About the Journal

Travesía Journal

 

About the Journal

Travesía is a journal of Latin American economic and social history, published semiannually (two issues per year, January–June and July–December). It was founded in 1998 by a group of researchers who agreed that history, as an adventure of knowledge, should not be tied to any orthodoxy or to exclusive normative theoretical or methodological principles; and that economic processes and institutions could not be studied in abstraction from the "inextricable relations between economic vicissitudes and social, political, and cultural vicissitudes," in the words of Carlo Cipolla.

From the very beginning, its Advisory Board included Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Tamás Szmerecsányi, Carlos Sempat Assadourian, Josep Fontana, Giovanni Levi, Bill Albert, Raúl Fradkin, Carlos Marichal, Enrique Tandeter, Reyna Pastor, Donna Guy, Mario Cerutti, Juan Carlos Garavaglia, Miguel Murmis, Pedro Pérez Herrero, Mario Rapoport, and Nelson Manrique; later joined by Jobson de Andrade Arruda, Vera Ferlini, José Antonio Piqueras, Julio Pinto Vallejos, Andrés Regalsky and Charles Walker.

In addition to Latin American historians, Travesía has published works by Spanish, French, German, Italian, North American, and Canadian authors. Contributions cover a wide thematic spectrum: regional economies, agro-industries, agrarian history, the social question, labor movement and social movements, business history, associational life, women's history and feminisms, industrial history and heritage, history of consumption and others.

Travesía publishes original works in Spanish, Portuguese, English, or French, which, after an initial review by the Editorial Board, are evaluated by external experts under a double-blind peer review system, while book reviews are assessed directly by the Editorial Board. Articles and reviews are accepted year-round and must be submitted by email to travesia@ct.unt.edu.ar or through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. Guidelines for submitting articles and reviews are detailed in the "Submissions" section.

 

Authors whose contributions are published after successfully completing the evaluation process grant Travesía non-exclusive publishing rights. The work may be reused, once edited, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

The non-exclusive transfer of rights also includes authorization for the published articles to be disseminated in databases and platforms deemed appropriate for indexing, with the aim of increasing the visibility of the journal and of the research results of the authors who publish in it.

 

Open Access Statement

Travesía adheres to the various international declarations that promote free access to scientific, academic, and cultural information without any economic, technical, or legal restrictions. Likewise, the receipt, evaluation, editing, layout, and publication of contributions involve no cost to the authors, who in turn do not receive monetary compensation from the journal.

 

Statement on Ethics and Editorial Best Practices

The Editorial Board of Travesía guarantees the strict observance of good scientific practices, adherence to ethical principles, and the academic quality of the articles published. In accordance with these principles, all articles are evaluated by anonymous external peer reviewers, applying criteria based exclusively on the relevance, originality, scientific significance, and methodological soundness of the texts submitted by their authors. The reviewers issue their assessments using an ad hoc form designed on the basis of these variables. The confidentiality of the evaluation process—and the anonymity of reviewers and authors, the content under review, the reasoned reports issued by reviewers, and any other communication from the Editorial Board—is a non-negotiable principle of the journal. Likewise, any possible rebuttals, claims, or clarifications that authors may deem necessary to submit will also remain confidential.

The Editorial Board of Travesía declares that all forms of plagiarism and self-plagiarism are strictly prohibited, and that any text found to contain fraudulent content of this nature will be rejected. Consequently, authors must guarantee that their articles and associated materials are original and do not infringe upon copyright. In cases of shared authorship, it must be confirmed that all contributing authors reached full agreement regarding the order of authorship, and that the proposed work has not been previously published in print or digital format, whether in scholarly journals or in the proceedings of academic meetings.

 

Conflict of Interest

The Editorial Board of Travesía is committed to safeguarding the evaluation process from potential conflicts of interest among the various parties involved—authors, external reviewers, and members of the Board itself. Conflicts of interest are considered to exist when personal circumstances (such as family, professional, or friendship ties, open enmity, or very close academic relationships, such as those established between tutors and students) may hinder an objective assessment of the scientific quality of an article or other contribution, thereby introducing bias into the review process.

 

Peer Review Policy and Process

Contributions sent to the Articles and Dossier sections of Travesía are submitted to a rigorous arbitration process divided into two successive stages:

Internal Evaluation (Admission Phase):

In the first instance, the Editorial Committee conducts a technical and formal review to determine whether the manuscript meets the journal's scope and objectives, complies with formal presentation guidelines and passes the originality control (plagiarism check). Manuscripts in the Reviews section are evaluated exclusively through this internal process.

External Evaluation (Double Blind System):

Work that passes the internal phase is submitted to a minimum of two (2) external evaluators who are specialists in the specific thematic area of the manuscript. A Double Blind mechanism is applied, ensuring strict anonymity: authors are unaware of the evaluators' identities and vice versa. All evaluators assigned in this phase are external to the editorial committee.

Evaluation Criteria for External Reviewers:

Reviewers are asked to judge manuscripts based on:

  • Originality and Relevance: Significant contribution to Latin American historiography.
  • Theoretical and Methodological Foundation: Clarity in the approach, conceptual consistency and rigor in research design.
  • Structure and Writing: Internal coherence, clarity of exposition, formal fluency and stylistic correction.
  • Sources and Bibliography: Relevance, currency and critical use of primary sources and secondary scientific literature.

Editorial Decision and Discrepancy Management:

The Editorial Committee is responsible for making the final decision on all manuscripts based on external reports. Reviewers will recommend one of the following options: a) Accept without changes; b) Accept without substantial changes (minor suggestions); c) Accept conditionally upon making relevant modifications; d) Reject. In case of discrepancies between evaluations received, the Editorial Committee will immediately request a third opinion (tie-breaking report) from an additional external evaluator.

Correction Deadlines:

Once notified of a conditional acceptance decision, the author has a maximum period of one (1) month to send the corrected version together with a detailed report of the changes made. After this period without response or a properly justified request for extension, the article will be considered formally withdrawn.

 

Ethics Code and Declaration of Good Practices

Travesía strictly adheres to the international ethical guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Guidelines for Ethical Behavior in Social Sciences and Humanities set by CONICET Argentina (Res. 2857/2006). Compliance with these ethical guidelines equally commits editors, authors and evaluators:

1. Responsibilities of the Editorial Committee:

Impartiality and Transparency:

Manuscripts will be evaluated exclusively on the basis of their scientific merit and academic rigor, without discrimination based on geographic origin, gender, institutional affiliation or academic trajectory of the authors.

Confidentiality:

The confidentiality of texts, the identities of evaluators and authors, as well as the data presented prior to their effective publication is guaranteed.

Conflicts of Interest:

Editors will refrain from intervening in the review process of work written by authors with whom they share family ties, direct institutional affiliation or relations of closeness/labor disputes. In such cases, editorial management of the submission will be delegated to another committee member.

2. Author Commitments:

Originality and Unpublished Nature:

By submitting work, authors formally declare that the manuscript is original, unpublished and is not simultaneously under review by another scientific journal.

Authorship and Responsibility:

The correct inclusion of all co-authors who have made significant contributions to the research must be ensured. The opinions expressed in published articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Editorial Committee.

Sources of Funding:

Authors must explicitly state in an initial footnote whether the research has funding from external scientific agencies or institutions.

  • 3. Duties of External Evaluators:

  • Confidentiality and Integrity: Reviewers acknowledge that the assigned manuscript is privileged and confidential information; they may not disclose its contents or use them for personal or professional benefit prior to publication of the article.
  • Objectivity and Constructive Rigor: Criticism must be written in an objective, neutral and constructive manner, providing clear arguments and indications of relevant literature to help authors enrich the manuscript.
  • Declaration of Conflicts of Interest: If an evaluator identifies the authorship of an assigned text or detects relationships of co-authorship or close professional collaboration with the author, they must immediately recuse themselves from the Editorial Committee.

Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism Detection Policy

Travesía maintains a zero-tolerance stance against academic plagiarism to safeguard the rigor and integrity of historiographic research. All received manuscripts must undergo a formal review using tools and software for detecting textual coincidence and similarity (such as PlagScan, PaperRater, among others) in their initial evaluation stage.

Definition of Plagiarism Conduct:

According to international guidelines, the journal defines the following breaches of originality:

  • Direct Plagiarism: Copying or literally transcribing paragraphs from another work deliberately omitting citation of the original author and without the corresponding use of quotation marks.
  • Inadequate or Abusive Paraphrasing: Minimally modifying words or syntactic structures of others' ideas and presenting them as one's own, or engaging in extensive and continuous paraphrasing of a source without contributing critical interaction or conceptual enrichment, even when vaguely mentioning the original source.
  • Self-Plagiarism or Recycling Fraud: Changing the appearance of a previous work by the author to present it as a distinct and unpublished contribution, omitting proper indication that the work is being reused or recycled. (Note: it is not considered self-plagiarism to expand a previous presentation that serves as the basis for a new substantive contribution, provided this circumstance is declared in an initial footnote).

Operational Protocol for Plagiarism Detection:

If plagiarism is detected or suspected during initial internal evaluation or external review phase:

  1. The evaluation process will be immediately halted and the manuscript will be definitively rejected.
  2. A formal notification will be sent to the author attaching the textual evidence of uncredited similarity, requesting a written response.
  3. If the response is unsatisfactory, the journal reserves the right to inform the authorities of the institution where the author works and/or the editorial managers of the journal where the original plagiarized text was published.

 

Article Processing Charges (APC) Policy

Travesía is a non-commercial scientific journal that adheres to the diamond open access route. Consequently, the journal does not charge any fees, tariffs or quotas for the reception, evaluation (peer review), copyediting, translation, layout, editing or publication of articles submitted by authors (Article Processing Charges - APCs).

Similarly, authors will not receive any economic compensation from the journal for work that is ultimately published.

 

Open Access Policy

Travesía formally adheres to the Open Access movement and associates itself with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration. The journal provides immediate, free, unrestricted and open access to all its scientific content.

This policy is based on the principle that offering scientific and academic production to society for free contributes directly to greater and more equitable global exchange of knowledge.

Published content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Readers and general users are fully authorized to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of articles in this journal without requiring prior permission from editors or authors, under the sole and strict requirement of recognizing initial authorship and correctly citing Travesía as the source of first publication.

 

When publishing in Travesía, authors accept and subscribe to the following copyright guidelines and terms:

  1. Copyright Retention: Authors retain copyright over their intellectual production without restrictions and guarantee Travesía non-exclusively the right of first publication of the work under the corresponding Creative Commons License.
  2. External Contractual Agreements: Authors are authorized to establish additional and separate contractual agreements with third parties for non-exclusive distribution of the version of their work published in this journal (for example, incorporating it into an edited book or depositing it in institutional, academic or thematic repositories). In all cases, the obligation to explicitly cite Travesía as the source of original first publication is established.
  3. Self-Archiving Policy: The journal permits and actively encourages self-archiving and deposit in repositories of all versions of works:
    • Pre-print Version (Original manuscript prior to peer review): May be deposited in any digital archive at any time.
    • Post-print Version (Corrected version approved or formatted by the journal): Its dissemination is recommended and authorized once the formal publication process in the journal has been completed, always prioritizing the direct URL link or metadata of the publication on the journal's OJS portal.

Digital Preservation Policies

Travesía commits to safeguarding over the long term the scientific integrity and free access to its content through a robust system of digital preservation.

All files and administrative information on the portal are backed up daily through data and configuration backups via servers administered by the National University of Tucumán.

Additionally, the journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) and the preservation systems LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). These open-source systems allow the creation of permanent archives distributed securely in caches of scientific libraries worldwide, guaranteeing the permanent preservation of the journal's historical and current content in case of unforeseen technical contingencies.