About the Journal
Aims and Scope
RAE-IC. Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación is a journal promoted by the Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación (AE-IC) and published by Novos Medios Research Group (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain).
RAE-IC has editorial autonomy, both as a research platform and as a vehicle for information. It offers itself as an instrument to support research and, at the same time, as a platform to promote other publications in our field.
The journal covers the Communication and Culture topics that make up the thematic lines of the Association, and that are related in the descriptors of its thematic sections: Strategic and Organizational Communication, Communication and Digital Culture, Communication Structure and Policies, Content Production and Circulation, Audience and Reception Studies, Discourse Studies, Theories and Methods of Communication Research, Journalism and New Media, History of Communication, Advertising, and Gender and Communication.
All articles published by the journal are original and unpublished scientific works in the field of communication. The submitted papers may not be under evaluation by any other publication. The submission of manuscripts implies acknowledgement of their originality by their authors. It is published only in digital format, open access and free of charge.
Published biannually in February and November, with a special issue in July
The language of publication is, preferably, Spanish, but texts in Catalan, Galician, Basque, English, French, Italian and Portuguese will be accepted.
Sections
RAE-IC is structured in five sections:
1. Editorial and Guest Authors:
Presentation of the thematic issue (prepared by the editors) and articles by experts in the subject studied (under invitation), which serve as a context for the topic of each issue.
2. Thematic issue:
Articles focuesed on a specific topic that are annouced in a designed call for papers. Thematic issues are edited by experts in each subject. Peer reviewed.
3. Miscellaneous:
Articles on a variety of topics in the field of Communication, and not related to the subject of study of the Thematic issue. Submissions to this section are open throughout the year. Peer reviewed.
4. Book Reviews:
Rewiews of recently published volumes in the field of communication. Submissions to this sections are open throughout the year.
5. Agenda:
Summary of the main conferences and academic events that will take place in the area of Communication. Prepared by the Editorial team.
6. Open forum:
Articles on current issues or relevant figures in the field of communication.
Thematic issue, Miscellaneous and Book Reviews are freely accessible to anyone, while the Editorial of each issue, Guest Authors, Open forum and Agenda are prepared by the Editorial Committee of the journal.
Funding
The publication relies on the disinterested work of the main people involved in its coordination and organisation, without any remuneration for this task.
All contributions, including guest articles, are voluntary and free of charge.
Peer review process
The works submitted to RAE-IC are subjected to an initial evaluation by the Editorial Board to verify that they meet the minimum requirements and, if so, to inform them for subsequent submission to external reviewers outside the editorial team and the publishing institution. Failure to comply with these publication rules will result in the rejection of the proposal before it is submitted for review.
The texts, with the favourable report of the Editorial Committee, are sent to the two external reviewers without signatures and signs that could identify authorship. They must be experts in that area of knowledge and in the speciality of the work. The journal will preferably seek external reviewers from outside the publishing institution and the authors' institution of origin
The academics appointed for the review must complete the "Article review protocol" in which the elements to be assessed are established. Once the blind peer review has been carried out, in accordance with the indications, the article will be published (if the two reports are favourable and no changes are requested), modified (if one or both reviewers so indicate), reviewed again (if the reports do not coincide, a third opinion will be requested) or rejected (if the report of the two reviewers so indicates).
Articles, when modifications are required, will be reviewed by one or more members of the Editorial Committee to verify compliance with the reviewers' indications. Failure to comply will result in the article being rejected. Along with the modifications made to the manuscript, it is necessary to attach the following "Response form to suggested modifications".
The average review time for articles is between 1 and 3 months after sending the original manuscript.
Publication frequency
The publication frequenci is biannual, with issues in February and October, with a special issue in July.
From May 2025 RAE-IC includes an exclusion period of 24 months. Thus, the same person cannot be listed as the author of a work until 24 months after his or her previous authorship.
Open Access policy
This journal provides open access to its content, based on the principle that providing the public with free access to research helps to increase the global exchange of knowledge.
The journal is licensed under the Creative-Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0 ES) license of Spain.
Code of Ethics
RAE-IC upholds the freedom of expression of authors, attention to diversity and minorities, and the freedom of decision of reviewers and editors as ethical principles throughout its editorial process:
- The filtering with anti-plagiarism mechanisms of all published works. RAE-IC will use the free tool Plagium.com to help guarantee the originality of the published texts. This link describes the process of verifying texts through this tool.
- The responsibility of the editorial team to preserve the anonymity of authors and reviewers during the review process.
- The commitment to confidentiality of data and texts on the part of reviewers and editors. The author's commitment to internationally accepted guidelines when the research involves humans or animals.
- Acknowledgement of conflicts of interest, if any.
- An auditable record of all interactions.
- Suspending the review process or publication in cases of disputed authorship until the dispute is resolved.
- Control of citation manipulation practices.
- Gender balance in the composition of the different journal boards.
- The commitment to ensure accessibility for users with text-only browsers or assistive devices, activating the tools offered by the Open Journal System.
- Moral copyright is unwaivable, inalienable and non-transferable. The authors retain the economic copyright under the Creative-Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Furthermore, the journal adheres to the recommendations proposed in the Code of Good Scientific Practices of CSIC and in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing". We suggest consulting this document and complying with the precepts described above in order to carry out and publish research that meets the standards of science. Regarding RAE-IC, the journal is committed to complying with the precepts set out in the "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing" of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), using them as a reference when resolving conflicts such as the manipulation of citations, fabrication of data, etc.
Scientific Committee / Editorial Board
RAE-IC has a Scientific Committee that ensures compliance with peer review regulations:
Pilar Diezhandino - Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
Martín Becerra - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina)
Rosario de Mateo - Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Pastora Moreno - Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
César Bolaño - Universidad Federal de Sergipe (Brazil)
Victoria Tur-Viñes - Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Bella Palomo - Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
Ulla Carlsson - University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Mercedes Caridad - Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
Nico Carpentier - Univerzita Karlova (Czech Republic)
Delia Crovi - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Bernardo Díaz Nosty - Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
Rosa Franquet - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Raúl Fuentes - Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Occidente — ITESO (Mexico)
Sonia Livingstone - London School of Economics (United Kingdom)
Josep Lluìs Gómez Mompart - Universitat de València (Spain)
Cláudia Álvares - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE (Portugal)
Cristina Peñamarín - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Juan José Igartua - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
Teresa Quiroz - Universidad de Lima (Perú)
Alberto Marinelli - Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
Rossana Reguillo - Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Occidente -ITESO- (Mexico)
Armand Mattelart - Université Paris 8 (France)
Helena Sousa - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
José Luis Piñuel - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Carmen Caffarel - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
Emili Prado - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Madalena Oliveira - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Germán Rey - Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia)
Margarita Ledo Andión - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Giuseppe Richeri - Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
María Luisa Humanes - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
Philip Schlesinger - University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Suzana Barbosa - Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil)
Concepción Edo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Jesús Segarra-Saavedra - Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
María José Cantalapiedra - Universidad del País Vasco (Spain)
Ramón Zallo - Universidad del País Vasco (Spain)
Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch - Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Carlo Sorrentino - Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
Almudena Barrientos Báez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Barbara Mazza - Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
Raúl Trejo - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Carolina Moreno - Universitat de València (Spain)
Thomas Tufte - Universidad de Roskilde (Denmark)
Concha Pérez Curiel - Universidad de Sevilla (España)
Ainara Larrondo - Universidad del País Vasco (España)
Moisés de Lemos Martins - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Isabel Macedo - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Pedro Jerónimo - Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)
Inês Amaral - Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
Pablo J. Boczkowski - Northwestern University (United States)
Laura Solito - Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
João Canavilhas - Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)
Tattiana Teixeira - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Elias Machado - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Diana Elizabeth Rivera Rogel - Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador)
Anabela Gradim - Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)
Emiliano Treré - Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
Eulàlia Puig Abril - University of Illinois, Chicago (United States)
Tristan Mattelart - Université Paris 2 (France)
Angharad Valdivia - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (United States)
Stina Bergtsson - Södertörn University (Sweden)
Jessica Retis - University of Arizona (United States)
Oscar Westlund - Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway)
Montserrat Jurado Martín - Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (Spain)
Tatiana Santos Gonçalves - Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
Belén Puebla Martínez - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
Begoña Gutiérrez San Miguel - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
Xosé Rúas Araújo - Universidade de Vigo (Spain)
Eva Campos Domínguez - Universidad de Valladolid (España)
Miguel Túñez López - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (España)
Carmen Marta Lazo - Universidad de Zaragoza (España)
Andreu Casero Ripollés - Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (España)
María José Pérez Serrano - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España)
Privacy Statement
Names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes set out in this journal and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.
Archive
This journal uses the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems for the permanent and secure storage of the contents published in the journal. These systems serve to create a distributed archiving system among the collaborating libraries, all for restoration and preservation purposes. In the following links it is possible to find the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS editorial manifesto for Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación.
Interoperability protocols
The journal implements the OAI 2.0 protocol (The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) for the harvesting of metadata from repositories. It is possible to check this feature at the following address: http://www.revistaeic.eu/index.php/raeic/oai.
Copyright policy
RAE-IC is an Open Access journal licensed under the Creative-Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license of Spain.
Moral copyright is unwaivable, inalienable and non-transferable. The authors maintain the patrimonial copyright under the Creative-Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Authors grant the journal the right to be the first publication of the work and allow self-archiving of the published version in institutional repositories, websites and personal social networks, among others. All this with the relevant acknowledgement of the original publication in RAE-IC.
The electronic dissemination of papers through institutional repositories, personal or corporate websites and other online spaces such as scientific or generalist social networks is permitted and authors are encouraged to use these media as a way for their research to reach the scientific community.
Submissions
RAE-IC does not charge for the submission or processing of paper. Publication is free of charge in any case.
Publisher
Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación and Grupo Novos Medios (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela).
Address:
Unversidade de Santiago de Compostela
Facultade de Ciencias da Comunicación
Avenida de Castelao, s/n, 15782
Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña, SPAIN)
