About the Journal

Perspective and scope

RASAL Lingüística is the scientific journal of the Argentine Society of Linguistic Studies. It publishes articles that are carried out from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives corresponding to the different fields within linguistics. Submitted articles are evaluated by external, specialized and anonymous reviewers, which guarantees the quality of the publication.

Founded in 2004 as a printed journal, since 2016 RASAL Lingüística is exclusively published online. RASAL Lingüística is included in different indexing services, it is part of the Basic Nucleous of Argentine Scientific Journals of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET), and it is available in multiple academic online platforms. 

RASAL Lingüística aims at providing a forum for consultation and reference for researchers, experts and those interested in linguistics and its various brances.

 

Frequency of publication

RASAL Lingüística publishes two issues per year. Each issue is published in mid March and mid September every year.

 

Calls for research articles and book reviews

RASAL Lingüística accepts research articles and book reviews all year long, without exceptions. Nevertheless, the Editorial Team stipulates the beginning of the calls for articles and reviews and the deadline for submission for each issue. The dates for the reception of manuscripts will be informed in open calls for articles and book reviews published in the web page, in online platforms designed for the diffusion of the journal and in the journal’s social media.

 

Open Access Policy

The journal adheres to the Open Archives Iniciative (OAI), the emerging norm for access to electronic research resources indexed at a global scale. As a consequence, the journal offers free, open and immediate access to all its content through internet, and does not charge any fee to authors for their published works.

The respective standards are detailed in: https://www.openarchives.org/.

 

Copyright

Rasal Lingüística publishes works under Atribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows for reading, downloading, sharing, copying, redistributing, adapting and transforming the offered content in any media or format as long as the authorship and the original source of publication are cited and not used for commercial purposes. 

The authors retain their authorship rights, but grant the journal exclusive exploitation rights, such as reproduction, distribution, public communication, and transformation. RASAL does not retain the intellectual property rights of the published articles.

For more information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es

* Since 2023, the journal has been published under the CC-BY-NC license. Issues prior to 2023 are available under the CC-BY-NC-SA license.

 

Ethical guidelines

RASAL Lingüística complies with the recommended ethical guidelines outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be found in https://publicationethics.org/core-practices. For this reason, the journal guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process and adheres to the commitment of not publishing works that contain traces of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or fraud.

 

Declaration of authorship

The journal adheres and encourages the use of the CRediT taxonomy in order to identify the roles of authorship in a publication.

This taxonomy aims at specifying and giving credit to all the authorial roles that are part of a research project during the entire process that this entails. In this way, the work of every agent who is part of a research project is credited, and the results as well as the process become visible.

For more information: https://casrai.org/credit/.

Apart from this, RASAL Lingüística requests a signed declaration of authorship and originality from every author identified in a manuscript as pre-requisite for publication.

Authors are responsible for the content and conclusions expressed in their works. RASAL does not retain intellectual property rights at any instance.

 

Peer review process

The first evaluation of an article is carried out by the Editorial Board, which defines its pertinence considering the compliance to the norms and to the editorial policy. In a second phase, all manuscripts are subjected to an anonymous evaluation process by national and international academic peers who are external to the institution in charge of publishing the journal. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer review, which means that both authors and reviewers do not have access to each other’s identities. For this reason, and to guarantee the anonymity of the identity of the author during the evaluation process, authors’ names should be omitted from the manuscript.

In the case of pre-prints, given that anonymity is no longer possible, a single-blind review is carried out. It is up to the manuscript authors to choose the procedure for their article and the phase in which they would like to publish it.

The evaluation is not open, that is, neither the reviewers nor the readers interact amongst  themselves. The external reviewers are two and, in case their evaluations are contradictory, a third reviewer will evaluate the manuscript to make the final decision.

Reviewers have 6 (six) weeks to produce their reviews and they can opt for one of the following four different decisions:

  1. The article is rejected;
  2. The article is accepted with major modifications;
  3. The article is accepted with minor modifications; or
  4. The article is accepted for publication without modifications.

Reviewers will also see to the compliance with the ethical norms of the editorial process. For this reason, the evaluation process may include up to two rounds of reviews before the acceptance or definite rejection of a manuscript (the submission and acceptance dates will be indicated in the published articles), which entails up to 6 (six) months since the moment in which the original version of the manuscript was received. It is necessary to point out that if authors do not comply with reviewers’ indications in both rounds, their work will not be published.

The Editor, the Editorial Board, and the Scientific Committee select articles on the basis of the received evaluations that follow these criteria: originality and interest regarding the topic or problem described, relevance in relation to the current research in the area, rigor in the argumentation and analysis, precision in the use of concepts and methods, discussion of implications and of the theoretical aspects of the problem studied, use of up-to-date bibliography, linguistic correctness, organization and formal presentation of the text, clarity and expository conciseness, unplublished nature of the manuscript and compliance with the editorial norms.

The Editorial Board has the right to accept or reject articles sent to evaluation or to condition their acceptance when modifications are introduced. The accepted articles are published in the issue that the Editorial Board considers pertinent. Authors will be notified of the status of their manuscripts, and of the definite acceptance or rejection.

Currently, RASAL Lingüística has a 50% acceptance rate and a 50% publication rate.

 

Reviewer’s form

A- Aspects to be evaluated (indicate each of the following items below)

  1. Originality of the reviewed research article or manuscript. *
  2. Relevance to the scientific knowledge in linguistics. Contribution to the specific field of research. If there is/are, please indicate the contribution(s). *
  3. Theoretical framework:

    a) Adequate theoretical background. Bibliographical references that are up-to-date and adequate with respect to the field of research. Ideally, all references should correspond to publications in journals and edited volumes, and at least 60% of them should correspond to works published in the last decade.*

    b) Clear statement of the objective of the study.*
  4. Methodology: Appropriate use and description of materials (data corpus) and methods, when applicable. *
  5. Results/Conclusion: The discussion of the results of the study clearly addresses the objectives/thesis of the article. *
  6. Formal aspects: Correction in the language used and in the citation and reference format as prescribed by the journal. Informative enough title of the article, abstract and keywords. Clarity in the global and local meanings of the article.*

B. General recommendations:

The article:

  1. Is accepted without modifications.
  2. Is accepted only after modifications are introduced.
  3. Returns to the author to be reformulated and it is submitted to a further review.
  4. Is rejected for the following reason(s):
    1. The results are not newsworthy.
    2. The results are too preliminary.
    3. The presentation is confusing.
    4. The results are incomplete.

C. Comments

  1. Confidential comments for the editor. *
  2. Comments to be sent to the author. Please, indicate the number of example/paragraph and the page number for specific comments.

 

Detection of plagiarism

The journal publishes original and unpublished works, whose authors declare not having published the submitted manuscript in any other scientific and/or academic publication. In order to corroborate this, the journal makes use of an online system to detect any kind of fraud or plagiarism.

However, in view of the limitations of automatic plagiarism detection softwares that work with  Spanish texts and in order to detect other more encompassing aspects of fraudulent practices, the journal implements the following procedure.

  1. At the moment of submitting an article, authors are required to declare that the article has not been published previously or sent to other publications for its evaluation. Have in mind that having sent the manuscript to a pre-print repository does not clash with this point.
  2. Besides, authors are asked to declare that they are following the Instructions for Authors, in which it is stated that the submitted articles must be original.
  3. Upon receiving an article -and before starting with the evaluation process-, internet search tools are used to detect other works by the author/s and to check the originality of the title, fragments of the abstract, the methodology section, and the results included in the article submitted for evaluation, in order to prevent plagiarism practices.
  4. At the moment of sending an article to reviewers, they are asked to pay special attention to potential plagiarism signals, as reviewers are the ones who know best the sources and the bibliography related to the subject matter.

 

Digital preservation

The journal makes use of Zenodo Digital Repository to ensure the preservation of the published content and its free and immediate access in case of any problem that may arise in the web page. Besides, all articles are available in the following digital libraries:

  1. Academia
  2. Google Scholar
  3. Amelica

 

Funding

Rasal Lingüística is sponsored and funded by the Argentine Society of Linguistic Studies. 

The journal does not charge any type of fee for the reception, evaluation, and subsequent publication of its articles.