Statutes of the Journal
Preamble
The journal Ingenium (ISSN-e: 1989-3663) is a scholarly periodical published by the Department of Philosophy and Society of the Faculty of Philosophy. The publication is dedicated to the history and analysis of modern thought, as well as the contemporary questions and debates it raises. The journal's object of study is the intellectual space that opens with the Renaissance and closes with the death of Hegel as the end of modern philosophy. The priority lines of research are: humanism and Erasmianism; early modernity and the formation and structure of philosophical systems; the categories of Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment; modern political theory and political philosophy; Latin American thought of the period; and, finally, problems of methodology and hermeneutics in the field of the history of ideas, including a discussion of current historiographical categories.
1. Management Bodies
The management bodies responsible for the scientific coordination and publication of the journal will be the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board. All members of these boards agree to abide by the principles of the Code of Ethics established for scientific journals by the Complutense University of Madrid.
1.1. Editorial Board: Structure and Composition
- The Editorial Board will be composed of the Editor, the Secretary, and a maximum of eight members. The position of Editor must be held by a tenured professor with a contractual relationship with the Complutense University of Madrid. At least one-third of its members must belong to institutions other than the Complutense University of Madrid.
- The Editorial Board will assist the Editor in all their functions and, especially, in monitoring submissions (receipt, evaluation, acceptance) and in defining the content and style of the journal (drafting guidelines for submitting manuscripts, creating and guiding the sections, etc.).
- Members will be elected by the Department Council of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Theory of Knowledge. The Secretary will be appointed directly by the Editor.
- All members will be elected for a four-year term and may only be reappointed for a second four-year term.
1.1.1. Functions of the Editor
- The Editor will be responsible for the coordination and representation of the journal, its relations with the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board, and Ediciones Complutense. They will also be responsible for relations with other institutions on any matter related to the journal.
- The Editor will elect the Secretary.
- The Editor will convene meetings of the Editorial Board.
- The Editor will be required to inform the Department Council of Philosophy and Society about the journal's operations and needs.
- The Editor will be responsible for ensuring the maintenance of the journal's highest scientific quality, as well as its recognition and inclusion in national and international databases and its evaluation for quality accreditation, for which they will have the support of the other members of the Editorial Board.
- The Editor will have a casting vote in the event of a tie in the deliberations of the Editorial Board.
1.1.2. Functions of the Secretary
- The Secretary will be responsible for receiving manuscripts and managing them throughout the evaluation and publication process.
- The Secretary will be responsible for communication with the authors, the members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board, and Ediciones Complutense.
- The Secretary will acknowledge receipt of all submitted works to the authors.
- The Secretary will organize the review process for the manuscripts received by the Editorial Board to determine which submissions will be sent for evaluation and which will be returned, once compliance with the journal's requirements has been verified.
- The Secretary will be responsible for sending the manuscripts to the reviewers along with an instruction document and an evaluation template.
- Once the publication decision has been made, the Secretary will be responsible for communicating the reasoned decision to the authors.
- The Secretary will be responsible for monitoring the entire editorial process for each issue of the journal (preparation and submission of manuscripts—including the first pages and statistics—layout process, sending proofs to the authors, reviewing the pre-press version, and notifying the authors of publication).
- The Secretary will prepare for meetings with the Editor and will keep minutes of the Editorial Board meetings. They will also be responsible for the safekeeping of the minutes and will certify the work.carried out by the members, scientific advisors, and reviewers.
- The Secretary will collaborate with the Editor in promoting the journal, institutional relations, exchanges, indexing, and any other tasks that contribute to improving the journal's quality and recognition.
1.1.3. Functions of the Editorial Board Members
- The Editorial Board members are required to attend all scheduled meetings or, in the case of members residing outside Madrid, to participate through an alternative method.
- The members, under the coordination of the Secretary, will collaborate in the pre-reading of manuscripts to decide which ones are submitted for evaluation and which are returned to the authors.
- The members will assist in the search for external reviewers for the submissions but will not act as reviewers themselves.
- The Board Members will advise and collaborate with the journal's management on any tasks deemed necessary for the journal's proper functioning, including ensuring punctuality and regular publication.
1.2. Advisory Board
- The Advisory Board will be composed of professionals and researchers of recognized prestige and expertise, with no institutional affiliation to the journal. Its purpose, in addition to ensuring the journal's rigor, is to define editorial policy, make the journal attractive to both authors and readers, and promote it, to the best of its ability, in all relevant forums. It will also collaborate in the evaluation and auditing processes.
- The Advisory Board must include among its members professionals and researchers from foreign institutions.
- The selection process for its members will be as follows: upon the proposal of the members of the editorial board itself, a brief curriculum vitae of each candidate will be submitted, along with a justification of the reasons for, relevance of, and consistency with the journal's objectives of their proposal. The editorial board will approve these proposals by a simple majority vote. The editor will then formally invite the approved candidates to participate on the advisory committee.
- Members of the Advisory Board may participate in the manuscript evaluation process as external peer reviewers, bearing in mind that at least one evaluation will always be issued by a reviewer external to the Advisory Board.
2. Characteristics and Operation
2.1. Frequency
The journal will be published annually. In addition, the journal may occasionally propose special issues to Ediciones Complutense.
2.2. Structure
The journal will consist of the following regular sections: Articles and Reviews, and will have rotating sections of Notes, Translations, and Monographs.
