About the Journal
Submission and publication languages
Statement on publication ethics and misconduct
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Guide for non-sexist language use
Focus and Scope
ARTNODES is an e-journal promoted by the UOC, the aim of which is to analyse the intersections between art, science and technology.
ARTNODES publishes contributions that focus on the reflection and study of the intersections between art, science and technology, from a formal, historical and conceptual point of view.
Research papers or essays are accepted for consideration.
Contributions to Artnodes can be sent to open Call for Papers about a specific topic (see previous ones) and the works do not enter, exceptionally, go to the miscellaneous section, permanently open to any topic related to the study of the intersections between art, science and technology.
Audience
The audience of ARTNODES is, due to its interdisciplinary and outreach vocation, the academic community -and the general audience- that is interested in the intersections between art, science and technology and, especially, in the effects and influence of intensive use of information and communication technologies in art, culture and society in general.
Submission and publication languages
The primary publishing language of Artnodes is Spanish and English.
All papers published in Artnodes, whether submitted in Spanish, English or Catalan, are edited and revised for style and format. At the discretion of the editorial board, some papers may also be translated to Spanish, English or Catalan. Likewise, the title, abstract and keywords of all articles are published in Spanish, English and Catalan.
Authors may review the galley proofs of their paper upon conclusion of this process.
Peer Review Process
Artnodes only publishes original work. Papers may be submitted on any of the subjects covered by the journal. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process involving two experts in the relevant fields proposed by the journal’s editorial board.
Guarantee of blind review
As detailed in the author guidelines, authors must deliver their articles without any personal details (name and surname, email address, academic ties, postal address and brief CV). This information must be enclosed in a separate file.
Artnodes has its own reviewer database, including reviewers’ name, affiliation, e-mail address, specialization and native language, the languages they can review in, and the name of the person who recommended them to the editorial board. Artnodes allows and encourages authors to suggest reviewers for their papers.
As part of the review process, the identity of both the authors of the papers being reviewed and the reviewers will be kept secret.
The review process will also include methodological aspects.
Authors may suggest specific reviewers when submitting papers in the comments for the editor.
The editorial board will notify authors of its decision, indicating its reasons for accepting, rejecting or requesting the revision of the paper and including the external experts’ opinions.
Artnodes regularly revises the forms used by reviewers, as well as the quality of reviewers’ reports.
Phases of the article review process
Phase 1: Sending of original
Phase 2: Assessment of the original by external peer reviewers, who are experts in the corresponding subject area.
Phase 3: Sending of the result of the review to the journal's director.
The reviewers send the results of their assessment and their proposed ruling to the journal's director.
Phase 4: Communication of the result of the review to authors.
Accepted: An article is approved if the result of the two reviews is positive.
Not accepted: An article is declined if the result of the two reviews is negative.
Accepted (with modifications): The results of the reviews propose substantial changes to the content by authors before the article can be approved definitively.
Should the results from the two reviews differ, there is a second round of reviews with two different reviewers from the corresponding subject area, until a majority decision is reached.
Artnodes will notify authors of its decision to accept or reject a paper within three months of receiving it.
Publication Frequency
ARTNODES is a triannual journal, we publish the full issues in February, June and November. However, from March 2022, the contents of each issue will not be published all at the same time, they will be appear at regular intervals throughout the year (online first) until the issue is deemed closed.
This system speeds up the publication time of the journal's contents considerably without the need to wait until the whole issue has been edited.
Open Access Policy
This journal is open access, which means that all content is freely available at no cost to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. All of this is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
For all contents published in Artnodes that are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). The complete text the license can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The authors retain the rights to their works, which may be copied, distributed, publicly communicated, and transformed, provided that the credits (authorship, journal name, and publishing institution) are properly acknowledged, according to the specifications indicated by the authors or the journal. Each published article has a double license—that of the article and that of the compilation—both under the same CC BY license.
It is the sole responsibility of the authors to obtain the necessary permissions for the use of any image included in the article that is subject to copyright.
Assignment of intellectual property rights
The author non exclusively transfers the rights to use (reproduce, distribute, publicly broadcast or transform) and market the work, in full or part, to the journal’s editors in all present and future formats and modalities, in all languages, for the lifetime of the work and worldwide.
The author must declare that their work is original. The editors shall thus not be held responsible for any obligation or legal action that may derive from the work submitted in terms of violation of third parties’ rights, whether intellectual property, trade secret or any other right.
Authors may deposit their works in open-access repositories, whether before peer-review (as pre-prints) or after (as post-prints).
Archiving Policy
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
Interoperability Protocol
All publications in this journal incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their content to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. Journals published through the Open Journals System (OJS) also include the Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), which provides the possibility to obtain different formats for metadata.
Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata Formats: Dublin Core, MARC, MARC21 i RFC1807
Route for harvesters: https://raco.cat/index.php/index/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=artnodes
Statement on publication ethics and misconduct
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) is committed to upholding the highest standards of quality and integrity in the publication of scientific articles, in accordance with the guidelines set out in its own Code of Ethics, the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (by the Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE), and CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications (by the Council of Science Editors, CSE). The UOC aims to satisfy the needs of authors and readers alike, ensuring the quality of articles published in its journals, protecting and respecting all rights pertaining to the content of articles, and respecting the integrity of all submissions and published work.
All submissions received in the journal are analyzed with a plagiarism detection tool to verify that no bad practices are carried out.
The Editorial Board of Artnodes undertakes to publish all corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies as and when they are required. As part of its commitment to best practice, Artnodes makes publicly available the evaluation system for submitted articles and the criteria applied in the external peer review process. Artnodes regularly updates these criteria, which are intended to ensure the scientific relevance, originality, clarity and pertinence of published articles.
Artnodes maintains full confidentiality throughout the evaluation process, protecting the anonymity of authors and external reviewers, the reviewed content, the reviewers' report and any other communication issued by the editorial, advisory and scientific boards, as required. Equally, it applies the strictest standards of confidentiality to any clarifications, claims or complaints that an author may wish to refer to any of the journal's boards or to the external reviewers.
Artnodes undertakes to respect the integrity of all published work. As such, Artnodes will be particularly vigilant in identifying and sanctioning cases of plagiarism. Any manuscript that is found to plagiarize published work will be removed from the journal or barred from publication, as the case may be. The journal will act as swiftly as possible in all such cases. In agreeing to the terms of the journal, authors undertake to ensure that the articles they submit and all of the associated materials contain only original work and that they do not infringe on the rights of third parties. In the case of shared authorship, a clear statement must be made to the effect that all authors have agreed to the content of the manuscript and that the work has not been published previously in any other form.
Authorship
The authors of articles submitted for publication must ensure that the material they submit to Artnodes is original work and that it does not contain fragments of work published either by themselves or by other authors. In submitting a manuscript, the authors must also guarantee the accuracy of the data presented therein, which must not have been altered to verify the experimental hypothesis or hypotheses put forward.
Authors must ensure that the materials consulted during the preparation of their article are the most recent and relevant in the field with which the research is concerned and that they have given due consideration to all current schools of thought on the subject matter.
Authors must clearly identify all those individuals who have made a significant scientific contribution to the conceptual design and planning of the study, the interpretation of the results and the writing of the article. The list of authors must be ordered hierarchically to reflect the degree of responsibility of each author and their respective roles in the study.
All authors accept responsibility for the content of the manuscript.
Peer review
Reviewers undertake to produce a critical, sincere, constructive and impartial evaluation of submissions and to complete their review in the shortest time possible, to ensure that the deadlines of the evaluation process are met.
Reviewers are only assigned to a manuscript if they have the necessary expertise in the relevant field and are not affected by any conflicts of interest.
The reviewers will submit a full and thorough report, complete with the necessary references, in compliance with the terms of the evaluation process and any applicable public standards, particularly when rejecting a submission. In addition, reviewers must notify the Editorial Board of any part of the manuscript that has already been published or is under consideration for publication in another journal.
Reviewers must ensure that they have no conflicts of interest with regard to the research presented in the article, the author/s, and the sources of funding for the project.
Once the Editorial Board has verified that the article conforms to the standards on content and style indicated in the editorial criteria, it will send the article to two anonymous experts, not affiliated to the authors' home institution, for a double blind review.
The reviewers' evaluation of the article will focus on its interest to the scientific community, the novelty of its contribution to existing knowledge of the subject matter, the accuracy of the relationships it establishes with other work, the critical judgement displayed, the bibliographic references used, the quality of writing and presentation of the manuscript, and other standard considerations. Where necessary, recommendations will be made as to how the manuscript can or should be improved.
The Editor of Artnodes will examine the reviewers' report and notify the author/s of the outcome (fit for publication without changes; fit for publication with minor corrections; fit for publication with major corrections; not fit for publication) by sending an email to the address from which the manuscript was submitted. The reviewers' comments and suggestions will be provided for consideration by the first author.
If the manuscript has been deemed fit for publication with minor or major corrections, the authors must submit a revised version which addresses the external reviewers' comments and suggestions. The authors may also attach a rebuttal letter for the Editorial Board in which they explain the specific changes made to the original submission.
The Editorial Board will determine whether the revised manuscript is fit for publication on the basis of the changes made and the degree to which they successfully address the reviewers' comments and suggestions. The Editor will then notify the authors of the final decision.
Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Authorship of texts
Currently, Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT do not meet the authorship criteria of the journal. In essence, the attribution of authorship entails responsibility for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to AI tools. The use of an LLM must be properly documented in the Methodology section (or, if there is no Methodology section, in an appropriate alternative section) of the manuscript and should also be indicated in the cover letter to the editor.
Authors must carefully review and edit the final text, as AI can generate results that seem reliable but may be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. Authors should never mention AI or AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite an AI product as an author.
Authorship of images
Generative AI image creation tools have given rise to new legal issues regarding copyright and research integrity. As editors, we strictly follow existing copyright laws and apply best practices regarding publication ethics. Although legal issues related to AI-generated images and videos remain generally unresolved, Artnodes cannot allow their use for publication.
The exception is images obtained from agencies with which there are contractual relationships. Other exceptions to this policy would be when images and videos are directly referenced in an article specifically dealing with AI; in any case, it will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Please note: Not all AI tools are generative. If non-generative machine learning tools are used to manipulate, combine, or enhance existing images or figures, this should be reported in the document corresponding to the image guidelines when submitted to allow for case-by-case review.
Review process
Peer reviewers play a vital role in scientific publishing. Their expert evaluations and recommendations guide editors in their decisions and ensure that published research is valid, rigorous, and credible. Editors select peer reviewers primarily for their deep knowledge of the subject matter or methods of the work they are asked to evaluate. Peer reviewers are responsible for the accuracy and opinions expressed in their reports, and the peer review process operates on a principle of mutual trust between authors, reviewers, and editors. Despite rapid progress, generative AI tools have considerable limitations: they may lack up-to-date knowledge and can produce nonsensical, biased, or false information. Manuscripts may also include sensitive or proprietary information that should not be shared outside the peer review process. For these reasons, we ask that, while our journal is considering offering our reviewers with access to safe AI tools, reviewers should not submit manuscripts to generative AI tools.
If any part of the evaluation of the claims made in the manuscript was in any way supported by an AI tool, we ask peer reviewers to declare the use of such tools transparently in the peer review report.
This policy on the use of AI is just a starting point (under review). As this field is constantly evolving, we will review and adapt it periodically if necessary.
Guide for non-sexist language use
Publication Fees
Since the publication costs for Artnodes are covered by the editing university (UOC) internal budget, authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge (APC) and no waivers are necessary.
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