Peer Review

Selection, review and decision of articles

The process of selection, review, and decision of a manuscript is carried out in a period of about three months.

After submission, the articles are reviewed according to the requested requirements: Word version of the article, assignment of rights, biographical summary of the authors. Expected time: 2 weeks.

Each article undergoes a first review in which editorial aspects, originality and application of the guidelines to authors will be reviewed. This step takes about two weeks.

Each work will be submitted to the review process with the external peer review system, with the double blind peer review modality, that implies the anonymity of the authors and reviewers. Once an article is assigned for review and ruling, the arbitration process will take at least 5 weeks.

The reviewers must be specialists in the corresponding topics and of recognized academic prestige (master's or doctorate), with experience in research and with articles published in scientific journals.

The peer review process includes the following steps:

1. Check to verify that the paper meets the requirements that are requested in the guidelines for authors.
2. Verification that the article does not contain plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
3. The Editor assigns reviewers according to the subject of the article.
4. The peer review stage begins with the following phases: a.) For the review, each article is sent to two reviewers, external to the publishing entity of this Journal. b.) The reviewers return an opinion, evaluation rubric and commented article.
5. The reviewers decide one of the following options: a.) Publish. b.) Publish when the author makes the adjustments raised in the recommendations indicated by the reviewers. c.) Resend for review. d.) Do not publish (rejected).
6. If a reviewer decides not to publish, the article will be reviewed by a third reviewer, whose opinion will be the final decision in consensus with the Editorial Team of the Journal.
7. If the opinion of the article is publishable with modifications, the authors are given 3 weeks to incorporate the modifications suggested by the reviewers. If it is not sended on the stipulated date, the article is delayed to the number of the journal to be published next. When the authors send the new version of the work, it will be modified until achieve a version that meets all the observations of the reviewers.
8. The final editorial decision on publication and official communication with the authors is responsibility of the Editor of the journal.
9. When an article is already accepted, it goes to layout, and is published in the next issue of the journal, publications scheduled for June and December of each year.
10. Once an article is accepted for publication, the authors can request proof of acceptance of the article for publication by writing to the journal email.