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Arbitration

Romanitas is an academic journal and as required by academic protocol, it is refereed by peers. This is a common procedure which is practiced in order to avoid the proliferation of journals deprived of rigorous criteria for the selection of its articles or, worse yet, of journals published among colleagues. In the U. S. academic world they are known as "in-house" publications.

The staff of Romanitas has chosen the anonymous process of a double blind evaluation. The purpose of this process is to provide our collaborators, as well as our evaluators, the most just and optimum conditions possible in the process of publication. The anonymous evaluation through the double blind process offers the guarantee of impartiality. In what follows, we describe the different stages of the evaluation process to which all received articles will be submitted after the final date of our call for papers.

The submitter will send his article by electronic means and, in a separate message, send his/her personal information and academic affiliation.

The Editor-in-chief:

Opens the document.
Copies it to his computer.
Transfers it to a blank document.

By this process the identity of the author will be kept secret, because by the application of this procedure, the Word program will attribute authorship to the Editor-in-chief, thus guaranteeing the anonymity of the author.

The evaluator receives the article, sent by the editor-in-chief, and without knowing the identity of the author, will evaluate it according to the established criteria of the Editorial Board of Romanitas. After completing his/her evaluation, the article will be resubmitted to the Editor-in-chief.

Said process will be repeated in the Advisory Board.

The evaluation will correspond to one of the following categories: recommended, conditional or denied.

In cases in which the evaluators recommend publication, the Editor-in-chief will communicate the results to the members of the Editorial Board and provide a report of the evaluation in question. At this stage the names of the authors of the articles to be published will be revealed.

If a conflict should exist between evaluations (a recommendation to publish and a denial), the editor-in-chief will transmit the article in question to the Editorial Board in order that the conflict be resolved. In this stage the identity of the article will remain anonymous.

The evaluators have the power to recommend conditional approval. We underline that the acceptance of the recommendations, on the part of the author, is a sine qua non requisite for final publication.

The complete process of evaluation takes approximately 2 months from the date of the close of the call for papers. With the conclusion of the evaluations, the author will be notified of the final results, and he/she will be allowed one month in order to complete the requested corrections.

Our evaluations are final and unquestionable.

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