About the Journal

Focus and Scope

[CONFLUENZE adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and creates a dialogue between different cultures of the American continent, the Iberic world and other Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking regions in social sciences and humanities. The Journal is at the crossroads of anthropology, literature, sociology, history and critical theory. In its more than a decade of activity, the Journal focused on the idea that Lusophone and Spanish-speaking cultures constitute a unique observation platform placed at the core of the complexity of modern times, the power structures and the consequences that stem from a concept of modernity built upon a partial historical dimension. Confluenze intends to reflect this vision, take a critical stance, and contribute to the spread and design of alternative epistemologies.]

[CONFLUENZE looks at the world and deals with global concepts without claiming any idealistic quality of the peripheries, the southern world or the local dimension. It shows, instead, how the chosen research spaces – stemming from the apparent rather than substantial boundaries of language and space between the Lusophone and Spanish worlds – are embedded in networks of economic, cognitive, symbolic, geopolitical powers in a context where only an accurate dialectic between the local and the global, the part and the whole, can generate newer opportunities to acquire knowledge, to revise paradigms and to foster innovation.]

[CONFLUENZE was founded and then consolidated itself as an attempt to hold an open dialogue between different and plural perspectives, in the firm belief that knowledge can be created through a polyphony of constantly dialoguing and debating voices. Such polyphony is tied with the emphasis on languages other than English – Spanish, Portuguese, Italian – to enliven an inclusive platform that would encourage the reception, circulation and diffusion of ideas.]

[CONFLUENZE represents a democratic, horizontal and open intellectual platform, an alternative both to the hierarchical rules of traditional academia and to the trend of commodifying knowledge, distinctive of the neoliberal cognitive capitalism. We are firmly convinced that access to learning must be open and free of charge to encourage the circulation of ideas and minimise the inequalities – even in academia – between the centre and peripheries, the global north and south. At the same time, from the perspective of an open and generous exchange of ideas, we believe that publishing should not be an economic burden for the researchers who choose to participate in our project.]

Peer Review Process

Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double blind peer review. The editorial board will send a response to the author within 12 weeks regarding the acceptance of the manuscript to proceed to the peer review phase. The editorial office will send a response to the author about the outcome of the evaluation within 24 weeks. The publication of the manuscript occurs within 60 weeks from the arrival of the submission. In case of conflicting valuations from the peer reviewers, the article will be submitted to a third referee. By submitting an article the author implicity accept the blind peer review process and the referees judgments on the articles.

Publication frequency and average time needed to publish on CONFLUENZE

CONFLUENZE is a biannual magazine. Average time between submission and publication: 60 weeks

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY).
Licenza Creative Commons

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

CONFLUENZE adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Where terms and conditions of data reuse imply the confidentiality of the data, the data will not be made public directly, but only upon explicit permission from the third party and through the controlling party (researcher/responsible person, author) of the data; In the case of qualitative data (interviews, ethnographic field notes, etc.), it is suggested that the contact details (e.g. email) of the corresponding author be included to request access to data that cannot be shared openly. The reasons for such limitations will be stated within the “Data Availability Statement” (DAS);

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases:

  • SCOPUS
  • ACNP - Catalogo italiano dei periodici
  • BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
  • Dialnet - Servicio de alertas sobre publicación de contenidos científicos.
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  • ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
  • ESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index
  • Google Scholar - Academic search engine
  • Portal del hispanismo - Instituto Cervantes
  • Latindex - Sistema regional de información en línea para revistas científicas de América Latina
  • REDIAL - Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina
  • ROAD - Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources
  • Ulrich’s - Global Serials Directory
  • Worldcat - The world’s largest library catalog

Since 2013 the journal is indexed in Scopus.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne – LILEC
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Cartoleria 5
40124 - Bologna (Italy)