About the Journal | Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche

Focus and Scope

The cultural framework of the journal covers: history, archaeology, antiquity, history of art and conservation, valorization and restoration of cultural heritage.
The chronological framework starts from the prehistoric age to the Fatimid period (12th century). The geographical context is North Africa (particularly Tunisia and the Maghreb), understood both as a geographical area and as a cultural entity to be compared with studies focused on common aspects of cultural and commercial relationships in other areas.
A particular relevance will be given to the studies focused on musealization, restoration of monuments and material and immaterial cultural valorization issues.

Peer Review Process

Applications will be checked by the editorial staff for compliance with the journal’s subject area.
If the application matches the quality standards required, it will be sent for peer review. This process will be led by at least by two reviewers, following the “double blind” procedure.
The editorial staff will complete this first phase in two weeks. The author will then be told if his/her work is going to be submitted to the peer review procedure or if it has been rejected.
The reviewers for each work will be chosen by the editorial committee.

At least one of the reviewers will not be a member of the scientific committee.
The peer review phase will last no longer than 5 weeks, at the end of which the editorial staff will tell the author whether his/her work will be published or not. The peer review process will be managed using the OJS software.

Publication Frequency

Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche is an annual journal.

The contents of the journal are organized in several sections which may not appear in every issue, depending on the subjects of the submitted studies. Articles will be added and published in each issue following the order of their submission.
The studies will be published on the website when ready, starting from January 1st, every year.
The annual closing of the journal is supposed to be on December 31st each year.

Open Access Policy

CaSteR does not charge APCs or submission charges.

CaSteR 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.

CaSteR is publishing undere a license Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non opere derivate 4.0 Internazionale.

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving /SHERPA/ROMEO

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Indexing and Ranking

Ranking

ERIH Plus
MIAR
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Clarivate Analytics (WoS)

CaSteR is indexed by the following abstracting and indexing services:

Archiving

CaSteR utilizes the LOCKSS, system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

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Legal Deposit

CaSteR is experimenting the National legal deposition and long-term digital preservation service. Within the project the persistent identifier NBN (national bibliographic number) is assigned to each article.

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Code of Ethics

CaSteR is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. CaSteR’s ethic statements are based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors developed by the COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics.

It is necessary that all the different parties involved in the publishing of each article (authors, editors-in-chief, editorial board, editors of single issues, reviewers) agree upon the following standards of ethical behavior.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Publication Decisions

Journal editors are responsible for the peer-review process and both parties decide whether the submitted articles should be published or not.

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Fairness

The editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, political philosophy or academic affiliation of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editorial board involved in the process must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers and other editorial advisors, as appropriate.

Errors in published works

When an author discovers an error or inaccuracy in his/her own published article, he/she has to notify the journal editors or the editorial board promptly and cooperate with them in order to correct it.

Disclosure Process and Conflict of Interest

The editorial board commits not to use unpublished materials from submitted articles without the express written consent of the author.

CaSteR recurs to the same peer-review process for contributions submitted by members of the editorial board.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF REVIEWERS

Contribution to editorial decisions

The double-blind peer-review process assists both the editors in their decisions and the authors in improving their articles.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the article for which his/her contribution is requested or unable to submit his/her review within the 30 days schedule should immediately notify the editors.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts must be treated as confidential material. They must not be shown to or discussed with others unless previously authorized by the editors.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews of submitted manuscripts are to be objective. The reviewers must express their opinions, exclusively about the article, with a clear argumentation through a standard form provided to them by editors.

Disclosure Process and Conflict of Interest

Information and indications obtained during the peer-review process must be considered as confidential material and they are not to be used for personal purposes. Reviewers must not accept any manuscript for which a potential conflict of interest exists.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUTHORS

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors have to submit only original and unpublished research. They need to provide for their articles correct indications of all bibliographic sources and/or any other accessed material.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publications

An author should not submit manuscripts already published or under review process in another journal. Submitting the same manuscript simultaneously to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior, thus it is unacceptable.

CaSteR keeps the right to republish texts previously published elsewhere, providing a clear reference to the original publication.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the research and work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the submitted articles.

Authorship

Authorship must be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution and interpretation of the submitted article. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Those who have substantially participated in the research project should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

In case of article written by different authors, the submitting author must ensure that all other co-authors are included and acknowledged, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission to the journal for its publication.