About the Journal

Scope of the journal

Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación, an international peer-reviewed journal, is a scientific effort to spread new knowledge in the field of communication by highlighting research in this field using theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives to study current issues related to cultural studies, public communication, advertising, public relations, journalism, political communication, memory, and cultural industries.

The journal publishes research and review articles. It is an open access journal since 2015 and it is addressed to professors, researchers, students, and professionals in the field of communication and other related fields. Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación follows ethical principles aligned with COPE’s Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, is highly visible in several databases, and includes standardized ORCIDs and DOIs for search engines.

Peer review process

Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación aims to offer useful and reliable contributions to communication researchers. The meticulousness and originality required are ensured by the traditional review process carried out by anonymous reviewers. Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación is a peer-reviewed journal, a process assisted by an external expert review process following APA (American Psychologist Association) guidelines. Meeting these requirements contributes to the indexing of the journal in the most important international databases, which guarantees better visibility for the published articles.

All articles are reviewed by the Editorial Committee according to the double-blind peer review modality. The Committee verifies that the article fulfills all the requirements demanded by this guideline. If the article does not meet a requirement, the author or authors are informed.

After the review, the documents are sent to expert peers, who evaluate the scientific and academic quality of the texts. Once the peer reviewers' opinions are received, a decision is made as to whether the article will be rejected, accepted with adjustments or accepted in its current state for publication.

Publication time

The publication process of an article usually takes an average of six months.

During the first month, the originality check is carried out through Turnitin and the formal requirements of the article are reviewed. If the article does not meet the originality standards, shows signs of text overlapping or does not meet the minimum quality standards required by the journal, it is rejected and the author is notified immediately. If it meets these requirements, the academic peer review process is initiated. The time that elapses from the acceptance of the invitation to evaluate by the evaluator to the sending of the evaluation of the article to the author is an average of two months.

In the event that one evaluator accepts and another rejects, a third evaluator is assigned to give the final verdict on the article. This process could take up to 30 additional days.

Once the editor receives the evaluations of the two academic peers, he/she makes a decision on the approval or rejection of the article and communicates with the corresponding author.

If the article is accepted, it goes through the process of proofreading and metadata translation, which usually takes about two weeks. Once these corrections are received, they are sent to the author to make the necessary adjustments and he/she has 8 days to return the corrected version to the journal.

When the author sends the corrected version, the article goes to the layout process, which usually takes an average of 8 days. At this point, the author is asked to review the proof layout in detail in order to approve it or request adjustments.

Finally, when the author approves the layout, the article is published in the journal's OJS platform, which takes about 3 days. This is the last step in the editorial process of the scientific article.

Periodicity: The journal operates in a biannual continuous publication mode (January-June and July-December), which closes on June 30^th and December 31^st of each year.

Types of articles