Revista Crítica de Literatura Argentina. El Matadero

Aim and scope

El matadero. Revista Crítica de Literatura Argentina is an academic journal with double-blind peer review edited by the Institute of Argentine Literature "Ricardo Rojas" of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. It was founded in 1997 and since 2014 it appears exclusively electronically, on an annual basis. The magazine publishes original and unpublished articles linked to Argentine literature and culture, critical reviews and, in the “Variety” section, miscellaneous materials related to these areas. Its purpose is to offer a space for the dissemination and discussion of research carried out by members of the national and international academic community, focused on topics related to Argentine cultural production, with special interest in literature and in dialogue with other literatures and disciplines.

Section Policy

El matadero. Argentine Literature Criticism Magazine has a permanent open call. The collaborations presented must be original and unpublished and cannot be simultaneously in the evaluation process in another publication. The following types of contributions are accepted:

• Original and unpublished articles or essays, subject to double-blind external evaluation. Length: between 5,000 and 8,000 words, including notes and bibliography.
• Dossiers: articles that address a common topic related to the objectives and interests of the magazine. Each dossier is made up of a title that describes the topic, an introduction signed by the coordinator or coordinators, a minimum of 5 articles and a maximum of 7, plus the introduction. The articles in this section are subject to double-blind external evaluation.
• Reviews of essay books (criticism, theory, among others) published in the last two years at the time of delivery. Length: between 1800 and 2500 words.
• Varieties: miscellaneous texts at the discretion of the magazine's Editorial Board, it is not referenced material.

The Editorial Board reserves the following rights:

• Request articles, dossiers or reviews from specialists when you consider it appropriate. These cases will also undergo double-blind external evaluation.
• Reject irrelevant collaborations.
• Establish the order in which accepted works are published.

Peer review process

The articles and research essays will be evaluated by external reviewers selected by the Editorial Committee following the guidelines of the double-blind arbitration system, keeping the identity of the author and the reviewers confidential during the evaluation process to guarantee the quality of the contents. The Editorial committee will make a first review of the originals to ensure correct compliance with the journal's editing standards. After this stage, the articles will be sent to external referees to evaluate their quality. If the evaluations do not coincide and have discrepancies, the Editorial Committee reserves the right to request a third evaluation. Depending on the judgment expressed by those who evaluate, the Editorial Committee may accept, request modifications or reject the contribution.

 

Open Access Policy and Article Processing Charges (APC)

El matadero. Revista Crítica de Literatura Argentina maintains its commitment to Open Access policies to scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and research financed with public funds must circulate on the Internet freely, free of charge and without restrictions. It adheres to the Open Access model of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration , which is why it provides free, open and immediate access to its online content, without establishing temporary embargoes.

Readers and users in general have immediate access to the materials published in the magazine, being able to read them, download them, copy them, distribute them, print them, add links to their full texts, track them for indexing, incorporate them as data in software, or use them. for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, apart from those that are inseparable from access to the Internet itself, and with the sole requirement of recognizing the corresponding credits to the authors and the journal as the first publication.

Under no circumstances does this magazine charge fees for receiving and/or processing articles.

El matadero. Revista Crítica de Literatura Argentina adheres to the San Francisco Declaration on research evaluation ( San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment , DORA) .

The content published in this magazine is distributed under Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA) : it can be shared, distributed, adapted or transformed as long as the authorship of the work and the original source of publication in this magazine are mentioned. , for non-commercial purposes and is redistributed under the same license.

Copyright Notice

Those who publish in this magazine accept the following conditions:

• The authors [translators] retain the copyright and transfer to the magazine the right of the first publication, with the work registered with the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International License , which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this magazine.
• The authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., including it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this magazine.
• Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages), preferably linking to the first publication.

Self-archive policy

This journal allows the deposit in repositories, institutional pages or others, of all versions of the article.

Plagiarism detection policy:

All papers received are checked with two or more free programs available to detect plagiarism (for example: Paper Rater, Plagiarisma or CopioNIC, among others). The following situations may be considered as "plagiarism": a) the adoption of ideas or words of other authors as one's own in the article, without proper authority citations; b) the lack of quotation marks or acknowledgement of another's production, in a literal transcription of sentences; c) providing incorrect information about the true source of a quotation; d) abusive paraphrasing or without mentioning the source; e) self-plagiarism, as a specific form of plagiarism.

Code of ethics and good practices

El matadero. Revista Crítica de Literatura Argentina is based on the guidelines of COPE ( Committee on Publication Ethics ) adapted according to the uses and requirements of our disciplinary field. In compliance with this code, the journal will ensure the scientific quality of the publications and the adequate response to the needs of readers and authors. The code is aimed at the editorial team, authors and reviewers. Works that do not comply with these ethical standards will be discarded.