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About the Journal
Aims and Scope
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) is a blind peer reviewed online journal that publishes papers concerning theoretical and empirical research on language, mainly in Philosophy, Semiotics, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Epistemology. The journal's research team favours an interdisciplinary approach to a broader view of language. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) aims to publish the best research articles in all areas where the philosophy of language meets other disciplines.
The journal welcomes high quality academic papers from all philosophical traditions and schools of thought of the authors. RIFL publishes papers in Italian, English and French.
All submitted manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by experts in the field who are not members of the journal's editorial board.
Manuscripts must be original and unpublished, and should not be considered for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, authors submitting their paper to RIFL confirm that their manuscript is their own, that it has not been copied or plagiarised, in whole or in part, and that they have disclosed actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work or partial benefits associated with it.
RIFL publishes research papers, invited papers or commentaries, interviews, book reviews.
Each issue is divided into two sections: the special issue (from a call for papers run by an expert in the field who proposes a specific topic to be investigated) and the section (various i.e. miscellanous) collecting manuscripts on language. A specific section of RIFL is dedicated to reviews.
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) is indexed in Web of Science (WoS), ERIH PLUS, Google Scholar.
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) is ranked as a class A journal by ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes).
Peer Review Process
For authors
All submitted manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by experts in the field who are not members of the journal's editorial board.
Authors send their submissions ready for double-blind evaluation to the journal's secretariat (e-mail: segreteria.rifl@gmail.com), which will send the article to (at least) two reviewers. In the case of two conflicting reviews, the editorial board asks a third reviewer to carry out an evaluation. Based on the advice and assessment of the reviewers, manuscripts will be accepted for publication, rejected or sent back to the author for corrections or changes.
The final decision will be communicated via email to the author within 6 months after submission of the essay. The author will receive the reviewers' evaluations and, if available, the manuscript with any corrections made by the reviewer.
Manuscripts must be unpublished. By submitting their essay to RIFL, the author certifies that it has not been published or is not in the process of being published.
For reviewers
Reviewers are expected to provide reviews that are constructive and impartial, devoid of any hostile, inflammatory, libelous, unfair or unnecessarily derogatory comments. The editorial staff provide reviewers with an assessment sheet. During and after the peer review process, maintain the confidentiality of unpublished articles, including by refraining from discussing them with others.
Reviewers cannot in any way use the unpublished material for any purpose, including for personal gain or for the advantage or disadvantage of any other person or organisation.
Copyright and licensing
Authors hold the copyright of their published works in Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio licensing the journal the right to publish them. All materials are published under Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Regarding permissions to copy for public use and reprints, please contact the editorial office: segreteria.rifl at gmail.com.
Publication Frequency
RIFL publishes 2 issue per year and a special issue devoted to the Italian Society of Philosophy of Language.Open Access Policy
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) is an Open Access Journal: all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Open Access Journal has been defined by the Directory of Open Access Journals:
"We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the director".
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This journal does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Article Submission Charges (ASC).
Archiving
The journal is published through the Open Jornal System (OJS). The journal supports self-archiving. Authors of journal paper are encouraged to deposit the published version in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository on publication.
It has been under consideration for the listing in PKP Preservation Network.
Journal History
The first issue of Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) is published in September 2009. Since 2010 RIFL provides DOI - permanent article identifier - in the papers published. Since 2015 the journal has been included in ERIH PLUS and since 2020 in Web of Science (WoS).
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (RIFL) is ranked as a class A journal by ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes).
The journal started the Videolexicon project for the dissemination of language-related problems and topics: http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/videorifl
