About the Journal

Focus and Scope

HiSTOReLo is a space for the socialization of unpublished historical research with local and regional perspectives. It also promotes theoretical, historiographical and methodological disciplinary debates. This journal accepts proposals aiming to link this discipline to other sciences in order to foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

The content of the magazine is aimed at professionals, researchers, graduate students, and scholars interested in the creation of historical knowledge. It is published by Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia, quarterly (published in January, May and September), since 2009.

The proposed articles must be original and not have been submitted previously to another journal.

Peer Review Process

Original papers will be subjected to an editorial review process to be developed in several phases. In the first place, accepted articles will be the object of a preliminary evaluation by the Publishing Committee, the director and /or the editor, who will determine the appropriateness of publishing each article. Once it has been established the article fulfills thematic and formal requirements, as indicated in the instructions, it will be sent to two external academic peers, who will anonymously determine: a) Accepted for publication, b) Accepted with changes, c) Rejected. In case of a discrepancy between the results, the text will be sent to a third referee, whose decision will define its publication, said decision will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee of the journal, which has the last word to approve or not the publication of the article. The evaluation also has a quantitative element, and that criterion generates an order of priority for acceptance or rejection. In this sense, the best evaluated texts in qualitative and quantitative terms will be selected. The journal publishes up to seven articles per issue. The results of the review process will be final in all cases. The authors will be free to look for publication in another journal after the verdict is given.

Afterwards, the selected authors must make a commitment to respond reasonably to the reviewers' comments, either incorporating the suggestions, observations, corrections, etc., and explaining the reasons why they do not accept some of them. In addition, incorporate the technical guidelines for writing and final presentation offered by the editor of the journal.

HiSTOReLo was founded by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Asociación Colombiana de Historia Regional y Local in 2008. Currently, it is governed by Agreement CF-64 of 2018 (Act 19 of October 9) of the Faculty of Human and Economic Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Medellin Campus.

Publication Frequency

HiSTOReLo is published in January, May and September.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Institutional Support

HiSTOReLo is published by the Faculty of Humanities and Economics and is attached to the Department of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín.

Until 2012, the Journal was supported academic and administratively by the Research Group "History, Work, Society and Culture", the approval of the Directorate of Research and Publications of the Faculty of Humanities and Economics, and the Department of Libraries ot the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin.

The project was proposed by the Colombian Association of Regional and Local History in 2008. Aware of the importance of boosting profecionalización discipline and to create new spaces and gives them historical knowledge.

Indexing

The journal is located in the following indices (IBC, IB), databases with selection committee (BBCS), directories, catalogs and networks:

IBC

IBN

Índice Bibliográfico Nacional Publindex (IBN Publindex)

BBCS:

Academia.edu; Actualidad Iberoamericana; AmeliCA; Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas – CIRC; Citas Latinoamericanas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE); CLASE-BIBLAT; Clacso-Redalyc; DIALNET Fundación. Universidad de la Rioja; Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI); Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek Frei Zugangliche E Journals; Facebook; Fuente Académica Premier - EBSCO Publishing; European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS); Genamics JournalSeek; Google Scholar; JournalTOCs; Journal Scholar Metrics. Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; LA Referencia. Red de repositorios de acceso abierto a la ciencia; LatinREV; Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog; LatAm-Studies Full Text Plus; Mendeley; Miar;Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura; Portal de Revistas UN; Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Clacso; Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias (REBIUN); Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB); Rev-Sapiens; Researchbib; SHERPA – RoMEO; Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas UN; ROAD. Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources-ISSN; SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online Colombia; SCImago Journal Rank - SJR; Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (Catálogo de LATINDEX); Ulrichsweb; Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB).

Publication Ethics

The author prior to the peer review process, must sign a manifesto declaring that the proposed publication is original, has not been previously published, nor sent for evaluation or publication to another journal.

It also agrees with good practice citation authors or sources of information, and should state the sources or institutions that financed or supported the research process and publication of results.

Finally, you must give credit to research assistants or, in cases of co-authorship, clarify how participation and contribution in the proposed text; also adopt ethical valuations in research and publication considered by Elsevier.

Estadísticas (Google Analytics - Users) (Visitas)

Sources of Support

Journal History

HiSTOReLo was created by the initiative of the Colombian Association of Regional and Local History and the institutional support of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2009. This is the first digital magazine specializing in history of the country . It was indexed and categorized in Publindex-Colciencias two years later, starts while a process of internationalization and visibility in different catalogs, indexes and international bibliographic databases in America, Europe and Asia.

Reviewer Guidelines

Reviewers will anonymously consider one of the following options: a) Accepted, b) Accepted with changes, or c) Rejected.

In case of a discrepancy between the results, the text will be sent to a third referee, whose decision will define its publication, said decision will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee of the journal, which has the last word to approve or not the publication of the article. The evaluation also has a quantitative element, and that criterion generates an order of priority for acceptance or rejection. In this sense, the best evaluated texts in qualitative and quantitative terms will be selected. The journal publishes up to seven articles per issue. The results of the review process will be final in all cases. The authors will be free to look for publication in another journal after the verdict is given.

	IBN Publindex Publindex is a Colombian bibliographic index for classifying, updating, rating and certifying scientific and technological publications. It is recognised by COLCIENCIAS and ICFES in Colombia.
	Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ increases the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, aims to be comprehensive and cover all that journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. It's a one stop shop for users of OA Journals.
	e-Revistas This is a web page providing open access to Spanish and Latin-American electronic journals. It was created in Spain.
	Scopus Scopus is a bibliographic database publishing summaries and references concerning articles from scientific journals. It covers around 19,500 titles by more than 5,000 international editors, including coverage of about 16,500 journals.
	Latindex Latindex is the product of cooperation by a network of Latin-American institutions operating in a coordinated way to gather and disseminate bibliographic information about serialised scientific publications produced in the region.
	Dialnet Dialnet is a webpage for disseminating Spanish-speaking scientific production; it began operating in 2001. It specializes in human and social sciences. Its open access database was created by the Universidad de La Rioja (Spain).
	CLACSO CLASCO, in collaboration with more than 300 members in 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, are involved in the promotion of open access to the results of publicly funded research.

HiSTOReLo. Revista de Historia Regional y Local