Perfiles | Revista Científica | Revista Electrónica: ISSN 2477-9105 | Revista Impresa: ISSN 1390-5740 | Revista Perfiles

Review and Law Policies

Papers in Spanish as well as in English are admitted. Once the preliminary reception has been finished, the members of the Editorial Committee reserves the right to submit them or not to further review and subsequent publication. “Perfiles” journal, Editorial board and reviewers board is not responsible for the content of the published articles. This commitment and responsibility belong the publications’ author(s).

«Perfiles» is a free access scientific journal entirely open for readers and authors. Besides, it is possible to create a self-archiving of articles on databases, repositories, directories and international information systems. To do so “Perfiles” manages the “Creative Commons 4.0” which is a License of Attribution-NonCommercial-Share. Copyright is preserved by the journal both in the printed and digital versions.

Privacy Policy
Personal information such as contact or private data will not be available for other purposes beyond the publication process or editorial activity.

Publication Cost
The publication of articles in “Perfiles” journal is exempt from any type of investment.

Arbitration system

The evaluation mechanism works in such a way that the authors do not know the people who act as reviewers (external evaluators), likewise, reviewers do not know the authors. Thus, this is a kind of mechanism defined as a double-blind arbitration system.

Initial Evaluation Criteria

The manuscripts received are submitted to the editorial board in order to develop an initial assessment according to the following criteria:

Receipt order: Articles are incorporated into the validation process in strict order of entry. This principle will be respected unless such a relevant work content justifies immediate admission.

Originality: Scientific productions with a high degree of originality will be prioritized. For a work to be considered original, it should support the expansion of knowledge in fields not covered by previous works.

Extension of its application: High impact publications that is to say with a meaningful international usage and application will prevail over those which content is applicable only in specific or more restricted regions.

Degree of application: Articles, which conclusions allow to solve current problems and/or provide improvements in the life quality will prevail over those that provide more abstract or less productive content for the society.

Methodology: It will be assessed the article be developed by using experimental methodology, which must fulfill the minimum requirements demanded by the scientific community.

Regarding review

The editorial board of “Perfiles” journal highlights the importance of principles such as quality of expression, intellectual property and scientific rigor. These elements are indispensable requirements in a professional activity that evolves and is constantly updated. In order to maintain these quality standards it has been established several stages of intervention and examination of the manuscripts received.

Review process:

1.- Through URKUND software it is developed an analysis of similarities with existing texts so as to avoid plagiarism, if the report shows a positive assessment, the editing process is continued, if not, the author will be informed about the assessment details.

2.- It is performed an initial verification in order to analyze if the work fulfills with all the "Control Points" established by the editorial board.

3.- It is executed a preliminary review of the contents of the text.

4.- If the Editorial Board presents a positive assessment of the editing process, it continues. If not, the author will be informed about the reasons for such conclusions.

5.- The article is sent to a couple of reviewers appointed by the Editorial Committee anonymously (peer-review). The reviewers must present a professional, critical and constructive judgment on the aspects assessed, consequently, the author should be notified if necessary.

6.- Finally, the article is assessed by the General Editor in order to correct specific issues of the presentation such as grammar, spelling, abbreviations, signs, symbols, units, etc.

Correction Levels

Three levels of editing and/or correcting the contents are considered by “Perfiles” editorial board, which are:

Minimal corrections.- These are small errors that can be solved briefly and easily, thus, the editing process is not interfered significantly.

Content corrections.- They involve making relevant modifications to the text before the manuscript editorial process be continued as long as changes are accepted by the author. The reviewer must justify these modifications by writing a report to the Editorial Committee.

Major corrections.- Once the amount of observations is prominent, there is no possibility of editing and the article is returned to the author. Nevertheless, the author is up to decide whether rewrite or modify the document before resubmitting it.

Ethical code

“Perfiles” is aligned to the conduct standards code of Committee on from Publication Ethics (COPE).

In case of controversy or if misconduct is suspected in terms of publication or research, “Perfiles” journal will honor the guidelines established by COPE ethical code.

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