Peer Review Process

Articles are accepted in Spanish or English, their submission is requested exclusively through the Open Journal Systems platform, each article received, once it has complied with the editorial formatting standards, is reviewed with the Turnitin Similarity© anti-plagiarism software. To avoid plagiarism, it is expected that authors and other journals take this part of the process seriously. It is expected that within the original content and considering the textual quotes, the percentage of similarity is less than 20%. In major cases, it will be returned for its pertinent adaptation.

It is suggested that, when submitting the manuscript, the authors include a list of three qualified researchers as potential reviewers, selected for their experience and specific knowledge in the subject of the study, ensuring institutional and geographical diversity, and avoiding any conflict of interest arising from employment relationships, recent collaborations, or membership in the same institution. For each proposed reviewer, their full name, institutional affiliation, professional email address, and, optionally, a brief justification explaining the relevance of their experience to evaluating the work should be provided.

Reasons for rejection of manuscripts

1. Submit work without using the template.
2. Do not follow the instructions and editorial criteria described in the template.
3. If the topic does not correspond to the disciplines of this journal.
4. If the anti-plagiarism program (Turnitin©) indicates a similarity greater than 20%.
5. If the authors do not promptly disclose the use of artificial intelligence and assisted technologies in their manuscript.
6. If in the peer review process a rejection response is obtained from two or more reviewers.

The Scientific Committee chooses two reviewers (blind peer review) experts in the corresponding areas, who will not know the authorship data, while the authors will not know the identities of the reviewers. Original manuscripts that are not in progress in another publication are strictly accepted.

When submitting their articles, the authors accept the policies and decisions of our Editorial Committee. Cientifica does not approve publication without ruling, which will take the necessary time to guarantee the quality and validity of the works. It is important that a contact phone number is provided in the submission process (required). The article can be accepted, rejected or publishable with modifications.

Author accepts sending his/her paper the Editorial Board Policies, Científica should not guarantee manuscript acceptance or very short peer review. Once a manuscript has received the final approval of the reviewers and Chief Editor, the terms of the agreement are accepted through a document signed by the authors about the creative commons license used by Cientifica: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) , which allows sharing, copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format, in addition to adapting, remixing, transforming and building upon the material.

In addition, all accepted articles, once edited for online publication, are reviewed again with the Turnitin Similarity© anti-plagiarism software, given the modifications that may have occurred during the review process.

Guide for reviewers

The authors are recommended to review the guide document for the opinion used by the reviewers, it is presented as a form within the Open Journal System platform (you could read it [5.RevForm.pdf] in this folder in gdrive).