About the Journal

This Journal, aimed at the academic and professional community, has the mission of promoting open science, especially among those researchers from developing countries who do not have a budget to pay processing fees.

It includes articles and documents in Spanish and English on a wide range of topics and approaches. Due to its relevance, it highlights, but is not limited to, articles on the history of ideas and religions, philosophy and spirituality, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

The Journal includes both theoretical and reflective articles as well as products of empirical research, influenced by (or questioning) the idea of the subject -and their gender- as a cultural construct, independent of deity and equal to one another.

This Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal provides free, open and immediate access to its content (without requiring the reader to register) under the principle that making research available to the public fosters greater global knowledge exchange and therefore greater human development.

This journal also does not charge any type of fee to researchers who wish to publish their work. It has no charges for authors for submission or article processing under the same principle as the previous paragraph.

For your article to be included in the publication, works must be free of editorial commitments with any other journal or editorial body. Each contribution will first undergo a thematic relevance evaluation by the Editorial Committee and then a double-blind evaluation with internal and external reviewers. Submissions must be sent by email to the FMC Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal.

This journal is automatically indexed in CrossRef, OpenAire, Google Scholar, Latindex, Redib, Caicyt, Redalyc, ERIHPLUS and major Indexes and Libraries. It also uses the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) to create a secure and permanent archive of the journal.

   
We continue to expand boundaries in open science: since November 1, 2018, all articles in this journal are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Continuous Publication.

The journal publishes one annual volume covering the period January-December where articles received between December 1st of the previous year and November 31st of the current year are added.

During this period, received articles, if accepted, are immediately laid out and published.

Articles received for a specific monographic call will be published immediately after approval, to be regrouped at the end of the call in a special issue bearing the title of the monograph.

This change in frequency from biannual to continuous, which dramatically accelerates the development of the sciences, brings with it a new citation format. There are no longer page numbers locating the article within the journal. From now on, the article's location is its digital identifier.

We strongly suggest using our citation tool and especially recommend the following format: Last name, Initial name (year). Article title. Journal name, Vol. (Article ID)

Example: Bauer, R. (2020). Human egalitarianism and the patriarchal illusion: A phenomenological vision. Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, Vol.5 (122). doi:https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v5.122

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle that making research freely available to the public fosters greater exchange and development of global knowledge.

This open access policy for scientific information also extends to researchers as this journal does not charge any type of fee to authors wishing to publish their work. It has no charges for authors for submission or article processing to guarantee the freedom of academic research and its rapid dissemination within the scientific community.

Since November 1, 2018, all articles in this journal are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Platinum or Diamond Open Access means permanent and free access to published scientific works for readers and no publication fees for authors, 100% free. All articles are published under the most flexible reuse standard CC BY.

Authors are not charged article processing fees or publication fees; they publish with us without any fees. It is important to note that authors retain the copyright of their work and are encouraged to share and reuse their works, provided proper citation is given.

Readers from anywhere in the world can download, share, and use the full work for free.

All publication costs for articles published in our journal are fully funded by the Fundación MenteClara, an independent non-profit foundation based in Argentina.

The foundation, which from its inception adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, supports the advancement of scientific communication and the free exchange of information driven by the conviction that scientific knowledge is a social good and should be available without barriers. The Platinum/Diamond Open Access platform optimized by our Foundation maximizes the potential for knowledge sharing and provides a valuable contribution to researchers with limited financial means by leveling the playing field and giving everyone the same opportunity to publish and read high-quality scientific publications.

To induce the transformation of academic publications from the subscription model to the Diamond Open Access model, the MenteClara foundation participates in and supports the San Francisco Declaration, DORA, the Berlin Declaration, the International Initiative Open Access 2020 and we are signatories of the Barcelona Declaration of April 16, 2024, among other joint international actions.

This journal is entirely funded by the Fundación MenteClara, which does not accept any type of external financial contribution, from private organizations or from authors, to maintain editorial independence and quality in the peer review process

Origin: This journal is the natural consequence of the work of the Fundación MenteClara, chaired by Oscar R. Gómez, whose mission, since its creation, has been to establish the idea of the subject -and their gender- as a psychobiological construct of culture, all equal to one another, in academic spaces and among professionals and institutions working on the planet to narrow the gap between people, funding research, empirical essays, and the publication of systematic reviews regarding the current state of academic thought in relation to egalitarian philosophies and new technologies that enable access to knowledge for depressed individuals.

Since its creation in 2004, we have established associations with academic researchers from the most prestigious universities in the world who share our vision and incorporated ourselves as active members in different digital libraries and open access (OA) repositories, Big Data centralizing organizations, ethics committees and good research practices, organizations dedicated to ensuring the quality of scientific research as well as permanently protecting its results and, through our technical team, we actively participate in software development for open access scientific journal platforms (OJS).

With our passion set on Open and Citizen Science, after 12 years in this endeavor, we launched this journal to fill, in the Spanish-speaking world, an existing gap in open access academic publications without processing charges for the author.

Development: Since the birth of this journal in January 2016, we have had the support of the staff at CAICYT-CONICET and those responsible for REDIB. This support likely occurred because our editorial team managed to gather a group of researchers with extensive experience in scientific research methodology -especially Gastón Becerra- and in PHP code development for the Open Journal System (OJS) platform.

The specificity of our articles quickly generated significant traffic -according to Alexa measurements- to the point that within less than a year of being online, JournalTocs incorporated us into its catalog without any request from our side.

JournalTOCs, the catalog of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, states on its portal: "JournalTOCs takes special care to include only the highest rated journals in their fields, ensuring quality results" and some of its selection criteria are the following:

"Mandatory requirements: 2-The journal has published at least four issues or volumes in the last TWO years.

Additional requirements: 7-Articles published in the journal have DOI identifiers. 8-The journal is registered with relevant organizations (e.g., CrossRef, COPE, LOCKSS)"

As noted earlier, in November 2016, via a news item (MacLeod, 2016) we learned that we had been included in JournalTocs, even without meeting points 2, 7 or 8 and that at that time we were part of an elite group of 2746 publishers worldwide with only 9 months of existence.

This prompted us to break our declared biannual frequency and publish a third issue in December 2016. It is here that we thank the work of REDIB - Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge -, where we were already indexed, who pointed out that we had committed an "incorrectness" by publishing a third issue and with their help and experience, they showed us how to fix it by calling it an "extraordinary issue".

This company and assistance was not limited only to editorial methodological issues but, between their team of programmers and ours, they guided us to be one of the few journals that, using the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol, offer, in addition to basic metadata, the complete list of cited references so that libraries index our articles as in the following example.

Given such support, we decided to rise to the level of our reviewers, quadrupling the financial resources allocated to fund the publication of articles, implementing DOI services, integrating as members of CrossRef, COPE and Lockss - points 7 and 8 of JournalTocs - and committing to and fulfilling, with REDIB, to maintain the declared biannual periodicity strictly.

This editorial conduct led to us being included in the catalog of ERIH Plus -European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences- in December 2018. ERIH is the largest international evaluator regarding high-quality and impactful research data.

Having met, during these three years, all the requirements demanded for peer-reviewed scientific publications, we requested to be audited by international evaluation bodies that require a minimum of three years of existence to apply and it is here, with the collaboration of CAICIT - CONICET, Latindex -especially Ana María Flores, Carlos Authier and Alicia Aparicio- REDALYC and AmeliCA -Fernando Rodríguez and Eliana Guzmán- and the support staff at DOAJ, -especially Ilaria Fava- we begin this fourth year with:

Classification as a top-tier journal in CONICET, Green in Malena and Sherpa/Romeo, 100% of evaluation criteria met in the Latindex Catalog and DOAJ Seal of quality. There are only two Argentine journals in Spanish that meet the 38 requirements -mandatory and desirable- to be in the Latindex Catalog: Us and the journal Revista de extensión universitaria from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. There are also two Argentine journals in Spanish awarded the DOAJ Seal, Us and the journal Salud colectiva from the Universidad de Lanús

Furthermore, we are the only journal in Argentina that meets all the requirements that the European Research Council will implement in 2020 for academic journals, as indicated in the agreement called Plan S. One of the requirements is that journals must offer articles in several formats besides pdf and we are offering articles also in HTML and XML. This has enabled readers of languages other than ours to approach reading the texts using the HTML format combined with Google Translator. Thus, we are receiving a lot of traffic from Eastern and Middle Eastern countries, for example, from the library of the University of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates where we are indexed.

Finally, we announce that we will soon change the frequency from biannual to continuous publication. As our colleagues from Salud Colectiva say: it is approved, edited, published.

And we hope for 2020, in addition to continuing to fund editorial processing charges, editing and layout costs for all authors, to fund research by independent authors committed to making visible problems and solutions related to social inequalities.

Something else we are proud of is that some of the articles, just three (3) months after being published, were cited in Catalan, Spanish and English Wikipedia as well as Google Scholar, indicating that the reach of our publication exceeds the exclusive academic framework to reach, according to our intention, the public in its entirety.

Our work is to put the latest scientific information from the areas of social sciences and evidence-based medicine within everyone's reach, free of charge and freely for both the reader and the author.

In the short term, our objective is to store scientific articles in Spanish and translate scientific publications in English into Spanish to make them available to local researchers for free by acquiring translation rights for the latest discoveries as well as on request from local professionals.

To date, our platform provides a set of free tools to effectively promote scientific publications to a large audience, guaranteeing a high degree of visibility for national articles internationally.

Editorial Committee