Evaluación por pares

Selection and Approval of Articles Procedure

The articles are reviewed by the editorial boards of the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. Subsequently, they will be subjected to the review process with the external peer review system with the double-blind modality that implies the anonymity of the authors and evaluators. When the article is assigned for review, the arbitration process will take 5 weeks.

Selection of the Arbitrators

These people must be specialists in the subject matter of the paper and with a recognized academic prestige (master's degree or doctorate), with expertise in their professional field and research, as well as articles published in scientific journals.

Review Process Stages

  1. Check to verify that the writing complies with the requirements that are requested in the publication standards of the University Journal of the Caribbean.
  2. Verification that the article does not contain plagiarism or self-plagiarism and that it correctly attributes the other people ideas.
  3. The Director assigns experts to carry out the review according to the article theme.
  4. The opinion begins with the following phases: (1) For the review, it is sent to two experts, external to the publishing entity of the journal; and (2) the evaluating experts must submit the evaluations with the document used by the journal. This will be done depending on the type of article.
  5. The expert evaluators rule the article through the evaluation criteria with respect to the arbitrated document: (1) Publish; (2) Publish when the author makes the adjustments proposed in the recommendations indicated by the evaluating experts; and (3) Do not publish.
  6. If the case arises that one of the expert evaluators does not agree with the publication of the article, it will be submitted to review by a third evaluator, whose opinion will serve to resolve the discrepancy and make a final decision in consensus with the Univesity Journal of the Caribbean Editorial Board. In case of any conflict not foreseen in this modality, it will be the responsibility of the Editorial Board to make the corresponding decision.
  7. If the opinion of the article recommends some corrections, the author (a) will be responsible for making them, within the period established by the Journal (usually two weeks, 15 working days), and must send the writing by email. If not delivered on the stipulated date, the article is not guaranteed to appear in the next issue to be published.
  8. Once the author returns the article with the integrated settings, these will be verified and, if necessary, sent back to the author, until the document is purified.
  9. With the article ready, the Editorial Board certifies endorsement for the article publication.

 

Article Evaluation Formats

With reference to the above, the University Journal of the Caribbean proposes the following article evaluation formats:

  1. Format of opinion for publication of scientific articles. Download here.
  2. Opinion format for publication of bibliographic review articles. Download here.
  3. Opinion format for the publication of scientific research essays. Download here.

The University Journal of the Caribbean shares the basic principles established in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). They can be consulted in the following link.