Información, cultura y sociedad

The following types of contribution are considered for publication:

• Originals and unpublished papers of theoretical or empirical researches; literature reviews; case studies. (Submitted to external evaluation). Up to 25 pages.
• Brief research notes. (Submitted to external evaluation). Up to 10 pages;
• Academic and professional notes. (Submitted to external evaluation);

The Editorial Board reserves the right to: 

• Request articles or further texts by specialists whenever it deems necessary (this case would be also submitted to external evaluation);
• Reject contributions that have no relation with the subject profile of the journal or that failure to comply with the style guidelines.
• Establish the order that the accepted articles will be published.

Spanish and Portuguese are the preferred languages.

The manuscripts must be original and unpublished, they will be subject to a process of double-blind review by two or more external evaluators, where the anonymity of evaluator and author are both preserved. If discrepancies occur between the assessments, the Editorial Board shall appoint a new evaluator and the final decision will be taken based on this new assessment. In the final step of the assessment process, all of the contributions of Información, Cultura y Sociedad are submitted and evaluated by the Consejo Editor of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Buenos Aires) for the final approval. The authors will we notified of the decision to accept or reject their manuscripts. Furthermore, the papers may be returned to the author in order to add the modifications proposed by the evaluators within the time frame agreed by the Editorial Board. Consult forms in this link. 

ICS informs that the arbitration process may take between 3 and 6 months after receiving the article. Once accepted for publication, it can take 6 to 12 months.

Rejection rate of articles for:

2016: 52%
2017: 38%
2018: 63%
2019: 65,62% 

Authors must acknowledge their responsibility over the content of their contributions, the accuracy of the references made and their publishing rights. In accordance with the Reglamentación de Publicaciones of Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Buenos Aires), authors must transfer their publishing rights to the Facultad. They are also accountable for the presentation of their manuscript according to the rules, since tasks such as typing or editing would not be undertaken by the journal. However, editorial amendments of the papers can be made by the journal, while respecting the original content.

Authors must complete and sign a form indicating the originality of the paper submitted and its not simultaneous presentation in other journals. In addition, they must state not to be committing academic plagiarism. Download from: http://inibi.institutos.filo.uba.ar/publicacion/ics-coleccion-completa

Manuscripts will be uploaded on Revistas Científicas Filo: http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/ICS/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

For enquiries: inibi@filo.uba.ar; ics@filo.uba.ar; inibi.uba@gmail.com