About the Journal

Redes: Revista de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (Journal of Science and Technology Social Studies Journal, ISSN 0328-3186 print / ISSN 1851-7072 online) is a semiannual, externally-refereed journal focused on the study of science and technology, and their various social, political, historical, cultural, ideological, economic, and ethical dimensions. It aims at creating a space for research, debate and reflection on the processes associated with the production, use, and management of contemporary and past scientific and technological knowledge.

The journal has a strong focus on Latin America and is designed for a diverse audience (general public, decision-makers, scholars, and researchers of social and life sciences) interested in the complex and rich relationships between science, technology, and society.

Redes: Revista de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología is a journal published by the National University of Quilmes, prepared by members of the Institute of Science and Technology Studies (IESCT-UNQ)

The journal uses an open access policy to its contents, based on the principle of encouraging greater and better access to knowledge, aimed at enhancing the sharing of that knowledge between local, regional, and global communities. In order to comply with publishing and academic production best practices, REDES uses a double-blind review system with two evaluations by external peers in all types of works (articles, research notes, reports and thematic dossiers). Submittal of manuscripts for review, their publishing, and their download by authors and readers are free.

Starting January 1st, 2020 (in line with the implementation of the OJS platform), submissions will be published on the web site of REDES after going through the review process, regardless of whether other submissions included in the same issue have completed the review process. Manuscripts will reference a volume and an issue, but no indication of page number will be provided. Once all the submissions which make up an issue are reviewed and accepted, the Direction Council will assign pages to each.

Frequency:

The journal is semiannual, with issues covering the January-June and July-December periods published in June and December, respectively.

Scientific review policy:

Original submissions are subjected to a review process which follows this sequence:

1. Relevance review. Members of the journal’s Direction Council will first decide whether the submissions are relevant. At this stage, a submission may be rejected without advancing to the peer-review section if the members of the Direction Council deem its quality to be ostensibly poor; if it fails to adhere to the journal’s criteria or scope; if it is considered to incur in conflicts of interest, plagiarism, or self-plagiarism; if it is incorrectly anonymized; or if it fails to abide by the journal’s ethical guidelines.
2. First academic review. At the stage, a submission may be rejected without advancing to the external peer review section if the members of the Direction Council deem it does not reach the minimum quality standards required for publication in the journal.
3. Double-blind external peer review. Submissions deemed relevant by the Direction Council are sent to two external peers, independent of each other, designated by the Direction Council. Reviewers shall be experts in the topics covered in the submissions they are to review and shall be part of local or foreign universities and/or science and technology institutions. The journal will not accept reviewers suggested by the authors.
4. External reviewers can decide: a) to reject the submission’s publication; b) to recommend for the submission to be published without changes; c) to recommend for the submission to be published after major or minor changes have been implemented. These decisions must be properly justified by the reviewers. Should the reviewers’ decisions contradict each other, the submission is sent to a third external reviewer. Authors shall be notified as regards the results of the first review no longer than 180 days after the date in which the submission was received.
5. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, the Direction Council decides whether to publish the submission or not. Should at least one of the reviewers recommend the implementation of changes, the new version shall be submitted again to the external reviewers or reviewed instead by a member of the Direction Council, who must accept or reject the implemented changes. The journal’s final decision cannot be appealed.

Open access policy

Access to Revista Redes, both in terms of reading (file download) and of publishing by authors, is totally free. Revista Redes is non-profit, and all of its resources are provided by the National University of Quilmes.

All the documents published in Revista Redes are licensed under Creative Commons Argentina - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5, and users are allowed to copy, use, disseminate, transmit and disclose said content as long as you give appropriate credit according to license CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. Thus, the journal is clearly implementing the policies of the Open Access Initiative (OAI), in line with the principles of free access to and exchange of knowledge.

Repository policy 

All documents included in Revista Redes are stored in the National University of Quilmes’ own servers. Moreover, all submissions are kept at the Digital Institutional Open Access Repository (https://ridaa.unq.edu.ar/), where they are assigned a persistent URL provided by Handle.

Index 

Redes - Revista de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología is included in the following index:

Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT)
Latindex Catalog
Latindex Directory
Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (REDALyC)
Clase (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) – UNAM
DARE Data Bank (UNESCO)
Qualis (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES)

Official languages

Spanish and Portuguese

Revista Redes also receives documents in English. If the proposal is accepted to publication, the document will be translate into Spanish and it will publish in both languages.

Acquisition of printed copies

All queries regarding the acquisition of printed copies should be submitted to Editorial UNQ: libreria@unq.edu.ar