About the Journal
Focus and Scope
QUINTANA is a journal about the history of art, issued annually, which publishes original research papers about any of the specialities related to the Arts, including interdisciplinary approaches that enrich their study.
The publication of research papers is structured in two sections: the first one -SUBJECT- is of a monographic character, and its content is planned beforehand by the Editorial Board, who invites well-known specialists in the chosen theme, whilst the second one -ARTICLES- is open to contributions about any theme.
The papers which are presented in the ARTICLES section will be subjected to assessment using a double-blind review process with anonymity for both authors and reviewers (peer-review process). The journal will use two reviewers, members of the Scientific Committee or academic experts, to assess each article received, and will resort to a third reviewer in the case of discrepancy. The articles which are finally published will include reception and acceptance dates. The journal’s Director and the Editorial Board will have ultimate responsibility for the selection process, and will communicate the editorial decisions to the authors.
Peer Review Process
The works presented to the section of Collaborations will subject to evaluation employing a system of external review based in the double anonymity. The magazine will employ two revisores, members of the Scientific Committee or other specialists, to evaluate each article received, attending to a third revisor in case of discrepancy. The finally published articles will include the dates of reception and acceptance. The final responsibility of the process of selection of originals recaerá in the Direction of the magazine and in his Committee of Editorial, communicating to the authors the publishing decisions adopted.
Publication Frequency
Annual
Open Access Policy
Quintana offers open access to its full-text content.
There are no processing charges.
Indexed/abstracted in
DIFUSION
Databases of quality
- DICE: difusión, place 9 of 137 in the area Bellas arts, 7 of 66 in the area History of him art; Internacionalidade of the contributions, position 15 (52.38%)
- MIAR: icds 7.541, position 3 of 8 in the area History of him Art (Spanish magazines)
Multidisciplinary databases
- SCOPUS, ESCI, REDALYC (Red de Revistas Científicas de América latina y Caribe), Fuente Academic Premier, TOC Premier, ISOC, ULRICH, DIALNET, REDIB
Specialized databases
- IBA-International Bibliography of Art (CSA USA, Category IT), BHA-Bibliography of the History of Art (The Getty Research Institute-INIST), AATA-Abstracts of International Conservation Literature (The Getty Conservation Institute), REGESTA IMPERII (Akademie gave Wissenschaften und gave Literatur Mainz DE, Category B)
Catalogues of libraries
- In 39,68% of the Spanish Universities with the qualifications (25 of 63)
IMPACT
Appointments received
- IN-RECH History of him art (2010): 4º cuartil, position 20 of 46
- RESH: impact 0.027 (2004-2008): place 22 of 40
PUBLISHING QUALITY
- ERIH PLUS
- CARHUS: B
- LATINDEX: 33 of 33 criteria
- ANEP/FECYT: A
- CNEAI: 14 of 18 criteria (year 2012)
- ANECA: 18 of 22 criteria (year2012)
- CIRC: B
Disclaimer and exclusion of liability
Quintana 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.
Review form
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) and JATS.
Anti-plagiarism Policy
This journal is a member of Similarity Check, a multi-publisher initiative started by Crossref to screen published and submitted content for originality.
Through Similarity Check, we use the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted or published manuscripts.
By depositing all of our content in the Similarity Check database we allow other Similarity Check members to screen their submissions against our published articles.
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/quintana/oai