About the Journal

ANALES AFA

Journal of the Argentine Physical Society (Asociación Física Argentina)

ISSN online 1850-1168

Edited by:

Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones (CEILAP), Unidad de investigación y desarrollo estratégico para la defensa (UNIDEF), Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas para la Defensa (CITEDEF)-CONICET, Argentina.

History of the journal

Since its first edition in early 1990, ANALES AFA has established itself as the scientific journal of physics in Argentina, and, along with the annual meeting of the Argentine Physics Society (AFA), its publication represents the most important periodic event in terms of scientific communication within the field at the national level. Its mission is to disseminate and facilitate communication of the scientific contributions made by the various interrelated research groups in the country and abroad. It also provides the means for obtaining an overview of the work of those who cultivate the study of the physics year by year.

Like general or specific scientific meetings, a journal like ANALES AFA maintains the necessary exchange for the development and consolidation of the topics addressed in the area of physics and other related disciplines.

Throughout the years that the printed volumes have been issued, ANALES AFA has been widely distributed among the major research centres and groups in the country either directly or indirectly through their researchers, thereby fulfilling its main objective as a means of scientific communication. The publication is widely disseminated at the national level, with occasional international circulation in the Latin American area.

Since the very first volume of 1989, ANALES AFA has been supported by both the public and private sector, with contributions from Fundación Antorchas, Fundación Bunge y Born, FATE SAICI, Techint SA, IBM, UNCentro, UNSan Luis, CNEA, CICPBA and CONICET, which has ensured its continuity up to the present day. The editor of ANALES AFA was, until 2010, Dr. Roberto Gratton. Since 2011, the AFA journal has been published in digital form. The early issues published in paper format can be accessed free of charge on this web page.

Since Volume 17 ANALES AFA has become an electronic journal and Open Access journal, what means free access to any article, for photocopying, downloading and diffusion. It can be said that this journal widely covers the scientific research in physics of Argentina.

The journal has been subjected to periodic review by the CAICYT in July 2023, resulting in continued membership of the Basic Nucleus of Argentine Scientific Journals until 2026. In addition, it is noteworthy that it has deserved congratulations from the Coordination of the Scientific Communication Area for the improvements introduced in these years.

Anales AFA has been included since 2023 in the digital preservation library of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the UBA. Visit https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/

Themes and scope

The Journal of the Argentine Physics Society (ANALES AFA) is an Open Access publication through the web page: (http://anales.fisica.org.ar/journal/index.php/analesafa).

ANALES AFA publishes original articles in the field of physics, in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Articles may deal with research, instrumentation or review by invitation (minimum of 4 pages). The journal is addressed to the whole scientific community, mainly to physicists of all the areas, both theoretical and experimental.

Publication is quarterly (4 issues per year) and appears on the web on the 28^th March (N.1), 28^th June (N.2), 28^th September (N.3) and 28^th December (N.4). Evaluation and publication of each article takes around four months. The collection includes publication of special numbers dedicated to congresses of certain specialities of physics or anniversaries of physical societies recognized by AFA.

The cost of publication per page appears in the Announcements. The journal is financed exclusively by the authors and the Argentine Physics Association and counts on the support of the Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas para la Defensa y de la Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Copyright

The authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:

The authors retain copyright and guarantee the magazine the right to be the first publication of the work as well as licensing it under a Creative Commons license that requires the recognition of authorship and allows others to generate derivative works provided that it is not done for commercial purposes. Nor can the original work be used for commercial purposes.
Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, place it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work electronically (for example, in institutional repositories or on their own website) before and during the submission process, as it may result in productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater references to the published work.

The partial or total reproduction of the contents of the articles is authorized, citing the source: Journal of the Argentine Physical Association, ANALES AFA.

Publication ethics

ANALES AFA is committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. ANALES AFA follows the actions recommended by the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE http://publicationethics.org/). Below is a summary of its key expectations of editors, peer-reviewers and authors.

Editors’ Responsibilities

To contribute to the decision-making process, and to assist in improving the quality of the published paper by reviewing the manuscript objectively.
To maintain the confidentiality of any information supplied by author.
To be aware of any potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative or other relationships between the reviewer and author).
Not take advantage of the data of an article under review
To give authors a reasonable opportunity to respond to any complaints. All complaints should be investigated no matter when the original publication was approved.
To honor any request by an author that a particular colleague should not be consulted as a
To preserve the identities of reviewers.
To treat fairly any author's request for reconsideration of a rejected manuscript.

Authors' responsibilities

To maintain accurate records of data associated with their submitted manuscript, and to supply or provide access to these data, on reasonable request.
To confirm/assert that the manuscript as submitted is not under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere. Where portions of the content overlap with published or submitted content, to acknowledge and cite those sources. Additionally, to provide the editor with a copy of any submitted manuscript that might contain overlapping or closely related content.
To confirm that all the work in the submitted manuscript is original and to acknowledge and cite content reproduced from other sources. To obtain permission to reproduce any content from other sources.
To declare any potential conflicts of interest (e.g. where the author has a competing interest that could be considered or viewed as exerting an undue influence on his or her duties at any stage during the publication process).
To notify promptly the journal editor or publisher if a significant error in their publication is identified. To cooperate with the editor and publisher to publish an erratum, addendum, corrigendum notice, or to retract the paper, when necessary.
To ensure that all co-authors had the opportunity to revise the manuscript, had agreed to its submission to ANALES AFA and had accepted responsibility for the work reported.
To not breach any copyright. When reproducing figures, significant portions of text and/or schemes from previous publications, it is the authors' responsibility to seek appropriate permission from the relevant publishers. Authors must declare all sources of funding for the work in the manuscript, and also to declare any conflict of interest.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

To treat the assigned manuscript as confidential. In the case that a reviewer wishes to seek opinion from a colleague, approval from the editor in charge of the manuscript has to be obtained in advance and the name of the person to be consulted informed.
To inform with no delay if she/he is unable to do the review timely.
To inform the editor if any conflict of interest exist or can be foreseen. Reviewers must not accept to review manuscripts of close collaborators.
Not to take advantage of the data reported in a manuscript while it is under review or if the manuscript is not published.
To give an objective justified report written in a respectful style in a timely manner. Foreseen delays have to be informed to the editor in charge of the manuscript.
To inform the editor in charge of the manuscript if: (i) there is a suspicion of plagiarism, (ii) there are indications of fabricated or manipulated data, (iii) there seem to exist an unusual text recycling (copy from the author's previous work).

Peer review process

Articles submitted to ANALES AFA are subjected to a process of peer review by specialized independent referees suggested by the authors and/or by the specialist of the Editorial Committee, avoiding in all cases conflicts of interest. The refree’s anonymity is respected.

The referees receive a form where they must state whether the work is or is not publishable in ANALES AFA. The analysis will consist of the following:

Establishing whether purposes, starting points, methodology and results of work are described in the text in a way understandable for a researcher working on the subject or related topics.
Detecting the possible presence of insurmountable errors, that is, such as to nullify the validity of the work exposed in a whole or in essential parts.
Establishing if the work contributes sufficient volume of news that deserves its publication.

In the form the referees will indicate, when the work is publishable: it does not require changes; minor changes are required (typographical errors or similar) or needs a review by the authors. For works considered non-publishable, they should clarify if there is plagiarism or if the text is obscure / ambiguous / inconsistent or if it is not clear: purposes / starting points / methodologies / results or if there are insurmountable errors that invalidate the work or essential parts or finally if there is absence of new contributions not trivial with respect to what has already been published.

In case of controversy the editors will decide the steps to follow, being able to consult the Editorial Committee to choose another evaluator. The final decision on publication of a manuscript is the sole responsibility of the editors.

ANALES AFA (Anales de la Asociación Física Argentina), publication of the Argentine Physics Society.

ISSN (online): 1850-1168

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