About the Journal
Multidisciplinary Journal Investigative Perspectives
Focus and Scope of Perspectivas Investigativas Journal
The multidisciplinary journal Perspectivas Investigativas (RMPI), is a bilingual multidisciplinary journal (Spanish and English) which belongs to the Investigación Multidisciplinaria Perspectivas Globales Institute, it is an institute located in Portoviejo, Ecuador. Perspectivas Investigativas Journal publishes four numbers or editions: January-March, April-June, July-September and October-December. Perspectivas Investigativas Journal publishes researches in different areas such as: Education, economic and social sciences, tourism, management, migration, agricultural sciences, public health, engineering, computer sciences, arts, humanities, literature, sociology and politics, law, new visions in education system, environment, ecology, epistemology, among others.
It is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original research articles in Spanish and English which must have been carried out with the strictest epistemological and methodological rigor for contributing to scientific growth. It is governed by the publication standards of the APA (Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, 2019). Directed to academic researchers - scientists, undergraduate and graduate students, inventors, and popular technologists.
Proposals of empirical rigor will be accepted. It means all researches must follow some stages, such as: revision, reflection, critical discussion of the research field, methodological rigor, and social, educational and technological impact to debate topics of interest and controversy which can be presented from different research approaches. One of the greatest interests to the magazine is to promote the several types of Disciplinary. The articles will be published under the Creative Commons 4.0 license.
Open Access Strategies
1. Researches published in Perspectivas Investigativas Journal (RMPI), are free access in order to be available to the public and free of charge from the beginning to promote exchange with peers, as well as socializing research results internationally.
2. The author or authors keep the authorship right and Perspectivas Investigativas Journal (RMPI), has the responsibility to assess and publish the content for dissemination because of being reused, as long as it is cited and credit is given, as well as it is not used commercially, which favors and allows their reuse under the Creative Commons License 4.0, for which the research can be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly exhibited. Visit for more infomation https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
3. Authors must sign the "Authors Consent to publish and distribute Research" available on files section.
4. Readers' right: Readers have the right to read all articles for free once they have been published and they can reuse material from the articles, as long as the research is cited.
Good Editorial Practices
1. Plagiarism: All publication proposals will be subject to review by a text similarity detection program (Similarity Check). Proposals that contain a high percentage of similarity will not be accepted (more than 10%).
2. Inadequate authorship: Participation in authorship and the order of appearance in the article is the responsibility of the authors, the journal has no interference in these aspects. Authors should not make changes to the number and order of authors once the editorial process has started.
3. Redundant publication (duplicate publication and fragmented publication): The Journal does not accept duplicate publication. In case of incurring this fault and its occurrence is proven the authors will submit to the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
4. In case of detecting any lack of ethics in publication at the beginning, during the editorial process or after publication, the Journal will take the necessary corrections based on the recommendations Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (www.publicationethics.org), la International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (http://www.icmje.org/) y Council of Science Editors (CSE) (https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/) it includes the rejection or retraction of the article, the prohibition of publication of next articles to all the authors in the Journal, the notification to other journals, as well as the communication to the respective authorities (institution of origin, institution that financed the study, schools professionals and ethics committees).
5. Collaborators are responsible for the authorship of articles submitted to the Journal and they declare that it is original; it means will not have any conflict of interest with third parties or institutions.
6. Collaborators who commit plagiarism (any total or partial reproduction of content that is not cited) may not republish in Perspectivas Investigativas Journal.
7. The article cannot be sent to different magazines while it is arbitrating in this journal.
8. If an article submitted in Perspectivas Investigativas appears published in another journal, the collaborator or collaborators will be notified about the exclusion of said article and they will not be able to submit articles for a period of 6 years to the Perspectivas Investigativas Journal.
Peer review and evaluation process
1. All proposals must be submitted through the Open Journal System (OJS) in order to guarantee the electronic and auditable record of the interactions between the journal and the authors.
2. All proposals will be submitted to an editorial audit process. All researches will be of interest to Perspectivas Investigativas Journal through its scope and objective, as well as full compliance with the regulations of authors.
3. Once the editorial audit has been approved, the arbitrators will send researchers which follow the double-blind or double anonymous arbitration system, (Double-blind peer-review) that guarantees that there is no conflict between the parties, prioritizing transparency and impartiality of the process. An evaluation instrument will be used for this purpose, which must be filled out by the referees and sent to the journal to know the verdict, if there is a discrepancy in the result, the evaluation of a third reviewer will be requested, to achieve uniformity of criterion, prevailing the majority decision.
4. When the final verdict is obtained, the decision will be communicated to the author or authors, such as:
a) Approved: It will go to grammar review, layout and publication in the next available number.
b) Approved with conditions: The authors will be notified of the modifications to be made, (maximum 15 continuous days to make the observations and send it back to the journal, non-compliance with this rule, assumes that the author or authors, renounce the publication of the article), once they have been fulfilled, a grammatical revision, layout and publication will be carried out in the next available number.
c) Not accepted or rejected: The authors will be notified of the reason for the rejection based on the verdict of the arbitrators.
5. The arbitration decision is undisputable by the author or authors.
6. The grammatical revision will be the responsibility of the author or authors, it must be carried out in a maximum of 8 continuous days, it must be sent to the journal for its consideration, non-compliance with this rule, leaves for granted that the author or the Authors renounce the publication of the article.
7. The editorial process from reception to the arbitration verdict of the author or authors by the journal will be of a maximum of 10 weeks, as long as there are no external conditions that may affect the indicated periodicity, for which, it will be reported timely to the author or authors.
8. The central criteria to be evaluated in the article are: Originality, contribution to the study matter, methodological rigor, quality of results and discussion, conclusion, writing, semantic coherence.
