About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural publishes articles in Spanish and English on the culture produced in Spanish-speaking countries during the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century from a critical, materialistic and interdisciplinary methodology. The articles will aim to investigate the relationship between cultural productions, social imaginaries and political processes of their time. Contributions that relate productions from different cultural fields (literature, cinema, visual arts, music, theater...) and that propose objects of study that go beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries will be especially valued.


Exceptionally, if the subject matter of the article so requires, articles in other languages will also be accepted, especially Catalan, Galician, Basque and Portuguese. Articles must be original and unpublished and not awaiting acceptance by any other publication.


The magazine also publishes cultural documents such as interviews, creative texts, testimonials and essays related to the themes addressed in each issue. These documents should be of great potential value for future research.


Each issue of Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural will respect the following proportions:


Research articles will constitute at least 80% of the published material.
Non-scholarly papers will not exceed 20% of the published material.
Among research articles:


International research articles (written by researchers not based in Spanish centers) will constitute at least 50% of all articles.
Research articles signed by researchers from the Universitat de València will not exceed, in any case, 20% of all of them.
Research articles signed by members of the editorial board or editorial committee will not exceed 20% of all of them.
Research articles signed by women will constitute at least 40% of all articles.
The journal publishes monographic blocks (thematic groups of more than 8 articles) that respond to specific calls for papers, coordinated by guest editors and published at least six months in advance for the preparation of manuscripts. It also publishes shorter thematic dossiers (blocks of between 4 and 7 articles), proposed by independent editors. All articles undergo a rigorous system of blind peer review.


In addition, the journal has a permanent miscellaneous section, in which we publish individual contributions on a research topic, which will be submitted to a peer review process. Since the number of articles to be published in this section is limited, only texts that receive excellent evaluations and that, in the opinion of the journal, make a very significant contribution to the field of study will be published.


Researchers who wish to coordinate a monograph or a dossier should contact the journal's management and send a provisional 'Call for Papers', to be evaluated by the Editorial Board. Potential coordinators of monographs and dossiers should be aware that the percentages required of them are the same as those of the journal, as detailed above.

Peer Review Process

Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural has a biannual periodicity and will publish its two annual issues in July and December.
All research articles received by Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural will be submitted to the following refereeing system:
1. First, the articles will be reviewed internally by the management team or the editorial board, which will decide on the relevance of the article with respect to the research areas of the journal and whether or not to continue with the evaluation process. All authors whose articles have been rejected will be notified in writing of the reasons for this decision. An article may be rejected for not meeting the journal's research standards or for not being related to the debates, methodologies and issues that are of primary interest to the journal.


Articles that pass this internal evaluation will be submitted to the URKUND plagiarism detection program before passing to the external evaluation phase. Any irregularity detected will be notified to the authors, which may result in the exclusion of the article from the evaluation process.


2. Secondly, the articles will be reviewed by external evaluators, chosen for their recognized prestige in the area of study of the article. According to the blind peer review system, each article will be evaluated anonymously by at least two evaluators who are specialists in the field of study. A greater number of evaluations may be requested when deemed convenient (evaluators from different disciplines or traditions). After reading and analyzing the evaluations, the editors of the issue, together with the journal's management, will make a reasoned decision regarding each article, which may be rejection, acceptance without modifications, acceptance with minor modifications or the need for structural modifications.


In the case of articles submitted to the miscellaneous section, only texts that receive excellent evaluations, that do not require major modifications and that, in the opinion of the journal, make a very significant contribution to the field of study will be published. The number of articles published in this section is necessarily small and therefore the selection process is very demanding.


Evaluations will take into account the originality and scientific quality of the proposal, its contribution to the field of study in which it is included, its use of appropriate methodological tools, its coherence and clarity of exposition and its interest for the development of cultural analysis.
All authors whose articles have been rejected by the Scientific Committee will be notified in writing of the reasons for this decision. Likewise, those whose articles will be included in the publication will be notified of their acceptance. This process depends on the work of external evaluators, who perform their evaluations without remuneration and on a voluntary basis, so it may take several months. Kamchatka tries to provide a peer review result within a period of no more than six months from the closing date of the call for papers or, in the case of the miscellaneous section, no more than six months from its receipt.


In the case of reviews, these will be evaluated internally by the journal's editorial team and the authors will be notified of the decision taken following the same procedure as for research articles. 

Publication Frequency

The frequency of the jounal will be bi-annual. The numbers will be published in the spring and fall of each year.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides an immediate free access to the content on the principle that freely make investigation available to the public, which promotes an increased global knowledge exchange.


Unless otherwise indicated, texts published in this journal are under the license Reconocimiento-NoComercial 4.0 de Creative Commons. These texts may be copied, distributed and publicly communicated whenever the publication’s author and title are quoted and whenever they are not used for commercial purposes. In any case, intellectual property of the articles and its potential economic rights entirely belong to its authors.


The full license can be consulted on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. We encourage authors to disseminate papers published in Kamchatka. Journal of cultural analysis electronically, in institutional digital repository or in their websites.


Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:



    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.



Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural urges its authors to deposit the complementary material of published works in institutional or thematic open access repositories, and to link the articles to these repositories in a persistent way.


 


It also allows the dissemination of pre-publication versions of articles accepted for publication and encourages the dissemination of already published articles in institutional repositories. In addition, the journal will facilitate the public dissemination of articles through its social networks.



Ethics and good practices

Kamchatka. Journal of cultural analysis undertakes to ensure ethics and quality of the published articles, having as a reference the Code of conduct and good practice for publishers of scientific journals, which defines the Comité de Ética de Publicaciones (COPE) and the CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications..


The drafting Committee of Kamchatka. Journal of cultural analysis undertakes to publish adjustments, clarification, retractions and apologies when needed. In pursuance of this good practice, the arbitration system used to select articles and the assessment criteria applied by external evaluators (both anonymous and peer ones) are published. These will guarantee the confidentiality of the evaluation process at any time: the anonymity of evaluators and authors, the evaluated content, the reasoned report issued by evaluators and any other communication realized by the Editorial, Advisory and Scientific committees. In the same way, confidentiality will be maintained towards potential clarifications, claims or complaints wished to be sent by an author to the magazine’s committees or to the article’s evaluators.      


Our journal declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of already published works, so it will be especially strict with plagiarism, and texts that are identified as such will be removed from the journal or will not be published at all. Manuscripts will be subjected to an analysis with the URKUND plagiarism detection tool during the internal evaluation process. If plagiarism is detected at that time or later, the article will be rejected immediately.


The journal will act as quickly as possible in such cases. By accepting the terms and agreements expressed by our journal, authors must guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe the copyrights of third parties.


The journal will scrupulously comply with the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Call for papers

LA CONSTRUCCIÓN SOCIAL DE LA FIGURA DEL PERPETRADOR: PROCESOS SOCIALES, LUCHAS POLÍTICAS, PRODUCCIONES CULTURALES. Coordinadoras: Claudia Feld y Valentina Salvi (Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria, CIS-CONICET/IDES, Argentina). Emails de contacto: clavife@yahoo.com.ar, valentinasalvi@hotmail.com Fecha de entrega: 1 de julio de 2019. Descargar convocatoria. OPEN


CULTURA(S) OBRERA(S) EN ESPAÑA. Coordinado por Ángela Martínez Fernández (UV) anmarfe6@uv.es Plazo de entrega: 30 de enero de 2019. Descargar convocatoria. OPEN


TOPOGRAFÍAS DE LA MEMORIA: DE USOS Y COSTUMBRES EN LOS ESPACIOS DE VIOLENCIA EN EL NUEVO MILENIO. Coordinadoras: Marisa González de Oleaga (UNED) y Carolina Meloni González, (Universidad Europea de Madrid). Emails de contacto: mgonzalez@poli.uned.es, melonicarolina@yahoo.es. Plazo de entrega:  1 de mayo de 2018. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED


LA REBELIÓN ZAPATISTA: PRODUCTIVIDAD Y RESISTENCIA CULTURALES. Coordinado por Kristine Vandenberghe (Université de Liège, Bélgica) y Óscar García Agustín (Aalborg University, Dinamarca). Emails de contacto: kristine.vandenberghe@uliege.be y  oscar@cgs.aau.dk. Plazo de entrega: 20 de abril de 2018. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED.


EXPERIMENTACIÓN POÉTICA Y CONTRACULTURA EN CONTEXTOS DICTATORIALES IBÉRICOS Y LATINOAMERICANOS (1960-1990): COLECTIVOS, ACCIONES Y REACCIONES. Coordinadoras:Mercè Picornell y Maria Victòria Parra (Universitat Illes Balears). Emails de contacto:mercepicornell@gmail.com, parramoyavictoria@gmail.com. Fecha de entrega: 1 de marzo de 2018. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED.


LECTURAS DEL DESIERTO: NUEVAS PROPUESTAS POÉTICAS EN ESPAÑA. Coordinadores: Raúl Molina Gil (UV), Ángela Martínez Fernández (UV) y Álvaro Fernández (UCM). Email de contacto: lecturasdeldesierto@gmail.com. Fecha de entrega: 1 de diciembre de 2017. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED.


"MUNDO HOSPITAL": ENFERMEDAD Y FORMAS DE VIDA EN LAS SOCIEDADES ACTUALES.Coordinado por Miguel Ángel Martínez García  miguemartinezgarcia@gmail.com Plazo de entrega 1 de junio de 2017. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED.



CREACIÓN COLECTIVA, SINAUTORÍA Y PRÁCTICAS COOPERATIVAS EN LA CULTURA CONTEMPORÁNEA. Coordinado por Jaume Peris Blanes. jaume.peris@uv.es. Plazo de entrega: 15 de abril de 2017. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED.



EXILIOS CRUZADOS: REPRESENTACIONES, IDENTIDADES Y MEMORIAS EN LOS EXILIOS EUROPEOS Y LATINOAMERICANOS DEL SIGLO XX Y XXI. Coordinadora: Paula Simón Porolli. (CONICET) paulacsimon@gmail.com Fecha de entrega: 15 de agosto de 2016. Descargar convocatoria. CLOSED.



REVIEWS. PERMANENT CALL


Kamchatka. Magazine of cultural analysis accepts critical reviews of books on cultural analysis that should be 5 to 8 pages in length. The review shall include an analysis of the book’s conceptual content, an evaluation of its methodology and its linking with the cultural debates in which it is enrolled. Kamchatkawill not consider reviews that are merely comprehensive summaries of the books or laudatory texts. On the contrary, it will appreciate papers carrying out a critical analysis of the conceptual and methodological contribution made by the reviewed book.    


Authors interested in making reviews should propose them to the section coordinator, Ángela Martínez, writing an email to Angela.Martinez-Fernandez@uv.es. If their proposals were accepted, they will have to send us the text, following the INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORSgiven by the magazine. All reviews will be evaluated by two anonymous evaluators who will decide to publish, reject or request modifications before the publication of each review.At the moment, Kamchatkaproposes the following booksof its interest, in order to be preferably reviewed; it will accept proposals in connection with them. 

No publishing fees

All the editing process is absolutely free of charges for authors. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural has neither article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.



 

Gender equality

Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural defines itself as a feminist journal and, therefore, firmly committed to gender equality in the different dimensions of research. In this sense, since its origin it has implemented a series of measures with the objective of avoiding any type of gender discrimination in the access to our publication.


* The percentage of women in the different bodies that make up the Editorial Team (Management, Editorial Secretariat, Editorial Board, International Advisory Committee) is over 50%.


* The percentage of women external evaluators consulted is higher than 50% of the total number of evaluators consulted.


* The management requires guest editors of monographs or dossiers that at least 40% of the total number of research articles be signed by women. At the same time, it ensures that this proportion is maintained for each issue as a whole.


* The journal promotes, stimulates and positively values the gender approach in the research it publishes. Likewise, in the case of quantitative analyses, the journal requests the inclusion of information on whether the source data of the research takes into account gender, in order to allow the identification of possible differences.


* The journal encourages and values the use of inclusive language in its different variants. We leave it up to the authors to choose which of the variants of inclusive language to use. In any case, we do not allow any publication that uses discriminatory, vexatious or exclusionary language based on gender.

External reviewers 2021

The list of external reviewers of the issues published in 2021 can be consulted here. 

Content and bibliography dissemination policies

Kamchatka gives clear instructions to its authors for the preparation of bibliographies and citations, as can be seen in the instructions to authors. In addition, it allows the export of the bibliography of its articles to reference managers. It has an OAI-PMH interoperability protocol that allows references to be collected by other content access and distribution systems.


Kamchatka uses its academic (https://uv.academia.edu/KamchatkaRevista) and social (https://www.facebook.com/KamchatkaRevistaDeAnalisisCultural, https://www.instagram.com/kamchatka_analisis_cultural/) networks to disseminate the articles it publishes.


All Kamchatka's articles are also hosted in the institutional repository of the Universitat de València RODERIC: https://roderic.uv.es/static/rev/32450.html

Sponsors

Research Group "Literaturas y culturas en América Latina". Universitat de València. 


Research Group REPERCRI. "Representaciones contemporáneas de perpetradores de crímenes de masas".