About the Journal
Journal History
In 1981, the Asociación Paleontológica Argentina (APA) published the first issue of the Publicación Especial, a non-periodical journal that published contributions of scientific meetings (congresses, symposia and conferences) and compilations of particular topics. The last number of the Publicación Especial (No. 14) was published in 2014.
In 2015, the Executive Committee of the APA decided to re-launch the Publicación Especial de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina applying a series of changes in its format and periodicity in order to promote the publication of scientific works. The journal, renamed as Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina (PE-APA), is a regular, open access electronic journal that continues publishing volumes on specific topics, but also regular articles. It has a scientific Editorial Board composed by national and foreign specialists, and has expanded its focus and scope.
Aims and Scope
PE-APA publishes original scientific papers in Spanish or English, with a broad spectrum within paleontology, including anatomy, systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, paleobiology, paleoecology, paleobiogeography, biostratigraphy and taphonomy and technical papers. It also accepts articles about philosophical and historical aspects if they are closely related to paleontology. PE-APA will also continue with the publication of Thematic Volumes devoted to the development of a particular subject, including the publication of complete works of scientific events (congresses, symposia, conferences, etc.).
Peer Review Process
Manuscripts will be evaluated based on the opinions of at least two external peer reviewers. The default mode of review in PE-APA is single-blind (the reviewers are anonymous).
Reviewers only have access to the submitted manuscript once they have accepted the review invitation.
Typically, reviewers have 2 weeks to accept or reject the invitation, and 4 weeks to perform the review.
We recommend reviewers to follow COPE's Ethical Guidelines for Peer-Review.
Open Access Policy
PE-APA provides immediate open access to its content, which means free availability on the public Internet for any user to read, download, copy, distribute, or print.
PE-APA is completely free of any cost: no fees are required to publish any article or to access them.
Archiving Policy
PE-APA archives all published articles from 2015 onwards in the Internet Archive, and all articles in LOCKSS and CLOCKSS via the OJS system.
We are working to expand our archiving policy further, and more archiving options will be available in the near future.
PE-APA is indexed in: Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas, DOAJ, LATINDEX, REDIB, PERIODICA, SCOPUS, SCIMAGO, Google Scholar.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit all versions of their paper (Preprint or Submitted Manuscript, Postprint or Author's Accepted Manuscript, Published Article or Version of Record) in any institutional or subject repository, their homepages, Academic Social Networks. In any case, the Publisher Source must be acknowledged, and a link to the published version with DOI must provided when applicable (i.e., for the Published Article). We are currently in the process of registering these policies in Sherpa Romeo, an online resource of open access policies from publishers from around the world.
We strive to comply with the Initiative of Open Citations: our website and article metadata display the cited references in an open, structured and separable way, and we adhere automatically to the Cited-by and Open Citations tools of the CrossRef (since March 2022; we keep adding previous post-2015 articles retroactively as well).
Publication Frequency
PE-APA publishes two issues per year. Regular Articles are published continuously as soon as they are ready and they are included immediatelly in the current issue at that moment.
Code of Ethics
APA, as responsible publisher of Ameghiniana and PE-APA, stands by the following Code of Ethics and Malpractice in Publication (based on the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE's Best Practice Guidelines; https://publicationethics.org), and it is expected of authors, reviewers and editors to follow these guidelines on ethical behaviour.
