Introducció

Celebrating 25 years of publication of the Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent seemed to be an appropriate scenario to reflect on the state of scientific archaeological journals such as the ground covered in the last 25 years, the current situation, as well as address the challenges and perspectives of the future. The format chosen for this reflection was a roundtable discussion which took place on 18 December, 2015. This meeting brought together scholars of different fields so as to strive for the most complete perspective on understanding the global process of editing publications. A wide variety of subjects were discussed in a constructive and cordial environment.
These included the current system of article evaluation, citation indexes and impact factors, open-access journals, editorial lines and the dichotomy between paper versus digital publications.

Keywords: scientific archaeological journals, state-of-the-art,eval uation system, high marks in international research evaluation, citation indexes, impact factors, open access journals.