Evaluación por pares

Article evaluation process

Article proposals received in each call will receive two evaluations. The first evaluation is carried out by the editor, advised by the editorial assistant, to determine compliance with the minimum requirements established by the Journal. If the result of this first evaluation is negative, the author will be informed so that, if he/she wishes, he/she can make the required changes. If the author does not make them within the allotted time, the article will be deemed rejected.

Articles approved in the evaluation described above will begin the evaluation by academic peers, preferably two (double-blind peer). The general rule is that these peers are chosen from academic databases. The evaluation reports will focus on scientific quality, structure, argumentation, use of bibliographical references, rigour in handling the subject, the category of the writing, according to the classification of articles mentioned above, and respect for copyright and the ethical standards of the Journal.

The editor, based on the opinions of the academic peers, will give one of three responses to the author:

  • Rejected,
  • Accepted with modifications,
  • Accepted without modifications.

The editor will set the dates for delivery of the works with the necessary corrections, with a view to a new formal and linguistic evaluation.

Once the text is accepted and delivered, with the corrections indicated, the author, using the appropriate format, agrees to its publication, but not before ceding the author's property rights and expressly reiterating that his/her work is unpublished material.

Only texts prepared with rigour, according to the guidelines of this guide, will enter the evaluation process.

 

Evaluation process for editorials, reviews and translations

Unlike the evaluation of articles, editorials, letters to the editor, reviews and translations are evaluated directly by the Editorial Committee of the Journal and do not require evaluation by external peers.

Likewise, if the opinion of the Editorial Committee is positive, the text to be published must fully comply with the formal and language review prior to publication.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

Checklist for Submission Preparation

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all of the following items. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

  • The submission has not been previously published or considered by any other journal (or an explanation for this has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format. Where possible, URLs for references are provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Guidelines for Authors, which appear in About the Journal.