About the Journal
Focus and scope
Tiempo Histórico (TH) is a biannual publication (June - December) of the Academia de Humanismo Cristiano University. It is an academic review, which receives only unpublished articles focused on the history of Chile, the history of Spanish-America, and on issues of theoretical and methodological concern. The publication receives contributions on history and other disciplines related to it, such as: sociology, anthropology, archeology and history of art.
The contributions that TH receives are to be included in the following sections:
Articles: Include original articles that are not being evaluated simultaneously in other publications, the progress and results of research projects, critical essays and discussion of historical sources.
Reviews: Reviews must be critical and refer to books relevant to the disciplines of history, the social and human sciences that have been published in the last five years. The editorial team reviews each of the studies and, if approved, submissions continue on through the editing and layout processes.
Translations: Some numbers of TH include a translation section that contains articles published in languages other than Spanish: English, French and Portuguese, these must have the authorization of the original journal.
Tiempo Histórico readership is made up of researchers, professionals, academics and graduate and undergraduate students interested in the creation and reflection on historical knowledge.
Tiempo Histórico is found in the following indexes, databases, directories, and catalogs:
ERIHPlus; MIAR; LATINDEX. Catálogo v1.0 (2002 - 2017); CLASE; LATINDEX. Directorio; EBSCO host; DIALNET; BIBLAT; FLACSO REDIV; JOURNAL TOCs; KYUSHU Library; OPAC plus; ORBIS; EZ3; AcademicKeys; REDIB; KANAZAWA.
Open access policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Tiempo Histórico is distributed under a Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional 
Arbitration Process
Tiempo Histórico has an editorial team made up of a director, an editor-in-charge and a co-editor, that works with an editorial committee whose members are academics with outstanding university and professional backgrounds. It also relies on a body of national and international external evaluators, made up of historians and social scientists from different study and academic centers.
The process considers an initial evaluation by the editorial team, eventually supported by the editorial committee, who determine sending the document to two external evaluators per article for review. The arbitration process includes peer review, also called a double blind system, in order to safeguard the quality and academic rigor of the publication, which is regulated by the standards of scientific production considered in the main international indexes.
Papers are published only if they are unanimously approved by the journal's editorial team and by the two external reviewers. When there is a marked difference between the latter, the editors appoint a third evaluator.
The responsible editor will ensure the application of ethical standards throughout the process, and the editorial team of Tiempo Histórico is committed to respecting and enforcing the standards of ethical conduct throughout the editing process.
For this purpose, the edition of Tiempo Histórico is carried out based on the guidelines delivered by the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) whose guidelines we will follow and which are synthesized below:
ETHICAL STANDARDS
In the edition of the Historical Time magazine, the respect to all the ethical norms linked to the production of each issue will be ensured, placing emphasis on the selection of peer reviewers of recognized prestige who arbitrate each of the articles presented for their eventual publication. The same conduct will govern in the process of correction and final edition made by the team of the magazine.
- General duties and responsibilities of the editor
The editor, with the support of the co-editors, will be responsible for what is published in their journals. They should:
Strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
Constantly improve the magazine.
Guarantee the quality of the material that is published.
Defend freedom of expression.
Prevent business needs from compromising intellectual standards.
Be always willing to post corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
- Relations with readers
Readers should be informed about who has funded the research and about the role of funders in the research.
- Relations with authors
Publishers should take all reasonable measures to guarantee the quality of the material they publish, recognizing that journals and sections within journals will have different objectives and standards.
Editors' decisions to accept or reject a document for publication should be based solely on the importance, originality and clarity, and relevance of the study to the journal's mission.
A description of the peer review processes should be published and the editors should be prepared to justify any alteration of the processes described.
Editors should not revoke decisions to accept presentations unless serious problems are identified with the presentation.
- Relations with the reviewers.
Editors should publish a guide for reviewers on everything that is expected of them. This orientation must be periodic.
They should be aware of possible conflicts of interest.
Editors must have systems to ensure that the identities of reviewers are protected, unless they have an open review.
Publishers must have systems to ensure that material sent to the journal remains confidential while it is being reviewed.
- Procedures and measures to control inappropriate behavior.
- Communication to the author or reviewer of an irregular situation or misunderstanding.
- If the inappropriate behavior is proven, it will be preceded to retract the article if it has been published.
- Official seizure on the contributions of an author for a period of 5 years.
- Send a report, where the case and its result is reported, to a professional organization or higher authority for further investigation and action.
