About the Journal

Focus and Scope

OXIMORA, an open space that promotes the critical reflection on injustices and the discourses and practices that legitimize them, is a forum for communication, participation and feedback that promotes dissemination, creativity and exchange, with the interdisciplinary and open sense to the multiplicity of knowledge that characterizes the knowledge as solidarity.

It publishes, in two calls a year, articles, critical reviews and interviews, related to the following topics and their transversality:

  • Political, social and legal philosophy
  • Ethics and moral philosophy
  • Civil society and political institutions
  • Citizenship and Human Rights
  • State powers and social movements
  • Politics, economy and globalization
  • Gender, difference and otherness
  • Bioethics and applied ethics and philosophies
  • Philosophies of the subject and culture
  • Intercultural dynamics
  • Art, aesthetics and subjectivity

Emerged within the framework of the Master and Doctorate programs in Citizenship and Human Rights at the University of Barcelona, OXIMORA encourages the involvement of new and consolidated authors in the counter-hegemonic debate, integrating their contributions in thematic and/or open issues according to their calls for papers. 

OXIMORA is a journal recognized by the University of Barcelona. It is hosted in RCUB and is the direct responsibility of its Director and a Technical/Editorial Committee as can be seen in Editorial Team.

Peer Review Process

The process of evaluation of proposals is carried out confidentially under the double-blind peer review system, after an initial evaluation by the Technical/Editorial Committee.

Authors must register and send their proposals through the journal system, which guarantees the impartiality and objectivity of the evaluation. The Technical/Editorial Committee will confirm the relevance of the documents received and will assign them to an editor or team of editors by issue. Proposals must respond to currect call for papers.

Authors must submit their proposals in accordance with editorial policies and following the guidelines for authors. Proposals must be original, unpublished and not found in any other evaluation process. When submitting, the author must accept the Copyright Notice.

Authors will receive an email confirming their submission and a response to their proposal within one month from the closing of the call. Within this period, two reviewers, preferably external, with proven experience in the subject area, will decide on the proposal, evaluating:

  1. Its thematic suitability
  2. The relevance and clarity of the title, abstract and keywords
  3. The approach to the content and/or development of the argument
  4. The relevance and/or originality of the proposal, and
  5. The relevance and timeliness of the bibliography, methodology and critical apparatus

In the event that the reviewers’ recommendation is not conclusive, the Technical/Editorial Committee will assign a third reviewer who will allow them to make a final decision. All proposals will receive a response, based on these evaluations, along with the editorial decision. In addition, those proposals accepted for publication will receive the calendar of revisions and/or corrections until the date of publication of the number.

OXÍMORA does not use Article Processing Charges (APC) nor does it request payments to authors or readers for access to the complete contents of the journal or to carry out the evaluation of its publication proposals.

It is not necessary to register users to access all of the content, although it is necessary to send proposals and to present candidacies as a reviewer.

Publication Frequency

OXIMORA publishes two issues a year, at the beginning of the January-June and July-December periods.

Until 2016, the publication of the two annual numbers was carried out in Spring (March-June) and Autumn (September-December). During 2017 we modified the publication periods to the current frequency.

Open Access Policy

Licensed by CREATIVE COMMONS (BY)

The content of the magazine is subject to the Attribution (BY) license, so it is allowed to share (copy and distribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and create from the material) for any purpose always that authorship is properly acknowledged, a link to the license is provided, and it is indicated if changes have been made.

At OXIMORA we believe in open access; all content is accessible for free, without any charge for the user or their institution. User registration is not necessary to access the contents of the magazine, although it is necessary to submit collaboration proposals (in accordance with the current call) and candidacies as a reviewer.

Inclusive language

At OXIMORA we encourage all those involved in the editorial process to review the language of their communications and collaboration proposals and to use non-sexist ways. The use of inclusive linguistic forms for the relationship between people and scientific communication feeds back the reciprocity between language and sociocultural practices and puts the Academy at the level of society.

Likewise, we encourage the scientific community to deepen the work produced by women, made invisible by the prevailing academic canon, and favor research related to it.

Plagiarism prevention

We urge authors to avoid bad practices such as duplicate publication, self-plagiarism or plagiarism. To prevent the latter, the Technical/Editorial Committee, in its initial verification of the adequacy of the submissions, uses the program of plagiarism detection and prevention URKUND.

At OXIMORA we want to especially favor good practices in academic publishing. As specified in the guidelines for authors, the proposals must be original and unpublished, have no editorial commitment or be in another evaluation process and, have been prepared in accordance with the submissions guidelines. In the same sense, proposals must be prepared for blind evaluation, omitting references to authorship that will be incorporated later if the editorial decision is favorable and eliminating the metadata of user information from the word processor used. Proposals may be accompanied by complementary files where an explicit declaration of the financial and material support received for its realization must be made, if any, and/or the recognition of the research project/s in which it has been carried out, when this be the case.

Care with best scientific publication practices is also taken in the peer review process, using the online registration and submission system to guarantee the confidentiality and impartiality. Likewise, an open access policy is established and the non-use of review procedures with economic cost or Article Processing Charges (APC). The Technical/Editorial Committee will select the most appropriate people to carry out the evaluation, both for their capacity and experience and qualifications.

Declaration of publishing ethics and best practices

Oxímora subscribe the Declaration of publishing ethics and best practices for scientific journals published by the University of Barcelona.

The University of Barcelona promotes the open access publication of digital journals and endeavours to guarantee quality and conscientiousness in the transfer of scientific knowledge. The University is committed to ensuring that the articles it publishes and the publishing process itself observe the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is therefore essential that all of the stakeholders in this process—journal editors, reviewers, technical editors and authors—know and act according to the Code.

  • Journal editors should

Ensure that the decision to publish is not dependent on the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship or political persuasion.

Publish regular updates on the responsibilities of authors, submission requirements, the arbitration system used to select the articles and the evaluation criteria to be applied by reviewers.

Publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed and not make use of any article received for UB-specific research assignments without the author’s consent.

Guarantee confidentiality during the review process, meaning (a) the anonymity of reviewers and authors and the confidentiality of the content of the articles, the reports submitted by reviewers and any other type of correspondence with or between the editorial, consultant and scientific committees and (b) confidentiality in the correspondence between the author and the journal committees or reviewers when the author wishes to clarify, change or complain about some aspect of the article.

Make certain that the integrity of articles already published is respected.

Act swiftly to eliminate from the journal or refuse to publish any article that has been found to plagiarise information from other sources.

  • Authors should 

Understand that they are responsible for all submitted content.

Notify the journal editors of any errors in their published articles so that the appropriate corrections can be made.

Guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe on the rights of third-party authors and, when there are co-authors, guarantee that the consent of all the authors is obtained before the article goes to press.

  • Reviewers and technical editors should

Apply revisions that are objective, informed, critical, constructive and unbiased, where acceptance or rejection is based only on the work’s relevance, originality, interest to the public in question and compliance with the style and content regulations in the evaluation criteria.

Meet deadlines when this is possible and promptly inform the journal editor when it is not.

Avoid sharing, spreading or reproducing any information from articles still under review without permission from the corresponding journal editors or authors.

Sources of Support

  • Vice-rectorate for Projection and Internationalization of the University of Barcelona

Oxímora

The name of the journal is inspired by Paco Fernández Buey's work:

Oxímoron viene de «oxus» (afilado, agudo, penetrante) y «moros» (tonto, idiota) y es el nombre de una figura literaria consistente en aplicar a una palabra un epíteto que la contradice o parece contradecirla («luz oscura», «silencio ensordecedor», «espontaneidad calculada», «crecimiento negativo», etc.). En un mundo posmoderno que ha visto ya cómo todas las grandes palabras del lenguaje político iban siendo deshonradas por la Compañía del Gran Poder (en Occidente y en Oriente, en el Norte y en el Sur) y que ha llegado a identificar «inteligencia» con «espionaje», oxímoron, como figura literaria, designa ya expresiones sutiles e irónicas que a primera vista pudieran parecer tonterías, pero que no lo son, como no lo fue en otros tiempos el erasmiano elogio de la locura.

Guía para una globalización alternativa. Otro mundo es posible. Barcelona: Sine Qua Non 2004, pp.151-152.