Peer review
PRELIMINARY EVALUATION
The Editorial Committee verifies the relevance of the document according to the subject matter of the journal and that it complies with the fundamentals of form and substance for a scientific publication (preliminary evaluation), in addition to the characteristics requested in this guide. It then decides whether to send it for preliminary evaluation by one of the section editors and the General Editor. When the case warrants it, external support will be requested.
Manuscripts that meet the formal requirements of La Técnica continue with the editorial process. In the case of not complying with the preliminary review, the author will be informed of this result. When a manuscript is not accepted for evaluation, but is relevant to the journal, authors are invited to resubmit it, once the flaws previously presented are corrected.
BLIND PEER REVIEW
If the manuscript is positively evaluated, it enters a process of arbitration under the peer review system, in the double blind modality. The evaluators are experts in the area of specialization of the manuscript. Based on the results of the manuscript evaluations, the following criteria are considered:
- Not publishable.
- Publishable with modifications after which it must be re-evaluated.
- Publishable with modifications and no further evaluation is required.
- Accepted for publication.
- When corrections are required, the authors accept them. Then, they return their document to the Editor through the journal's platform.
- The Editorial Committee verifies compliance with the observations. Then it accepts or rejects its publication.
- If the document is rejected, the authors are informed of the reasons.
- If the article is accepted for publication, the author must make the suggested corrections.
- In case of discrepancies or doubts regarding the content, the manuscript will be submitted for further revision, for which the criteria of a third reviewer will be requested.
- The results of the arbitration will be final.
- The Editor reviews the final version, corrects it and sends it to the corresponding author for approval of the final layout.
- The Editorial Committee will inform the author of the result of the evaluation within a period not exceeding six months, through the Editor of the journal.
- If an article, once approved, cannot be published in any of the next two issues of the journal, the Editor will inform the author of the delay.