Focus

Repique. Revista de Ciencias Sociales focuses on the exploration of social sciences, culture and humanities, in their link with contemporary societies, from an interdisciplinary perspective of scientific research. In a very particular way, it welcomes original theoretical and academic analysis and reflections on the specificities of the populations of the Ecuadorian coast and their priorities, with the aim of promoting research, dissemination and appropriation of the intangible cultural heritage by the indigenous peoples and nationalities and the Afro-Ecuadorian people of the area. However, it accepts articles that focus on other geographic spaces as well as theoretical analysis and reflections.

Repique. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, is a refereed journal of scientific character, specialized, dedicated to the continuous publication of two issues during the year in January and July, the works that are approved must be original and unpublished in Spanish or English version. Repique. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, is a publication edited by the Universidad Técnica "Luis Vargas Torres" of Esmeraldas-Ecuador, through the management of the Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Innovación y Posgrado.  All articles submitted to the journal for publication are evaluated by the Editorial Committee for quality and relevance and undergo a double-blind peer review before publication.

 

ETHICAL POLICIES OF THE JOURNAL

Publication and authorship

The Journal does not accept previously published material. Authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for properly citing the source. The contributions that appear here do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Journal. They are published under the responsibility of the authors.

If the author of an article wishes to include it later in another publication, the journal where it is published must clearly indicate the data of the original publication, with prior authorization requested to the Editor of the journal.

For its part, the Journal reserves the right to print, reproduce all or part of the material, as well as the right to accept or reject it. It also reserves the right to make any editorial modification it deems convenient.

 

FREQUENCY

Repique. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, is a refereed journal of scientific, specialized and multidisciplinary character, dedicated to continuous publication, publishing 2 issues during the year in January and July, the journal requests that the scientific articles be unpublished and original in Spanish and English version.

 

Peer review process

Each of the articles received is submitted to a double-blind peer review and selection process. The review and initial selection of the papers oversees the Editorial Committee, which may present an opinion of

• Accepted with corrections.
• Accepted
• Rejected

The criteria of originality and scientific quality, the concordance with the journal's own topics and the temporal validity of the results. In addition, the Editorial Committee may request modifications and make recommendations deemed necessary to adjust the document to the indications of the Journal.

After this review, it will be submitted to double-blind peer review.

This evaluation will be carried out by two academic peers external to the institution; who will issue a concept that can be:

 

• Approved without changes
• Approved subject to minor changes and does not require re-evaluation.
• Approved subject to major changes and requires re-evaluation.
• Rejected, i.e., it cannot be published in the Journal.

 

In the event of controversies arising from the evaluators' concept, these will be initially resolved by the Editor or, if necessary, a second or third evaluation by academic peers will be requested.

The evaluation process requires the anonymity of both authors and evaluators. Likewise, this evaluation will be informed to the author of the article via e-mail, so that he/she can make the necessary adjustments requested by the evaluators. Upon receipt of the article with the corrections made, the Journal will verify compliance with the reviewers' suggestions and will analyze the justifications for those that have not been taken into account. Once this phase has been approved, the article will be sent again to the author to make any necessary adjustments. The process of review and acceptance of the material submitted may take an average of four months, and its receipt does not imply its automatic approval and publication.

 

Open access policy

The journal provides immediate open access to all its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public to support a greater global exchange of knowledge.

In this way, the reader can access all the contents of the journal from the moment of publication without cost or obligation to subscribe.

The journal is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license agreement. The authors retain the copyright and third parties are allowed to copy, distribute and make use of the works as long as they comply with the terms and conditions set forth by such license

• Cite authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher and URL of the work).
• Do not use them for commercial purposes.

If you remix, transform or create from the material, you must disseminate your contributions under the same license as the original.

More information can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es

The Journal declines any responsibility for possible conflicts arising from the authorship of the works published.

 

The Journal adheres to the COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/).

The Journal allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, or print the scholarly work published here without financial, legal, or technical barriers, to use the information for any responsible purpose with proper acknowledgement of authorship.

The journal incorporates interoperability protocols that allow information to be collected by other distribution systems, in this case the protocol applied is OAI.

 

Plagiarism detection

The works sent by the authors to the Journal will be submitted to the anti-plagiarism software (URKUND) and the authors will be informed by correspondence in the cases that exceed 10% of coincidence. Papers that maintain a percentage lower than 10% will undergo editorial and blind peer review.

 

Publication charges

The journal DOES NOT MAINTAIN ANY CHARGE for review, submission or publication of papers, each paper should be subject to the editorial policies above and to the regular submission of information through the OJS platform.

 

Archive

LOCKSS will store and distribute the contents of the journal to participating libraries through a LOCKSS publisher's manifest page.

Code of Ethics

1. Duties of authors

Originality and plagiarism: All articles must be the original work of the authors and not evidence plagiarism.

Acknowledgement of sources: If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, it has been cited or quoted appropriately.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: Authors should not submit the same article to more than one journal at the same time.

Access and retention: If deemed appropriate by the Editor or members of the Editorial Board, authors of articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which may be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly accessible.

2. Editor's functions

Publication decisions: The Editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the Journal should be published. The publication decision should be guided by the policies of the Editorial Board of the Journal and should be based exclusively on academic merit and the decision of the reviewers.

Honesty: An editor should evaluate articles for their intellectual content without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff should not disclose any information about a submitted article to anyone other than the corresponding author, evaluators, potential evaluators, editorial advisors, as appropriate.

3. Duties of reviewers

Contribution to editorial decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions.

Promptness: Any selected referee who feels incompetent or knows that prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor and excuse him/herself from the review process.

Confidentiality: Any articles received for review should be treated as confidential documents. They should not be shown or discussed with others, except as authorized by the Editor.

Standards of objectivity: reviews should be conducted in an objective manner. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with arguments.

Acknowledgement of sources: reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any arguments that have been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also bring to the Editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published article of which he or she has personal knowledge.

 

Conflict of Interest

The Journal expects authors to declare any business associations that may involve a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.

By the nature of the articles that may eventually be published in the Journal, there may be conflict of interest conditions that may affect fairness in editorial conditions or against authors. Therefore, each author should make an effort to identify them.

In this sense, the authors should attach, together with the article and the declaration of commitment, a communication to the Journal indicating clearly and concisely if there are conflicts of interest, specifying each one. This communication should also specify the source of funding for the research, as well as the declaration of any commercial, economic or personal relationship that may affect the article or the editorial institution.

 

Duplication

For the duplication of texts, which is the ability to copy or reproduce in textual form one or more times a content or literary work in a new medium (digital or any other format), the Journal is based on the following general procedure: all editorial material, with respect to which a duplication has been requested or configured, must be headed by a legend that clearly identifies the quality of the duplication and establishes a difference with the original.

To perform this type of reproduction, the applicant must complete the internal duplication request form and mail it to the Journal (see format). The form must be filled out by the person responsible for the procedure, even if it is the Journal that determines the need for it.

Procedure against originality and plagiarism

For the purposes of this policy, originality should be considered from two perspectives: first, as the certainty that the work comes from the person who claims to be its author; and second, that it is new and different from other previously created works. The concept of plagiarism also refers to the fact that the work or article is distinguished from unauthorized copies, forgeries or branches, or the unauthorized or inappropriate use of fragments of another work.

Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality of the articles provided to the Journal, as well as the veracity of the data and results included in them, stating clearly and concisely that the contents are original and have not been copied, fabricated, distorted or manipulated. Plagiarism or unauthorized use of other people's or third parties' contents, in all its forms, is totally rejected by the Journal. Likewise, multiple or redundant publications are considered a serious breach of ethics.

Authors shall refrain from submitting to the Journal, texts that have been sent simultaneously to another journal. It is possible to publish content to expand on other published content or content under consideration, provided that the text on which it is based is duly cited.

 

Errata (erratum)

An erratum applies only to cases in which the journal has effectively made a mistake without the author's knowledge. The author has several cases where errors / mistakes can and should be corrected, such as the author's name, keywords, title and errors in the main text.

The journal sends the final proof of the revised and ready-for-publication article to the corresponding author with the deadline of one week for review and correction of the article. If the deadline for response expires without return from the authors, the journal considers the article approved (since the author has not discussed the need for changes/corrections) and therefore ready for publication.

 

Conflict of interest events against reviewers

It is up to the evaluators of the Journal to declare any conflict of interest that arises in relation to the work submitted for consideration.

The conflict of interest in relation to a work submitted for consideration by an evaluator or persons who are part of the editorial team arises when there is a direct personal or professional relationship with the author, dispute, or any kind of relationship with the research that gave rise to the article, as well as if there is a profound moral or ethical conflict with the subject under consideration. Generally, members of the editorial team and external reviewers must refrain from reviewing papers when any of these or other similar situations arise.

The Journal's editorial team will refrain from selecting reviewers who are known to be or may be affected by any of the aforementioned situations.