About the magazine

Focus and Scope

Definition of the journal: The multidisciplinary journal Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI), is a bilingual (Spanish - English) scientific multidisciplinary journal, belonging to the Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinaria Perspectivas Globales (IIMPG), of international character with headquarters in Portoviejo - Ecuador, of quarterly periodicity (January - March), (April - June), (July - September), (October - December), publishing within the indicated lapse, articles in the areas of: Education, economic and social sciences, tourism, management, migration, agricultural sciences, public health, engineering, computer science, arts, humanities, literature, sociology and politics, law, complexity, environment, ecology, epistemology.

It is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which publishes original research articles in Spanish - English language, which must have been carried out with epistemological - methodological rigor, contributing to scientific growth. It is governed by the publication standards of the APA (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition of 2019). Aimed at academic researchers - scientists, undergraduate and graduate university students, inventors and popular technologists. 

Proposals of empirical rigor will be accepted, as well as of revision, reflection, committed to the critical discussion of the investigative - methodological, social, educational, technological field, debating topics of interest and polemic, being able to be presented from the different research approaches, as long as the epistemological - methodical rigor of each one of them is kept. It is of great interest for the journal to promote the different types of Disciplinarity. The articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Open Access Policies

  1. The content published in the Revista Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI), is open access, from the principle of making scientific knowledge freely available to the public, with the intention of promoting exchange with peers, as well as socializing research results internationally.
  2. The author or authors maintain the right of authorship, being the responsibility of the Revista Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI), to value and publish the content for its diffusion in order to be reused, as long as it is cited, credit is given, and it is not used commercially, which favors and allows the reuse of the same under the Creative Commons License 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0, so they can be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly exposed. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
  3. Authors are required to sign the "Letter of Authorization for Publication and Distribution" available on this site.
  4. Readers' rights: Readers have the right to read all articles free of charge, once they have been published, and may reuse material from the articles, as long as the work is cited.

 

Good editorial practices

Plagiarism: All publication proposals will be reviewed by a text similarity check program. Proposals containing a high percentage of similarity will not be accepted (more than 10%).

  1. Inadequate authorship: Authors are responsible for the authors' participation in the authorship and the order of appearance in the article; the journal does not interfere in these aspects. Authors should not make changes in the number and order of authors once the editorial process has begun.
  2. Redundant publication (duplicate publication and fragmented publication): The Journal does not accept duplicate publication, in case of incurring in this fault and demonstrating its occurrence, the authors are subject to the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
  3. In the event that any breach of publication ethics is detected at the beginning, during the editorial process or after publication, the Journal will take the necessary corrective measures based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (publicationethics.org), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (http://www.icmje.org/) and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) (https://www. councilscienceeditors.org/), which may include rejection or retraction of the article, prohibition of publication of future articles by all authors in the Journal, notification to other journals, as well as communication to the respective authorities (institution of origin, institution that financed the study, professional associations and ethics committees).
  4. The Contributors are responsible for the authorship of the articles submitted to the Journal and declare that they are original, and that there is no conflict of interest with third parties or institutions.
  5. Contributors who incur in plagiarism (any total or partial reproduction of content that is not cited) will not be allowed to publish again in the Revista Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI).
  6. The article may not be submitted to different journals while it is being refereed in the Journal.
  7. If an article submitted to Revista Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI) is published in another journal, the collaborator or collaborators will be notified of the exclusion of said article and will not be able to send articles to Revista Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI) for a period of 6 years.

 

Peer review process

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.

  1. All proposals will be submitted to an editorial audit process in order to ensure that the topic is of interest to the Revista Perspectivas Investigativas (RPI), through its scope and objective, as well as full compliance with the rules for authors.
  2. Once the editorial audit is approved, it is sent to the referees, under the double-blind or double-anonymous arbitration system (Double-blind peer-review), which guarantees that there is no conflict between the parties, prioritizing the transparency and impartiality of the process. An evaluation instrument will be used for this purpose, which must be filled out by the arbitrators 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, in order to achieve uniformity of criteria, with the majority decision prevailing.
  3. When the final verdict is obtained, the decision will be communicated to the author(s) as follows: a) Accepted: It will undergo grammatical revision, layout and publication in the next available issue. b) Accepted with observations: The authors will be notified of the modifications to be made (maximum 15 continuous days to make the observations and send them back to the journal; failure to comply with this rule implies that the author or authors renounce the publication of the article). Once they have complied, the article will proceed to grammatical revision, layout and publication in the next available issue. c) Not accepted or approved: The authors will be notified of the reason for rejection based on the verdict of the jurors.
  4. The referee's decision is final and cannot be appealed by the author or authors.
  5. The grammatical revision will be the responsibility of the author(s) and must be carried out within a maximum of 8 continuous days, and must be sent to the journal for consideration. Failure to comply with this rule implies that the author(s) renounce the publication of the article.
  6. The editorial process from receipt to the arbitration verdict to the author or authors by the journal will be a maximum of 10 weeks, provided that there are no external conditions that may affect the periodicity indicated, for which the author or authors will be informed in a timely manner about the novelty.
  7. The main criteria to be evaluated in the article are: Originality, contribution to the state of the art, methodological rigor, quality of results and discussion, conclusion, writing, semantic coherence.