Editorial Policy | Revista de Investigaciones

Editorial: This section is composed of a single short and concise text per issue, which generally serves as a preview of the articles to be found in the issue, in an attempt to unify them thematically. In addition, it has the dual function of showing the regular reader important changes to the editorial policy and providing general news on the operation of the journal and its achievements. This text is not peer-reviewed and is generally written by the editor, by members of the editorial board or the international scientific committee, at the request of the editor.

Artículos de investigación: These are the scientific corpus of each issue; they will be articles resulting from completed research, bibliographic review or case studies that synthesize or analyze information, or argumentative reflections that are in line with the subject matter of the journal. After being accepted by the editor and the editorial committee, these articles are evaluated by a double-blind review system, by suitable academic peers, in order to maintain the scientific quality of the journal.

TYPES OF RESEARCH ARTICLES

.Scientific Research Article

Document that presents, in detail, the original results of completed research projects.

.Analityc-Reflection Article Derived from Research

A document that presents the results of research already completed and published in other academic journals from the analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of the writer of the reflection article, on a specific topic, using original sources.

.Revision Article

A document resulting from a completed research in which the results of published research on a field of science or technology are analyzed, systematized or integrated, in order to account for the progress and development trends. It is characterized by presenting a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 references.

.Article Length

It is suggested that research articles have a minimum length of six thousand words (6000) and a maximum length of eight thousand (8000).

.Languages

Revista de Investigación will publish full-length articles originally written in Spanish, English or Portuguese.

.Thesaurus

The journal suggests the use of the following thesauri for the incorporation of keywords in the document: Unesco Thesaurus.

The evaluation process of articles submitted for publication in the Revista de Investigaciones de la Universidad Católica de Manizales, includes three stages.

.Article Selection Process

1. Receipt of the article by the editor.

2. After the author submits the article through the Open Journal System, the editor will verify that the article has been submitted in accordance with the terms of reference for publication. If it does not comply with the terms of reference for publication, the editor will return the article to the author with instructions indicating the necessary corrections.

3. When the article is considered suitable by the editor, the proofreader analyzes and interprets the percentage of similarity shown in the originality report provided by the Turnitin platform, which is used by the Editorial Committee to decide whether the article should be returned to the author with instructions indicating the necessary corrections or whether it is suitable for review by peer reviewers.

4. If the article is returned to its author and he/she corrects it, the article is submitted again for review with Turnitin and the Editorial Committee, based on the interpretation of the second report, decides whether to take it into account to continue the process or definitively reject it.

When the articles are considered suitable by the editor and the Editorial Committee in the previous stages, the Editorial Committee makes the decision to select the contribution to be sent to academic peers for the respective evaluation.

.Academic Peer Review

The article is sent by the editor to suitable peer reviewers according to the topic addressed, together with a format in which recommendations are made.

In the evaluation format for scientific articles resulting from research, the content and relevance are analyzed. In the analysis of content, four evaluations are considered: Adequate, Deficient, Nonexistent, Not applicable; with respect to: title; abstract; keywords; introduction; objectives; methodology; interpretation of results; citations and bibliographic references; conclusions; bibliography at the end of the article; tables; figures; statistical parameters; credit to persons and entities; and; structure and coherence.

In the relevance analysis, the evaluator must answer whether or not four requirements are met and justify his answer; these are: 1. Does the topic addressed by the author make scientific and novel contributions that enrich knowledge? 2. Are the contents and arguments solid and are the proposals adequately supported? 3. Do the bibliography and authors referenced reflect solid research on the subject of the article? 4. Are you aware that this article has been published in another scientific journal?

Finally, the reviewer expresses his/her decision on the publication: Approved; Suitable after correcting suggestions; Correct suggestions and submit for further review; Not suitable for publication. Additionally, the reviewer may make comments that will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee.

This is a bet presented by the Revista de Investigaciones de la Universidad Católica de Manizales to guarantee that the writings submitted and subsequently published, have criteria that allow transparency and timeliness in the dissemination of research results, reviews or reflections derived from them.

Article Reception

The authors send the document adjusted to the terms of reference according to the call for papers of each issue. Each time the articles are received, they are reviewed by the editor, who evaluates the relevance of the article and subsequently, the text is analyzed in the Turnitin software to verify that it is indeed unpublished.

Authors may suggest up to three possible reviewers for their article. The editorial committee reserves the right to choose the reviewers without disclosing their names to the authors.

Next, two peer reviewers who are experts in the article's subject matter are sought. This is done through the double-blind procedure, which consists of sending the work to the peer reviewers without the authors' names and returning it with their comments and suggestions to the authors without the names of the peer reviewers. This guarantees impartiality, confidentiality and neutrality in the evaluation process.

If in the arbitration (evaluation of the articles) one of the peers approves and another one does not, a third expert peer will be sought to evaluate the article, whose objective will be to determine the pertinence of the approval or not in the journal.

The editorial committee will evaluate the articles submitted within the deadlines established according to the calls for papers of each issue.

.Privacy Notice:

The editorial committee is committed to safeguarding the names of the titles and authors until they are officially published by the journal. Likewise, authors whose manuscripts are rejected will be personally communicated by e-mail to notify them of the decision. The members of the editorial committee will refrain from using confidential information from the articles for their own productions and research, except with the written informed consent of those who have submitted the article.

.Imparciality:

The editorial committee undertakes not to favor proposed articles, and to respect the authorship and approaches of the authors in their manuscripts, as long as they do not violate the human and constitutional rights of citizens.

.Acceptance or rejection of articles:

The editorial committee will be in charge of defining the acceptance or rejection of the articles. To do so, it will take into account the evaluations of the collaborating peers who participate in the issue in question.

.Sources of information and financing:

In the content of the text, the authors will detail the most significant contributions referenced in the bibliography according to the publication standards of the Revista de Investigaciones UCM and in the citations of authors and relevant texts. The authors commit themselves to cite all those sources of financing that made possible the realization of the research in the cases that concern them, which will be published in a precise way by the journal.

.Significant errors in published papers:

Significant errors in published papersIf an author or authors find relevant errors after publication, they have the obligation to communicate them to the editorial committee of the journal, so that they can make the respective decisions in order to adjust the article. If the error is not expressed and is found by the members of the editorial committee, the authors will be called to justify the inconsistencies that occur.

.Article Review:

The articles will be evaluated by two peers selected by the editorial committee, according to criteria of suitability, responsibility and academic collaboration, with the purpose of contributing to the review and evaluation process of the article. In case there is an instance of acceptance and another of rejection, a third and final peer reviewer will be sought. Based on these reviews, the Editorial Committee will give the final verdict.

Deauthorization of published articles:

The editorial committee will make the decision to disavow articles that, after publication, present inconsistencies in their structure, lack of reliability, fraud or dubious scientific practices such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, omission of references to sources or publication of the article in another journal or dissemination media. When the published article presents minor errors, it may be corrected by the journal through an erratum. If there is a conflict of interest, the journal will ask the authors for the necessary evidence to resolve it, which will be analyzed by the editorial committee. The journal will publish the news referring to the disavowal of a specific text.

.Confidenciality:

The journal's collaborating peers are committed to safeguarding the information in the articles until they become part of the published material and free circulation. The information contained in the articles may not be taken advantage of and, with some exceptions, the article may be shared with other experts, with prior notification to the editorial committee.

.Originality and plagiarism:

The authors of the articles submitted to the Revista de Investigaciones UCM guarantee that the articles are completely unpublished, that they have not been submitted to any other journal, that the data contained therein have not been altered, and that they do not violate human dignity or human rights.

.Objectivity:

The journal's peer reviewers will be impartial and will objectively review the structure of the article, both in its form (aspects of writing, style and editing) and in its substance (coherence, consistency, rigor, relationships between theoretical categories and empirical categories, as well as processes of reflection, criticism and analysis). Likewise, comments and suggestions will be made taking into account what has already been expressed, without imposing epistemological, methodological or theoretical positions, recognizing the possibility of the other (the author(s)) to express their ideas, develop them and assume them. All criticisms and comments will seek to contribute constructively to the writing of the article.

.Promptness of response:

The journal's peer reviewers will respond as promptly as possible to the call to be part of the process by refereeing a commissioned article, according to the times designated by the editorial committee. If the peers consider that they do not comply with the times or with the suitability given the subject matter or any other specification in the evaluation of the article, they will communicate it as soon as possible to the editorial committee.

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