About the Journal
Edad Media. Revista de Historia is a annual digital journal dedicated to the study of Medieval History, mainly of Iberia, with a strong emphasis on comparisons with other European and Mediterranean regions. It publishes original articles arranged in two sections, a Monographic Dossier on a specific theme with the collaboration of Spanish and foreign specialists, and a Miscellany. The journal also has a review section and includes summaries of PhD theses in Medieval History from the University of Valladolid.
Edad Media. Revista de Historia is historiographically open in so far as theoretical approaches, thematic diversity and links with other social sciences are concerned. The journal is aimed at researchers and students specialized in these topics, and aims to encourage the creation and publication of research papers on them.
Founded in 1998 by the Department of Medieval History of the University of Valladolid, whose first director was Dr. Julio Valdeón Baruque until 2006. Dr. Juan Antonio Bonachía Hernando, director between 2007 and 2016, adapted the journal to the new editorial standards. In 2017 the journal began a new stage as an electronic publication in OJS under the auspices of the Publication Service of the University of Valladolid. In its new digital format Edad Media. Revista de Historia aims to achieve greater national and international presence, within the academic standards of quality scientific publications. The previous volumes (1998-2016) have been digitalized and can be consulted through the following link: Edad Media. Revista de Historia.
The Editorial Board and the Editorial Advisory Board are made up of members of the University of Valladolid and a large percentage of members from other Spanish and foreign universities. At least half the Editorial Board belong to institutions other than the University of Valladolid (the publisher). Al least half of the members of the Editorial Advisory Board belong to foreign institutions. The members of the Editorial Board and the Editorial Advisory Board will ensure the continuing achievement of the level of quality of Edad Media. Revista de Historia.
Members of the Editorial Team may publish articles in the journal as long as the said articles pass the anonymous review process, without exceeding 20% of the total.
The journal does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges. Articles and reviews published in Edad Media. Revista de Historia may be included in thematic or institutional repositories immediately after their publication as long as the text is not modified and the original journal of publication is clearly stated.
Edad Media. Revista de Historia publishes articles in Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese.
The articles in Edad Media. Revista de Historia are indexed in the following databases: Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics- WOS - MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES), Scopus (Elsevier), JCI, SJR, International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), DOAJ, Dialnet, Instituto ‘Franco Datini’, Regesta Imperii, Sumaris CBUC, Google Scholar. The journal is included in: ERIHPlus, CIRC. Clasificación integrada de revistas científicas (Grupo B), Latindex, Latindex 2.0, Ulrich’s, , Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas (MIAR), and Sherpa Romeo. Also in the following non active databases: ISOC (CSIC), REDIB, RESH, DICE (CINDOC), Dulcinea.
In 2014 Edad Media. Revista de Historia was awarded the seal of quality of “Revista Excelente” in the IV Convocation of the Editorial and Scientific Quality Evaluation of the Spanish Scientific Journas by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).
Institutional affiliation
This journal is owned by the University of Valladolid (Spain), which provides its digital hosting and is responsible for its maintenance and management through Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid (EdUVa) and the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC). The University of Valladolid guarantees open access to the contents of the journal. The works published in the journal will be included in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid, guaranteeing their long-term preservation.
Postal address: Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza del Colegio de Santa Cruz 8, 47002 Valladolid (Spain)
Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid: ediciones@uva.es
Financing
The magazine does not charge authors for sending their articles or reviews or for publishing them, and is financed and managed through the resources of Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid.
Peer review process (double blind):
1. The manuscripts must be uploaded to the journal’s digital platform. Authors will be informed automatically of receipt. Authors can also see the state of the review process on the platform.
2. The journal editor will appoint a member of the Editorial Board to verify that the manuscript complies with the requirements of the journal and fits the editorial line and thematic field. In the case of doubts, the Editorial Board or the Editorial Advisory Board may be consulted. When a manuscript does not comply with the requirements, the author(s) will be notified of the rejection and the reasons why.
If the formal defects in the manuscript are important, it will be returned to the author(s) for correction. If the said defects are few and not important, the author(s) will be asked to correct them following the peer review in the final version.
3. All manuscripts received for the Monographic Dossier or the Miscellany will be reviewed by two external referees, specialists in the subject matter. The referees must not belong to the Editorial Board or the Editorial Advisory Board. The peer review is anonymous on both sides (double blind). If there should be a discrepancy between the reports of the referees, the journal will ask a third referee to provide a further review.
4. The referees will be selected by the pertinent member of the Editorial Board, following advice of the Editorial Board or the Editorial Advisory Board, if necessary. The author(s) may suggest, when submitting the manuscript, the names of possible referees, while this implies no obligation on the part of the Editorial Board. The author(s) may not suggest persons who have intervened in the preparation of the manuscript, have read it beforehand, who belong to the same research project or group, or are related to the author(s) by kinship or close friendship. The author(s) may also reject certain possible referees if sufficient reasons are given.
5. The journal will request referees to send their reports within five weeks. The reviews must be completed on the journal’s digital platform. The review form, in addition to qualifying the originality, writing style, methodology, bibliography and relevance of the contribution, consists of the following questions:
- Do you wish to convey any comments or suggestions to the author regarding the article’s writing style?
- Do you wish to convey any comments or suggestions to the author regarding the methodology used in the article?
- Do you wish to convey any comments or suggestions to the author regarding the bibliography used (such as including specific works)?
- Any other comments or suggestions that you wish to convey to the author.
- Comments for the editors (i.e. article's relevance, originality, etc.).
- Is the article properly structured (i.e. introduction, body, and conclusion)
6. Having received and examined the referees’ reports, the Editorial Board will inform the author(s) of the decision to accept the manuscript or not, the reasons for the said decision, and the possible proposed corrections. The final decision on the acceptance of an article rests with the Editorial Board.
7. The final version of the manuscript, with the necessary modifications and adapted to the requirements of the journal, must be sent to the journal within 30 days of receipt of the notification (point 6). The author(s) can email the Editorial Board explaining the modifications and opportune allegations if necessary.
8. Holiday periods of the University of Valladolid will not count as part of the said time limits.
9. No article will be definitively accepted until all the corrections have been made. The Editorial Board will inform the author(s) by e-mail of the final decision concerning acceptance or rejection of the manuscript.
10. The journal will publish the final version of the article sent by the author(s). The proofreading must be limited to necessary changes due to erratas. We would therefore ask the author(s) to check the original carefully before sending it.
11. If, following publication, the author(s) detect any important errors, the Editorial Board should be informed, clearly indicating the location in the text and the pertinent correction.
12. The journal will periodically publish on the website the list of collaborating referees.
Proposals for Monographic Dossiers
Those who wish to coordinate a monographic Dossier for Edad Media. Revista de Historia should send their proposal to the journal’s e-mail in April or May. The proposal must include a provisional title, a brief abstract with the subject matter and aims, and a list of participants with their academic positions. The journal’s Board will communicate their decision to the interested parties in june. The Board reserves the right to make suggestions to the coordinators concerning the contents and the participants, prior to definitive acceptance. The articles for the monographic dossier must be sent in september of the following year, in order to be published in the next edition, i. e., two years after the proposal
Correction of texts in English
The Editorial Board reserves the right to correct abstracts written by author(s) in English. Edad Media. Revista de Historia would like to thank Marta Revilla Rivas for her work in this respect.
Frecuency of publication
Edad Media. Revista de Historia is published annually in july.
Scope
Founded in 1998 under the editorship of professor Dr. Julio Valdeón Baruque, Edad Media. Revista de Historia, is a journal that publishes original academic manuscripts (arranged into a monographic dossier and a miscellany section), historiographic comments, reviews of books and doctoral theses, all of which are in the field of Medieval History, mainly of Iberia. The journal publishes articles in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Open Access Policy:
This journal enables free and immediate access to its content to foster global knowledge.
The articles published at Edad Media will have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Code of ethics
Editorial Board
The board must be impartial and maintain the confidentiality throughout the editorial process. The author(s) right of reply must be respected following a negative evaluation. No member of the board may use data, ideas or interpretations from unpublished manuscripts for their own research, except when written permission is expressly given by the author(s).
Manuscripts will be evaluated according to the double blind peer review described in the editorial process. Acceptance or rejection is the responsibility of the Editorial Board on the basis of peer reviews. Any member of the Board who has a conflict of interest concerning the author(s) of a manuscript (for direct personal or professional reasons) may not intervene in any way in the evaluation process.
Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review under the following circumstances: they lack the necessary quality or originality; they are badly written; they do not conform to the journal’s scientific aims; or there is evidence of scientific fraud.
The Board reserves the right to remove any article already published that is later proven to lack reliability through involuntary errors or fraud or plagiarism, and to leave a public notice stating the reasons.
The author(s)
Manuscripts must be the result of unpublished, original research. Sources and quotes must be cited. Ideas taken from other published or unpublished works, including images, graphs, etc., should also be adequately referenced.
Author(s) must ensure that their data and results are original and have not been copied, invented, distorted or manipulated. Plagiarism in all its forms, redundant or multiple publication, as well as the invention or manipulation of data, all constitute serious breaches of the ethical code and will be considered scientific fraud. The author(s) must not use information obtained privately through conversations, correspondence or debate with other colleagues, save with express written permission.
The author who sends the manuscript must guarantee the recognition of those who made significant contributions to the conception, planning, design, execution, data gathering, interpretation and discussion of the results. All the authors of each article share responsibility for the work.
The author(s) must declare their sources of funding. This information will appear in the published article.
The peer reviewers
Peer reviewers must maintain confidentiality until publication. In no case can the manuscript’s information be used in their own or third party’s benefit or damage.
Peer reviewers must judge the quality of the complete manuscript objectively: hypothesis, data and interpretation, as well as presentation and style. Their criticisms must be precise, comments must be objective and constructive, and their judgements must be adequately reasoned. They must inform the Editorial Board of any substantial similarity with other articles already published or in the process of evaluation for other journals (redundant or duplicated publication). Peer reviewers must also call attention to copied, fraudulent, invented or manipulated texts or data .
They must send their reports within the agreed time or, if they consider themselves unable to judge the manuscript, they must inform the Editorial Board as soon as possible.
They must check that relevant bibliography is cited, suggest the suppression of superfluous references, or the incorporation of further references.
The review is double blind. However, if having received the manuscript, the peer reviewer considers, through a personal or professional relationship with any of the authors, he/she should abstain, then he/she must do so. Conflicts of interest may also arise when a peer reviewer is also working on the same question.
The opinions and facts appearing in each article or book review are strictly the responsibility of the author(s). The Editorial Board of Edad Media. Revista de Historia and the University of Valladolid take no responsibility whatsoever for the credibility, veracity, authenticity or originality of the articles.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal (namely, those relating the processing of manuscripts submitted for publication, their evaluating process, or the distribution of information concerning the published works) and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Under REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), users can exercise their rights to request access to, and to rectification and erasure (right to be forgotten) of their personal information, restriction of and/or objection to data processing and portability, as well as not to transfer and/ or share your information with third parties individually.
In case of doubt, Edad Media. Revista de Historia will follow the Ethical Code established by th Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE).
Also consult the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.
Good practices in gender equality
The journal is committed to promoting gender equality, by ensuring balance gender representation in its different boards and committees (editorial, managing, and scientific), considered jointly. It will also ensure that gender representation among the reviewers of the submissions is balanced.
The journal includes the full name of the authors of the works it publishes.
In accordance with the principle of gender equality, the journal uses inclusive language and encourages its use by authors. It recommends replacing the use of the generic masculine with non-discriminatory terms (such as collective nouns or gender-neutral adjectives), avoid expressions that perpetuate gender stereotypes and implement strategies aimed at favoring the most inclusive form of language. Authors are advised to follow the guidelines for the use of gender-inclusive language established by the United Nations.
When writing research works, authors must avoid gender biases whereby the masculine is used as a universal reference. They are advised to consult the European Union toolkit Gender in research and, where appropriate, provide information about the sex variable in research concerning persons, presenting the results disaggregated by sex.
In cases where it is relevant, the article reviewers should assess whether the studies include a sex and/or gender disaggregated analysis and whether they address its relevance in the research design, results, discussion, and limitations.
Copyright warning:
The articles published at Edad Media. Revista de Historia will have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The journal allows the authors to retain publishing rights. Authors may reprint their articles in other media without having to request authorization, provided they indicate that the article was originally published in Edad Media. Revista de Historia.
Privacy declaration
Names and emails included in the journal are published as part of the author(s)’ affiliation, except when expressly indicated otherwise to the Editorial Board. The use of academic affiliation and not personal address is recommended.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and preservation of digital files
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to the articles published in the journal. The articles will also be housed in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid and in other databases, and will be archived by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).
Plagiarism detection policy
The journal will ensure compliance with good research practices established in the "Ethical Code of Conduct" included in the previous section. In it, authors are advised to avoid plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or multiple or redundant publication, the evaluators are requested to inform the journal of any cases of malpractice they detect, and the procedure to be followed by the editorial team is established. In addition, all articles received will be subjected to a plagiarism detection tool provided by journal has an plagiarism prevention tool provided by the Servicio de Tecnologias de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC), and will proceed accordingly in the event that cases of plagiarism are detected.
UsPolicy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the editorial process
The journal ensures the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the editorial process, guaranteeing transparency, impartiality, and confidentiality in the publication of scientific articles.
1. Transparency: The use of AI in the writing, editing, or analysis of manuscripts must be explicitly declared by authors in a specific section of the article (e.g., “Declaration on the Use of AI” or “Acknowledgments”), specifying the software used and its function.
2. Impartiality: AI does not replace academic judgment or peer review. All editorial decisions are made by the journal’s human editorial team. The use of AI tools that may introduce biases in the evaluation of manuscripts or the selection of content will be avoided.
3. Confidentiality: The security and privacy of data from authors, reviewers, and evaluators will be guaranteed, preventing the use of AI in open-access platforms without the consent of the parties involved. Manuscripts under review will not be submitted to generative AI systems without the journal’s explicit authorization.
4. Authorship and responsibility: AI cannot be listed as an author or co-author of articles published in the journal, as it does not meet the authorship requirements established by scientific standards. The use of AI in writing or analyzing the article does not exempt authors from responsibility for the integrity, originality, and quality of the submitted content.
This policy will be updated as regulations and best practices in the editorial and academic fields evolve.
Information policy on funding sources
If there is any type of public or private funding for the research that has given rise to the article, it must be declared when submitting it, filling in the corresponding section in the metadata box. In the case of multiple authorships, each author must declare all the information related to their sources of information, including the name of the financing entity, the identification number of the financing and the description of the role that the financing entity has played in the investigation. Once the article passes the evaluation, a call to a footnote will be included after its title in which it will be indicated if it has had any type of financing or has been carried out within the framework of a research project.
Interoperability protocol
The journal has an OAI-PMH interface (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that enables databases or information services to access the metadata of published works. Path to obtain the metadata: https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/edadmedia/oai?verb=Identify.