Announcements

PlatCom participa en el 16º Congreso Internacional sobre Revistas Científicas con una ponencia sobre regulación de la IA

2026-05-18

La presidenta de PlatCom y editora jefe de la revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, Montserrat Jurado Martín, participó en el 16º Congreso Internacional sobre Revistas Científicas, celebrado del 6 al 8 de mayo de 2026 en la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, en la ciudad de Cuenca. Montserrat Jurado presentó la ponencia titulada “Regulación de la Inteligencia Artificial en las revistas científicas de comunicación”, en la que abordó los principales desafíos éticos, editoriales y normativos derivados de la incorporación de herramientas de inteligencia artificial en los procesos de publicación científica de las revistas que integran PlatCom Diamante.

 

 

2nd Meeting of Editors of Scientific Communication Journals Platcom Diamante

2026-05-04

The Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid will host the 2nd Meeting of Editors of Scientific Communication Journals next Monday, June 15, in the Luis Berlanga Conference Hall. The event will feature an al keynote by Pilar Rico-Castro, Head of the Open Science Unit at FECYT, who will address policies and advances in open science. 

MHJournal receives the Diamond Discovery Hub quality recognition

2026-03-23

The scientific journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal has been recognized by the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) after meeting the quality criteria associated with the Diamond Open Access model. The evaluation was carried out by the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, within its role as the national node of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH).

CFP: High-Tech Journalism: Innovation, Responsibility, and Ethical Challenges

2026-03-17

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal invites the submission of articles for the special issue “High-Tech Journalism: Innovation, Responsibility, and Ethical Challenges.” This monographic issue calls for research that analyzes the growing incorporation of disruptive technologies into journalistic processes and routines, especially since the emergence of ChatGPT. The deadline for the submission of full papers (via the journal’s platform) is October 1, 2026

CFP: Mutant Landscapes: Practices, Aesthetics, and Representation in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture

2026-03-13

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal announces a call for papers for the special issue 'Mutant Landscapes: Practices, Aesthetics, and Representation in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture.' This issue invites researchers and academics to submit articles analyzing aesthetic, narrative, and technological transformations in contemporary audiovisual culture. The deadline for the submission of full manuscripts (via the journal's platform) is April 1, 2026.

MHJournal obtiene la Mención de Buenas Prácticas Editoriales en Igualdad de Género de FECYT

2026-02-02

La Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología (FECYT) ha otorgado la Mención de Buenas Prácticas Editoriales en Igualdad de Género a la revista científica Miguel Hernández Communication Journal (MHJournal) del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad Miguel
Hernández de Elche (UMH). Con esta mención, FECYT destaca la apuesta de la revista por la paridad en su equipo editorial y en el cuerpo de evaluadores y unas normas de estilo que favorecen el lenguaje inclusivo y evitan sesgos de género.

La revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal recibe el Sello FECYT

2025-12-03

La revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal ha obtenido el Sello de Calidad FECYT, una distinción otorgada por la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología que reconoce el cumplimiento de elevados estándares de calidad editorial y rigor científico. Con esta acreditación, la publicación refuerza su posición como referente en los ámbitos de la Comunicación, la Información, la Documentación Científica y las Bellas Artes, respaldada por procesos editoriales transparentes y buenas prácticas académicas.


MHJournal reconoce a Julia Magdalena Piechocki-Sierra y Luis N. Sanguinet García como los mejores revisores de 2025

2025-11-14

La revista Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, en colaboración con el Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche anuncia a los galardonados con las mejores revisiones de 2025. Los mejor valorados por el equipo editor y representante del Vicerrectorado de Investigación han sido los investigadores Julia Magdalena Piechocki-Sierra de la Universidad de Salamanca (España) y Luis N. Sanguinet García de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid (España).

Meeting of scientific editors at the Hermes Congress in Tenerife

2025-06-19

The Platform of Scientific Communication Journals, Platcom Diamante, organized on June 7 an outstanding meeting of editors within the framework of the V Hermes Congress, held in Tenerife. The session brought together editors of scientific journals from Spain and Latin America, generating a valuable space for dialogue around the challenges and best practices of editorial work in the academic field of communication.

 

CFP:Communication and health: challenges and opportunities

2025-03-13

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal announces a special issue titled Communication and Health: Challenges and Opportunities. This issue calls for the submission of articles that analyze communicative or media practices related to the field of health. The deadline for the reception of complete articles (via the journal's platform) is April 1, 2026.

 

CFP. One hundred years of Weimar cinema: the legacy of German expressionism, avant-garde and other experimental visions

2024-10-14

Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue, dedicated to the theme "One Hundred Years of Weimar Cinema: The Legacy of German Expressionism, Avant-garde, and Other Experimental Perspectives." We invite researchers, academics, and professionals in communication, humanities, and arts to submit manuscripts addressing the importance and relevance of Weimar cinema, as well as its various cinematic perspectives, including expressionist cinema, abstract animation, and the social realism of the New Objectivity, which represent only a part of its wide range. The deadline for receipt of full papers (through the journal's platform) is April 1, 2025.

CFP - Advertising in the digital context and the impact of AI, an ongoing challenge

2024-04-13

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal calls for submissions for the monograph Advertising in the digital context, a permanent challenge. In this issue, researchers and academics are invited to submit articles that analyse, from the point of view of professional practice and/or purely academic research, from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective, the situation of advertising in the current digital context and its permanent challenge. The deadline for receipt of full articles (via the journal's platform) is 1 April 2025.

CFP - Audiences and new consumption of journalistic content in the digital age

2024-03-27

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal calls for papers for the monographic issue Audiences and new consumptions of journalistic content in the digital era. This issue calls for articles that reflect current research on the new audiences that access the consumption of journalistic content and the new consumption habits of both journalistic media and platforms that generate alternative content to conventional journalism or forward and value content of journalistic brands in social networks that allow the interaction of its users, search engines for internet browsing to track information or opinion on current events, news aggregators that select journalistic content according to the user profile, among others. The deadline for receipt of full articles (via the magazine's platform) is 1 October 2024.

CFP - Digital Ecosystems and Social Networks: Emerging Dynamics and New Challenges

2024-02-09

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal calls for papers for the monographic issue Digital Ecosystems and Social Networks: Emerging Dynamics and New Challenges. This issue calls for articles that examine new forms of social interaction, citizen participation, cultural creation and scientific research. The deadline for receipt of full articles (via the journal's platform) is 1 April 2024.

 

Miguel Hernández Communication Journal closes the year meeting all Latindex Catalogue 2.0 criteria.

2024-01-25

We are pleased to inform that the international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal has met all the quality criteria of the “Latindex Catalogue 2.0 platform”. The 2.0 Catalogue rates the editorial and scientific quality of academic journals and functions as a compendium of good editorial practices for journals available online. 

MHJournal awards Carlos Rodríguez Pérez (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia) and Estrella Alonso del Barrio (Universidad de Valladolid) the recognition as best reviewers of the year 2023.
 2023-11-10

The journal of the Department of Social and Human Sciences, Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, in collaboration with the Vice-Rectorate for Research of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, announces the winners of the best reviews of 2023. The best valued by the editorial team and representative of the Vice-Rectorate for Research have been the researchers Carlos Rodríguez Pérez, from the University of La Sabana (Colombia) and Estrella Alonso del Barrio, from the University of Valladolid.

MHJournal awards Carlos Rodríguez Pérez (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia) and Estrella Alonso del Barrio (Universidad de Valladolid) the recognition as best reviewers of the year 2023.

2023-11-10

The journal of the Department of Social and Human Sciences, Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, in collaboration with the Vice-Rectorate for Research of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, announces the winners of the best reviews of 2023. The best valued by the editorial team and representative of the Vice-Rectorate for Research have been the researchers Carlos Rodríguez Pérez, from the University of La Sabana (Colombia) and Estrella Alonso del Barrio, from the University of Valladolid.

CFP - Political communication and democracy: from the traditional to the emergent

2023-10-05

The journal MHJournal (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain), in collaboration with the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (University of Colima, Mexico), invites manuscripts for the monograph Comunicación política y democracia: de lo tradicional a lo emergente. The issue is coordinated by Dr. Germán Pérez Verduzco and Dr. Graciela Ceballos de la Mora of the University of Colima (Mexico). Deadline for submission: 2 February 2024. The issue with accepted articles will be published in July 2024.

Montserrat Jurado Martín and María Dolores Cáceres Zapatero present the book ‘La Mirada Mediática’ with Fragua publishing house.

2023-06-26

Montserrat Jurado, director of the international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal and Professor of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and Professor María Dolores Cáceres of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, presented this book which brings theoretical aspects of Journalism closer to society, in a didactic and approachable way.

MhJournal participates in the ‘Annual Meeting 2023 of the PlatCom Platform of Communication Journals’.

2023-06-15

‘Strategies to get your manuscript published’ was the theme of the conference held by Belén Puebla, director of the journal Index Comunicación and Montserrat Jurado Martín, director of the International Miguel Hernández Communication Journal (MhJournal), at the Annual Meeting 2023 of the Platform of Communication Journals (PlatCom).MhJournal participates in the ‘Annual Meeting 2023 of the Platform of Communication Journals PlatCom’.

Algorithms, AI and automatization in Communication

2022-11-10

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal calls for a new monograph on the growing use of simulated users and content creators in networks: Algorithms, AI and automation in Communication, coordinated by Dr. Raquel Victoria Benítez Rojas (raquel.benitezrojas@humber.ca ). The deadline for receipt of full papers (through the journal's platform) is April 7th, 2023.

Awarded MHJournal Best Reviews of 2022

2022-10-14

The scientific journal MHJournal awards professors Gema Teso Alonso and Elisa Gutiérrez García, both from the Complutense University of Madrid for the best reviews in issue 13 of 2022.

Published the monograph ‘Communication and journalism in cities: new spaces for innovation, diplomacy and sustainability in urban configuration’.

2022-07-31

The scientific journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal has published the monograph Communication and journalism in cities: new spaces for innovation, diplomacy and sustainability in the urban configuration. The publication is coordinated by Pavel Sidorenko Bautista, International University of La Rioja; Laura Cortés Selva, Miguel Hernández University of Elche and José María Herranz de la Casa, University of Castilla-La Mancha.

Mhjournal Issue 10 2019 published in print version

2022-07-01

The editorial team of the Miguel Hernández Communication Journal and Universitas publishers present the 2019 issue 10 of the journal in print version.Published the 2019 issue 10 of Mhjournal in print version.

Published in MhJournal Vol. 13 of 2022: Society and Identity in Latin American and Spanish Audiovisuals

2022-02-11

The scientific journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal has published the monograph Society and identity in Latin American and Spanish audiovisuals. The publication is coordinated by Ricardo Jimeno Aranda, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; and Gabriela Fabbro, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and contains articles that analyse the field of cinema in the Spanish, Argentinean and Mexican contexts.

CFP- Communication and journalism in cities: new spaces for innovation, diplomacy and sustainability in urban configuration.

2021-11-19

The scientific journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is holding the CALL FOR PAPERS for the monograph Communication and journalism in cities: new spaces for innovation, diplomacy and sustainability in urban configuration, coordinated by Pavel Sidorenko-Bautista, Laura Cortés-Selva and José María Herranz-de la Casa. This monograph will be published in July 2022.

The deadline for submitting proposals for titles and abstracts is 07 February 2022.  The deadline for receipt of full papers to the journal (through the journal's platform) is April 1, 2022. It is not required to send an abstract in advance, but it is advisable for the coordinator to be able to organize his work.

Montserrat Jurado Martín coordinates the book on cultural journalism in the 21st century

2021-05-21

The book “Cultural Journalism in the 21st Century (II). Transmedia models for innovative professionals”, coordinated by the professor of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and director of the magazine Mhjournal, Montserrat Jurado Martín, and the professor of the University of Huelva, Beatriz Peña Acuña, is a proposal for professionals of cultural journalism and for teachers and researchers of this aspect of journalism. 

 

Best 2019 reviews from the MHCJ journal

2019-11-25

The journal of the Department of Social and Human Sciences, Miguel Hernández Communication Journal, in collaboration with the Vice Rectorate for Research of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche announce the winners of the best reviews of 2019.

Best Evaluator of MHCJ No. 9

2018-11-20

Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is proud to present the III Best Reviewer Award for the 9th issue of MHCJ magazine and announce the winner.