Peer review process

Peer review process

The journal only publishes original, unpublished, and not proposed texts simultaneously, to be reviewed in another publication. Research papers received are subjected to the peer review system, maintaining the anonymity of authors and reviewers. As soon as an article is received through the platform, it is reviewed with the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool in order to determine the percentage of similarity it could have with other publications. Once this process is concluded, the text goes through a first filter, supervised by the volume’s editor and the Editorial Committee, who consider its thematic and formal relevance. Articles that meet the requirements of relevance and editing standards (specified in the "Guidelines for authors") enter the reviewing process.
The text that is sent to be evaluated is first refined from any reference to the author. The editor can choose the reviewers from the journal's portfolio of arbitrators, or propose specialists if there are none in our registry. The journal has a wide portfolio of national and international referees, with a recognized trajectory in the disciplines of their competence, and with coverage of the various languages in which contributions are received: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and English.
Once the two referees have been determined, the journal communicates with the reviewers and sends them the refined text and an evaluation form, which refers to the criteria of originality, contribution to the disciplines involved, theoretical and methodological coherence, the relevance of the sources bibliographic, among others, and also includes the determination to publish, modify, or not publish the article.
If both opinions are positive, the text is approved for publication. In the event that one opinion is positive and the other negative, a third arbitrator may be appointed, or the editor may exercise this function.
All texts approved for publication are reviewed and corrected by personnel specialized in style correction: the resolution of doubts that arise in the process of stylistic and formal revision is carried out through dialogue with authors and, when appropriate, with translators. Before the layout process begins, the articles are sent to the authors to obtain their approval before being edited.