Code of conduct and guide for authors

CODE OF CONDUCT

The Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales is a free access serial publication, financed by the Universidad Católica Luis Amigó Editorial House, in charge of editorial and publication processes. Under this perspective, La Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales does not have a fee for authors for any of the activities of the editorial or publication processes; nor does it generate financial retribution to authors or any member of the committees.  Decisions and procedures follow high-quality academic criteria, research, integrity, honesty and transparency following the principles established by the Committee of publication ethics (COPE).

The guidelines of the Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales respect author rights as well as those of the information society, therefore this journal follows the Colombian and the international legal standards. These guidelines also follow other quality requirements established through different indexation and summary systems. 

The code of conduct and author guidelines are supplementary papers, therefore, both can be adopted by authors depending on their functions.

 

Cooperating staff

In order to guarantee transparency, quality, scientific rigor and conflict settlement, in case it is needed, the Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales relies on the following staff:

 

Director-Editor

Mauricio Arcila Arango

PhD in Philosophy

 

Editorial committee

This committee is made up of:

Name

Level of education

Institutional filiation

Juan Zarco Colón

Ph.D.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España)

Ricardo Francisco Allegri

Ph.D.

Instituto de Investigaciones Neurológicas (FLENI) (Argentina)

Lliana Parra Valencia

Ph.D.

Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia (Colombia)

María Eugenia Gómez López

Ph.D.

Instituto Nacional de Perinatología (México)

Agustina Palacio

Ph.D.

Universidad Nacional del Mar de la Plata (Argentina)

Juan Carlos Restrepo Botero

Ph.D.

Corporación Universitaria Lasallista (Colombia)

The editorial committee of the Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales has people whose knowledge is related to the topics of our publication and whose functions are intended to increase their academic quality. In this regard, the editorial committee reviews the manuscripts submitted, guides on the criteria, approaches and objectives of the journal, its members serve as guest editors in special issues and support the dissemination of our publication in academic circles to motivate the linking of new authors to the volumes that are published annually. Finally, its members occasionally present their own work to the evaluation processes that will be published in the journal.

  

Scientific committee

Nombre

Nivel de formación

Filiación institucional

Juan José Martí Noguera

Postdoctor

Consultor e investigador independiente (España)

Rafael Andrés Patiño Orozco

Postdoctor

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (Brasil)

Patricio Cabello Cádiz

Doctor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso / Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (Chile)

Joaquín de Paul Ochotorena

Doctor

Universidad del País Vasco (España)

Manuel Martí Vilar

Doctor

Universitat de València (España)

Nestor Daniel Roselli

Doctor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina / CONICET (Argentina)

The scientific committee of the Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales is an organ that brings together specialists in the disciplines that our publication deals with. As external advisors of the Journal, they do not act as evaluators and, exceptionally, submit their work to arbitration for publication. Considering the foregoing, its functions are defined by its objectivity to ensure the permanence and scientific quality of the articles postulated to our publication.

 

Approach

The Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales is a digital and biannual publication with a scientific nature that circulates articles, that present results of interdisciplinary studies in social sciences. The interest of the Revista de Ciencias Sociales is the studies that approach the classic and contemporary problematics with a social appropriateness sense. In this way, the journal aims to contribute to the development of those sciences through the national and international debate around the actual epistemological, disciplinaries, and professional challenges.

 

Target public and range

The journal is directed by the Luis Amigo University, for the national and international public interested in social sciences. The Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales pretends to contribute scientific knowledge regarding social contemporary issues from disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.

All complaints will be received in a writing way, through the email revista.csociales@amigo.edu.co., the maximum answer period will be five current days from the reception of the complaint.

 

Editorial review, anti-plagiarism and article evaluation

1. Topic, structure and citation evaluation: the evaluation analyses if the paper is aligned with the topics of the journal and follows the criteria established in the author guidelines. In case the topic is not part of the ones established by the journal, the paper is returned to the author; if the presentation requires adjustments, it is sent to the author for corrections and to be submitted again following the editorial timetable; if the paper meets all the requirement, it is sent to the second step.

2. Antiplagiarism policy: for the purpose of identify if the paper is original and unpublished and avoid possible plagiarism, all papers must undergo a technological revision which compares the manuscript with others published in digital media and Crossref academic publications. The technological system reports the similarity level, if it is over 25% the paper is discarded, if it is below 25% the paper is sent to the third step. The report also points out errors in citation and reference as well as primary sources and information credibility and avoids plagiarism.

3. Peer revision: all papers will be assigned referees under the double-blind review model. That is, both the author's and reviewers' identities and decisions regarding the paper are confidential. Once this review of the paper has begun, the author commits to seeing it through and not withdrawing the paper. The estimate time between the reception of the article and the evaluation process is about 3 months. The time might vary due to editorial processes and topics.

Referee selection: the journal has a group of national and international research scholars, with wide experience and publications in the field of social sciences. Each paper is assigned two referees that hold a masters or preferably a doctoral degree in the field and have no conflict of interests; that are not part of the editorial or scientific committees, nor are they affiliated to Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, Colombian scholars must be recognized as researchers by MinCiencias, international peers must have graduate education or an h5 index above 2. 

Paper review: the director of the journal provides the referee with the paper, author guidelines and an assessment rubric which focuses on the following formal and topic based elements:

  • Relevance of the paper for the journal´s fields of interest.
  • Coherence between title and topic.
  • Validity of the topic.
  • Usage of concepts and terminology of the discipline.
  • Relevance of graphics, tables and figures.
  • Appropriate use of citation and reference.
  • Up to date references
  • Novelty of the paper
  • Theoretical and methodological thoroughness
  • Coherence

4. Decision: the rubric has three alternatives regarding the final decision: 1. “Accepted to publish with content unaltered” 2. “Accepted to publish with minor changes”; 3. “Rejected”. If both referees, consider that the paper should be “Rejected” the Director of the journal informs the authors and provides the result of the peer review. If both referees agree that the paper should be “Accepted to publish with content unaltered”, the author is notified and the paper is sent to edition. If one referee considers that the paper should be “Accepted to publish with content unaltered” while the other one “Accepted to publish with minor changes”, the author is notified about the required changes and the due date. If one of the referees considers that the paper should be “Rejected”, while the other one is under the opinion that it should be published, a third referee will be appointed by the editor (under the double-blind review model) in order to settle the situation. Once the third evaluation is received the author will be notified of the decision.

 Causes of rejection

  •  There is plagiarism and self-plagiarism; alteration, forgery or foul play in the data, content or author.
  • If the article has been partially published and therefore unedited.
  • The content of the paper does not have an originality index of 75% or above. The criteria for originality is the capacity of the author to create, find, analyze and imagine.
  • There are conflicts of interest. The authors must notify the journal of any situation that can influence the result or interpretation of the manuscript.
  • The author does not follow the guidelines and code of conduct.
  • There is obscene, abusive, defamatory, insulting language or any expression that goes against human dignity and the good name of a person o institution.  
  • There is data that was collected without permission such as deficiency of accuracy in the presentation of findings and results, questionable data or results.
  • There is information or acts that violate national and international copyright laws or minor protection laws. 
  • The paper undermines publication ethical and good practices.

Communication with the authors

  • The editorial decisions are informed by the journal in a timely way, with respectful terms, and try mutual learning.
  •  Each stage of the editorial process, the publication and divulgation will be notified to the authors, that in use of their rights can make and request changes in their texts until before the public disposition of material design. 

Cancellation publication causes

  • The detection during any stage of the process of some of the terms described in this text.
  • Doubt or dispute of the authorship or co- authorship.
  • Request of the authors about any kind of benefit.

Transparency

  • the committees will safeguard for the journal academic quality; thus, their opinions are consulted regularly and they will be aware of the on line disposition of the journal.
  • The director, the committees, and the evaluators will have freedom to emit their opinion regarding the viability of the article publication.
  • The journal will not reveal the names of the authors to the evaluators and vice versa, during the edition and revision process. The evaluators ‘group will be published on the preliminary pages of each number. 
  • In no case, the journal´s direction will demand to the author the citation of the same or someone of the collaborates team. The evaluators declare the inexistence o
  • The evaluators declare the inexistence of interest conflicts, furthermore, that the concept is not cut on by the financial, working, professional, personal or other connivance agreement.

 No collection model

  • The journal does not pay to the authors for their contribution neither generate receipt for the activities of the editorial and publication process.
  • Do not generate economical retributions for the members of evaluators or committee members.
  • All the prices for the editorial production, publication and divulgation are assumed by the Universidad Católica Luis Amigó.

 

ETHICAL OF THE PUBLICATION AND GOOD PRACTICES

The editor is responsible for: the editor of the Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales is in charge of select the articles that will make great of the annual of the journal. For this, it is ridged by the conduct code that this publication has. The selection of the articles will have guided for their level and their thematic pertinence, and in this since the gender discrimination, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic, or religious inclination or politics of someone who postulates their manuscripts never will be considered as a selection criterion. However, the editor has the possibility to discuss the decisions regarding the article’s selection that other members of the publication take, always under the quality text criteria in the field of social sciences publication. Regarding the authors, the editor is committed to maintaining the decisions’ confidentiality concerning his / her articles, in this sense, only the authors will be informed of those decisions.  Finally, the editor will avoid expressly manage articles that derive in interests’ conflicts with the result of any possible connection with those conflicts, with the objective of maintaining the transparency of the edition and publication process. 

The referees will be responsible for: as a fundamental part of the publication process, the reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of the manuscripts that they receive, in this sense, they should avoid sharing with foreign people the material to evaluate. Is fundamental that the referee maintains the objectivity and neutrality when is time to formulate their article critics, especially, they should be supported by reasonable arguments. The evaluators are in freedom to support the editor and the author to elevate, with their suggestions, the academic quality of the articles that they are evaluated.  Also is a responsibility abstaining for using for their benefit the material, and in the same line, avoid belong processes that could derive any interest conflict. Finally, the journal aims that evaluators accomplish with the assigned times for the evaluation process and inform the editor about their possibility of review in a timely and suitable way the text that is invited to evaluate. 

Colombian reviewers must keep their résumés up to date in the CvLAC application, administered by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Minciencias). The information recorded on this platform includes, among other details, personal identification, professional background, academic background, and contact information. It is recommended that reviewers provide as much information as possible about their academic, professional, and research backgrounds and keep it up to date, especially information related to scientific output and research experience.

The Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales recommends that reviewers periodically verify the information recorded in CvLAC and ensure that it fully and accurately reflects their academic and research backgrounds.

Authors will be responsible for: authors should be regulated according to the publication guidelines and the ethics code that our journal embrace. According to this, the manuscripts must be originals, unpublished, and cannot be in the process of publication in another journal. As members of a research community, their texts should be regulated for the procedures that allow the development of the discipline in the scientific order, that is to say, their texts should provide verified and reliable data, complete references and sources, and the well development of the themes with the objective that other authors should confirm, discuss, or support the ideas that the author presents. Therefore, fake and wrong statements will not be tolerated by our journal. The manuscripts presented should give recognition for the authorship to the persons that participated on its construction and redaction, and in this sense, the main authors and coauthors should be included on the texts, should have approved the information that is going to be presented by the journal. Authors must respect the integrity of the communities that are participants of their research exercises and give guarantee presenting the formats that show the voluntary and worthy participation of the participants. Moreover, the data of the financial sources must be transparent. Finally, the author has the compromise to inform and notify the editor immediately any kind of mistake, inaccuracy, or imprecision that the manuscripts could have.       

Procedure to resolve conflicts arising from unethical behavior: The requestor must identify before any affirmation the situation that affects the ethics of the publication, the nature of the fault, and the evidence that show the fault. After that, the requestor can send the complaint to the editor of our journal.

 Claims

  • If once published an article: 1) the editor discovers plagiarism,  mistakes that attempt to the quality or scientificity, he/she will request its removal or correction. 2) If a third person detects the mistake, it is the obligation of the author to publish an immediate retraction and the public correction.
  • During the edition process, authors must inform of any mistake or alteration in the manuscript; if the article has been published with such mistakes the author will request its removal or correction.
  • The opinions expressed in articles and papers are those of the authors, therefore, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó will not be held responsible for them.
  • Any claim can be sent to the email (revista.csociales@amigo.edu.co). It will be answered within five days of the complaint.

Copyright

Moral Rights. Authors hold the moral rights to their works and must be recognized as such, in accordance with applicable law. Authors are recognized as the creators of the work, and the integrity of the work is protected.

Authors are morally and legally responsible for the content of their texts, as well as for respecting the copyrights of the works consulted and cited therein. Therefore, their views do not in any way reflect the opinions or positions of the committees, the editorial team, the reviewers, or Universidad Católica Luis Amigó.

Property Rights. Authors hold the property rights to their works, in accordance with applicable law. In line with open science practices, authors grant Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, free of charge and for an indefinite term, a non-exclusive and broad license to use the first edition of the published texts. This license includes authorization for reproduction, public communication, distribution, transformation, translation, arrangement, adaptation, the creation of summaries or excerpts, and derivative works, under the terms established in the corresponding license document.

License

The journal and the individual texts in this publication are protected by copyright laws and by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative-International 4.0

 

Publication

  • The Journal is published in PDF and HTML formats in the Open Journal Systems (available at: https://revistas.ucatolicaluisamigo.edu.co/index.php/RCCS Also the journal has a Digital object identifier (DOI), both for each issue and the articles as well, which facilitates online location and guarantees access to the content, in case the journal is no longer published.
  • Once the papers are selected to be published, a previous publication is generated, in order to respond to the needs of the field with up-to-date content. This version is the last one sent by the author without copyediting, translation or layout.
  • La Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales among others, uses social media and academic networks to promote its content.

Frequency of publication

The Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales is a serial semiannual publication. It publishes two issues per year, the first one for the period between January-June, and the second one for the July-December term.

Reception of contributions

Ways and terms of reception. The purposed texts are sent through Open Journal System (OJS), management and publication software of journals that allows the follow up of the documents on different stages. The journal will not receive printed articles neither partial versions of the text, that is to say, those texts that are not adjusted to the requirements described on the guide of authors.

The journal will give an answer maximum three days later of the reception of the document, but it is not a confirmation that the journal is going to publish the article.

The enqueries for the reference can be sent to the journal’s email (revista.csociales@amigo.edu.co).

Authors’ compromises. When the editor verifies the compliance of the minimum requirements, the editor will request the authors for: I). A declaration where the author confirms the article’s originality and that the article does not have evaluation processes in other journals. II). Do not move away from the article after the peers’ evaluation, if they determine the publication´s viability, even though in its actual state or with modifications. III). A declaration of the inexistence of conflict interests. IV). The authorization of personal data treatment.

Author´s data publication. When the article is sent, they are accepting the publication of the personal data related in the authors ‘note.

Authorization of personal data treatment. The Universidad Católica Luis Amigó as the responsible entity of the personal data treatment and giving compliance to Ley 1581 de 2012 and el decreto 1377 de 2013, manifests that the personal data of the members of comities, evaluators, and authors are included in the institutional databases and are only of university exclusive use. According to the privacy policy, that you can review at our webpage www.ucatolicaluisamigo.edu.co, the data are not shared to foreign people without the author’s permission. In addition, the university has the technological media to claim the data in safety and reliable way. 

According to the last statement, is an obligation during the edition process to give the authorization to Universidad Católica Luis Amigó for the treatment of personal data, for the own university objectives.   

Privacy declaration. All authors ‘data, committees, evaluators, and other members of Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales that are introduce in the OJS platform and/or in the articles will be used exclusively for the inclusion of the journal on the indexing and summary systems and the aims declared by the journal and they will not be available for other purposes or person.   

Ethics committee approval. With the objective of evidence that the journal has the required permission of the juridical and natural persons related in the research, each article must send to the journal a copy of the ethics committee approval.