Submissions

Miscellany: topics, poetics and issues of contemporary culture

Kamchatka keeps open a miscellany’s call for whom researchers can submit their articles to be evaluated, independently of the monograph or dossier calls connected to each issue. Investigations must have aim at 20th and 21st century’s cultural processes or events, within the sphere of Spanish-speaking culture. Articles will undergo an assessment through the standard procedure of anonymous peer review.

Material, interviews and documents

Kamchatka will publish some material and documents of major cultural value such as interviews, creative texts, testimonials and papers related to the topics discussed in each issue. In order to be published, these documents are required to have a high potential level for further investigations and to push forward the knowledge about a specific investigation theme, although they are not academic research in the strict sense.

Due to their different nature, material, interviews and documents published in the magazine will not undergo the peer review assessment. Nevertheless, all material will be carefully evaluated by the magazine’s editorship, the editorial secretariat and the coordinator/s of the monograph or dossier to which it’s associated.  

Material in this section shall not exceed in any case 20% of the total number of texts published in each issue. 

Monograph or dossier

Kamchatkawill publish monographic blocks or dossiers concerning specific problems, which will rely on the coordination of one or more research specialist/s who will act as invited editor/s. For this purpose, the magazine will launch public calls including thematic lines and axes of argumentation involved in the monographic block.   

 Articles participating in these calls will have to adhere to the thematic and methodological lines described in the call. The evaluation process will be standard, but it will always count on the presence of invited editors in every step and decision. In order to be published, articles will have to rely not only on the positive evaluation of the anonymous reviews, but also on the approval given by the monograph’s or dossier’s coordinator/s, who will ensure that each text conform to the lines proposed in the call.

Reviews

The journal will order and accept reviews of recent publications (last 4 years) linked to cultural analysis. Fundamentally, publications related to Hispanic cultures will be reviewed. However, reviews of theoretical publications related to other cultures will be accepted as well, only if they have a methodical and theoretical interest that justify its value in the debate around critics and actual analysis.  

Reviews will be subjected to an internal revision before acceptance.

Rescued Texts

Exceptionally, non-unpublished texts will be published, but previously published in part or in super totality that constitute a contribution of great relevance to a subject of study of the journal and that, for whatever reason, are not directly accessible by the public investigator . The rescued texts are preferably linked to Monographs or Specialized dossiers and made exceptional contributions. Only the publishers of dossiers or Monographs may propose the "rescue" of texts already published for super publication in the journal. In all cases the "rescued" texts including a clear mention of the original super publication.

Book proposal

Kamchatka will open periodic calls for the publication of annexed volumes in the Kamchatka collection of the publishing house La sheep red. The proposals submitted to these calls will be subjected to an internal pre-evaluation process from which a first shortlist of proposals will be drawn, whose authors will be summoned to present the manuscript of the book in a period not exceeding six months. With the presentation of the manuscript, a peer evaluation process identical to that of the journal's research articles will begin, which will have doctors specializing in the work area of the proposal, who may propose the acceptance, rejection or inclusion of modifications to the text.
The book will be considered an annexed volume of the magazine and will consist, for all purposes, with the quality indications derived from it.

Propuestas, estéticas y poéticas contemporáneas

Todos los artículos de investigación recibidos por Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural serán sometidos al siguiente sistema de arbitraje:
1. En primer lugar, los artículos serán revisados por el Consejo de Redacción, que decidirá sobre la pertinencia del artículo con respecto a las áreas de investigación de la revista y sobre  la conveniencia o no de continuar con el proceso de evaluación. Se notificará por escrito a todos aquellos autores cuyos artículos hayan sido desestimados por el Consejo de Redacción los motivos de dicha decisión.
2. En segundo lugar, los artículos serán revisados por evaluadores externos a la redacción de la revista, escogidos por su reconocido prestigio en el área de estudio del artículo. De acuerdo al sistema de evaluación por pares ciegos, cada artículo será evaluado de forma anónima por dos evaluadores especialistas en el área de adscripción del artículo. En caso de que fuera necesario, se llevaría a cabo una tercera lectura por otro evaluador externo. Dicha evaluación tendrá en cuenta la originalidad y calidad científica de la propuesta, su aportación al campo de estudios en que se inscriba, su utilización de herramientas metodológicas adecuadas, su coherencia y claridad expositiva y su interés para el desarrollo del análisis cultural.
Se notificará por escrito a todos aquellos autores cuyos artículos hayan sido desestimados por el Comité Científico los motivos de dicha decisión. Del mismo modo, se notificarán las aceptaciones a aquellos que vayan a formar parte de la publicación con su artículo.