About the Publication
Focus and Scope
This publication focuses on contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on learning, on approaching the project through its materials and technique, and on reflection, as the three fundamental pillars of the architect’s profession.
Peer Review Process
EXTERNAL ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW
The Editorial Board of the journal, once it has verified that the article complies with the rules relating to style and content indicated in the guidelines for authors, according to the section to which it belongs, will send the article to two anonymous expert reviewers outside the Editorial Board, within the specific field of research and architecture criticism, for review or selection. The choice of these reviewers is made taking into account that there is no conflict of interest with the authors of the articles.
Peer review is performed using the double-blind system in all sections of the journal except the Back page and the interview. The system has two phases, abstract acceptance and article acceptance. The authors submit a first proposal in an abstract of about 300 words that is reviewed to three possible decisions of the editorial committee: the rejection of the proposal, the extension of the abstract to a broader version of 500 words that allows a synthetic idea of the author's proposal and finally the invitation. With the suggestions made by the reviewer to its full development it is asked an article of about 3.000/4.000 words following the instructions for the authors of the platform and which will be the object of the final assessment.
The final evaluation will affect the interest of the article, its contribution to the knowledge of the subject treated, the novelties contributed, the correct relations established, the critical judgment developed, the bibliographic references used, their correct writing, etc., indicating recommendations, if any, for possible improvement. Detailed materials and instructions are available to reviewers.
On the basis of the reviewers' recommendations, the journal editor will inform the authors of the reasoned result of the evaluation by e-mail to the address they used to send the article. The editor will inform the principal author of the result of the review (unchanged publication; publication with minor corrections; publication with major corrections; not suitable for publication), as well as the reviewers' observations and comments.
If the manuscript has been accepted with modifications, the authors must re-submit a new version of the article, according to the demands and suggestions of the external evaluators.
Depending on the degree of compliance with the requested modifications, the Editorial Board will decide whether to publish the article. One of the editors of the journal will communicate this decision to the author.
Open Access Policy
This magazine provides immediate and free access to its contents, based on the principle of making research free to the public, which fosters greater exchange of global knowledge.
Articles are published under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES license.
More information in http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
The journal doesn't apply any kind of Article Processing Charges nor Article Submission Charges.
Ethics, publication malpractice and anti plagiarism statement
Palimpsesto magazine is committed to the academic community in guaranteeing the ethics and quality of published articles. Our magazine has as reference the Code of Conduct and Good Practices defined by t the PUBLICATIONS ETHICS COMMITTEE (COPE), for editors of scientific magazines.
Thus, our magazine guarantees the adequate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of the articles published, protecting and respecting their content and integrity. The Editorial Board undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
In compliance with these good practices, the magazine Palimpsesto has published the arbitration system that follows for the selection of articles in the corresponding sections, as well as the evaluation criteria to be applied by external evaluators - anonymous and by peers, outside the Editorial Board. -. The journal keeps these criteria updated, based exclusively on the scientific relevance of the article, originality, clarity and relevance of the work presented.
Our journal guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process at all times: the anonymity of the evaluators and the authors; the evaluated content; the reasoned report issued by the evaluators and any other communication issued by the editorial, advisory and scientific councils if appropriate. Likewise, possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author wishes to refer to the journal's committees or to the article's evaluators are affected by the maximum confidentiality.
PALIMPSESTO magazine declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of the work already published. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and texts that are identified as plagiarism or its content is fraudulent, will be removed or unpublished. For this, the magazine has the Urkund program, which analyses the originals. The magazine will act in these cases as quickly as possible. By accepting the terms and agreements expressed by our magazine, the authors must guarantee that the article and the materials associated with it are original or do not infringe copyright. The authors also have to justify that, in the case of shared authorship, there was a full consensus of all the affected authors and that the detailed content has not been previously presented or published in any other media.
List of recent reviewers
We thank the following researchers for thier participation as reviewers until issue number 19.
Marta Pelegrín, PhD.architect, Design Studio professor at Universidad de Sevilla.
Berta Badí, PhD.architect, lecturer professor SH, Design Studio ETSAB
Rafael Diez Barreñada, PhD. architect, professor UPC
Elena Fernández-Salas, PhD architect, professor UPC, Vice-dean ETSAB
Borja Ferrater Arquer, PhD.architect, professor at ESARQ, UIC
Francisco González de Canales, PhD. architect, Chair professor at History Theory and Composition Department at Sevilla University. Professor at AA, London
María Elia Gutiérrez Mozo, PhD. architet, Professor at Universidad de Alicante de Composición Arquitectónica
Alvaro Moreno Hernández, PhD. architect, associated professor asociado at Studio Design Depart., ETSM
Vicenç Sarrablo, DrPhD Architect, professor at ESARQ, UIC
Alberto Peñín Ibáñez, PhD.architect, member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos
Jaume Valor, PhD. architect, professor at Design Studio Dpt. ETSAB
Publication Frequency
Palimpsesto is a semi-annual magazine that appears every six months in the spring and fall of each year parallel to the academic calendar.
