Arbitration system

All manuscripts must be sent through the Open Journal System (OJS) or to the email publications@upec.edu.ec , which guarantees the electronic and auditable record of the interactions between the publication and the authors.  Once set, the Editorial Team verifies that the originals comply with the purpose and scope of the publication, including the Guidelines for Authors. 

Texts that meet the requirements of this first phase continue with the editorial process.  All manuscripts are reviewed by the Double Blind External Peer Review Arbitration System is a collegiate body, composed of External Peer Reviewers (RPE) not belonging to the Editorial Committee and not affiliated to the editorial institution. ERPs are technical professionals in each specific area owned by the journal and belong to national and international higher education institutions. The revision style used is "double-blind" the identity of the authors is not known by the RPE, and the identity of the RPE is not known by the authors. ERPs review compliance with publication criteria for articles. ERPs do not receive remuneration.
To preserve anonymity during the Validation Process and the "double-blind" quality of the system, the names of the ERPs are not publicly mentioned. In addition, internal technical validators are used to validate articles by external authors under the same double-blind modality.

This process guarantees the anonymity of documents, authors and reviewers, certifying the transparency, objectivity and impartiality of the review process.  The review report used by external reviewers can be found here.

The process of complete revision, from the moment of sending the manuscripts through the OJS until the completion of the reviews, takes an average time of 4-6 weeks, except for incidences.