About the Journal

MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica is published on an anual basis. It accepts original and unpublished scientific contributions as well as critical editions and scientific reviews on topics related to the Greek and Latin philologies in its broadest chronological and thematic range.

Since 2017 Minerva, Revista de Filología Clásica has been published online with open access and it is accessible from the web page of the University of Valladolid.

The journal does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges. 

Minerva, Revista de Filología Clásica has been awarded the Quality Label of the Spanish Foundation for promotion of Science and Technology (FECYT in its Spanish acronym) with a qualification of “Excellent” for the period 2014-2017, and has obtained the renewal of the seal of quality in the years 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 y 2024. 

Minerva, Revista de Filología Clásica is now indexed in the “Emerging Sources Citation Index” (ESCI) on the Thomson Reuters scientific webpage, and in SCOPUS. It is also indexed in other bibliographical databases and repositories listed in in the section Indización (Indexation). National and international agencies and institutions have also positively assessed the journal.

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.

Peer review system

1. MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica is a peer review journal.

2. In order to ensure the anonymity of the contributors throughout the process, authors will be asked to submit their papers anonymously and avoid including any data which would lead to their identification.

3. The articles that fit in with the official editorial rules will be first assessed by the editorial board. Those submissions which do not fit in with these rules will, however, be returned for their authors to make the necessary changes until they comply with them. The editorial board will not accept the contributions that do not fulfil the requirements of quality demanded for academic publications.

4. Once the submission has been approved in the first stage, the contribution will be sent anonymously to two different external reviewers who are specialists in the field. They can be both national and/or foreign. The editorial board will be eventually consulted in this process.

5. External reviewers must comply with the following conditions: they must be renowned experts in the subject and they must have no personal or institutional relation with the author and the journal.

6. External reviewers will assess the submitted contribution against a series of criteria set in the journal’s evaluation sheet (Ficha de evaluación). These criteria should help the external reviewers to assess the quality of the submission against several standards: interest of the article, methodology used, clarity of objectives, knowledge of the subject and of the bibliography, contribution to the knowledge of the topic, originality and clarity in the exposition. The reviewers will then decide and indicate whether the publication must be accepted, rejected, or accepted with the changes suggested by the reviewer.

7. External reviewers must always objectively substantiate their assessment. They cannot have any conflict of interest with the authors or their research.

8. External reviewers will be asked to not disclose their identity in any possible way in their reports or introduce any elements that may lead to their identification.

9. Following the reports submitted by the reviewers, the editorial board of Minerva, Revista de Filología Clásica will make the decision on whether or not to accept the contribution for its publication or, alternatively, reject it. The outcome of the decision will be communicated to the author, who will be also informed about the conclusions and suggestions made by the reviewers.

10. The editorial board will be the ultimate responsible for the publication or rejection of the contribution.

11. If the submission has not been rejected, but it is subject to modifications, authors will be responsible to send a new version of the article following the suggestions made by the external reviewers. The editorial board will assess whether or not the degree of fulfilment of these changes by the author meet the external reviewers’ suggestions and will accordingly make a final decision on the publication.

12. If the external reviewers present conflicting assessments of the contribution, a third evaluation will be demanded by the editorial board on the same basis of the previous ones. A member of the editorial board might be this third reviewer.

13. MINERVA Revista de Filología Clásica ensures the anonymity of the evaluation process in every stage including both the submitted contributions and the reports by the external reviewers, as well as any other possible communication made by the members of the editorial board.

Frequency of publication

MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica is published on an anual basis.

Publication ethics and malpractice statement of MINERVA

All the publications submitted, the Editorial Board and all the persons implied in the reviewing process must observe following points (privacy statement, peer review process and author guidelines are detailed in the web in separate entries).

1. Publication and authorship

- Financial support, either public or private, must be indicated in a footnote at the beginning of the contribution.

- Plagiarism in any part of the contribution is forbidden. For detecting plagiarism we use the tool provided by the University of Valladolid: Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).

- Fraudulent data, either in the references or in the main text, are not admitted.

- It is forbidden to publish the same research or a substantial part of it in another journal.

- The editors must be informed that the same research or a substantial part of it has been sent for reviewing to another journal.

2. Author’s responsibilities

- The authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process.

- All authors of a given contribution must have significantly contributed to the research.

- The authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes, when so required.

3. Peer review / responsibility for the reviewers

- The judgments of the reviewer should be objective and based on data, criteria and arguments, avoiding general judgements without scientific basis.

- The reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders.

- The reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.

- The reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

4. Editorial responsibilities

- Editors must always take the peer reviewed reports into account but have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.

- Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept.

- Editors will preserve anonymity of reviewers.

- Editors will provide a report to the authors of the rejected articles, where the reasons for the rejection are explained.

- Editors will be always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Code of Conduct

The journal will comply with the ethical code established in the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines, which adheres to the principles proposed by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). This guide establishes the ethical way of proceeding by authors, editorial committees and reviewers, the content of which is summarized below:

1. Authors

Authors of articles must undertake to conduct their research in an ethical and responsible manner, in compliance with prevailing legislation and the aspects included in section 1 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines. Work shall be original and unpublished, and shall be duly attributed to those who have prepared it, avoiding plagiarism (misappropriation of others' work or ideas), self-plagiarism (taking advantage of ideas or previous works of one's own authorship without citing the source) and multiple or redundant publication of the same work. Clear reference should be made to the sources used and to previous papers on the same subject matter, explaining the origin of the data and ideas, of the literal quotations or of other resources (such as graphs, images, tables, etc.). Failure to comply with these aspects may lead to the public disavowal of the articles, as explained in section 2. 2 of the aforementioned guide.

Information from private conversations or discussions with others in academia or science may not be used without their explicit permission. If images or graphics that are not originally from the author are included in the work, they must have express permission to use them and cite the authorship appropriately.

Woks that are being evaluated in whole or in part by another publisher cannot be submitted. Once submitted to Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, the originals cannot be sent to another journal or publisher until the evaluation process has been completed.

2. Editorial committee

The members of the editorial committee must ensure the quality of the publications, promoting good practices in research, trying to avoid malpractice and trying to speed up the publication processes.

The evaluation process must be managed fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of those who have written the work and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.

It is the responsibility of the editorial committee to manage the evaluation process of publications fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of authors and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.

Members of the editorial committees must respect the confidentiality of the articles and their contents until the time of publication and may not use the data in the work for their own research, unless they have the express permission of the authors.

The editorial committees may consider the refusal of authors to have their work evaluated by certain persons, evaluating whether the reasons provided are justified, but they are not obliged to dispense with the use of these persons.

The editorial committees shall recognise the work of the reviewers, issuing, where appropriate, the corresponding accreditations to those who have adequately carried out their work.

The editorial committee must try to avoid malpractice in research (redundant publication, plagiarism or selfplagiarism, omission of cited sources, invented, misrepresented, manipulated or unauthorised use of data ...). Where instances of research malpractice are noted in manuscripts received, the author will be invited to correct them if the misuse affects a small part of the article, and the manuscript will be rejected if it affects a substantial part.

If malpractice is discovered after publication, the editorial committee will request clarifications from the author and, after evaluating their explanations, will make a decision on the matter. If only part of the work contains errors, this can be resolved by publishing an erratum. If the malpractice affects a substantial part of the article, it must be retracted, in accordance with the procedure described in section 2. 2 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.

Likewise, the editorial committee will try to resolve any possible conflicts of interest described in section 2. 4 of the aforementioned guide.

3. Reviewer/s

Reviewers must refrain from reviewing the works if they had any relationship with the authors that would advise against it, as explained in section 3 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.

The work of reviewers must be confidential, both during the evaluation process and after the eventual publication of the evaluated work. Reviewers will not be able to use the evaluated content for their own personal benefit or that of other people, and they must respect the opinions and intellectual position of those who have written the articles, judging the work objectively and impartially, arguing their judgements appropriately, showing respect, constructively correcting possible errors and providing suggestions for improvement with regard to the contents, formal presentation, writing and bibliography used in the work.

In the event that any malpractice is detected in the work reviewed, reviewers must notify the editorial committees so that their members can take the corresponding decisions.

Reviewers are required to submit their reports within the agreed time. If they are unable to complete their task on time, or if they do not consider themselves capable of evaluating the work, they should inform the members of the editorial committees as soon as possible.

Submissions

Online submissions

MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica adheres to the submission process established by EdUVa.

Norms for authors

The submission and reception of originals is ongoing throughout the year. The Editorial Board closes the yearly issue before the 1^st of October. The closing date of each year's issue may be modified if so agreed by the Editorial Board of the magazine. Authors will be informed of the possible publication date of their contributions. Contributions received in a year, once the issue corresponding to that year has closed, may be published in the following year.

As a general rule, the same person cannot appear as author or co-author of two articles within the same volume.

Open access policy and copyright notice

MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica is an open access journal. All its numbers are available to the public without restrictions in the section corresponding to magazines of the web page of Editions of the University of Valladolid.

The articles published at MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica will have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The authors continue as owners of their works, and can republish their articles in another medium without having to request authorization, as long as they indicate that the work was originally published in MINERVA. Revista de Filología Clásica.

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.

Privacy Statement

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.

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 prevention tool

The journal has an plagiarism prevention tool provided by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).

Policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the editorial process

The journal Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica 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 in accordance with the guidelines on the responsible use of AI as established at any given time by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and UNESCO.

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/minerva/oai?verb=Identify