Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission is original, has not been previously published and is not under consideration by any other journal.
- The article is free of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- In case of original research, the article includes the section "Data availability" in which the authors report whether and where the data set used is available. See indications in the Author Guidelines.
- Along with the submission, the Declaration of Authorship must be attached, completed and signed by all authors.
- A summary of the authors' curricula vitae must be attached to the submission.
- If submitted to a double-blind peer-reviewed section, an anonymized version of the article must be uploaded in addition to the text of the article. Instructions are available in the Author Guidelines.
Research articles
Original and unpublished research articles (between 6,000 and 10,000 words) peer-reviewed, in double-blind system.
Dossier | Information disorders
Original and unpublished research papers, with a length between 6,000 and 10,000 words (not including references, tables, or figures).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.
Suggested thematic lines, but not limited to the following:
- Methodological approaches to the study of information disorders.
- Definitions, typology and formats of information disorders.
- Populism, democracy and disinformation.
- The role of fact-checkers in the face of information disorder.
- Social networks, digital platforms and disinformation.
- Artificial intelligence, automation and information disorders.
- Violent (hate) speech, freedom of expression and information disorders.
- Journalism in the face of disinformation.
- Incentives for the production, amplification and consumption of disinformation.
- Economics and commercial logic of information disorder.
- Measures to counteract and adapt to information disorders (e.g. media and information literacy, regulation, content moderation).
- Costs of information disorders in economic, political, public health, and other terms.
- Paradigmatic events: pandemics, electoral processes, social protests, international conflicts, local and global case studies.
- Human rights, inequalities and information disorders.
Bibliographic reviews
Bibliographic reviews must be between 1,500 and 3,000 words in length. They shall include an initial paragraph with the general characteristics of the work reviewed, as a summary; a description of the author's trajectory; the virtues and main contributions of the work to the specific field, and the eventual shortcomings or problems of the work. Tables or other graphic elements should not be included, nor titles or subtitles. In the case of quotations from the reviewed work, the page number should be added in parentheses at the end of the quotation. The review should be headed with a brief bibliographic record of the book (author, title, city, publisher, number of pages of the volume) and the name of the author of the review with their institutional affiliation and ORCID code should be placed at the end of the text. The inclusion of quotations from other authors should be avoided.
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