Peer review process
In order to guarantee quality standards and also to ensure a fair curricular validation for the authors of the papers presented in EVSOS, they will be submitted to a specialized and anonymous refereeing process before publication, known as double-blind peer review.
The selection of the texts to be reviewed is at the discretion of the Editorial Team. It may reject those papers that do not meet the minimum requirements for publication or suggest improvements to the authors for a second submission.
The opinion of the texts is carried out 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 must be specialists in the research area of the work to be reviewed and are proposed by the Editorial Board. In 95% of cases, reviewers are external to L'erudition. The time allotted to each reviewer is four weeks.
The reviewers are previously registered on the platform as reviewers. Once they have accepted to review a paper, they can access it and the online opinion form 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 that the author makes 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 relevant corrections or improvements. Such contributions will be submitted for regular review by different referees.
The Editorial Board will send one paper per author at a time for review.
Once the article has been accepted, together with the Letter of Acceptance, the author(s) will receive to sign the Author's or authors' Affidavit of Commitment, as the case may be.
GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWERS
For any additional guidance, EVSOS Journal is specifically guided by the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE) for the peer review process. This applies to ethical review guidelines, possible manipulations of the peer review process and considerations to be taken into account when being appointed as a reviewer.
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