Peer review process

To guarantee a good quality standard and also ensure a fair curricular validation for the article authors, these will be submitted to specialized and anonymous arbitration before publication.

The Editorial Committee makes the prior selection of the texts that will be submitted for review. This committee can and will reject those works that do not meet the minimum publication requirements or suggest improvements to the authors so that they make a second submission of their proposal.

The dictum for text approval is carried out by the Double anonymized peer review method under terms of confidentiality. The reviewers must be specialists in the research field of ​​the work to review and are proposed by the Editorial Committee. In 95% of the cases, the reviewers are external to our editorial. The time assigned to each reviewer is six weeks.

The reviewers are previously registered on the platform with the role of reviewers. Once they have accepted the revision of work, they can access it and the online acceptance format according to the type of work.

 

See acceptance formats:

CLAUSES

  • If two referees present results that differ from each other, the intervention of a third referee will be requested. The latter, without knowing the decisive nature of his opinion, will decide whether the article will be published or not.
  • An article will be considered accepted once the Editorial Committee approves the second version of the article that the author makes based on the suggestions of the evaluators, who have previously issued a positive opinion.
  • Rejected collaborations may be proposed by the authors for publication in subsequent issues with the pertinent corrections or improvements. Said collaborations will be submitted to a regular opinion with different referees.
  • The Editorial Committee will send one work per author at a time for evaluation.

 

Description of the peer review process

1 Submission

  • Person in Charge: 
    • Author(s).
  • Requirements: 
    • Fulfill the “Guide for Authors”.
  • Response:  
    • Acknowledgement e-mail automatically generated by OJS.
  • Clarification: 
    • The reception of manuscripts does not imply in any way a commitment of publication by the journal.
  1. Journal style check
  • Persons in Charge: 
    • Editorial Team.
  • First review: 
    • Aim and scope.
    • Compliance with guidelines.
    • Compliance with minimum quality criteria in terms of writing and content. 
    • Check level of originality (not greater than 20%, an analysis of the software report is performed).
  • Answer: By OJS.
    • Decline
    • Send to review
  • Time: 10 days

 

3 Peer-review process

  • Persons in Charge: 
    • Researchers of well-known prestige in their area of knowledge at both the national and international levels (at least two for each manuscript).
  • Review:
    • Criteria of relevance, currency and importance, quality, clarity of expression and organization, and originality of the data. 
    • Review form with open-ended questions.
  • Recomendation: By OJS to Editorial team.
    • Rejection
    • Major revisions
    • Publication with minor revisions
    • Publication without review
  • Time: Each reviewer has up to 20 days per round to give their recommendations.

4 Editorial review

  • Persons in Charge:
    • Editorial Team.
  • Decision:
    • Rejection
    • Publication with minor revisions
    • Publication without review
    • Evaluation of peer review recommendations.
    • Decision taken by the Editorial Team based on the peer reviewers
  • Answer: By OJS.
    • The reports of the scientific reviews will be send anonymously. Also the Decision of Editorial Team.
  • Manuscripts with corrections send by authors
    • The manuscript includes the requested corrections and changes.
    • Submission to peer reviewers (if applicable).
  • Review rounds:
    • A manuscript will be submitted to a single or several review rounds, until a decision is taken:
      • Rejection
      • Publication without review
  • Article Publishing Charge, APC
    • Once the article is accepted, the authors must pay the Article Publishing Charge, APC
  • Tiempo: Each reviewer has up to 20 days per round to give their recommendations.
    • When minor revisions are recommended: The author has up to 10 days to make the requested corrections
    • When major revisions are recommended: The author has up to 20 days to make the requested corrections
  • 5 Editorial Process
  • Responsibles:
    • Editor-in-Chief and Technical Team.
  • Design and layout:
    • Style corrections.
    • Reference checks
    • Layout.
    • Galley proof sent to author(s).
  • Publication: by OJS - Web site
    • Formats: PDF, HTML
  • Time: It will be published up to 7 days after the date of acceptance of the manuscript.

 

Estimated total time: 12 weeks, may vary depending on the corrections requested from the authors.