About the Journal

Focus and Scope

FINZIONI – Journal of critical theory and contemporary Italian literature was born from the desire and the need to make more dynamic the sharing of knowledge and national and international research in the field of contemporary Italian literature. The main aim of FINZIONI is to foster the comparison between traditional and innovative ways of text analysis, paying attention to the growing contamination between the arts, and the discussion on the most recent assumptions of literary criticism in a strongly interdisciplinary perspective.

FINZIONI is a scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary area 10 (Antiquities, Philology, Literary Studies, Art History).

Peer Review Process

Authors have to submit their contributions to the journal either via the editorial mail or by the platform. The review process consists of a double-blind peer-review.

The roles of the different boards: the Editor-in-Chief and the Scientific Committee coordinate the journal’s disciplinary guidelines; the Editorial Board manages and supports the article publication process.

The editors will assess whether the submission is eligible for review. Each submission undergoes plagiarism detection through iThenticate. If the outcome of this evaluation phase is positive, the submission will be sent, anonymously, to two external referees. Based on the anonymous external reviewers’ assessments, the editors will make one of the following decisions:

  1. The submission is rejected: a written explanation will be provided.

  2. The submission needs further revision by the author, according to the reviewer’s and editor’s instructions, and then it will be resubmitted.

  3. The submission is accepted.

The whole review process will take not more than six months. Editorial, Interviews and Book Reviews will not be peer reviewed. Authors, editors and reviewers have to operate with the journal’s code of ethics.

Publication Frequency

The journal publish two issues per year.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). Any derived work must be distributed under the same license. It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission fees.

Ethics

FINZIONI adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica – FICLIT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Zamboni, 32
40126 - Bologna (Italy)