Normas

Aims & Scope

The online journal Normas is an open and freely accessible scientific publication, published yearly, which aims to disseminate original research on current Spanish language and its varieties and registers.

This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is available and free to the user and their institutions.

Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link full texts of articles in this journal without having to ask for permission from the editor or author, in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

The journal is open to scholars and researchers of the Spanish language.

The journal has an editorial board and a scientific committee, whose members are identified in the corresponding lists.

Both committees are for the most part (more than two thirds) made up of researchers external to the Universitat de València (headquarters of the journal), and are affiliated to Spanish and foreign institutions.

More than 20% of the researchers in the scientific committee are researchers from foreign institutions.

The journal has a panel of external reviewers (anonymous peer review, double-blind system), members of the advisory scientific committee and other specialists external to both committees.

More than 70% of the articles in each issue are published by researchers that are external to the Universitat de València.

More than 90% of the authors are external to the editorial board of the journal.

The journal has a review section and a collection of supplements for the publication of scientific monographs related to the Spanish language, resulting from original research.

The journal is published once a year in November/December.

The journal was first published in 2011.

All the articles in the journal include a title, abstract and keywords in Spanish and English.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

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This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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