Monographic issues and Quality

PROPOSALS FOR MONOGRAPHIC ISSUES

Monographic issues usually have a length of 10 articles and aim to have balanced gender representation among their authors. Proposals for monographic issues should have at least one research coordinator from a Spanish University and another from a University outside Spain, contain the following information and be sent to anduli@us.es:

- Title of the monographic issue in Spanish, French and English.
- Name and affiliation of the coordinator(s).
- A brief general introduction of the proposal, including a brief justification of its connection with sociology and with ANDULI's editorial line.
- The journal will establish the maximum limit of invited authors in order to make an open call of papers for external contributions.
- Approximate timetable for submission of abstracts, response from the coordinators and submission of articles.
- Willingness to co-finance the edition of the monograph (this is NOT a condition for acceptance, which is decided solely on the basis of quality criteria; it is simply information that helps to plan the journal's accounting).

- Monograph proposals are evaluated by the Editorial Board, which may accept, reject or propose modifications.
-If the proposal is accepted, all articles except the presentation, which is written by the Monograph coordinators, must go through the usual process of selection of originals and peer review.
- The articles that make up the monograph must conform to the rules for publication of articles detailed in “Authors' Guidelines”.

QUALITY CRITERIA

The following criteria apply to consider that a contribution to the journal ANDULI is significant:

• Addressing interesting and relevant research issues; Addresses issues that concern or affect the professional practice of social science technicians.
• It provides an advance in our theoretical and / or methodological understanding of such issues; New knowledge is added because it applies new theories to existing problems or manages to fill knowledge gaps (finding variables that were previously ignored, studying important consequences that the previous research had not examined, or analyzing variables that intervene or mediate).
• That deepens the understanding of existing knowledge: because it identifies the boundary conditions of a theory (examines potential moderating effects, proves the external validity of what we take as true, or tests the assumptions on which a significant stream of thought rests) ; Or because it reconciles opposing or contradictory findings.
• They discover surprising results: because they challenge conventional wisdom.