Preamble
Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy (ISSN: 2255-3827) is scientific electronic publication edited by the Department of Philosophy and Society of the Faculty of Philosophy focused on questions of political philosophy with an eye on our historical present. Las Torres de Lucca publishes free access works in Spanish and English, and exceptionally in French, Portuguese, Italian or German, translated into Spanish or English and published in bilingual format.
The Journal is committed to argumentative rigor and expository clarity to promote political philosophical debate with democratic and inclusive parameters and aspiring to arouse interest not only in academic readers, but also in those trained in other disciplines, but interested in the public issues that inevitably concern them.
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 undertake to respect the principles of the Code of Ethics that may be established for Complutense Editions for scientific journals.
1.1. Editorial Board: structure and composition
- The Editorial Board will be made up of the Director, the Secretary, the Technical Secretaries, and the members. The position of Director can be occupied by one or two people, one of whom will be an active professor with a contractual relationship with the Complutense University of Madrid. At least one third of its components must belong to institutions other than the Complutense University of Madrid.
- The Editorial Board will assist the Director in all their functions and, especially, in the follow-up of the works (reception, evaluation, acceptance) and in the definition of the contents and the style of the Journal (rules for presentation of submissions, creation and orientation of sections, etc.).
- The candidates for the positions may be proposed by the Department, the Editorial Board or the Advisory Board and will be elected by the Editorial Board in three ballots: one for the election of the Director, another for the election of the members and one more for the election of the external members. The position of Secretary will be directly appointed by the Director; the Secretary will have the power to propose the Director the appointment of Technical Secretaries to support him/her in his/her functions. The election will be presented by the Director to the Board of the Department of Philosophy and Society for its ratification.
- All members will be elected to office for a four-year term, renewable for a second four-year term. After a 4-year grace period has elapsed, members may be elected again.
1.1.1. Duties of the Director
- The Director will oversee the coordination and representation of the Journal, of relations with the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and with Complutense Editions. Likewise, the Director will oversee relations with other institutions for any issue related to the journal
- The Director will elect the Secretary.
- The Director will convene the meetings of the Editorial Board.
- The Director will inform the Board of the Department about the operation and needs of the magazine.
- The Director will be responsible for ensuring the maintenance of the maximum scientific quality of the journal, as well as its recognition and inclusion in national and international databases and its evaluation for the achievement of quality seals, to which will have the help of the rest of the Editorial Board members.
- The Director will have a casting vote in the event of a tie in the deliberations of the Editorial Board.
1.1.2. Secretary functions
- The Secretary will oversee receiving the originals and managing them throughout the evaluation and publication process.
- The Secretary will be responsible for the coordination of the Technical Secretariat
- The Secretary will be responsible for communication with the authors, with the members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and with Complutense Editions.
- The Secretary will acknowledge receipt to the authors of all the papers received.
- The Secretary will organize the review process of the originals received by the Editorial Board so that it can decide which works are submitted for evaluation and which are returned once compliance with the journal's requirements has been verified.
- The Secretary will send the originals to the evaluators together with an instruction document and an evaluation template.
- Once the decision to publish the originals has been made, the Secretary will oversee communicating the authors the reasons for the decision.
- The Secretary will oversee monitoring the complete editorial process of the issues of the magazine (preparation and delivery of originals -including the first pages and statistics–, layout process, sending proofs to the authors, revision of the version prior to printing, communication with authors).
- The Secretary will prepare the meetings with the Director and will take minutes of the meetings of the Editorial Board. Likewise, it will be responsible for the custody of the minutes and will certify the work carried out by the members, the scientific advisers, and the evaluators.
- The Secretary will collaborate with the Director in the dissemination of the journal, in institutional relations, exchanges, indexing and any other tasks that result in improving the quality and recognition of the journal.
1.1.3. Functions of the Members of the Editorial Board
- The Members of the Editorial Board will have the obligation to attend the meetings that are convened, either in person or telematically.
- The Members, under the coordination of the Secretary, will collaborate in the previous reading of originals to make the decision of which ones are submitted to evaluation and which ones are returned to the authors.
- The Members will collaborate in the search for external evaluators for the works and will not be evaluators in any case.
- The Members will advise and collaborate with the management of the magazine in any tasks that are considered necessary for the proper functioning of the magazine, including ensuring compliance with punctuality and periodicity.
1.2. Advisory Board
- The Advisory Board will be made up of professionals and researchers of recognized prestige and solvency, without institutional links with the journal. It should serve, apart from impressing rigor on the journal, to mark the editorial policy, make the journal attractive to both authors and readers, and disseminate it, to the extent possible, in all forums. Likewise, it will collaborate in the evaluation and audit processes.
- The Advisory Board must include among its members professionals and researchers from foreign institutions.
- The process of electing its members will be at the proposal of any of the members of the Editorial Board or the Department, provided that it has the support of more than 50% of the members of the Editorial Board.
- The members of the Advisory Board may participate in the original evaluation processes as external peers, considering that at least one of the evaluations will always be issued by an evaluator outside the Advisory Board.
2. Features and operation
2.1. Periodicity
- The journal will be published twice a year. In addition, on an extraordinary basis, the journal may ask Ediciones Complutense the publication of a special issue.
2.2. Structure
- The Journal will consist of a fixed section:
- Articles: research articles submitted to the double-blind peer review process.
- In addition, the magazine may include the following sections that will not be fixed:
- Dossier: section dedicated to a topic of special relevance whose articles will be submitted to the double-blind peer review process.
- In addition, Notes, Reviews, Interviews, Round Tables, Semblances and Translations may be published.
