Studia Historica. Historia Medieval

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About the Journal

Focus and Scope

STUDIA HISTORICA: HISTORIA MEDIEVAL  is a history journal founded in 1983 and whose object of study is the Medieval History. Its current director is IÑAKI MARTÍN VISO, professor at the Salamanca University. The journal is annual (1 volume per year) and publishes texts preferably in Spanish, but can also appear in French, English, Italian and Portuguese. In addition, all items bearing the title, abstract and keywords in English. Each volume publishes a special issue about a certain topic and miscellaneous items «Varia» section. The publication is completed with some reviews of recent publications and sometimes a «Critical Commentary» historiographical interest may appear.

The journal is indexed: Latindex, CrossRef, Dialnet, EBSCO, Google Scholar, ISOC, ProQuest, Redalyc, Regesta Imperii, SCImago and Scopus.

Peer Review Process

All contributions presented will be analyzed by external raters according to strict criteria of scientific quality. It is the job of the Editorial Board to emit the final decision based on the reports of the reviewers.

Frequency of publication

Biannual

Open access policy

The contents of SHHME, are freely and immediately accessible, based on the principle that the free availability of scientific research results allows for a wider 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)]

Sections of the Journal

The Journal STUDIA HISTORICA: HISTORIA MEDIEVAL, is divided into several sections:

  1. Editorial
  2. Articles: these allow readers to further explore the main theme addressed in the Journal.
    In the case of articles sent for publication in a monographic issue, these contributions must be in line with a given topic, chosen by the Editorial Secretariat of the Journal.
  3. Varia: other research relationships with the main theme of the journal.
  4. Reviews
  5. In memorian.
  6. Other

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

The Journal STUDIA HISTORICA: HISTORIA MEDIEVAL supports the research carried out by authors or research teams from developing countries, especially from Latin-America, whose texts are presented in scientific language, preferably in English or Spanish.

We are also committed to new authors from all over the world who wish to send articles written in these languages.

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).

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.

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).

Thematics

Contributions must be original, unpublished and should not have been submitted to «Medieval history»

  • IBIC: Historia medieval (HBLC1)
  • BIC: Medieval history (HBLC1)
  • BISAC: History / Medieval (HIS037010)

Language

Contributions will be published in English or Spanish.

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 STUDIA HISTORICA: HISTORIA MEDIEVAL.
  • Once the article has been published, the author will receive a separatum in PDF format from the Journal in which it has been published.

Committe 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-SA rights

Authors publishing in STUDIA HISTORICA: HISTORIA MEDIEVAL 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-SA).

This license allows third parties to distribute, copy and display the article. No commercial profit may be made. The new creations must acknowledge their authorship, may not be used commercially and must be under an equivalent license.

DORA

SHHME, 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

Authors will specify the order of signature and individual contribution in the published article.

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.

Studia Historica Historia Medieval recommends the authors to inform whether the original data of their research takes gender into account, in order to identify any possible differences

Interoperability protocols

The OAI-PMH protocol is used with the route https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/Studia_H_Historia_Medieval/oai