Focus and Scope

The Instituto Universitario de Estudios Feministas y de Género publishes on a biannual basis Asparkía. Investigació Feminista, it was founded in 1992. The journal is structured around thematic issues and addresses topics within feminist research and gender studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Asparkía has been awarded the FECYT Quality Seal and the distinction for Best Editorial Practices in Gender Equality. It is indexed in several databases, including Scopus, DOAJ, EBSCO, Carhus Plus+, ErihPlus, Miar, Isoc, Latindex, Dialnet, Dulcinea, RedBib, Dice, Resh, In-Recs, Circ, and Ulrich’s Web. Since 2024, the journal has been indexed as Q2 in Arts and Humanities in Scopus.

Article Processing and Publication Fees (APC)

Asparkía. Investigació Feminista does not charge any fees for article submission or publication. All content is published open access following the diamond open access model.

The journal does not accept funded thematic issues or conference proceedings. Proposals for thematic issues can be sent to asparkia@uji.es. Preference will be given to proposals where at least one of the coordinators is affiliated with a non-Spanish university.

The journal accepts articles in Spanish, Catalan, and English.

Frequency and Sections

Asparkía publishes two issues per year, in January and July. All issues are thematic. The Miscellaneous section is currently closed, with specific calls for papers being issued for future miscellaneous issues.

The Reviews section is not open for general submissions, and only reviews specifically commissioned by the editorial committee or guest editors of thematic issues are published. If you wish to propose a review, please contact asparkia@uji.es or the Reviews Editor, Dr. Purificació Mascarell (purificacio.mascarell@uv.es).

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to Asparkía. Investigació Feminista will only undergo confidential evaluation by two expert reviewers after receiving an initial positive assessment from the editorial committee or guest editors (in the case of thematic issues). Each issue publishes a maximum of 15 articles. Given the high volume of submissions received for each call for papers, the editors are responsible for conducting an initial editorial selection. Priority is given to manuscripts that are most thematically aligned with the issue, demonstrate a high degree of originality and methodological rigor, and contribute significantly to advancing knowledge in the field.

Before undergoing peer review, all submissions are screened using plagiarism detection software (Oxsico) and an artificial intelligence (AI) content detection tool. Any manuscript showing signs of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or AI-generated content will be immediately rejected.

Once a manuscript has passed the initial screening (editorial review and anti-plagiarism/AI detection checks), it is sent for double-blind peer review by two external experts. Articles will not be assigned to reviewers from the same institution as the author(s) or when a conflict of interest may exist. In cases where the two review reports show significant discrepancies, a third blind review is requested.

A second round of evaluation is required when major changes are suggested. The article will only be accepted once the author(s) submit a revised version along with a detailed response to reviewers' comments, and the editorial team verifies that all necessary modifications have been made and that the manuscript meets the journal’s quality standards. Authors receive reasoned review reports from all reviewers involved in the peer review process.

Submissions that do not comply with the journal’s formatting and editorial guidelines will be returned to the authors for correction before proceeding to external evaluation.

Statistics

• Average rejection rate: 70%

Publication Timeline

Calls for papers for thematic issues remain open for 6 to 9 months. Once the submission period closes, to ensure the timeliness of published research, the editorial team adheres to the following estimated timeline:

Manuscript Submission and Initial Review

a) Formal screening of submissions (after the call closes): 1 month
b) Selection of peer reviewers: 1 month
c) Peer review and notification of authors: 3–4 months

Post-Review Revisions and Final Approval

a) Editorial review of revised manuscripts and final decision: 1–2 months
b) Copyediting, proofreading, and typesetting: 1–2 months

Publication in January and July

Manuscripts are only reviewed after the submission deadline for each call has passed.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content under the principle that making research available to the public for free helps improve knowledge exchange worldwide. We are committed to the Diamond Route Standards, according to good practices standards in research principles developed by Universitat Jaume I.

Copyright and Licensing

All texts published in this journal are subject to the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. This license allows others to copy, distribute, and publicly share the work, provided that authorship and the name of the publication are properly credited and that the work is used for non-commercial purposes. However, it does not permit remixing, transformation, or the creation of derivative works based on the original material.

Authors retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. The published work is registered under the corresponding Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows third parties to use the content as long as they acknowledge the authorship and the original publication in this journal.

Authors may also establish separate and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or republishing it in a book), provided that they clearly state that the work was originally published in this journal.

Disclaimer

Paper submissions

To ensure double-blind peer review, authors must omit their name, institutional affiliation, and any identifying information from the manuscript.

Manuscripts can only be submitted through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform; submissions via email will not be accepted.

To submit an article, authors must register on the Open Journal System at the following link: http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/asparkia. Registration is free, and files can be uploaded through the "Submit an Article" tab.

Open Science

Authors are encouraged to deposit supplementary material, at least the research data underlying the publications, in institutional or thematic open-access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Authors from the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) will be able to deposit their research in the institutional repository of the university. More information at https://www.uji.es/serveis/cd/bib/serveis/investigacio/dades/

Information about the deposit of research data in a repository should be mentioned in the article, by describing the type of data deposited and the URL of the repository or the identifier code.

Interoperability Protocols

Digital Conservation Policies

To ensure the authenticity, integrity and accessibility of the articles over time, the issues of the journal are archived in the Universitat Jaume I Repository.

The conservation policy includes, among others, the following measures:
- Use of digital preservation metadata.
- Assignment of DOI and handle, as permanent identifiers.
- Monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate eventual format or software migrations.
- Open or easily readable formats (such as PDF).
- Back-up copies.

The Universitat Jaume I Library periodically reviews the digital preservation policy.

Access, structure, and web features

Publisher

Instituto Universitario de Estudios Feministas y de Género Purificación Escribano

http://www.if.uji.es/