About the Journal

ANALES AFA

Journal of the Argentine Physical Society (Asociación Física Argentina)

ISSN online 1850-1168

Edited by: Asociación Física Argentina (AFA)

e-mail: analesafaba@gmail.com / analesafatan@gmail.com

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 (theoretical, experimental and computational).

Publication is quarterly (4 issues per year) and appears on the web on the 28th March (N.1), 28th June (N.2), 28th September (N.3) and 28th 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 help improve the quality of published work by reviewing the manuscript objectively.
  • To maintain the confidentiality of any information provided by the author.
  • To avoid any potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative, or other relationships between the reviewer and the author).
  • Not to use data from a manuscript under review for their own benefit.
  • To give authors a reasonable opportunity to respond to any decision. All complaints must be objectively analyzed and investigated, without regard to any statute of limitations.
  • To honor an author's request that a particular colleague not be consulted as a reviewer.
  • To preserve the identity of reviewers.
  • To objectively consider any author's request to reconsider a rejected manuscript.

Authors' responsibilities

  • To maintain accurate records of the data associated with the submitted manuscript and provide or grant access to such data upon reasonable request.
  • Not to submit manuscripts that are under consideration or have been accepted for publication elsewhere. In addition, authors must provide the editor with a copy of any manuscript submitted for publication that contains overlapping or closely related content to the present manuscript.
  • To confirm that all work contained in the submitted manuscript is original.
  • To declare all sources of funding related to the manuscript and any potential conflicts of interest, understood as factors that could exert an ethically improper influence on their duties at any stage of the preparation or publication process.
  • To immediately notify the journal editor if a significant error is identified in their publication. To cooperate with the editor to publish an erratum, addendum, correction notice, or retraction, when necessary.
  • To ensure the participation of all co-authors in agreeing to submit the manuscript to ANALES AFA, accepting responsibility for the reported work, and reviewing the manuscript.
  • Not to infringe any copyright. When reproducing figures, substantial portions of text, and/or diagrams from previous publications, it is the authors' responsibility to obtain the appropriate permission from the relevant publishers, as well as to acknowledge and cite the reproduced content from other sources.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

  • To treat the assigned manuscript as confidential. If a reviewer wishes to seek the opinion of a colleague, prior approval must be obtained from the editor in charge of the manuscript, and the name of the person to be consulted must be disclosed.
  • To inform the editor without delay if they are unable to complete the review in a timely manner.
  • To inform the editor if there is, or could be, any undeclared conflict of interest involving the authors. Reviewers should not accept manuscripts for review from close collaborators.
  • Not to make use of data reported in a manuscript while it is under review or if the manuscript is not published.
    Provide an objectively justified report, written in a respectful and timely manner. If they are unable to meet the agreed deadline for submitting the report, they should contact the editor in charge.
  • To inform the editor in charge of the manuscript if: (i) there is suspicion of plagiarism; (ii) there are indications of fabricated or manipulated data; or (iii) unusual text recycling is detected (copying from the author's previous work).

 Peer review process

Articles submitted to ANALES AFA undergo a peer-review process conducted by independent and specialized reviewers, selected with the advice of the Editorial Committee, while avoiding conflicts of interest in all cases. The anonymity of the reviewers will also be preserved.

In their report, the referees must state whether the work is or is not publishable in ANALES AFA. Their assessment will consist of the following:

  1. To determine whether the purposes, starting points, methodology, and results of the work are described in the text in such a way that they are understandable to a researcher working in the same or a related field.
  2. To identify the possible presence of irremediable errors, i.e., errors that invalidate the work presented, either in its entirety or in essential parts.
  3. To determine whether the work contains a sufficient amount of novel material to warrant publication.ablishing 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.

In their report, reviewers will indicate whether publishable manuscripts: require no changes; require minor changes (typographical errors or similar); or require revision by the authors. For manuscripts considered unsuitable for publication, reviewers must state the reason. Examples of grounds for considering an article unsuitable for publication include: plagiarism; an unclear, ambiguous, or inconsistent text; failure to clarify the purposes, starting points, methodology, or results; the presence of irremediable errors that invalidate the work or essential parts thereof; or the absence of non-trivial new contributions with respect to the published body of knowledge.

In the event of a dispute, the editors will decide what steps to take and may resolve the matter by consulting the Editorial Committee to select another reviewer. The final decision on the publication of a manuscript rests exclusively with the editors.