Peer review process
The manuscripts received in TECNOCIENCIA CHIHUAHUA, will be original and unpublished of scientific or technological nature, which should be written in a language accessible to readers with scientific interest, following the principles of precision, logic and clarity. They will be subject to anonymous peer review, under the double-blind review modality.
Authors submitting articles for review and possible publication should send the complete final version of the article, as indicated in the specifications in the article submission requirements section. Manuscripts submitted to TECNOCIENCIA CHIHUAHUA should not be simultaneously submitted for review to other journals, either in part or in full. The Editorial Team will verify that the submission meets all submission requirements, including its evaluation by the Editorial Board's approved similarity detection tool (iThenticate), before submitting it for review. This process includes the following stages.
a) The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board will receive all manuscripts and verify that they comply with the format and content established by the Editorial Guidelines of TECNOCIENCIA CHIHUAHUA. They will also check the originality of the manuscripts to verify that they are the direct work product of the author(s) and that they have not been published or submitted to other journals.
b) Once accredited, the manuscript will be submitted to one of the members of the Scientific Commitee , a specialist in the corresponding thematic area, who will act as Section Editor and will ensure that the scientific quality is met. If the scientific contributions do not comply with the guidelines of the Journal or its scientific rigor, the manuscript will be rejected. On the other hand, if the manuscript does not comply with the guidelines for authors, it will be returned to the responsible author so that he/she can incorporate the observations and send it back to the Section Editor.
c) Subsequently, the manuscript is subjected to a rigorous double-blind peer review by at least two specialists in the field, selected from a pool of national and international peer reviewers, who determine the scientific quality of the manuscript and its acceptance for publication.
d) The referees will be responsible for reviewing and analyzing the proposed manuscript to determine the relevance of the topic and clarity of language, scientific and technological contributions, theoretical foundations and hypotheses, as well as the existence of congruence with the described methodologies that allow determining the relevance of the scientific and technological contributions.
e) Manuscripts received will be peer-reviewed by referees from an institution other than the one to which the authors belong.
f) The opinions issued by the referees may be as follows:
1. Accept this submission. For a manuscript to be accepted for publication, at least 2 of the 3 reviews must be positive.
2. Publishable with modifications. This means that the referees request minor changes.
3. Resubmitted for review. This results in further review by the referees, which can be repeated for up to 2 further rounds. If the article is not accepted after these rounds of review, it will be rejected without the option to resubmit.
4. Resubmission to another publication. The manuscript does not correspond to the areas of the journal or does not meet the scientific rigour of TECNOCIENCIA CHIHUAHUA.
5. Unpublishable. The manuscript is rejected without the possibility of resubmitting the same manuscript to TECNOCIENCIA CHIHUAHUA.
6. See comments. The reviewer sends specific comments within the manuscript.
g) In the event of a disagreement between the peer reviewers, the Section Editor may issue a final opinion or request the opinion of a third referee to resolve the disagreement.
h) The Editorial Board will ensure that all opinions expressed are properly justified.
i) The results of the scientific opinion issued by the management of TECNOCIENCIA CHIHUAHUA will be final in all cases.
j) In the case of articles that receive comments, the author will have eight days to send the editor the new version of the work. If this deadline is not met, the manuscript will have to undergo a new revision process. An extension may be requested if necessary, but this must be done before the new version is submitted.
k) The referees will have twenty days from receipt of the article to give their opinion.
l) Accepted articles will be sent for editing, where they will undergo style correction, data verification, formatting and layout. The edited version will then be sent to the authors for review and approval.
m) Authors will have 48 hours to review and approve the edited article; if no comments are received within this period, the Editorial Board of the journal will assume that the authors have given their approval for publication.
n) The average time for authors to receive notification of acceptance or rejection of their article is three months.
The average time between receipt of the manuscript and the first response from the reviewers is four weeks. The estimated time for publication of accepted papers is three months, depending on the number of papers awaiting publication.
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