This code recognizes the responsibilities of the parties involved in the process of entry, editing, evaluation and publication of any article and academic document that is sent to the Social Sciences Journal, in order to comply with the ethical, academic and integrity commitment that must present all process of scientific and academic publication. The Journal of Social Sciences is committed to ensuring the scientific rigor of our articles and greater transparency throughout the process.

Responsibilities of the author

1. The author will commit by means of an authorization, to submit an original and unpublished article, that is, that has not been published in another means of dissemination, printed or digital, nor is it being evaluated by another committee editorial or scientific journal.

2. No reference should be omitted from the sources used and the citation will be made corresponding to the APA model used in the Journal.

3. The quotations should be indicated in quotation marks and with their respective reference. Likewise, paraphrased quotations must include a citation. In the same way, citations from documents of the same author without reference, are considered self-plagiarism, for which the bibliographic reference should be indicated appropriately in each case.

4. The data and information presented must be true respecting the intellectual property rights of the entities and participants of the investigation.

5. The author must present the respective authorizations for the use of images and photographs used in the document. Otherwise, they will be removed from the text.

6. The author must deliver the document following the Norms for the presentation of articles used by the Journal.

7. The Journal reserves the right to discard any submitted work if it is considered that the topic does not correspond to the areas of interest.

8. Articles published in the Journal will use the Creative Commons 4.0 license. Attribution - Non-commercial.

9. Following the regulations of the university, academic publications will use the open access policy.

10. When submitting an article to the Journal, the author agrees to accept the processes of control, evaluation and publication / rejection of the document.

11. In case of disagreement with the opinion or some point of the evaluation, the author must adequately justify his argument of not following the recommendation of the evaluation.

12. If any point of this code is violated, the document will not be accepted for entry into our database or for publication.

 

Publisher responsibilities, Editorial Committee and International Advisory Board

1. Review the relevance of the themes of the documents for possible publication in the Journal.

2. Publish four thematic issues per year.

3. Perform the respective control in the entry of the articles: authorizations, format, translations and references.

4. The Turnitin system will be used for all documents received, in order to detect cases of plagiarism or self-plagiarism. If a high percentage of plagiarism is detected (greater than 50%), it will be rejected immediately.

5. Determine the approval or rejection of the articles according to the evaluations carried out by the reviewers and specialists.

6. Send to evaluate the articles to reviewers respecting the anonymity of the author (double blind), to preserve the transparency and objectivity in the evaluations.

7. Clarify doubts to the authors and reviewers regarding the editorial process.

8. If an article is approved for publication, a form of editorial and philological observations will be sent to the authors, for the respective review of general data, observations, suggestions and changes that were made in the final document.

9. Present the complete material to the Editorial for its layout and final reproduction.

10. Ensure the good reputation, academic rigor and prestige of the Journal.

11. If you violate any point of this code, your permanence within the Council will be analyzed together with the other members.

 

Responsibilities of the evaluator

1. Review and evaluate only the jobs that correspond to your specialty and experience. Otherwise, you can recommend other reviewers in that area of ​​investigation.

2. Respect the double blind policy of the Journal. In case of knowing the author of a document (conflict of interest), the editor should be informed and sent to another evaluator.

3. Review the articles following the evaluation points delivered by the Journal (Article evaluation form). Likewise, observations can be included with citations and control of changes within the article.

4. Deliver the evaluation within the period of time agreed with the Journal.

5. The evaluation must be done using an academic and respectful language. Likewise, the evaluation must be carried out objectively and rigorously, focusing on the improvement of the document. In case of having serious problems of content and methodology, it is requested to adequately justify his argument to not accept the document.

6. If any point of this code is violated, the evaluation sent by the person will be canceled and the person will be removed from our list of evaluators.