About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal welcomes previously unpublished articles relating to Geography, particularly works that provides an innovative approach, contribute to its field of research, or offer a critical analysis. Submissions in Spanish or a foreign language (preferably English, but also French and Portuguese) are open to scholars worldwide.

ETF, Serie VI only considers original articles that have not already been published, nor will be published elsewhere, either partially or fully, in Spanish or any other language.

The journal is published annually. We have a Continuous Article Publishing. 

Peer Review Process

Peer Review. The evaluation method used by ETF. Series VI for research articles is what is known as peer review system that helps preserve the anonymity of both authors and evaluators. All the originals will thus be reviewed by at least two external evaluators to the publishing entity whose suggestions will be sent to the authors so that, when necessary, they make the pertinent modifications.

The Editorial Board, based on the reports of these evaluators, will decide their approval or rejection as well as the number in which the accepted articles will be published. In the specific case of articles that in the opinion of the evaluators require some modification, the final decision on their publication will be conditioned on their incorporation by the author or authors within a period not exceeding three months. After this period, the article will repeat the evaluation process entirely. The Editorial Board may also reject an article without the need to send it to external reviewers if it considers that it does not comply with the publication's standards, quality or content profile.

Reviewers

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie VI, Geografia, publishes the list of reviewers having authorized the publication of their names two issues after the peper reviewed.

If you would like to be inclued in our Reviewer Database, send you CV to serie6.revista-etf@geo.uned.es and the Editorial Board will consider it for inclusion.

Article processing charges

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie VI, Geografía does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges (APCs).

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

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

Works are published in the electronic edition of the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license, which allows others to share the work with acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and its initial publication in this journal. They may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted, and publicly displayed, provided that: i) the authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher, and URL of the work) are cited; ii) they are not used for commercial purposes.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

ETF Series VI is a Diamond journal, that is, an open-access academic journal funded by an academic institution, which charges no fees to authors or readers, and whose content is shared under open licenses. Authors are permitted and encouraged to make their work available electronically before publication in pre-print (the version before it has been reviewed) and/or post-print (the version that has been reviewed and accepted for publication) versions of their work, as this will facilitate earlier circulation and dissemination, potentially increasing its citation and reach within the scholarly community (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their own websites). RoMEO color: green. (See The Effect of Open Access).

Digital Preservation Policy

Digital preservation can be viewed as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information currently existing in digital formats is backed up and distributed to ensure long-term, continuous access.

The ETF Series VI journal has established a preservation policy for its digital archives that includes the following measures:

First, it is supported by the services of the UNED Technology Center:

1. Backups

2.  Magnetic tape storage

3. Conversion of formats to more secure ones
4.  Periodic checks of file integrity to prevent corruption
5. Monitoring of the technological environment to      anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.

This journal is part of the Public Knowledge Project's Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN), which generates a decentralized archiving system distributed among collaborating libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for the preservation of original content and its restoration if necessary.

The preservation policy includes the assignment of DOIs to the journal title, each issue, and each article.

The digital preservation policy will be reviewed periodically.

Interoperability Policy

ETF - Serie VI se adhiere al protocolo internacional de interoperabilidad, el protocolo OAI-PMH y está registrada en el registro oficial de Open Archives con su URL básica: https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVI/oai

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent, and fair publication and peer review process ETFVI has adopted the CRediT Taxonomy to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work.

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) was introduced with the intention of recognizing individual author contributions, reducing authorship disputes and facilitating collaboration

CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.

The submitting author of the manuscript is responsible for providing the contributions of all authors at the time of submission. We hope that all authors have reviewed, discussed and accepted their individual contributions before this date. Contributions will be published with the final article and must accurately reflect contributions to the work.

Indexing and Databases

The quality of Space, Time and Form. Series VI, Geography is supported by impact indices and metrics developed annually by various national and international agencies and databases.

Below is the table prepared by the UNED Library with all the indicators for 2024, the last year evaluated:

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