Invitations for reviewing a manuscript are sent by email from our online submission platform. If the reviewer does not have an account, first an account will be created and the username and password will be sent via email. If the reviewer already has an account, they will have to access the online submission platform to accept or decline the invitation. The reviewer should not accept the invitation if there is a competing interest with the revision of the manuscript. In a period of no more than 7 days, the reviewer must accept or decline the invitation.

The manuscript will be available on the online submission platform. Once the revision is completed, and evaluation form should be submitted using the online submission platform. In a period of no more than 7 days, the reviewer must send the revision of the manuscript and its decision.

 

Competing Interest

The reviewers do not must accept the invitation for reviewing a manuscript if exist competing interest such as:

1. The reviewers work or worked in the same institution as the author.
2. The reviewers collaborate or collaborated with the author.
3. The reviewers published with the author in the last 5 years.
4. The reviewers in collaboration with the author have received some funding.
5. The reviewers have a personal relationship with the author that does not allow them to evaluate the manuscript objectively.

 

Confidentiality

All materials submitted along with the manuscript will be strictly treated as confidential until published. Editors and reviewers are strictly prohibited from sharing manuscript information in evaluation with third parties.

 

Criteria for publication

Manuscripts submitted for evaluation will be assessed based on the relevance of the topic, degree of congruence, identification of the object of study, theoretical framework, research method, general results, scope and / or limitations, value of the study and findings or conclusions. All manuscripts to be accepted must meet the following criteria:

1. Present the results of a scientific investigation.
2. Present original results that have not been published before. Manuscripts that have been published before partially or totally will not be accepted.
3. All the experiments, analyzes, statistics presented in the manuscript must be described in depth and have been carried out with the highest technical standards.
4. The conclusions must be presented in an appropriate way and supported by the data and conducted analyzes.
5. The research must comply with all ethical criteria, integrity and codes of conduct.
6. The research must meet the criteria of Data Availability.

 

Reviewer Form

The reviewer form consists of two sections: comments for authors and comments for the reviewer.

Within the comments for authors the reviewer will find several questions related to the relevance of the topic, degree of congruence, identification of the object of study, theoretical framework, research method, general results, scope and / or limitations, value of the study and findings or conclusions. To answer these questions the reviewer must choose among a selection of answers choices. They must also justify each of their answers and issue a general comment on the manuscript.

Within the comments for the editor, the reviewer may include any conflict of interest that may influence its review, as well as confidential comments for the editor.

Decision Process

The final decision on the manuscript is made by the editor. This decision will be made based on the reviews made by the reviewers as well as in terms of the publication criteria.

When an author submits the revised version of his/her manuscript, the editor may request the original reviewers to evaluate the revised version of the manuscript.