About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The revue carries scholarly articles, not of a journalistic or educational nature. The area of interest encompasses history, criticism and methodology of dance. Contributions may have an interdisciplinary approach, provided that the art of the dance represents a key element of the discourse.

In a special section, «Danza e ricerca» publishes some useful research tools such as interviews with outstanding dancers and choreographers, along with some of their writings. Finally, a periodical list of Italian bibliography on dance is also provided.

Section Policy

Studies

  • peer-reviewed

Dossier

  • peer-reviewed

Visions

  • not peer-reviewed

Bibliographies

  • not peer-reviewed

Reviews

  • not peer-reviewed

Peer Review Process

The review process consists of a double-blind peer review. Authors intending to propose a contribution, must send their article as indicated in the call for papers published every year on https://danzaericerca.unibo.it/. Once the article is received, the Direction decides if it is eligible for review. If so, the article will be sent anonymously to two external experts.

Based on the review reports, the editors will be able to choose one of the following options:

  1. The article is rejected;
  2. The article can be published only after the modifications suggested by the referees. In this case the author can send a new version of the article, modified according to the reviewers’ comments. This version is submitted anonymously to the referees for further evaluation and possible approval;
  3. The article is accepted in its current form.

In all cases authors will receive an anonymous evaluation sheet containing the reviewers’ comments and suggestions.

The whole review process will take not more than six months.

Interviews, artists’ writings and book reviews will not be peer reviewed.

Between 2009 and 2018 the referees involved in the peer-review process have been Fabio Acca, Annarita Addessi, Laura Aimo, Roberta Albano, Lucia Amara, Giovanni Azzaroni, Guido Bartorelli, Sonia Bellavia, Leonetta Bentivoglio, Donatella Bertozzi, Romain Bigé, Simona Brunetti, Silvia Carandini, Matteo Casari, Eugenia Casini Ropa, Claudia Celi, Katja Centonze, Laura Cesaro, Roberto Ciancarelli, Sandra Costa, Maria Pia D’Orazi, Giuseppina Dal Canton, Monica Dall’Asta, Paola Degli Esposti, Laura Delfini, Fabrizio Deriu, Vito Di Bernardi, Piersandra Di Matteo, Caterina Di Rienzo, Ornella Di Tondo, Francisco Javier Escobar Borrego, Arianna Fabbricatore, Rita Fabris, Michele Fadda, Francesca Falcone, Clelia Falletti, Pasquale Fameli, Roberta Ferraresi, Rossella Fiumi, Roberto Formisano, Susanne Franco, Federica Fratagnoli, Roberta Gandolfi, Roberto Giambrone, Laura Gianvittorio, Gloria Giordano, Alice Godefroy, Rosa Maria Govoni, Silvia Grandi, Cristina Grazioli, Christine Greiner, Marinella Guatterini, Gerardo Guccini, Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino, Tiziana Leucci, Concetta Lo Iacono, Marina Maffioli, Erica Magris, Leonardo Mancini, Samantha Marenzi, Stefano Marino, Rossella Mazzaglia, Silvia Mei, Anna Maria Monteverdi, Cristiana Natali, Marina Nordera, Noretta Nori, Stefania Onesti, Francesca Pedroni, Eden Peretta, Franco Perrelli, Giuliana Pititu, Enrico Pitozzi, Silvia Poletti, Alessandro Pontremoli, Maria Grazia Porcelli, Elena Randi, Stefania Rimini, Anna Rosellini, Francesca Rosso, Annalisa Sacchi, José Sasportes, Anna Scalfaro, Silvana Sinisi, Gabriele Sofia, Giulia Taddeo, Stefano Tomassini, Cristina Valenti, Valentina Valentini, Franca Varallo, Patrizia Veroli, Franca Zagatti, Carmelo Zapparrata.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes once a year.

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 Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions without commercial purposes. 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 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

«Danza e ricerca» 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 databases:

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 – DAR

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Via Barberia, 4
40123 - Bologna (Italy)