PRESENTATION

Accadere. Revista de Historia del Arte is a publication of the Department of Art History and Philosophy of the University of La Laguna. It was created in 2020 by the will of a group of professors from the aforementioned Department. It is a biannual, digital, free, open-access publication that accepts unpublished and original contributions that are not in the process of being reviewed in other journals.

IDENTIFICATION

Accadere, Revista de Historia del Arte (abbreviation: Accadere; acronym ARHA) has the following identifying data:

    Editorial: University of La Laguna
    Directors: Noemi Cinelli, University of La Laguna (Spain) ncinelli@ull.edu.es

// Carmen de Tena Ramírez, University of Seville (Spain) cdetena@us.es


    e-ISSN: 2660-9142
    DOI: 10.25145/j.histart

OBJECTIVE, SCOPE AND ORIENTATION

The objective of Accadere is the universal dissemination of knowledge derived from high-quality scientific research focused on historical-artistic studies. It accepts unpublished and original contributions of national and international authorship that are not under review in other journals. These may be written in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Italian. It covers all areas of historical-artistic studies from any geographical region, from Prehistory to the present. As a consequence, Accadere is addressed both to authors and to a broad readership, ranging from highly specialized scholars to readers interested for personal reasons in the topics addressed by the journal.

PERIODICITY

Accadere publishes two annual issues, scheduled for December and June.

The respective temporal coverage of the issues is as follows:

    First semi-annual issue: December–May
    Second semi-annual issue: June–November

The deadline for submitting originals for the December issue ends on July 31; and for the June issue ends on March 31.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Accadere relies on a broad team of specialized external reviewers who collaborate with the journal in the manuscript evaluation processes. All texts received by Accadere are subject to a double blind peer review process, which aims to guarantee the anonymity of all parties involved, as well as the participation of the most qualified evaluators for each submission.

Once a manuscript is received, within a maximum of two weeks, it is assigned to the handling editor, who will manage and supervise the review process and will be responsible for assigning the manuscript to at least two external reviewers specialized in the subject.

Within a maximum of three weeks, reviewers will provide:

  1. comments for the editor only, and

  2. comments for the author and editor, always safeguarding anonymity.

They will then submit a final recommendation, selecting one of the following options:

    Accept
    Accept with revisions
    Resubmit for further review
    Reject

Upon receiving the evaluation, the author shall send the revisions within a maximum of 10 days, which may be accepted or not and/or be submitted to a further review round. The final acceptance decision lies with the editor of Accadere, and will be communicated to the author via the OJS platform. The peer review process may last up to three months from the start of the first review round.

ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY

Plagiarism is understood as any misappropriation, misuse, or substantial verbatim copying of another person's work presented as one’s own. Self-plagiarism, referring to the publication of previous work as if it were new research, is also considered plagiarism.

Accadere applies a rigorous procedure to ensure the originality of the manuscripts received and to prevent any form of plagiarism.

The procedure is divided into two phases:

Phase One, managed by the Editorial Team, reserves the right to use the Turnitin service to detect any form of plagiarism or self-plagiarism. The procedure is as follows:

  1. The Editorial Team will submit the manuscript to Turnitin analysis before sending it to the double blind peer review stage.

  2. If plagiarism is detected, following the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, its nature and extent will be assessed to make a decision regarding the manuscript.

  3. In cases of serious plagiarism, meaning long passages copied verbatim, the author will be informed of the rejection of the article and the prohibition to submit another manuscript to Accadere for 12 months.

  4. If the report shows short copied phrases without evidence of appropriating extended ideas, the author will be contacted and requested to resubmit the document with correct citation, naming the original author and incorporating the reference in the bibliography.

  5. Once the new version is received, the Editorial Team will submit it again to Turnitin. If no plagiarism is detected, the article moves to the review phase; if plagiarism persists, the article will be rejected, and the author may not submit another manuscript for 12 months.

Phase Two:

– During the peer review process, reviewers may use Turnitin or other open-access tools.
– If plagiarism is detected, reviewers must report it clearly.
– Upon receiving a supported report of plagiarism, the Editorial Team will proceed as outlined in points 3, 4, and 5 above.
– The Editorial Team will accept only two (2) self-citations of the author within the manuscript.
– If more than two (2) self-citations are detected, the author will be informed and must submit a corrected version within 10 working days. After this period, the manuscript is considered withdrawn.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Accadere provides open access to all its contents, in line with the institutional commitment to the universal dissemination of knowledge. Accadere supports open-access policies promoted by the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation. Articles published in the journal are distributed through this website and via the Institutional Repository of the University of La Laguna, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

COPYRIGHT AND AUTHOR RIGHTS

Authors retain copyright and grant Accadere the right to make the first publication of the work, as well as a Creative Commons license allowing others to share the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this scientific journal. Authors may establish additional non-exclusive distribution agreements (e.g., in institutional repositories or books), provided that the initial publication in this journal is acknowledged.

ETHICAL STATEMENT AND MISCONDUCT IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Accadere:

– Endorses the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity published by ALLEA in 2017 (https://allea.org/code-of-conduct

);
– Supports the coordinated efforts of authors, editors, and reviewers to produce responsible research publications;
– Recognizes and applies the ethical codes established by COPE in its Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Key principles:

– Articles will remain confidential until accepted for publication.
– All conflicts of interest, positive or negative, must be avoided among authors, reviewers, and editorial members.

Responsibility of Authors

– Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
– Texts must provide sufficient information to allow reproducibility and verification.
– In co-authored works, all listed authors must:
    • be sufficiently involved to assume public responsibility;
    • have contributed to design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation;
    • have made meaningful intellectual contributions.

The editorial team may request author contribution statements, which may be published.

– When using third-party materials, proper citation and reproduction permissions are mandatory.
– Plagiarism leads to rejection. If discovered post-publication, the article will be withdrawn and replaced with a notice stating “Article withdrawn for ethical violation (plagiarism)”.
– Accadere rejects any racist, sexist, or discriminatory content.
– If an author detects errors in their published work, they must immediately notify the editorial team.

Responsibility of Reviewers

– Reviewers must adhere strictly to Accadere’s editorial policy and ethical statement.
– They assist the editor in making decisions and keep all materials confidential.
– Reviews must be objective, impartial, and provide relevant data when necessary.
– Reviewers must report any misconduct, plagiarism, or similarity to existing works.
– Reviewers must decline evaluation when lacking expertise, objectivity, or in cases of conflicts of interest.
– See also the Review Guidelines.

Responsibility of the Editorial Team

– The editorial team is responsible for the final decision to publish or not publish a manuscript.
– It carefully monitors plagiarism detection.
– Manuscripts are judged solely on intellectual merit.
– Information about manuscripts may be disclosed only to authors, never to reviewers or third parties.
– Editors may not use manuscript data for personal purposes.
– Each work must be reviewed by at least two specialized reviewers.
– The team values and acknowledges reviewers’ contributions.

ARCHIVING AND PRESERVATION

This journal uses the Institutional Repository of the University of La Laguna for archiving. The system, based on DSpace, uses open standards ensuring interoperability, integrity, authenticity, reliability, and long-term preservation.

Daily backups are made, and permanent storage mechanisms are implemented.

INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOLS

The journal implements the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), promoted by the National Science Foundation, enabling metadata exchange across systems.

Version in use: OAI-PMH 2.0.
Metadata standard: Dublin Core.

Open-access endpoint:
https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/accadere/oai