Ethical guidelines

Acta Hispanica is an open access journal committed to the academic community in guaranteeing the ethics and quality of the published articles. All the editing process is absolutely free of charges for authors. Our publication ethics and publication malpractice statement is mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).

Our journal guarantees an adequate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of what is published, protecting and respecting the content of the articles and their integrity. The Editorial Board undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

Acta Hispanica has published the refereeing system that it follows for the selection of articles, as well as the evaluation criteria to be applied by external referees -anonymous and peer reviewers, external to the Editorial Board-. The journal keeps these criteria up to date, based exclusively on the scientific relevance of the article, originality, clarity and pertinence of the work presented.

Our journal guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process at all times: the anonymity of the evaluators and authors; the evaluated content; the reasoned report issued by the evaluators and any other communication issued by the editorial, advisory and scientific boards if appropriate.

Likewise, any possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author may wish to send to the journal's committees or to the reviewers of the article will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.

Acta Hispanica declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of the works already published. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly forbidden and texts identified as plagiarism or with fraudulent content will be removed or not published. By accepting the terms and agreements expressed by our journal, authors have to guarantee that the article and the materials associated with it are original or do not infringe copyright. Authors also have to justify that, in case of shared authorship, there was a full consensus of all authors concerned and that it has not been previously submitted or published elsewhere.

From 2023 to verify originality, your manuscript may be checked by using CrossRef Similarity Check (iThenticate anti-plagiarism software).