Peer review process

In order to guarantee quality standards and also to ensure a fair curricular validation for the authors of the works presented in Realidades Educativas Entrelazadas, these will be submitted to specialized and anonymous arbitration before publication.

The selection of the texts to be submitted for review is at the discretion of the Editorial Committee. It may reject those works that do not meet the minimum requirements for publication or suggest improvements to the authors for a second submission of their proposal.

The opinion of the texts is made by the double-blind method under terms of confidentiality guaranteed internally by the Open Journal Systems infrastructure and the anonymity practices of the actors involved in the process. The reviewers or reviewers must be specialists in the research area of the work to be reviewed and are proposed by the Editorial Committee. In 95% of the cases, reviewers are external to the journal. The time allotted to each reviewer is four weeks.

The reviewers are previously registered in the platform as reviewers. Once they have accepted the review of a paper, they can access it and the online opinion format according to the type of paper.

CLAUSES

In the event that two referees present results that differ from each other, the intervention of a third reviewer will be requested. The latter, without knowing the decisive nature of his or her opinion, will decide whether the article will be published or not.

An article will be considered accepted once the Editorial Committee approves the second version of the article made by the author based on the suggestions of the reviewers, who have previously issued a positive opinion.

Rejected contributions may be proposed by the authors for publication in subsequent issues with the pertinent corrections or improvements. Such contributions will be submitted for regular review by different referees.

The Editorial Committee will send for evaluation one paper per author at a time and will be solely responsible for the final decision of acceptance or rejection. 

GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWERS

As for any additional guidance, Revista Realidades Educativas Entrelazadas is specifically guided by the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE) for the peer review process. This is so for ethical review guidelines, possible manipulations of the peer review process and considerations to take into account when being appointed as a reviewer. 

You can access the complete document from the following link: 

PEER REVIEW. COPE GUIDELINES