About the Journal
Focus and scope
Logoi. Journal of Philosophy is a biannual journal whose purpose is to publish contributions that constitute a contribution to the philosophical debate in the areas of: philosophical anthropology, ethics, history of philosophy, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, theory of argumentation, aesthetics, the philosophy of techology, among other areas related to the philosophical field.
areas of interest: history of philosophy, hermeneutics, analytic philosophy, ethics, logic, argumentation theory, phenomenology, pop philosophy, among others.
Lógoi. Revista de Filosofía is a space for the creation and dissemination of philosophical knowledge and its relationship with the different areas of knowledge.
Logoi. Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Published by the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, its objective is to create a space for the dissemination of research results in the philosophical field to disseminate them among specialists, academics, students and the public interested in philosophical topics.
The historical information of all published issues is visible through the website of the Online Magazines of the Universidad Catolica Andrés Bello on its institutional page: https://revistasenlinea.saber.ucab.edu.ve/index.php/logoi/issue/archive
Accepts submissions in both Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Receive and publish frequencies.
The magazine is published semiannually (January-June and July-December), published during the first month of the declared period. Submission guidelines can be found in “Guidelines for Authors” in the Submissions section. The reception of articles is open permanently.
Open access policy
This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public, which fosters greater global knowledge sharing. The journal as an editorial effort for scientific dissemination adjusts its open access policy to the definition of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI, 2001) where it refers as open access the "free availability on the public internet that allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or add a link to the full text of those articles, track them for indexing, incorporate them as data in software, or use them for any other purpose that is legal, without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those that are inseparable from access to the internet itself."
The articles published in LÓGOI Revista de Filosofía are subject to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license and may be reproduced for any non-commercial use with acknowledgment to the author.
Publication fees and costs
It is published electronically and is committed to free access to scientific knowledge, which is why it does not charge authors for submission or publication.
Access and reuse policies
Logoi. Revista de Filosofía is an academic journal published by the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela. Lógoi, Revista de Filosofía is published in 100% open access format, in addition to not charging charges for processing articles, charges for sending articles are also non-existent.
Each article will be accompanied by a letter from the main author, specifying that the materials are unpublished and that they will not be presented to any other media before knowing the decision of the Editorial Committee. The author must attach a signed declaration indicating what type of law his article presents, remembering that the university suggests using the free access type, without forgetting to mention the main source.
Plagiarism Check
Logoi. Revista de Filosofía, in order to guarantee the academic integrity of the publication, uses the PlagScan application that allows you to review documents by detecting similarities, incorrect citations or possible plagiarism. Every document upon receipt by the editorial committee will be subjected to the process of detecting similarities to avoid plagiarism. It will then go to a selection phase and a ruling process.
Judgment process
In the first phase, the Editorial Committee will select the articles that correspond to the thematic areas covered in the journal and that meet the academic requirements essential for a scientific article. In the second phase, the contributions will be submitted to the opinion of two specialists in the corresponding subject.
Once the Editorial Committee has determined that the submission meets all the established application requirements, the judgment process will begin.
When the author is part of the UCAB staff, his or her work will necessarily be ruled by referees external to this institution. Otherwise, the arbitration may be internal or external to the UCAB. If there is a contradiction between both opinions, a third evaluation will be carried out, which will be considered final. The ruling process will be secret and no nominal information will be given about it.
The writings submitted for publication in the articles section will be subjected to double-blind peer review. Contributions for this section must be free of information that allows the author to be identified. Therefore, the name and affiliation should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. References to the author's previous works must be made in the third person.
The peer evaluation process will take a minimum of five and a maximum of seven months. During the evaluation process, the anonymity of the authors and peer reviewers will be guaranteed. The peer evaluators will be academics with national or international recognition in the subject of the writing. The journal has evaluators external to the institution in order to guarantee the accuracy of the review process.
The writings submitted for publication in the communications, essays, discussions, and reviews section will be submitted to the single-blind review system. The Editorial Committee may make recommendations of substance and form that enrich the quality of the work.
Once the evaluations have been issued, the minutes of the opinion will be sent to the authors; These will have a period of no more than three weeks to deliver the final version of the article with the pertinent corrections. The Editorial Committee of the journal will compare the final version with the opinions and inform the authors in which issue of the journal their work will be published. Without exception, accepted contributions will undergo a style correction based on the linguistic standard of the Spanish language, and their publication will be subject to the availability of space in each issue. In all phases the decision will be final.
Authors interested in submitting their contributions can consult the guidelines for authors found at the following link:
https://revistasenlinea.saber.ucab.edu.ve/index.php/logoi/information/authors
The authors are responsible for the requested changes and suggestions made by the referees and the Editorial Committee of the journal. All writings must indicate whether there is any conflict of interest, as well as any source of financing received. The articles published here must not have been submitted to other journals simultaneously to be considered, nor have they been published in full-length memoirs, previous electronic publications or in another language. The authors must sign a letter of originality of the article and transfer of rights.
Preparation of bibliographic references.
Citations and references must be constituted following the Chicago-Deusto standards N. 17th edition. It is recommended to consult the following manual:
https://www.ucab.edu.ve/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Manual-de-Chicago-Deusto.pdf
Digital preservation policies
The journal through digital preservation methods ensures the intellectual content of electronic documents permanently, maintaining their integrity, authenticity, unalterability, originality, reliability and accessibility; to this end, the system is backed up every 6 months to maintain the integrity of the stored data.
Lógoi Revista de Filosofía uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), which provides the PKP-PN (PKP-Preservation Network) tool and for this journal the respective Pluging is active.
Use of interoperability protocols
The journal incorporates the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol, which allows it to be harvested by other distribution systems. Metadata format: Dublin Core
Address:https://revistasenlinea.saber.ucab.edu.ve/index.php/logoi/oai
Sponsors
Centro de Investigación y Formación Humanística - Escuela de Filosofía
Facultad de Humanidades y Educación
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
