About the Journal

Focus and Scope

"Antropologia e Teatro - Rivista di Studi" aims to offer essays and observations about Anthropology and Performing Arts Studies by a transdisciplinary perspective, in order to stimulate cultural discussions. As a training ground for young scholars and both formal and substantial context to prove ascertained studies, the review proposes a reference point for scientifically proved participations. Their goals should be oriented to deepen and to renew research itself, especially by taking accounts of the multicultural, reasonably ever-changing background. Therefore Performing Arts Studies and Anthropological ones may acquire more meaning by drawing on each other.

Peer Review Process

"Antropologia e Teatro" employs double-blind peer review. On receiving the article, the Editors will assess whether the submission is eligible for review; preliminary checks include anti-plagiarism verification using iThenticate software. If deemed eligible, the editorial staff will send the submission, in an anonymized format, to two external reviewers of proven expertise. After receiving the Reviewers’ opinions, the Editor may opt for one of the following: 1. the submission is rejected;

  1. the submission may be accepted after making the changes suggested by the Reviewers. In this case, the Author will have the opportunity to re-submit the paper, taking into account the comments of the Reviewers. If the requested changes are substantial, the new version of the text may be sent anonymously to the Reviewers for further evaluation and potential final approval;

  2. the submission is accepted as-is and can be published in its current form.

  3. In exceptional cases, the editors may take responsibility for publication without considering the opinion of the referees by giving appropriate evidence in the published article.

In all cases, the Authors will be receive a copy of the Reviewers’ comments. The entire review process will take not longer than six months.

The Review reserves the right to determine the issue where the submission will be published.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published over a time span of a year from 1st January till 31st December. The journal is updated regularly during the year so to offer an up-to-date overview of the research outcomes.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint) and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

"Antropologia e Teatro - Rivista di Studi" adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following database:

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento delle Arti
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Barberia, 4
40123 - Bologna (Italy)