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About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Zephyrus is an international scientific journal devoted to Prehistory and Archaeology. It was founded in 1950, is edited by the Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, and published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.

Zephyrus has the FECYT seal of quality, is indexed in WOS (AHCI and SCIE / SSCI), SCOPUS, Academic Plus Source, IBZ Online, Periodical Index Online, L'Anée philologique, Anthropological Literature, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, DOAJ and Dialnet and is evaluated in CARHUS Plus + 2014 (group B), Integrated Classification of Scientific Journals (CIRC), Directory of Open Access Journals, ERIHPLUS, GOOGLE SCHOLARMETRICS (2011-2015 Index h = 8),  LATINDEX (Catalog), MIAR (ICDS = 11), SJR SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR index 0.42; h index 9). The self-archive appears in: Dulcinea (blue color) and Sherpa / Romeo (blue color). Other databases in which it appears are America History and Life (1964-1967), BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art), CINDOC-ISOC, EBSCO, Historical Abstracts (1964-1967), Info-Latin America (ILA), International Bibliography of Books, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen, Numismatic Literature, Reviews of Scholarly Literature and ULRICH'S.

It is published semi-annually and it covers original research papers, scientific news and important findings from various parts of the world, as well as reviews of quality monographs in its sections of Articles, Varia, Critical Notes and Reviews. The original manuscripts, evaluated by external reviewers through the ‘double blind’ system, are published in Spanish, English and French, although, exceptionally, originals submitted in other scientific languages are accepted. Each paper has a title, abstract, and keywords in English. Its open publication allows access to its content without restrictions.

Peer Review Process

The Editorial Team will acknowledge receipt of the submitted manuscript to the corresponding author. Once received and checked, the originals will be subject to a formal review to verify if the Submission Guidelines are met; if not, they will be returned for correction.

The originals received will be evaluated, through the 'double blind' system, by reviewers selected by the Editorial Board. Authors may suggest names of reviewers from which the Board may select some. The list of external reviewers who have collaborated in this assessment process is published annually.

Zephyrus has style reviewers responsible for ensuring grammatical correctness and adaptation to scientific style. The accuracy / ambiguity of titles, abstracts and keywords, but also of the text, will be especially monitored.

Given the complexity of the mechanisms and systems of evaluation, selection and editing of scientific journals and the heterogeneity of factors involved in them, the process is relatively agile.

Publication Frequency

Semiannual periodicity.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

No Charges for Levied Processing Contributions or for Publication in Open Access Format (APC)

The Journal does not levy charges for processing of articles, nor for editing them or publishing them in open access format [article processing charges (APCs)].

Volume of work received / published

Zephyrus receives annually more than a hundred proposals for articles. Out of them, the average acceptance rate is 20%. Each of the two annual issues has 220-240 pages in which the results of original research in Prehistory and Archaeology are presented.

Sections of the Journal

Zephyrus is articulated in several sections:

  1. Analytical index.
  2. Articles: which are based on a specific subject, site or aspect.
  3. Varia: which includes works of smaller scope within the field of the journal.
  4. Reviews.
  5. Other.

Commitment to Research Submitted by New Authors and Authors from Developing Countries

Zephyrus supports research from authors or research teams from developing countries, especially in Latin America, provided they are unpublished works of international relevance. The texts should be presented in Spanish, English or French.

We also show our commitment to novel authors from around the world who may submit article proposals, in the aforementioned languages, always fulfilling the requirements for the submission of papers. Proposals should be the result of original (i.e. unpublished) research with an international impact beyond the strict local interest and realm.

Permission to Self-Archive and Digital Preservation

Authors are authorized to publish on the internet (for example, in institutional repositories or personal web sites) after publication (in no case prior to the review, layout or even in the phase of proof-reading); in the event of embargo, immediately after this has expired. It is also permitted in cases in which the costs of APCs (article processing charges) have been paid to the Editorial Board. These measures are designed to foster the reading and citation of contributions and to achieve greater and faster dissemination of the work published (see The Effect of Open Access)

The Journal can be accessed from the two main repositories of the University of Salamanca:

This Journal uses the LOCKSS system to create an archive distributed among the participating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the Journal with a view to preservation and restoration.

Published Article Identifiers

Zephyrus requires authors to be identified in ORCID to normalize the citation of their publications. Authors can register via https://ORCID.org/register

Dissemination in Databases

The Journal is committed to the provision of XML metadata or in other specific formats, immediately after publication in «eUSAL Revistas» and before three months have elapsed in order to foster diffusion in databases (Proquest, Ebsco, Elsevier, DOAJ, CrossRef/DOI).

Download Statistics

The authors whose articles have been published since October 2020, can see the download statistics in the article file. Those prior to that date will have to be requested from the Editorial Office.

Golden Roads to Open Access

Salamanca University Press, will implement Golden Roads to Open Access as of 2015, and it will be possible to access complete texts in PDF format of the Zephyrus journal meeting the provisions of Enactment 14/2011, 1st June, concerning Science, Technology and Innovation.

Thematics

Contributions must be original, unpublished and should not have been submitted to «Prehistory and Archaeology»

  • IBIC Arqueología (HD); Arqueología prehistórica (HDDA); Prehistoria (3B)
  • BIC: Archaeology (HD); Prehistoric archaeology (HDDA); Prehistory (3B)
  • BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology (SOC003000)

Language, Identification of Text Authorship

Language

Contributions will be published in Spanish, English and exceptionally in other languages.

Text Identification

The texts must always be identified with the following data:

  • Spanish: Título, resumen y palabras clave (+Enter).
  • English: Title, Abstract and Key Words (+Enter).

 

Authority Control 

The authors must specify their affiliation:

  1. Name: Lower case
  2. Second name: Lower case
  3. Surname(s): Lower case
  4. E-mail address: institutional but neither G-mail (generic) nor similar, etc.
  5. ORCID: previously registered in ORCID
  6. The institution: University or Research Institute
  7. Country
  8. Full postal address.

More information: https://indicadores.usal.es/informes/guias/8427-P08_Guias_Buenas_Practicas.pdf

Ethics and Accountability of the Journal

Upon submitting their originals to the Journal, authors must commit to accepting the usual procedures in the scientific community; only originals that have not been published previously and that are not undergoing review by other journals can be accepted. Thus, the originals sent to the Journal will cannot be sent to other journals while they are still undergoing review by our Journal.

Authors must respect international norms concerning authors’ rights to the text, graphics and other materials included in their contributions submitted to the Journal for publication. In turn, the editors, the editorial board and the reviewers of the journal will ensure the integrity of the research is maintained, which in the first instance is the responsibility of the authors, reminding them of the use of software «Turnitin Ephorus» https://moodle2.usal.es/mod/page/view.php?id=260582. Accordingly, authors are requested not to engage in plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Accountability of the Journal

  • The Editorial Board will not be responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by authors in articles published in the Journal.
  • Once an article has been accepted for publication, it is assumed that all the authors have agreed to its diffusion, the right to reproduction in any format belonging to Zephyrus.
  • Once the article has been published, the author will receive a separatum in PDF format from the Journal in which it has been published.

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

This Journal adheres to the principle of transparency and good practices set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Concerning © and CC BY-NC-ND rights

Authors publishing in Zephyrus must agree to accept the following conditions:

The authors conserve the copyright © and cede the publication rights to Salamanca University Press, under the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows third parties the possibility of distributing and exhibiting the article as long as they cite the authorship, it publication in the Journal Zephyrus, the specific issue, and the pages on which the information appears. Derived works for commercial purposes not authorized by the editorial Board are not permitted.

Authors may engage in other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive diffusion of the version of their article published in Zephyrus as long as:

  • It is clearly indicated that the work was published in the Journal Zephyrus, together with the specific issues and the pages on which the information quoted appears.

The information of the Journal will be transmitted to Sherpa / Romeo, Dulcinea, etc.

DORA

ZEPHYRUS, supports the "Declaration of San Francisco on evaluation of research" - DORA.

 

Information on the specific contribution of each of the authors to the published articles

The order of signatures/affiliation in the article should reflect the effort and contribution.

 

Registration funder of articles published

The funding agency(ies) external to University must be indicated, indicating the reference(s) of the project(s) in the framework of which the research that has given rise to the publication of the article has been carried out. This information should be referenced by the authors in the acknowledgements in the article. The corresponding author in charge of submitting the article to «eUSAL Revistas» must include this metadata at the time of the submit in the corresponding section.

Good editorial practices in gender equality

Good practice in gender equality requires that:

  • Articles should include, as far as possible, the use of inclusive language;
  • Authors should include full names (not just first initials), at least in the metadata;
  • Being aware of the protection of personal data, the journal would appreciate information on the sex of the signatory(s) in the metadata, in order to enable the identification of possible gender differences.

 

Interoperability protocols

The OAI-PMH protocol is used with the route <httpsrevistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/0514-7336/oai/>