About the Journal

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology (Revista Interdisciplinaria de Teología) is a publication of the Seminario Internacional Teológico Bautista (Buenos Aires, Argentina) that aims to promote research and reflection on topics that engage theology from various disciplines.

The opinions and statements expressed in published works are the sole responsibility of their authors.

Target audience

The journal is aimed at researchers, professors, graduate students, and professionals in the academic and ecclesiastical spheres who are interested in interdisciplinary theological reflection, both in Latin America and internationally.

Publication frequency and model

The journal follows a continuous (rolling) publication model. Articles are published individually in digital format as they complete the peer review and editing process, without waiting for an issue to close. At the end of each year, all published articles are compiled into an annual volume (Vol. X, No. 1). Each volume corresponds to one calendar year and closes in November. A second issue (No. 2) is reserved for occasional special or thematic editions. Each article carries its own publication date.

Peer review process

All manuscripts received undergo an external peer review process under the double-blind modality. The process follows these stages:

1. Receipt and acknowledgment: upon receiving a manuscript, the editorial team confirms receipt to the author.
2. Initial assessment: the editor conducts a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the manuscript fits within the journal's thematic scope, meets formal requirements, and possesses sufficient academic merit to be sent for external review. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria will be returned to the author with corresponding observations.
3. Reviewer assignment: the manuscript is sent to 2 external reviewers with expertise in the work's subject area. Reviewers do not know the author's identity and vice versa.
4. Evaluation: reviewers have a period of 4 to 6 weeks to submit their assessment, which may be extended depending on the complexity of the manuscript. They evaluate the work based on criteria of originality, methodological rigor, relevance, argumentative clarity, and quality of sources.
5. Editorial decision: based on the reviewers' reports, the editor makes one of the following decisions: acceptance without modifications, acceptance with minor modifications, request for major revisions (with a new evaluation round), or rejection.
6. Communication to the author: the decision is communicated to the author along with the anonymous reviewer reports. If modifications are required, the author is given an agreed-upon period to submit the revised version.

The complete editorial process—from manuscript submission to publication—takes approximately 8 to 12 weeks. Timelines may vary depending on reviewer availability and the extent of requested revisions. Authors receive an acknowledgment of receipt within 7 business days of submission.

The journal publishes research articles and academic essays. Both categories undergo the same rigorous external peer review process under the double-blind modality. The essay, as an academic genre, differs from the research article in its greater freedom of structure and style, but shares the same standards of intellectual rigor and bibliographic support.

Responsible research assessment

The journal is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). In accordance with its principles, it is committed to evaluating each manuscript on its own merits—originality, methodological rigor, relevance, and argumentative clarity—without relying on journal-based metrics, such as the impact factor, as a proxy for the quality of individual articles.

Open access policy

The journal is an open access publication in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). All content is freely available without charge to the user or their 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.

Author charges

The journal does not charge any fees to authors. There are no submission fees, editorial processing charges, article processing charges (APCs), or any other type of fee associated with the evaluation or publication of manuscripts. Access is completely free for both authors and readers.

Copyright and licensing

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, which will be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International License. This allows users to read, download, copy, print, search, and link to the full or partial content of published articles, provided that the authorship of the original work and its first publication in this journal are properly acknowledged and cited, and that it is done under the same license conditions: for non-commercial purposes and sharing any derivative work under the same license.

Self-archiving policy

Authors may deposit the Version of Record (the final PDF as published in the journal) in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites and academic networks, with no embargo period and under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. The only requirement is to include the full bibliographic reference and a link to the article at rit.sitb.edu.ar. RIT recommends sharing the published version —rather than pre-review versions— to ensure that any text circulating under the journal's name is the one that has gone through the full editorial process.

Digital preservation

The content of the journal is digitally preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a decentralized preservation network maintained by the Public Knowledge Project. This service ensures long-term access to published content, even if the journal's website were to become unavailable. Files are periodically and automatically replicated across multiple nodes of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) network, ensuring the integrity and permanent availability of published articles.