Theoria

Now that we have continuously updated statistics, there is no need to copypaste the 2011 data. 62 of the papers we received went under review, a few more than last year (48). As of January 2011, we accepted 12 (24%) in a process that took 44 days on average. These figures are similar to our statistics of 2010, and seem a reasonably good proxy for the quality of our editorial process. We have increased significantly the number of “revise and resubmit” verdicts, both because the quality of the submitted papers has risen and  due to the quality of the reviews received, which often provide very constructive indications to develop the paper. Philosophy of science, language and mind are the fields which attract more submissions, but we remind our readers that we are open to receive papers from historians of science and STS scholars.

Google analytics reveals the following about our visitors in 2011:

11,496 Visits
8,711 Unique Visitors
47,411 Page views

As to their origin:

Country/Territory    Visits    % Visits
Spain    2,854    24.83%
United States    1,494    13.00%
Mexico    1,111    9.66%
United Kingdom    670    5.83%
Colombia    612    5.32%
Argentina    483    4.20%
Chile    290    2.52%
Canada    288    2.51%
Germany    274    2.38%
Brazil    221    1.92%

It is interesting to notice that most of our visitors come from outside Spain. You are always welcome!

THEORIA 73 has just been posted. In this issue, Michael Devitt and Edouard Machery provide a follow-up to their exchange in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Roberto Torretti commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Gaston Bachelard. There is also a paper on argumentation theory by Manuel Pérez Otero and Jan De Winter takes issue with the paper by P. Kitcher and J. Reiss published in THEORIA 66. Plus three fine book reviews

Our latest issue is freely available just clicking here. Featuring a review symposium on L. Bermejo-Luque’s Giving Reasons.

A kind reader made us notice an erratum in the paper “La diferencia entre lógicas y el cambio de significado de las conectivas: Un enfoque categorista” published in our latest issue (71). We have posted a corrected version and a due acknowledgment will appear in our next issue (72)

With papers by Estrada & Pallares, Torres, Hofman & Baumgartner, Casado & Bermejo and a review article by Zinkernagel. Plus 7 fine book reviews. Just click here!

THEORIA 70 is now posted. Featuring papers from Casini+Illari+Russo+Williamson, García-Encinas, Bacelar and García-Deister. Plus 10 fine book reviews.

Our first year at the Open Journal System closes with the following figures:

Visitors: 20.317 (as seen in Google analytics)

Submission statistics: 41 submissions completed (11 still pending), with the following results

Adding up the referees from the last weeks of 2009, 96 reviewers have helped us in making our decisions. 57% of them were based outside Spain. Most of them (79%) were men.

We published 12 papers in English and 5 in Spanish. Half of the authors (8.5) were based in Spain and the other half abroad as follows: Europe: 4.5;  Latin America: 3; North America: 1 (the 0.5 comes from a coauthored paper).

We will try to improve all these figures in 2011. Your cooperation is welcome!

The September issue has just been published, featuring papers by Ivar Hannikainen, José Ferreirós and M. Jiménez-Buedo & L. M. Miller, together with a philosophical survey on the biological concept of species by Roberto Torretti. Plus three fine book reviews.

In order to make our author’s copyediting life easier, we have adopted a new citation style for THEORIA: Turabian in the author-date version defined in Zotero, the free reference manager. If the version of this style is not defined in your own reference manager, we will try to make the conversion for you. Thanks to everyone who helped us in this process -namely, Julio Alonso, Kjell Magne Fauske and Yolanda Morcillo.

We are not really sure about what OJS takes into account, but, from now on, clicking on this link you’ll be able to acces our updated submission statistics. It just considers the papers submitted as articles (excluding special issues and states of the art, even if these are peer reviewed too).  The statistics are only valid for 2010 and, ss of today, the figures are: