About the Journal
ISSN: 2313-9137 (online) / 2313-9129 (printed, closed in 2020)
DOI: 10.26422/aucom
∎ Focus and Scope
Austral Comunicación is the academic journal of Universidad Austral’s School of Communication (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
The journal aims to collect and disseminate applied research and basic theory of different traditions, trends and lines in communication sciences.
Its key audiences are university professors and researchers, to who we aim to offer a space to share their studies and their experiences.
Austral Comunicación open access to articles and reviews and other materials in addition, such as academic experiences, progress students’ research and interviews with known personalities or professionals in the field of communication sciences.
Issues addressed by Austral Comunicación are as vast as the field of communication studies: communication in public affairs, content management, corporate communications, public relations, advertising, international relations, the theory of media effects, studies on reception, new technologies of communication, communication policies, political communication, interpersonal communication, communication and culture, among others.
In addition, the journal usually publishes monographic issues, with the aim of offering research and theory on particular themes or topics.
Because of its universal call, Austral Comunicación publishes articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Austral Comunicación is an open access journal.
Articles and original contributions of the entire national and international scientific community are accepted, without any charge or A.P.C. Austral Comunicación does not request Article Submission Charges, also called Submission Fees.
∎ Section Policies
Free articles section
The free articles section provides a space for disseminating research findings through papers and literature reviews providing updates on recent scientific developments.
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Monograph articles section
The monograph articles section aims to disseminate scientific research findings and literature reviews on specific areas; the editing of this section is carried out by specialists.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book reviews
Only recently published books reviews are considered for publication. The selection seeks to provide critical readings of different approaches and theoretical trends, as well as on applied research.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
Academic reports
Research papers on didactics and teaching reflection. Being a relatively recent intellectual field regarding the history of science, education and permanent change, is producing relevant theory and case studies of teaching practices in communication.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Communications
Communications aims to give visibility to the scientific production of undergraduate and graduate, especially in regard to their theses and end of titration. By its very nature of work in progress, the reports will be linked to broader work and aim to deliver partial results, bounded to some aspect of interest to the scientific community.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reports
News related to communication with an academic perspective, such as the organization of conferences, seminars, contests and journalistic-style articles on communication-related topics.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
The mail will be available for sharing with the community of readers and authors.
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
∎ Publication Frequency
Austral Comunicación will publish articles on a continuous system. From June 2024 it will close three issues per year: in October, January and May.
Articles can be submitted freely or on demand, both if they are for the free articles section or for the monograph articles section, both refereed.
For the June issue, the receipt expires March 31; for the December issue, the receipt expires on August 31.
∎ Archiving and Preservation
All published materials are deposited in en RIU Austral, the institutional repository of the Austral University.
The journal is archived in Dialnet.
The journal uses digital object identifiers (DOIs).
∎ Indexing and Inclusion
Austral Comunicación integrates the following indexes, bases and catalogs:
Núcleo Básico | Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (Argentina)
Scopus | Elsevier
Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Nación (MINCyT)
BINPAR (versión electrónica) │ Bibliografía Nacional de Publicaciones Periódicas Argentinas Registradas
BINPAR (versión impresa) │ Bibliografía Nacional de Publicaciones Periódicas Argentinas Registradas
Latindex Catálogo 2.0 | Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (México)
Dialnet | Portal bibliográfico de la Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)
Internet Archive (beta)│ Global library for permanent availability of open access journals
ESCI | Emerging Sources Citation Index - Thomson Reuters
DOAJ | Directory of Open Access Journal (Sweden)
BIBLAT| Bibliografía Latinoamericana en Revistas de Investigación Científica y Social (México)
CLASE | Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (México)
EBSCO | EBSCO INformation Services (USA): Communication Source
ERIH PLUS | European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences
LatinREV | Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (FLACSO Argentina)
Actualidad Iberoamericana | Índice internacional de Revistas (Chile)
Latinoamericana│ Asociación de Revistas Académicas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (Chile)
EZ3 │ Electronic Journals Library (Germany)
OAJI | Open Academic Journals Index (Russia)
CIRC | Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas
MIAR | Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas (Spain)
Sherpa Romeo| Online resource that aggregates journal open access policies
AURA | AmeliCA classification on openness policies and exploitation rights
∎ Networks
Google Académico: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wxXcJa8AAAAJ&hl=es
Academia.edu: https://austral.academia.edu/RevistaAustralComunicaci%C3%B3n
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevAustralCom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RevistaAustralComunicacion
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/australcomunicacion/
∎ DORA Declaration
Austral Comunicación has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment.
∎ Interoperability Protocol
All the publications of the Austral University Journal Portal incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.
Austral Comunicación, published through OJS (Open Journals System), incorporates the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol at the URL https://ojs.austral.edu.ar/index.php / australcomunicacion / oai with the possibility of obtaining different formats for the metadata (rfc1807, nlm, marcxml, oai_marc and oai_dc) by entering the corresponding acronym in the URL as the value for the metadataPrefix parameter.
∎ License
The license used is CC BY-NC-SA, which allows sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium and format) and adapting (remixing, transforming and building on the material) under the following terms: attribution (acknowledge authorship) and non-commercial (the material cannot be used for commercial purposes). Update: February 1, 2022.
Austral Comunicación allows the author (s) to retain the publication rights without restrictions.
More information in the instructions for authors.
∎ Sponsor
School of Communication, Universidad Austral
