Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

 

All articles undergo the following approval process:

 

FIRST STAGE: EDITORIAL REVIEW CRITERIA:

1) The first reading by the Editors of the journal is conducted to corroborate whether the submission corresponds to the scientific profile of the journal. Compliance with the requirements under the “Guidelines for authors” section is checked, and that the required documents have been attached (editable files, letter of originality and exclusivity, and author sheet).

2) If the contribution meets the aforementioned criteria, it undergoes a plagiarism check through the Turnitin software. The journal does not accept plagiarized, auto-plagiarized, or redundant articles. Entreciencias follows the recommendations from COPE (Committee On Publication Ethics). 

If the article is approved in this stage, it goes on to peer-review.

 

SECOND STAGE: PEER REVIEW

3) Referred for “double blind” peer assessment (omitting the names of both authors and reviewers). The peers assigned are specialists on the subject in question.

4) The results of the review process may be as follows:

  1. Thoroughly recommended for publication.
  2. To be published following the recommended corrections.
  3. Not to be published.

In the case of option b, the author or authors will have 3 weeks to make the corrections requested, and, having completed these, will submit the amended version and a letter indicating the changes made in order to comply with the reviewers’ recommendations.

5) The opinions issued by the reviewers must coincide with the final decision. If this is not the case, the article will be sent to a third party in order to see whether it should advance to the next stage.

 

THIRD STAGE: REVIEW BY THE EDITORS-IN-CHIEF:

6) Once the final version along with the requested letter has been received, it will be verified that the reviewers' requests have been fulfilled, and the document will be re-uploaded to the Turnitin software. The results of the final review will be communicated to the author(s). If the outcome is positive, the authors will be asked to submit the Copyright Transfer Agreement. The final decision will be final and not subject to appeal.

The maximum period for the issue of a decision will be three months from the date of issue of the approval referred to in subsection 2. However, it can vary depending on the availability of the evaluators.

Critical reviews will be analyzed and chosen by the editors. These must be substantiated and explicitly state how the work in question contributes to the disciplinary field to which it belongs, as well as the areas of opportunity it opens to advance knowledge.

Receipt of any work does not imply any commitment by the journal to its publication.

Authors who submit their work thereby undertake to refrain from submitting them simultaneously to any other publication; therefore, the Letter of Exclusivity and Originality  should be sent with their contribution.