicated for cases of academic fraud, and appearing in all the same places, but with the title “Statement: duplicate publication”) with or without the author’s consent.

- Authorship

In the event of multiple signatures of an article, it must be specified who can be considered the author or co-author of a work: s/he must be able to publicly take responsibility for the content of an article; able to point out how and why remarks have been made, and how conclusions have been drawn from results; able to defend her/his work against possible criticism. S/he can only do so if s/he has participated in the study’s design, observation, and interpretation of findings, and in the article’s writing. In cases of multiple signatures, Tirant may ask authors to specify what has been each one’s contribution. In authorship issues, Tirant follows the ICMJE guidelines.

Limit to the number of co-authors:

As multiple co-authorship is not common in most areas of the humanities, the journal considers this limit will only need apply very occasionally. No maximum number of co-authors is established, but the journal has not yet published more articles signed by more than two authors. Exceptionally, articles signed by three authors may be accepted.

Order of authors:

In case of co-authorship, the journal will always attend to an alphabetical order, taking for granted a prior agreement of the authors, regarding co-responsibility of authorship. A hierarchical order will not be accepted.

- Conflicts of interest

In this section, Tirant again follows ICMJE standards, which state that there will be a conflict of interest when any of the agents involved in the publication process have financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence his or her actions, especially their ability to judge, no matter if this inappropriate bias has existed or not. Here financial relationships with industry are mainly understood, but also reasons such as personal relationships, academic rivalries or intellectual passion.

The authors, reviewers and editorial staff should follow ICMJE guidelines when declaring potential conflicts of interest.

The journal asks authors to declare possible conflicts of interest when submitting their article. They are also asked to declare, should they deem it necessary, what reviewers they would prefer to be excluded from their article out of conflict of interest. The same statement is expected of potential reviewers, if they think that to evaluate a particular text would cause a conflict of interest.

If the conflict of interest is detected after publication, the journal will follow identical statement steps to those indicated in the case of academic fraud, which will appear in all the same parts, but with the title “Statement: declaration of conflict of interest”). An additional note by the author acknowledging the case and apologizing may also be admitted.

- Confidentiality

Manuscripts submitted to Tirant should be treated with absolute confidentiality, as is required of a serious academic journal at all phases of the publishing process, both in the reviewing and in the publishing stages. For this reason, too, our choice is a double-blind peer-review system.

Evaluating manuscripts: policy and criteria

- Criteria for acceptance of manuscripts
Manuscripts submitted to Tirant should represent a significant advancement of knowledge, and fulfill these basic criteria for all research articles:
Originality and novelty of results, relevance (the article must be useful and advance knowledge in its area), methodological quality resulting in reliability and academic validity, and good presentation: clear and precise writing, logical consistency and good material presentation.

Editorial priority:

Tirant’s editorial priority is chronological: articles are posted in the order of their final acceptance. Final acceptance is given after academic peer reviewing: once reviewers have given the complete approval to the manuscript, or once the author has delivered his/her manuscript revised in accordance with the modifications suggested by the reviewers.

- Selection of reviewers

Tirant keeps a bank of reviewers external to the journal’s editorial board, with their nominal and institutional identification, email address and areas of specialization, number of reviews that have been requested of each one, number of reviews delivered by each one, quality of reviews, and meeting of deadlines in delivering their reports.

This bank of reviewers is created out of suggestions by the editorial and academic boards, other reviewers, and the authors themselves.

When submitting their manuscripts, authors can suggest names of potential reviewers, or indicate which experts should not participate in their paper’s review owing to rivalries or other conflicts of interest (see above under “conflict of interest”).

- Reviewers’ responsibilities and functions

Reviewers are specialists in the various fields covered by the journal, helping the editorial board judge the quality of papers submitted for publication. Their function is to help to keep the journal’s high standards assisting authors with constructive criticism.

Consequently, these are their responsibilities and guidelines:

Competence: the reviewer must be qualified to judge the article assigned to him/her. If s/he does not think her/himself suited to this task, s/he should not accept it, or decline as soon as possible and, if requested by the journal, suggest a substitute. Reviews should be serious; comments, specific; criticism should be accompanied by concrete suggestions for alternatives.

Confidentiality: the reviewer must refrain from commenting on the work s/he is judging with anybody, as well as from taking advantage of its ideas or data until the text is released, as in the process the text is the private property of the author. If the reviewer should need to consult with another expert on a particular point, s/he should first get permission to do so from the journal’s editor.

Impartiality and honesty: it is the reviewer’s duty to review the manuscript avoiding any prejudice. For this reason, the reviewer must let the journal know if there is any conflict of interest (see above under “Conflicts of interest”) that may bias his/her opinion of the reviewed manuscript, and must self-exclude him/herself when s/he thinks his/her objectivity might be affected.

Diligence: the reviewer must comply with the deadline set by the journal. If s/he cannot comply with it, s/he must notify the editor immediately, in order to negotiate a short extension or to be replaced by another reviewer.

- Final decision

When an issue is published, the journal will inform reviewers and authors who have collaborated in it. Thus reviewers will be able to see if the reviewed article has finally been published, as well as the author’s identity.

- Exchange of reviewers’ reports

The journal will only show the report of one reviewer to another (always anonymously) in the event of marked conflict. Otherwise, given the level of specificity of the questions asked in the review questionnaire, there is no need to make the work of the reviewers public.

- Recognition of the work of reviewers

The journal will only show to a reviewer the review of another (always anonymously) in the event of overt conflict. Otherwise, and bearing in mind the reviewing form’s specific questions, there is no need to show a reviewer’s work.

- Crediting the reviewers’ task

The journal will credit the meritorious work of its reviewers in two ways: on the one hand, it will certify the reviewer’s task when s/he needs it in order to comply with the Research Reference Framework or its equivalent (sexennia, accreditations, etc.). On the other hand, it will publish on its web in the future a list of its reviewers.

However, and in order not to compromise the priority principle of confidentiality, this list will only begin to appear once three years have passed since the publication of the article evaluated, and having asked the reviewer for prior permission of personal acceptance of appearance in this list.

- Assessment of reviewers’ quality

As stated above in the section “Selection of reviewers”, within the journal’s bank of external reviewers, every reviewer’s record registers the result of monitoring his/her work: number of reviews delivered, quality of reviews, and ability to meet deadlines. This material serves as assessment of every reviewer’s work.

- Complaints or claims of authors

Authors’ rights will presuppose compliance with the rules of Tirant. If an author feels the need to make a complaint, s/he should direct it to the editor. The editorial board will then study whether there is a legal basis for this complaint within the journal’s rules, and will respond to the author as soon as possible: either indicating that there is no case for complaint under the rules, or otherwise by communicating which steps will be taken by the board in order to solve the conflict. See also above, under “Conflicts of interest”.

As for blind review, the commonest area of conflict, it should be born in mind that, just as the reviewer has a duty to work with impartiality and to issue a useful and constructive report, so too must the author be willing to accept comments and suggestions.

Integrity, responsibility and communication

Editorial freedom and integrity

Tirant complies with the principle of editorial freedom and integrity. The editorial board will oppose any external attempt to compromise its editorial policy or content. The editor will have complete authority and responsibility for the journal’s content. Tirant is published by the Universitat de València, an institution that has a long tradition of commitment to academic freedom.

- Disclaimer about authors’ statements
Tirant is not responsible for opinions included in articles published in its pages, which are the sole responsibility of their authors.

- Copyright

Tirant is a publication committed to the promotion of open knowledge. To avoid any obstacle to the spreading of their work, authors are the owners of their articles, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Relationship with the media

Even so, it must be able to anticipate the potential distortions which lay writers might cause in the occasional spreading of content published by the journal. To this end, Tirant intends to keep a blog and to have a presence in the social network Twitter, so as to inform the general public of each new issue and make any clarifications, as well as to receive comments and suggestions.

As an academic and scholarly journal, Tirant does not foresee a close relationship with print or audiovisual media. Even so, it must be able to anticipate possible distortions that non-specialized writers could cause in the occasional dissemination of novelties published in the journal. In this sense, the Tirant option is to maintain a fluid communication with the general public, basically through the specialized lists, but also from the cultural pages of the informative newspapers, and from the press service of the Universities, giving know the news of each issue, and making the relevant clarifications and corrections, as well as receiving any type of comments and suggestions.

- Advertising

Tirant does not include advertisements.

Journal control system, audits and self-assessment

A journal should assess itself periodically, in different ways. Each year, Tirant’s editorial board will hold a physical or virtual meeting, in which it will assess the overall quality of its evaluation criteria, forms, and web protocols, evaluation reports, works published and the quality of reviewers. In light of the data and opinions collected from various agents (readers, reviewers, authors, editorial board and academic board), it will consider the possibility of improvements in the journal’s various aspects.

- Feedback from readers

Opinions of readers will be collected continuously through Tirant’s presence in social networks and its blog. Through these platforms, views on originality, significance, novelty, timeliness and methodological quality of Tirant’s articles will be collected, and considered at the editorial board’s annual self-assessment.

- Editorial board’s opinion

Members of the editorial board also undertake a continuous process of evaluation by different agents: they collect readers’ opinions, interact with authors, collecting their opinions too in the process; they assess the reviewers’ work on receipt, as well as the work of the academic board, which will advise on the journal’s editorial policy. All these elements, as mentioned, are considered in the journal’s annual self-assessment, and where appropriate lead to changes.

- Reviewers’ opinion

The journal asks every reviewer for opinions and suggestions for improvement within its evaluation form, every time they file a report. These opinions are evaluated, and where appropriate incorporated, within the annual self-assessment meeting.

- Authors’ opinion

Once an issue is been published, Tirant will take a brief survey from its authors, for them to give their opinions on these aspects of the editorial process: criteria for assessment of manuscripts, timeline for reviews, reviewing protocols and their quality.

Publication languages

Tirant will accept articles in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and Italian. He will also consider articles in other languages, provided that there are trained reviewers to supervise them, and that the author commits to cover the possible costs of translating his text into any of the aforementioned languages.

Digital archiving policy

Tirant uses the Universitat de València's institutional repository, RODERIC, as its main digital archive base: http://roderic.uv.es/static/rev/37583.html#continguts.

The journal is also archived on the platform of the Research Project ‘Parnaseo’, group funded by the Ministry:
http://parnaseo.uv.es/tirant.htm.

Third, it is also filed in the RACO Repository: http://raco.cat/index.php/Tirant

Every article published by Tirant is also assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which appears in its first page.

Frequency of publication

Tirant has an annual publication frequency and publishes its numbers in December.

Tirant has published 20 issues per year, from 1998 to 2017.

Journal History

Tirant (Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic cavalleries literature) is a journal of information, research and scientific communication, related with several fields, such as philology, history, art, and other disciplines. It aims to maintain a rigorous and fruitful dialogue around European chivalric novel, Valencian tradition and Catalan history of literature; and Hispanic, Roman and universal fiction as well. Tirant was created in 1996.