About the Journal
Focus and scope
Dixit is a refereed and indexed academic journal. It publishes original and unpublished research articles. Its focus is on Communication —in the fields of knowledge and professional practice— which may be in dialogue with other disciplines, with an editorial style that promotes agile reading of rigorous work. It is aimed at individuals and institutions interested in the field of Communication and related disciplines.
Dixit is indexed in ESCI (Web of Science), and Catálogo Latindex 2.0; distributed in SciELO, Dialnet, EBSCO, MIAR, HAPI and CLASE databases, and registered in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), LA Referencia, LatinREV, ROAD, SILO and Timbó. The journal is member of AURA and the Red de Investigadores en Diseño (Universidad de Palermo), and is also in the social network X.
Editorial policy
The Editorial Team decides whether the papers received are suitable for the focus and editorial style of the journal, and in which volume the papers are published. Since 2024, preprints are accepted.
Section policies
Research articles. Original and unpublished research papers, with a length between 6,000 and 10,000 words (not including references, tables, or figures). They are peer-reviewed in a double-blind system.
Bibliographic reviews. Between 1,000 and 3,000 words (not including references, tables, or figures), evaluated by the journal editorial team.
Thematic dossiers. Proposals for thematic dossiers are received and will be evaluated by the Editor, with the Associate Editors, for acceptance and implementation. These proposals must include the names of the persons who will coordinate the dossier as guest editors. Regardless of the chosen theme, the dossiers must present topics related to the region and not to particular territories or countries. These proposals should be sent to the journal by e-mail to the editor in charge.
The journal occasionally publishes other types of articles by invitation. Since 2024, the journal does not accept Essays, these will be done only at the request of the Editorial Board and will go through the corresponding review process.
Frequency of publication
As of 2024, the journal Dixit is published in the continuous publication mode. Articles are published as they complete the editorial process in a single annual volume.
Free of charge publication
Authors are not charged for publishing in Dixit. The expenses of the editorial process of the articles are covered by the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Dixit does not charge for subscriptions; access to the full text of published articles has no cost.
Dixit publishes articles in Spanish and occasionally accepts works in English and Portuguese. In these cases, if the article is accepted by the Editorial Team and passes the arbitration process, its authors are committed to ensuring the professional quality of the final version of the text.
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 published article in institutional repositories and/or on their personal web pages, always mentioning the publication in Dixit 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.
Previous licenses
Issues number 29-31 are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The contents corresponding to number 28 and earlier editions are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Digital preservation policy
Through the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), the journal Dixit guarantees 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.
