Peer evaluation process

Once the article is received, an acknowledgment communication will be sent to the corresponding author. Next, two specialists from the area related to the study will be selected who will act as national or international referees for a scientific review of the document. During the opinion process, evaluators and authors preserve anonymity.

The evaluation system is by the blind peer arbitration method. The articles received are distributed by the president of the Editorial Committee, with two referees participating, who are given models, so that they can make reviews where they express their criteria (opinion) and make comments on the quality of said articles, whether or not they are selected. themselves by the Editorial Committee.

Possible outcomes of the review process may be:

  • Accepted
  • Minor revision
  • Major revision
  • Rejected

The review process will never take more than three months from receipt of the document. If the work was classified as reviewable, the authors may carry out the appropriate review of the document, which will be returned to the editors within a month. The editors will decide whether or not it is necessary to send the document to the referees again, having the capacity to exercise the final opinion. No more than two reviews per document will be allowed except in exceptional cases.

In cases of controversy, that is, when one of the two evaluating referees issues an opinion of accepted and the other of rejected or accepted with modifications, an evaluation request is sent to a third party. referee and after his verdict the Editorial Committee weighs the three evaluations and will issue the verdict of accepted, minor revision, major revision or rejected.

Due to suspicion or non-compliance with some of the good ethical practices established in the Journal Code and other cases of Dispute, the procedure will be followed as established in the Flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for each case.

The average time between receipt of the work and the final verdict is three months. After the document is approved, its final versions will be published within a period of no more than two weeks.

In the evaluation process the referees will take into account the following parameters:

  • Originality: If the contribution is new and original, through the use of anti-plagiarism processes.
  • Title: Concise, specific, with appropriate syntax and reflecting the content of the work in no more than 15 words.
  • Summary/Abstract: Expressing the objective, methods, main results and conclusions with full correspondence between them.
  • Key words/Key words: No more than 5 words, all necessary, standardized and descriptive of the content with correspondence between them.</li >
  • Introduction: That clearly defines the problem, the scope and objective of the research, the state of the art and how it has been approached by other researchers.
  • Materials and Methods: That express the quantity and quality of the materials used, that the methodology used and the experimental conditions are relevant to the stated objective, and whether the statistical analyzes are mentioned and are appropriate.