About the Journal
Focus and scope
The journal Ciencias Psicológicas addresses readers from the different areas of Psychology and related sciences from an integrative and comprehensive position and a rigorous scientific and academic approach. Its mission is to communicate research work in Psychology and related areas, including neurosciences.
It is a scientific, indexed and refereed publication. The journal is indexed in Redalyc and Latindex; distributed in the APA PsycInfo, Scopus, SciELO, BVS, Dialnet, EBSCO databases; registered in the Open Archives Initiative, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), LA Referencia, LatinREV, SILO and Timbó. It is algo member of the Asociación Uruguaya de Revistas Académicas (AURA) and is online in the social network X.
Original research papers of an empirical nature, systematic reviews or meta-analyzes, instrumental studies, and articles on methodology are published in the journal. Exceptionally, brief communications are published that contribute to the scientific discussion. In aperiodic form, monographic numbers are published focused on a specific field of action of Psychology. It contains articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Since 2024, preprints are accepted.
The publication is coordinated by a Scientific Editor and the Associate Editors, advised and supported by the Editorial Board. The journal also has an Honor Committee. The contributions of the authors are managed by the Scientific Editor and the Technical Editors under the advice of the Associate Editors.
Publication frequency
As of 2020, the journal Ciencias Psicológicas is published in the continuous publication mode, with two issues per year. The first issue from January to June and the second from July to December, which are integrated into an annual volume.
Financing sources
Ciencias Psicológicas was created in the Faculty of Psychology, currently forming part of the Vice-Rector’s Office for Research and Development of Universidad Católica del Uruguay, in its Publications Unit. The journal is financed by Universidad Católica del Uruguay and does not request any type of charge for presenting, evaluating or publishing the articles.
Open access policy
This journal provides open access to all its content. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), users have the right to view, download, store, print, search, index and create links to the texts, provided that the original source and the person in charge of its authorship are cited in all cases and situations.
Authors are free to archive their article in institutional repositories and/or on their personal web pages, always mentioning the publication with the corresponding data.
Following the Guidelines for Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) in Journal Policies and Practices, and in compliance with Level 1 of Guideline 2 (Data Transparency), authors are required to include in the articles that result from original research a section on “Data Availability” in which they report whether the dataset used in their research is available and, if so, where to access it.
Digital preservation policy
Through the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), the journal Ciencias Psicológicas is guaranteed a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open-source program developed by the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect and archive newly published content. Each file is continuously validated against records from other libraries, so that any damaged or lost content can be restored. The articles have DOI (Digital Object Identifier) granted by the Crossref registration agency. Through the PKP Preservation Network, preservation is also provided for any journal that is in Open Journal Systems.
