PreferencesGuidelines for authors

The editorial process:
1.    Contributors will upload the article to the Journal's OJS. At the beginning of the article, the names and surnames of the contributor(s), their (electronic) address, institution of affiliation or community and their respective ORCID must be specified. All contributors must be registered at https://orcid.org/. Contributors must fill in everything requested in the boxes when registering and uploading the article.
2.    The article will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee, so that in a period of no more than 7 continuous days, it will issue its decision of approval or non-approval for the start of the refereeing process in the journal. Articles not approved by the Editorial Committee cannot be resubmitted for refereeing in any of the journals of the Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinaria Perspectivas Globales (IIMPG).
3. All articles will be subjected to anti-plagiarism programmes as a policy of quality and ethics of publication. 
4.    If the decision of the Editorial Committee is approved, the author will be notified by correspondence.
5.    Upon notification of the approval of the article, the author must upload the article, with the corrections made by the editorial committee, to the Journal's OJS system in order to initiate the refereeing process. 
6.    Articles will be evaluated on the basis of 4 main criteria:
- Originality / Innovation of the research.
- Usefulness / Scientific Relevance.
- Expository clarity of the text.
- Scientific rigour from the paradigm or research approach assumed / Argumentation / Conclusions or final considerations.
7.    Articles are refereed and classified in the following categories: Approved, Approved with modifications and not Approved.  
8.    Originality, relevance, style and contributions to the field will be evaluated.
9.    For the arbitration of articles, double-blind peer review will be carried out; where the evaluators do not know the identity of the authors of the articles, and the authors do not know the identity of the evaluators. The evaluators are external to the publishing house.
10.    The work of the reviewers is strictly confidential. The journal is not responsible for the performance of the reviewers, who are completely autonomous.
11.    The articles will be submitted to reviewers external to the journal and the Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinaria Perspectivas Globales (IIMPG). Based on the observations and recommendations made by the reviewers, the author(s) may be asked to make changes to improve the quality of the work.
12.    In the refereeing process, referees and authors will remain in mutual ignorance of each other in order to guarantee the neatness of the process. The final decision on the evaluation process, publication or non-publication of articles rests exclusively with the Director and/or Editor and the Editorial Committee, and will be made on the basis of the suggestions/observations/recommendations issued by the evaluators. All articles are subjected to an editorial evaluation process, even when they have been peer-reviewed; and if necessary, the authors will be provided with the appropriate recommendations to improve the quality of the articles to be published. 
13.    The evaluators will have a period of 30 continuous days, from the reception of the article, to send to the Director and/or Editor, the evaluation report of the same. The Director - Editor will send this report to the author within a maximum period of 5 continuous days. The expected time from receipt of the article to its publication is 10 weeks.
14.    The writings published in the Journal will be the sole responsibility of the authors, both for their opinions, statements and methods.
15.    Authors must write an affidavit of responsibility and originality of the article and send it to the journal.  
16.    The Journal adheres to the principles of research ethics. When research conducted on human subjects is presented, it is necessary to mention in the article whether the procedures respected ethical standards in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/es/que-hacemos/etica-medica/declaracion-de-helsinki/ updated to 2013) and whether the research protocol was approved prior to its execution by an Institutional Ethics Committee.
a.- The following require approval by an Institutional Ethics Committee: 1) Research conducted on human subjects; 2) Research that directly uses human biological material or human data that can be identified, such as samples from biobanks or medical records.
b.- The Editorial Board of the Journal will not request the approval of an Institutional Ethics Committee in the following cases: 1) Secondary studies conducted using publicly available databases, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses and bibliometric studies; 2) Public health surveillance interventions; 3) Investigation of outbreaks or health emergencies; 4) Evaluations of public health programmes.
c.- In case of doubts and/or controversies in this regard, these will be evaluated and resolved by the Journal's Editorial Committee under the parameters of international standards and organizations in the area of Health Sciences: Declaration of Helsinki 2013, World Health Organization WHO, The Council for International Organization of Medical Science - CIOMS 2016, American College of Epidemiology Ethics Guidelines, Health Research Ethics Authority - Canada. If the Editorial Committee considers it necessary, it will request the study database and complementary information in order to corroborate the results of the study.
17.    If any breach of publication ethics is detected at the beginning, during the editorial process or after publication, the Journal will take the necessary corrective measures based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (www.publicationethics. org), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Word Association Medical Editors (WAME), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Council of Science Editors, which may include rejection or retraction of the article, prohibition of publication of future articles by all authors in the Journal, notification of other journals, as well as communication to the respective authorities (institution of origin, institution that financed the study, professional associations and ethics committees).
a.- The most frequent forms of unethical principles in publication are: plagiarism, inadequate authorship and redundant publication:
- Plagiarism: All proposals for publication will be submitted for review by a text similarity check programme. Proposals containing a high percentage of similarity will not be accepted (more than 10%).
- Inadequate authorship: Authors are responsible for the authors' participation in the authorship and the order of appearance in the article; the journal has no influence on these aspects. Authors should not make changes to the number and order of authors once the editorial process has started.
- Redundant publication (duplicate publication and fragmented publication): The Journal does not accept duplicate publication; in the event that this fault is committed and its occurrence is demonstrated, authors are subject to the guidelines established by the COPE.
b.- The Journal considers as authors those who meet the criteria for authorship recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), see: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html
- Significant contributions to the conception or design of the manuscript, or to the collection, analysis or interpretation of data.
- Significant editing or critical revision of the content of the manuscript
- Final approval of the version to be published
- Assumption of responsibility for all aspects of the manuscript to ensure that issues relating to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the manuscript will be adequately investigated and resolved.
c.- For authorship to be acknowledged, it must satisfy all four of the above conditions; and be reflected in the "Authors' contributions" section of the article. On the other hand, the ICMJE states that only participation in fundraising, data collection or general supervision of the research group does not justify authorship and should be listed in the "Acknowledgements" section. The individual contribution of each author in the preparation of the article should be indicated (Authorship criteria recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
29.- Conflicts of interest arising from the verdict of an article will be resolved by the Editorial Ethics Committee of the journal, which is based on the provisions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/. As well as that established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). These recommendations are available at: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
30. The declaration can be downloaded at: http://icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and must be sent to the journal in PDF format and signed by the author, AND following the criteria indicated in the Conflict of Interest Policy. 
31. Any controversies that may arise regarding the published knowledge will be the responsibility of the author or authors of the article, who may be contacted via email, and who will be able to express judgement or discussion on the topic addressed, as long as this is done in an academic climate and in the first publication of the work.