EVALUATION BY PEERS
Peers evaluation
The evaluation of the articles submitted for publication in the Magazine consists of four moments: (1) Reception; (2) Initial evaluation; (3) Evaluation of academic peers and (4) Final selection for publication.
- Reception: begins with the sending of the manuscripts by the authors from the application of the call. The texts should be sent to the email of the publication. Along with the material, the assignment of rights and the declaration of originality must be sent. The submitted texts must be unpublished, original, and not have been submitted to an arbitration process in another publication.
- Initial evaluation: implies the review and evaluation by the members of the Editorial Committee and the Editor. In this first evaluation, the relevance of the document and compliance with the editorial guidelines are indicated.
- Evaluation of academic peers: each article that obtains a favorable conceptualization in the initial evaluation will be sent to external academic evaluators in order for them to render a concept on them. Likewise, the pairs will not be aware of the author or authors to be evaluated (double-blind method). A minimum of 60% of the arbitrators employed in each edition of the Magazine will be external to the Universidad Libre.
3.1 The concepts issued by the peer reviewers in relation to the articles examined may result in: (a) Approved; (b) Approved with modifications; (c) Rejected.
3.2 The items that the referee must qualify to present the concept of evaluation are those provided in the evaluation instrument that the Scientific and Editorial Committee of the Magazine has for this purpose. The aforementioned items will have a rating on a scale of 1 to 10, in which 1 will be the minimum level of quality or compliance and 10 will indicate their total compliance and quality.
- The peer evaluation may be consulted by the author of the text at any time.
