Aim and Scope

Iberoamerican Papers / Cuadernos Iberoamericanos
ISSN (Print): 2409-3416 ISSN (Online): 2658-5219
Founded in 2013 Publisher: MGIMO University (Moscow, Russia)
Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December)
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian
Open Access: BOAI-compliant, no fees for submission or publication

About the Journal

Iberoamerican Papers is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that advances interdisciplinary and comparative research on the history, culture, languages, literature and arts of the Ibero-American world. We provide a multilingual forum connecting scholarship produced in Latin America, Spain and Portugal with Russian and Eurasian research communities, and we encourage submissions that situate Ibero-America in global intellectual, cultural, and social processes (e.g., civilizational dialogue, the worldview of the indigenous peoples, anthropological, cultural and linguistic studies, local literatures and and heritage studies).
The journal has been issued regularly since 2013.

Aim and Scope

Iberoamerican Papers is a peer-reviewed, open-access interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of the history, culture, literature, arts, languages and social thought of the Ibero-American world. It provides a scholarly platform for dialogue between researchers from Russia, Latin America, Spain and Portugal, as well as for comparative and cross-regional studies within the broader context of world civilizations.

The journal encourages contributions that:

• explore Ibero-American identities, diversity and heritage through historical, anthropological, cultural and linguistic lenses;
• engage with interdisciplinary and comparative approaches;
• examine the interaction of civilizations and global transformations in the humanities and social sciences;
• highlight dialogues between tradition and modernity, art and politics, language and identity across the Ibero-American world.

The journal welcomes original research articles, analytical essays, book reviews, interviews and archival materials. By publishing in four major world languages, Iberoamerican Papers promotes multilingual knowledge exchange and strengthens academic cooperation across continents.

Uniqueness and Contribution

Iberoamerican Papers occupies a distinctive place in global humanities as a peer-reviewed, multilingual, open-access platform that bridges Ibero-American studies and Eurasian scholarship. Its contribution to international academic communication rests on seven key dimensions:

1. Multilingual Knowledge Circulation

The journal publishes in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian, enabling direct intellectual exchange between researchers from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and Eurasia.
This multilingualism is not only a technical feature but a scholarly mission: it dismantles language barriers, allowing research produced in one linguistic community to become visible and citable in another, thus broadening the global reference base of Ibero-American studies.

2. A Eurasia–Ibero-America Bridge

As one of the very few internationally peer-reviewed journals in Eurasia devoted to Ibero-American themes, the journal provides a genuine bridge between regions and traditions of thought. It encourages collaboration between scholars from both hemispheres, expanding the geographic and intellectual representation of Ibero-American research within global databases and Scopus’s coverage of area studies.

3. Interdisciplinary Humanities with a Social-Science Reach

The journal welcomes methodological pluralism, combining historical, anthropological, linguistic, literary, and artistic approaches with perspectives from political science, cultural policy, and heritage studies. By doing so, Iberoamerican Papers integrates humanities research with broader questions of global change, social identity, and intercultural communication.

4. Comparative and Transregional Perspectives

A defining feature of the journal is its effort to re-situate Ibero-America within the global contexts, moving beyond Atlantic binaries. The journal promotes comparative research on cross-civilizational interactions, Eurasia–Ibero-America cultural dialogue, religions, migration, and transnational art circuits, thus enriching the global area studies knowledge base.

5. Multimodal Humanities: Text, Image, and Source

Beyond traditional research articles, the journal publishes source-based studies, archival notes, fieldwork reports, interviews, and critical reviews, fostering a full research cycle from primary discovery to conceptual analysis. All articles are accompanied by pictures. This multimodal format encourages the use of diverse materials—visual, textual, and oral—reflecting the plural nature of Ibero-American heritage.

6. Open Science and Ethical Integrity in the Humanities

Iberoamerican Papers aligns with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and COPE standards. The journal charges no article processing or submission fees and operates under transparent policies on preprints, data sharing, and the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence.
Such policies ensure accessibility, reproducibility, and long-term trust in humanities scholarship, positioning the journal at the forefront of open-science practices in the region.

7. Community-Building and Global Inclusion

The journal functions as a hub for international collaboration, regularly publishing thematic dossiers curated by guest editors and encouraging submissions from both established and early-career scholars. It cultivates a global scholarly community by facilitating cross-regional mentorship, multilingual peer interaction, and thematic debates that link Ibero-American research to worldwide discussions on culture, civilization, culture, arts, languages, identity, and heritage.

Section Policies

EDITORIAL

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ANALYTICAL ESSAYS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

INTERVIEWS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

BOOK REVIEWS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

ANOTHER VIEW

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

4 issues per year:

№1 March;

№2 June;

№3 September;

№4 December.

Open Access Policy

The journal is fully open access: all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts without financial, legal or technical barriers. We do not charge any article submission or processing fees. Publication is free of charge for all authors. 

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)
• elibrary.ru

Editorial Policy & Peer-Review Process

All submissions undergo double-anonymous peer review managed by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board; desk rejections may be issued if a manuscript falls outside scope, lacks a research question/novelty, is not a research article, or contains plagiarism.

• Approx. 20% of manuscripts are rejected at the desk stage.
• Standard workflow: initial editorial screening → assignment to two anonymous referees (a third may be invited if the first two diverge) → editorial decision (accept / minor revision / major revision / reject / additional review).
• Turnaround: we aim for 2–4 weeks per review round, subject to reviewers’ schedules.
• Revisions: authors typically have up to two months to revise.
• Conflicts & appeals: if disagreement persists, the Board may commission additional review; conflicts are settled by the Editor-in-Chief following Board deliberation.
• Positive reviews, while necessary, do not guarantee acceptance; the Editorial Board takes the final decision.
• Record-keeping: reviews are archived by the office for five years.

Conflict of interest for reviewers and the right to decline reviewing in case of COI or insufficient expertise are explicitly recognized. 

Indexing

Articles in Cuadernos Iberoamericanos are indexed in several systems:

• Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI)
• Journal list of the Russian Higher Attestation Commission (VAK journals)
• Google Scholar 
• Latindex (Catálogo 2.0)
• SOCIONET
• DOAJ 
• ROAD

Publishing Ethics

Our ethics statement follows COPE and Elsevier’s Ethics in Research & Publication, detailing editors’, reviewers’ and authors’ responsibilities, including unbiased evaluation, confidentiality, disclosure, and handling of errors and retractions.

Duties of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board

• Decisions are grounded in the credibility and scholarly significance of submissions; good-faith evaluation should be irrespective of authors’ personal attributes.
• Confidentiality of submissions is maintained.
• COI management and recusal protocols are in place.
• Supervision of publications and measures in case of ethical concerns (including contacting relevant organizations).

Duties of Reviewers

• Objectivity, clarity, confidentiality, identification of relevant prior work, COI disclosure.

Duties of Authors

• Accurate data and reproducibility; clear distinction between personal and research opinion; data access, originality, anti-plagiarism, single journal submission principle, transparent authorship, COI disclosure, and swift correction of errors.

Duties of the Publisher

Editorial independence from commercial influence; promote the compliance of the publishing staff, Reviewers and Authors of Cuadernos Iberoamericanos with the ethical standards outlined in these requirements; legal support when needed. 

Founder & Publisher

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University)

Author Fees

Publication in Cuadernos Iberoamericanos is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Plagiarism Screening

Cuadernos Iberoamericanos use native Russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is detected, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and Postprint Policy

Authors may post preprints on personal or public websites prior to acceptance, and we encourage sharing the post-publication link to the version of record on the journal website. Definitions of preprint and postprint follow SHERPA. 

Data Sharing Policy

We encourage (but do not require) making data that support published results available in appropriate repositories; this does not affect editorial decisions. 

The Journal’s policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

1. Responsibility for the content of the manuscript, including the accuracy of data, correct citation and compliance with ethical standards, lies entirely with the authors. The authors guarantee that the final text of the manuscript is original and reflects the results of the research conducted by the authors.
2. AI (chatbots, such as ChatGPT and similar tools) cannot be listed as authors of the article or as persons who contributed to the preparation of the manuscript. AI-based programs do not meet the criteria for authorship, as they are not liable for the content of the work, cannot declare conflicts of interest, or manage copyright.
3. When working on the text of an article, authors can use AI exclusively to improve the style of the paper. If authors do use AI when preparing the text of an article, they should personally control the use of the technology, edit and check the entire text, and openly state the forms and scope of AI use when submitting their article to the editorial board. The author can make such a statement in the “Acknowledgements” section or describe their work in the introduction (section “Methods”).
4. Authors who use AI when writing their article should specify:

- The name, version, and developer of the artificial intelligence tools used;

- Indicate the sections that were modified with the use of AI and the scope of this intervention;

- Describe the type and purpose of the AI-generated content that was included in the article.

5. The use of AI to modify existing images, as well as to create images that may misinform the reader, is not allowed. Adjustments to brightness, contrast, and color balance are acceptable if they do not eliminate any information present in the original version of the photo.

Accessibility & Metadata

We aim to maximize accessibility and interoperability by:

• assigning DOIs;
• encouraging ORCID IDs in submissions;
• maintaining rich metadata for indexing systems;
• ensuring multilingual titles, abstracts, and keywords (as seen in published issues).