Evaluation process

Evaluation process

Research articles, essays and bibliographic reviews are evaluated by two blind peer reviewers according to the review criteria established by the journal. The criteria taken into account are:

• Quality of the conceptualization and use of theory
• Quality of applied methodology (only for research articles)
• Quality of analysis, argumentation
• Writing (clarity, fluency, organization, format)

Before selecting reviewers, members of the Editorial Board (be it the Director, Editors, or Guest Editors as required by each individual case) must first filter the submitted manuscripts. This filter checks that the texts are pertinent to the content of the journal, in compliance with the editorial guidelines established here and that they do not incur in any of the different forms of plagiarism. The texts will be processed with a content similarity detection software before determining the percentage of coincidences, a percentage greater than 20% coincidences will automatically disqualify the article. Manuscripts that pass this first editorial filter will advance to the blind peer review phase.

Peer reviewers are summoned by the journal and their participation is voluntary. Reviewers receive a certificate of review in exchange for their collaboration with the journal. They are selected according to their academic degree parity and their expertise of the topic and methodologies at hand.

The double-blind peer review system seeks to keep evaluations unbiased, ensuring the anonymity of the authors for the reviewers, and vice versa. Authors are responsible for maintaining the conditions of anonymity when submitting their text. If a reviewer were to detect that anonymity is not maintained, the text should be automatically rejected.

Reviewers can designate a submission as "Accepted", "Accepted with changes" and "Rejected". If there were to be a tie between reviewers, the reviewers' recommendations will be communicated to the author, a time limit will be established for the submission of a modified version, and a third blind peer reviewer will be designated for evaluation. Once the final decision has been made, the authors will receive notification of it. Reviewer decisions are indisputable.