Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía publishes articles, discussion notes, book symposia, article symposia, survey articles, special issues, and reviews in any area of philosophy, as long as they fall within the analytic tradition broadly understood. Crítica places great value on conceptual precision, argumentative rigor, and originality.
Before Submitting an Article
Before submitting an article, please make sure that your work satisfies all the requirements listed in the Submission Preparation Checklist. Articles that do not satisfy all those requirements will be desk rejected without comments.
The OJS Platform
Submissions and resubmissions of articles, discussion notes, survey articles and reviews are made online through Crítica's OJS Platform. Contributions to symposia and special issues are sent via email to the Guest Editors.
In the first case, new authors will need to register on the website before submitting a manuscript. To that end, they will will need to choose a Username and a Password.
If you are already registered as an author, you just need to log in to submit your manuscript. If you have forgotten your Username or Password, click on 'Forgot your password?' in the login section, and enter the email address that you used when you registered. The system will send you an email with instructions on how to reset your password.
Once you have logged in, you should click on 'Author' and 'Start a New Submission' and follow the following five steps.
Step 1. Start the Submission. Make sure that your paper satisfies all the requirements listed in the Submission Preparation Checklist.
Step 2. Add the Metadata. Fields marked with a star '*' are mandatory. Filling the optional fields may help us with the reviewing process. If your paper is in Spanish, please tape the title and abstract in Spanish, even if the interface is in English.
Step 3. Upload the Submission. Upload an anonymized version of your paper in PDF format (further details below).
Step 4. Upload Supplementary Files. Upload your paper with your identifying information in Microsoft Word, rtf, or PDF format.
Step 5. Confirm Your Submission. Click on 'Finish Submission'. After that, you will receive an automatic confirmation email. You will be able to track the review process through the system.
Prepare Your Manuscript
Submissions should not exceed the word limit for each type of article. If you think that an exception is warranted, please contact the Editor-in-Chief before submitting your manuscript.
As a rule, the length of manuscripts should be proportionate to the contribution they make.
Manuscripts must not have been previously published, either in whole or in substantial part, and must not be under review elsewhere.
Crítica publishes articles in English and Spanish. Authors may use British English or American English. However, they should follow either one consistently throughout the text.
Authors must upload two electronic versions of their manuscripts:
A first version should be prepared for blind review. Authors should remove any information that could disclose their identity in the text or the acknowledgments. Authors should also avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity. Finally, authors should remove any self-identifying information from the metadata of the file. Manuscripts that are not prepared for blind review will be returned to their authors.
A second version should include the author’s name(s) and surname(s), institutional affiliation and country, ORCID, e-mail address, and postal address (including phone number).
Both electronic versions must include the title, an abstract (110 words maximum), and a list of five keywords not mentioned in the title. When choosing the keywords, avoid listing too generic words. Keywords should make it easier for potential readers to find your work.
Spanish-speaking authors must send the abstract in Spanish and English, regardless of the language of the article. Other authors can send only an abstract in English. A good abstract...
Presents the topic, question, goals, and main claims of the paper in a clear and concise manner,
Briefly indicates the types of considerations or evidence that support its main claims,
Does not include undefined abbreviations or unspecified references,
If it refers to an author, it includes its complete name(s) and surname(s).
Authors that prepare both English and Spanish versions of abstracts should make sure that they coincide.
Spanish-speaking authors are advised not to overuse the passive voice when preparing an abstract in English.
At the time of submission, we do not require compliance with the Style Guide of Crítica. However, we expect that all manuscripts are professionally formated and use a consistent citation method.
That being said, manuscripts should be double-spaced in a legible typeface (12 point font size), including footnotes, quotations, and bibliography. All pages should be numbered consecutively, and text heads and subheads clearly distinguished.
Footnotes should be numbered progressively. Footnotes must be short and kept to a minimum. Acknowledgements should be incorporated in a footnote at the end of the last paragraph of the text, before the Bibliography.
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, you will be asked to submit a final version that complies with Crítica's Style Guide.
Manuscripts must be sent electronically either in PDF, Microsoft Word, or rtf formats. Authors who use LaTeX will be asked to send the relevant editable LaTex source files if their manuscript is accepted for publication.
If you are not a native English speaker, please make sure that your text can be easily understood by an international audience. We try not to give undue weight to minor grammatical or stylistic issues when evaluating a manuscript. However, some texts can benefit from being proofread by a native English speaker before submission. Unfortunately, Crítica cannot offer English editing services to its authors.
Authors may use AI assisted copy editing to eliminate mistakes in spelling, grammar, and style. Nevertheless, it is forbidden to use AI to generate the contents of manuscripts.
Review Process
Each submission is first screened by a member of the Editorial Board who verifies that the manuscript fulfills the requirements specified in the Submission Preparation Checklist and makes an initial assessment of its quality. If the manuscript does not satisfy those requirements or a rejection is a likely outcome after external review, it will be desk rejected without comments. Crítica also desk rejects papers by authors who submit several papers in a very short period of time.
All manuscripts that make it past this stage will undergo an initial review with a tool to detect possible plagiarism and similarities with other publications. Manuscripts with a significant level of plagiarism or self-plagiarism are desk rejected.
When a submission is deemed adequate for Crítica, the Editor-in-Chief invites two external experts to review the manuscript. Crítica implements a double-blind review process, which means that neither author nor reviewers know each other's identity. Papers by members of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM are reviewed by experts outside of UNAM.
(Members of the Editorial Board may coordinate Special Issues and symposia. However, they are not allowed to submit articles, discussion notes, survey articles, or reviews to Crítica.)
Reviewers are asked to assess manuscripts according to their originality, argumentative quality, and mastery of the relevant literature. They are also invited to declare any conflict of interest that could prevent them from providing a fair evaluation. We ask referees to return their reports and recommendations within six weeks. Nevertheless, authors should bear in mind that it often takes longer to find suitable referees and obtain reports.
The Editor-in-Chief makes a decision regarding each submission taking into account the advice from referees and other associate editors. Articles can receive one of the following verdicts:
Acceptance: The manuscript will be accepted without changes.
Conditional Acceptance: The manuscript will be accepted conditional on the author making some changes.
Revise and Resubmit: The Editor-in-Chief finds the manuscript promising and is open to reading a revised version. However, a 'Revise and Resubmit' verdict does not imply any commitment by the editors to publish the revised manuscript.
Rejection: The manuscript is rejected and a revised version of it won't be considered for publication.
If a single report provides very negative advice on a submission, the submission will be rejected. To speed up the process, the Editor-in-Chief can make that decision before a second report is received.
If the two reports are strongly positive, the Editor-in-Chief will typically accept the manuscript or conditionally accept it. Exceptions to this rule are cases where reports are strongly positive while raising serious issues that are hard to fix or when one or more editors find serious flaws after carefully reading the manuscript.
If the two reports provide conflicting advice, papers may be given verdicts of 'Revise and Resubmit' or 'Rejection'.
Authors who are given verdicts of 'Conditional Acceptance' and 'Revise and Resubmit' are invited to revise their manuscripts taking into account the comments by referees and editors. They are also asked to explain in a letter the resulting changes to the manuscript. If they disagree about some suggestions, they are offered the opportunity to explain why.
Crítica strives to send revised manuscripts to the original referees. However, this may not always be feasible.
Most articles go through one or two rounds of revisions before they are accepted for publication. Only articles that have received two acceptances and are approved by the Editor-in-Chief are published. When verdicts are split, we may seek a third referee or a member of the Editorial Board to make a recommendation.
Authors should bear in mind that some reviews may be edited, and that editorial decisions are not based solely on the reviews shared with them. The Editor-in-Chief also takes into account his own assessment of the manuscript, as well as any confidential comments provided directly by the reviewers.
The verdict on each manuscript is conveyed to the authors through Crítica's OJS Platform.
Decisions on the acceptability of any submitted article are final. Crítica does not engage in any correspondence with authors to discuss the outcome of the review process. Although editors do their best to reach informed decisions, they are acutely aware that reviewing processes are fallible.
Crítica has been working hard to reduce the review time of manuscripts. Authors can expect a first decision on their manuscripts three months after the initial submission. Nevertheless, some manuscripts can take longer to review.
Authors who are invited to revise a manuscript are given between two and four months to resubmit their manuscript. The deadline is fixed on a case-by-case basis.
After Acceptance
Authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to prepare a final version of their article in two formats: Word or LaTeX and PDF.
The final version should comply with Crítica's Style Guide.
At this stage, authors are not allowed to introduce major changes in their manuscripts.
Crítica's Editorial Secretary will send authors the proofs of their article in PDF format. To speed up the publication process, authors are asked to return the corrected proofs within five working days.
Articles are first published as 'Advance Articles' a few weeks after authors return their corrected proofs. They are later incorporated into one of Crítica’s quarterly issues.
The Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at UNAM holds the copyright for all articles published in Crítica. However, Crítica allows the partial or complete reproduction of published texts for non-profit purposes, provided that the reproduction clearly states that the article was originally published in Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, and includes the full bibliographic reference.
