Focus and Scope

The annual CESEG Security Studies Journal, entitled Gladius et Scientia, presents a multidisciplinary character that tries to embrace the multifaceted meaning of current security. With it we want to advance in the objectives declared by the CESEG, which are translated in the improvement of our democratic quality and the life in society from the scientific study and analysis. We intend to include in this magazine first-rate authors who offer their reflections on current issues, in order to contribute solutions and advance knowledge. Internationally, it may contain works from different branches of knowledge, as a response to the heterogeneity of challenges and threats that pressure our societies.

Peer Review Process

The works that comply with the technical norms of publication in the Journal will be sent for evaluation, with omission of its authorship, to two persons designated ad hoc by the Journal Secretariat among those appointed by the Editorial Board to carry out this task.
The evaluation will be carried out with complete anonymity of reviewers and revised, according to the procedure and instructions to be developed by the Editorial Board.
The results of the evaluation, which must be sent within a period of fifteen days, both positive and negative, will be communicated by e-mail to the persons who submitted the work together with the opinions of the persons who carried out the evaluation, omitting the Identity of these.
The Editorial Board will accept for its publication the works with two positive evaluations, although these include suggestions. In the latter case, the Secretariat of the Journal will return the work to the person who sent it to incorporate these suggestions within the non-extendable ten-day deadline.
Work that has two negative evaluations will not be published. If a work gets a positive evaluation and a negative evaluation, it will be sent to a third evaluator for evaluation. Only if this third evaluation is positive can the Editorial Board accept it for publication.
Annually, the Editorial Board will review the quality of the evaluations carried out and make the adjustments that it deems appropriate in the evaluation procedure.
The Journal is not responsible for the content of any article and the fact that it sponsors its dissemination does not necessarily imply conformity with the theses exposed.

Publication Frequency

Annual

Open Access Policy

Gladius et Scientia. Revista de Estudios de Seguridad has open access to its full-text content.

There are no processing charges.

Disclaimer and exclusion of liability

Gladius et Scientia. Revista de Estudios de Seguridad del CESEG is not responsible for the contents of any article, and the fact of its sponsoring the spreading of an article does not necessarily entail its agreement on the theses exposed in the article.  The editor, in any case, is free of any responsibility resulting from the author’s eventual violation of intellectual property rights.

Ethical Guidelines

The publication of scientific articles involves several actors, including the publisher, the editors in chief, the reviewers and the authors. It is expected that each of these agents have an ethical behaviour referred to ethical principles partially inspired in those provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines.

Publisher:

The publisher provides technical assistance and support to the journal editors in the use of the web platform, and maintains the software updated and able to facilitate the submission, evaluation and publication process of scientific works. The publisher also collaborates with the editors in chief indexing the papers, providing information about the databases requirements and, so, contributing to the Journal positioning in the usual rankings. Broadly, the publisher should helps to increase the editorial quality of the Journal, contributing to its visibility, internationalization and impact.

Editors in chief:

Editors in chief ensures that manuscripts submitted are evaluated based exclusively on its intellectual content, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political affiliation or philosophical trend of the authors. They guarantee the confidentiality of the work, not revealing the identity of the authors to other agents except to those authorized by the publisher, the potential reviewers, the actual reviewers or the editorial board of the journal. Editors can refuse a job if it not satisfy the formal requirements or approach a subject not belonging to the scope of the journal. Editors communicate within the deadlines, once they see the referees and heard the editorial board, the acceptance or rejection of the submitted papers.

Reviewers:

Reviewers should refuse to refer a paper if they do not feel qualified in the subject approached or if they can not take the evaluation within the deadline suggested by the Journal. The referee report should be objective and written in a clearly and reasoned style. Reviewers should avoid ad hominem references and offensive or demeaning comments; their suggestions should focus mainly on the improvement work. Reviewers should treat manuscripts as confidential documents, and their contents is not used in their own works. Reviewers should reject referee papers if they show a conflict of interest, for example a past or present relationship with the paper's authors or the institutions they depend.

Authors:

Authors should submit papers containing original research on a clearly identifiable and not previously published subject. They should not send articles including a substantial part of others papers or books already published. Papers should be written so that they can be understood or replicated by reviewers. If ideas of others are used, they should be clearly referenced; plagiarism is an unacceptable behaviour and its detection involves cancel the submission or remove it from the platform if it was already published. In case of co-authorship, all people that significantly contribute to the paper are considered its author; each author should be able to identify which parts of the work are own and which parts are from others authors, and must maintain confidentiality of the all contents until the article is published. Simultaneous paper sending to other Journals is a sufficient condition for archiving it. If in the process of the paper edition the authors find errors or improprieties, they should communicate to the editors in chief as soon as possible and cooperate in their correction. Authors should communicate the potential conflict of interest between the paper findings and the financial support.

These guidelines are consistent with the ethical code of the University of Santiago de Compostela, institution to which this Journal belongs.

https://www.usc.es/gl/goberno/valedor/codigoetico/CodigoEtico.html

Digital preservation policy

This journal develops various processes in order to preserve permanent access to digital objects hosted on its own servers:

- Backups.
- Monitoring of the technological environment to foresee possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.
- Digital preservation metadata.
- Use of DOI.

The files published on this website are available in easily reproducible formats (PDF)

Interoperability protocols

This journal provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows other websites and information services to harvest the published content metadata.

Specifications:

OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata 1.1

URL for harvesters:
https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/gladius/oai

Journal History

The journal Gladius et Scientia. Journal of Security Studies of CESEG was born in 2016 on the initiative of the Center for Security Studies (CESEG) of the University of Santiago de Compostela. The Center is a research center that deals with the analysis and dissemination of security, intelligence, defense and strategy studies, from a multidisciplinary point of view, with the ultimate aim of improving the culture of security and peace in Democratic societies. In this sense, it was considered of great

interest to create a magazine of its own in the Center to advance its research capacity, increase its impact in the academic field and disseminate specialized works of quality.