Evaluación por pares

Peer Evaluation

At the time of submitting the article, the authors guarantee that the manuscript is not in the process of being evaluated by another academic journal nor will it be postulated until the final concept of the peers and the Editorial Committee of Criterio Libre Jurídico is obtained.

The Editorial Committee will study each article according to the criteria of relevance, coherence, contributions to knowledge and decide on the convenience of its publication.

Once the articles have been selected by the Editorial Committee, they will be submitted to arbitration and evaluation by two external and anonymous academic pairs (double-blind review) who will certify the originality and quality of the document. In case a document presents a favorable concept and another unfavorable one, it will be sent to a third evaluator whose opinion will be definitive, being the Editorial Committee the one in charge of resolving any controversy that is presented with respect to the evaluations, and it is the instance that decides what articles will be published. The decisions of the Editorial Committee are unappealable. The author agrees to make the formal adjustments suggested by the evaluators or the direction of the journal.

The Editor focuses special interest on the following aspects:

• The article is unpublished is to say that it has not been previously published -totally or partially- in another journal -physical or electronic-. At the time of application, a declaration is requested by the authors in which they guarantee that the manuscript is not in the process of being evaluated by another academic journal nor will it be postulated until the final concept of the Editorial Committee of Free Legal Criteria is obtained, and also, The journal verifies this condition during several parts of the process, even after its publication has been accepted but before its publication.Originalidad / innovación del artículo.
• Clarity of the text.
• Usefulness / interest for readers.
• Scientific rigor
• Conclusions founded.
• Potential impact factor of the article, especially for research articles.

Stages of the opinion

 The manuscript will be reviewed in the first instance by the Co-editor to ensure that it complies with the requirements established in the Guidelines for Authors; in case it does not conform to these norms, it will be returned to the author (s), within a period no longer than 10 days, to be adjusted. Likewise, a text test is carried out in the Turnitin tool to control referencing and prevent cases of plagiarism and / or self-plagiarism.

The adjusted articles will be submitted to an internal evaluation by the Editorial Committee, which will decide which articles will be sent for evaluation by two academic peers external to the publishing institution, experts in the areas related to the Journal and who have, at least, one PhD degree. The process will be doubly blind, which means that the author does not know who evaluates it, and the referee does not know who it evaluates, and will be supported in the article evaluation guide format managed by the Criterio Libre Jurídico Magazine, which will be downloaded. by the pairs once they have accepted the evaluation of the article with the key assigned when the registration was made as arbitrators. The evaluation guide document must include the justified recommendation of the evaluator on the publication of the article. The pairs will have a time of 25 calendar days to issue a concept about the article assigned to them.

In case an article presents a favorable concept and another unfavorable, it will be sent to a third evaluator whose opinion will be final, being the Editorial Committee the person in charge of resolving any controversy that is presented with respect to the evaluations, and it is the instance that decides what articles will be published. The decisions of the Editorial Committee are unappealable. The author undertakes to make the formal adjustments suggested by the evaluators or the editorial team of the journal. The authors will have a time of 30 calendar days to make the adjustments.

Accepted the articles and made the adjustments and the precisions to that there would be place on the part of the authors, these happen to ortotipográfica correction, in whose process the style of each one is respected. The time allotted for the layout is 30 calendar days. Once diagrammed, direct communication is established with the authors, so as not to alter the original contents. The maximum period for these to approve the changes and resolve the doubts is 15 days. If within the stipulated period the author does not resolve the doubts or corrections, his article will be published in another edition, until the doubts or suggestions have been fully resolved.

In the evaluation Criterio Libre Jurídico and its evaluators, they adhere to international ethical standards for scientific research, adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity-Singapore, July 22-24, 2010.(2nd World Conference on Research Integrity-Singapur).

Review process time

The time to get answers depends on the availability of the pairs to evaluate them and the promptness with which the recommendations made to the authors are made; approximately three (3) to six (6) months after the article has been sent to the journal. During this time, authors are asked to refrain from submitting their article in other CT + I journals. The reception of the articles does not necessarily imply publication, as the texts must follow a rigorous evaluation process carried out by academic peers. In case an article is objected or rejected by its peers, the journal will inform the author of the results of the evaluation.