Studi Urbinati, A - Scienze giuridiche, politiche ed economiche, is redacted following the current guidelines adopted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (https://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf).
- Duties and responsibilities of the Director, the Direction Board and the Editorial Board
The Editor-in-Chief, having consulted the Direction Board, assumes scientific responsibility for the decision to publish the articles proposed to the Journal, after submitting them to the peer review procedure, at times consulting the Scientific Committee. The impartial judgement, based exclusively on scientific reasons, will be free from any conditionings related to sex, sexual orientation, ideology, politics, religious belief, race, ethnicity, nationality of the authors. The Editor-in-Chief and the Direction Board of Studi Urbinati undertake to make public: the means by which authors may submit their work, the means by which the process of anonymous reviewing of articles takes place, and, in the year following publication, the names of the scholars who have collaborated as reviewers on each volume of the journal. All members of the journal's bodies undertake not to divulge or use the contents of articles proposed for publication, and not to disclose any review notes received.
- Duties and responsibilities of the Authors
Authors wishing to propose their own scientific contribution to the journal may contact, at their discretion, the Editor-in-Chief, the Direction Board or the Editorial Board. Authors are responsible for the scientific originality and authorship of their proposed work. They must indicate the possible collaboration of other scholars, strictly specifying the parts of the work attributable to them. They will also indicate the sources on which the research is based and the scientific contributions of other scholars that they have used. Authors are also required to declare at the time of submission that their contribution has not also been offered to other journals and, once accepted by Studi Urbinati, they guarantee not to publish it in other journals, Italian or foreign, and not to publish the same content, unless expressly authorised by the Director. Authors must draft their contributions scrupulously following the "Editorial Norms" of the Journal.
- Reviewing process and duties and responsibilities of Referees
The review process is formalised in such a way as to guarantee transparency, autonomy of the reviewers and absence of conflicts of interest. Upon receiving the article, the Editor-in-Chief invites the Editorial Board to make it anonymous and free of any internal reference traceable to its author. In agreement with the Direction Board, he submits the articles (anonymous) to the judgement of two reviewers chosen among Italian and foreign scholars experts in such topics (peer-review), in the sole interest of safeguarding the scientific value of the article. At least one of the two reviewers must be external to the journal, the other may also be a member of the Scientific Committee of Studi Urbinati. The Editor-in-Chief, the members of the Direction Board and of the Editorial Board can’t be peer-reviewers. The reviewers exercise their duties in the exclusive interest of the progress of studies. Each referee expresses his/her reasoned judgement, according to criteria that exclusively concern originality, breadth of treatment, methodological correctness and critical analysis, as well as the richness of the sources and bibliographic information, and the ability to enter into an in-depth dialogue with the national and international doctrinal debate. Drawn up following a model provided by the Editorial Board, the judgement must be aimed at formulating an opinion a) accepted for publication, also possibly suggesting additions or modifications; b) accepted only following additions and/or modifications, which are therefore indicated as necessary; c) not accepted. The referees undertake not to divulge the contents of the article under review, not to use them, and to maintain strict confidentiality on their opinion even after a possible publication. If the referees have expressed a dissenting opinion on the publication of the contribution, the Editor-in-Chief, having consulted the Direction Board and possibly the Scientific Committee, decides to follow the one that appears to be more persuasive, or to take a third opinion. At the end of the review process, the Editorial Board sends the review notes, anonymised (according to the double-blind method), to the author, who is invited to consider all the reviewers' suggestions. The Editor-in-Chief, a member of the Direction Board or of the Editorial Board may propose an essay of their own for publication. In this case, the person concerned may not take part in the management of the review process.
- Relations with the Editor
All members of Studi Urbinati's bodies operate in full scientific autonomy from the Publisher, and also guarantee the full impartiality of the reviewers who collaborate in deciding on the publication of articles. The Publisher ensures the widest possible circulation of the journal in Italy and abroad, both by guaranteeing its publication in print and, at the same time, online using the above-mentioned platform.