About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Cuestiones de Género: de la igualdad y la diferencia is an open access, annual academic journal created on the initiative of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Women's Studies at the University of León.

It is open to all research work carried out in the area of ​​feminist and women's studies with the aim of strengthening an academic and interdisciplinary space for inquiry, encounter and debate on gender.

It accepts contributions that are original and unpublished and in any of the official languages ​​of the European Union. All articles have a summary and keywords in English.

The essential requirements for passing the first phase of review are:

- Articles must be unpublished, the result of research work, scientific communication or original creation.

- The structure of the article must include the following sections in the corpus of the text, duly numbered: introduction, objectives, methodology, results and conclusion.

- The summary must include the following aspects: objectives, methodology, results and conclusion.

- The citations in the text and the bibliography must strictly comply with the journal's standards.

- Pass the Turnitin analysis (the results of the article's check by the program MUST NOT exceed a similarity greater than 20%).

The articles received are evaluated by the Editorial Board and for their final acceptance they must pass an external evaluation by blind peers and once the Editorial Board receives the reports from these, it makes a definitive decision on the publication of the originals.

Cuestiones de Género: de la igualdad y la diferencia is an annual journal created in 2005 on the initiative of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Women's Studies at the University of León and has been published uninterruptedly every June since then.

The journal is committed to using inclusive language in its articles, in accordance with its Policy on Good Editorial Practices in Gender Equality.

Cuestiones de Género through its Anti-Plagiarism Policy, is committed to ensuring that all published scientific articles are unpublished and original, as well as that they have not been previously published, in whole or in part, nor are they in the process of being evaluated by another publication.

The journal are indexed in the following catalogs, indexes and databases:

CIRC, Dialnet, DOAJ, Dulcinea, ERIH Plus, Google Scholar Metrics, Google Scholar, IN-Recs, InDICEs CSIC, Latindex, MIAR, MLA-Modern Language Association Database,  REBIUN, REDIB, RESH, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, WordCat.

Visit our profile on Google Académico

Follow us on  Mendeley, at Academia.edu and Linkedin.

Peer evaluation process

The journal will acknowledge receipt of the originals within a maximum period of eight weeks from the closing date of the call and will decide to admit them based on whether they respond to the editorial line of the same and that they comply with these rules.

The articles received are evaluated by the coordination and the Editorial Board for their first instance review.

After their admission in the first instance, the originals will be sent for blind review to 2 external expert evaluators (double blind peer-review), outside the direction of the Journal.

The evaluators will have a period of one month to issue their report and may condition their favorable report to the realization of the proposed modifications that improve, in their opinion, the evaluated work.

In case of discrepancy in the reports, the Management may seek the opinion of a third evaluator or be based on a decision made by the Coordinators of the number.

Once the Editorial Board receives their reports, they will decide whether to accept or reject the originals, notifying the authors.

Accepted articles will also be indicated the appropriate suggestions and corrections that must be made by the authors and sent to the Editorial Board within a maximum period of 7 days.

Open access policy

Cuestiones de Género promotes open access to scientific literature and provides researchers with free access to all articles from the moment they are published.

The journal will under no circumstances charge authors for publishing openly. Making research freely available to the public encourages greater global knowledge sharing, enhances the visibility of authors and papers, and facilitates early citation.

Authors can consult copyright rights and self-archiving conditions in the Dulcinea directory and in Sherpa Romeo database.

Good Editorial Practices in Gender Equality

The journal Cuestiones de Género is committed to using inclusive language in its articles. Authors must use inclusive language, free of bias, using terms that avoid stereotypes. In this regard, it is suggested that you consult the Basic Guide for the Use of Non-Sexist Language.

It is recommended to replace the use of the generic masculine with other terms that are not discriminatory (such as collective nouns or adjectives without gender markers), avoid expressions that perpetuate gender stereotypes, and use strategies aimed at achieving the most inclusive language possible, following the guidelines for the use of gender-inclusive language established by the United Nations.

Manuscripts will try to avoid gender biases that use masculine as a universal referent. In this regard, it is advisable to consult the manual Gender in Research prepared by the European Community and, where appropriate, report on sex in research on people, presenting the results disaggregated by sex.

Presence in Indexes and Databases

Dialnet: Portal for the dissemination of Hispanic scientific production. University of La Rioj

DICE: Dissemination and Editorial Quality of Spanish Journals of Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences). Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA).

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), is a directory that lists scientific and academic journals that meet high quality standards, that are open access and peer-reviewed.

Dulcinea: Project that identifies and analyzes the editorial policies of Spanish journals regarding access to their texts and files, their copyright rights and how these may affect their subsequent self-archiving or deposit in institutional or thematic repositories. Journals are classified by color following the SHERPA/ROMEO taxonomy

ERIH Plus: European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences. NSD, Norwegian Center for Research Data.

Google Scholar Metrics: Tool that establishes the impact index of scientific journals from the citations collected in Google Scholar.

Google Scholar: Search engine specialized in retrieving scientific documents and identifying the citations they have received.

IN-Recs: Impact index of Spanish Social Sciences Journals. EC3, Research Group Evaluation of Science and Scientific Communication, University of Granada.

CSIC InDICEs: Social Sciences and Humanities. Institute of Documentary Studies on Science and Technology (IEDCYT-CSIC).

Latindex: Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. National Autonomous University of Mexico.

MIAR: Matriu d’Informació per a l’Avaluació de Revistes. Study and Analysis Program of the Ministry of Education and Science; Department of Library and Documentation, University of Barcelona.

REBIUN: Collective catalog of the Network of Spanish University Libraries.

REDIB: Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge (Formerly E-journals). Institute of Documentary Studies on Science and Technology (IEDCYT-CSIC) and Universia. Platform for aggregating scientific and academic content in electronic format produced in the Ibero-American area.

RESH: Spanish Journals of Social Sciences and Humanities. It offers editorial quality indicators from CNEAI, ANECA and Latindex, and others such as the degree of diffusion of the journal (measured through its presence in national and international databases), the evaluation of experts and the three-year impact index. .

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory: Bibliographic database that since 1932 collects detailed and authoritative information on periodical publications worldwide (scientific journals, academic journals, press, open access or paid subscription).

WordCat: World Catalogue. OCLC, Online Computer Library Center.

Originals

Cuestiones de Género is open to receiving original (unpublished) scientific articles, not previously published, nor in the process of review or publication in another journal or periodical publication.

Papers may be written in any of the official languages of the European Union. All works will include a Title, Abstract and Keywords in the original language and in English.

Journal history

Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia is an annual journal created in 2005 at the initiative of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Women's Studies of the University of León and has been published uninterruptedly in every month of June since then.

It is open to all research work carried out in the area of feminist and women's studies with the aim of strengthening an academic and interdisciplinary space for inquiry, encounter and debate on gender.

Publisher

University of Leon