Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Observatorio (OBS*) is an online, multimedia, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages both established and emerging scholars worlwide.

Observatorio (OBS*) is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes contributions coming from and speaking to the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is Communication Studies, and is open to several publishing languages such as Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French, and English.

Observatorio (OBS*) allows authors of a wide range of theoretical and methodological areas in the Communication Studies, from academia to the business-related world, to interact and publish in their own original languages without time-space publishing limitations and accessibility constraints.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Editors
  • Gustavo Cardoso, OberCom and CIES-ISCTE
  • Rita Espanha, ISLA and OberCom
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Networking Research Review

Editors
  • Piermarco Aroldi, Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  • João Caraça, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
  • Gustavo Cardoso, OberCom and CIES-ISCTE
  • Rita Cheta, OberCom and CIES-ISCTE
  • Rita Espanha, ISLA and OberCom
  • Jorge Machado, Universidade de S. Paulo
  • Sandro Mendonça, ISCTE / Economics Dept
  • Pedro Neto, OberCom
  • Ramón Salaverría, Universidad de Navarra
  • Thierry Vedel, CEVIPOF-CNRS
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

No. of reviewers: two (2), from different institutional and geographic belongings.

Criteria for recruiting reviewers: Academic or business-related experts from a wide range of areas in the field Communication Studies; One of them being native-speaker of the language of the text in review; Who accept OBS*’ policy of double-blind peer review and criteria for publication.

Criteria of Reviewing: Double-blind Peer Review process (where both reviewers and authors remain anonymous throughout the review process); Timely Review accordingly to the Reviewer Guidelines, Criteria for Publication, and Review Confidentiality statement.

 

Publication Frequency

Observatorio (OBS*) is a quarterly online journal.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal 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.

 

Archiving

This journal 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. More...

 


ISSN: 1646-5954