External Peer Evaluation Process
In the assessment instrument, external peer reviews of each article must report any conflict of interest that might have taken place before agreeing to participate in the process.
Every article received for submission will be initially reviewed by the Editorial Board, who will verify that the criteria required in the Guide for Authors have been completely met. In case of noncompliance with any of these requirements, the author will be notified, and relevant adjustments will be allowed or requested on a case-by-case basis.
After the evaluation from volume 9(3), according to adjustments of our editorial policies, we increased the number of external peer reviewers, who are specialists in the subject and with a background in research. The identity of authors will not be revealed to evaluators nor their identity to the first ones (double-blind review). Later peer review concepts are received to know whether they recommend or not its publication. Finally, the editor and/or the editorial board will define whether the submission is accepted or not, publishable with modifications, re-assessable or unpublishable, based on the Journal standards, the value of the article as a scientific contribution and the opinion of reviewers. In case of a dispute between the opinions of two external peer reviewers, the editor will ask for a third peer review as a tiebreaker of referees’ opinions.
In case of a dispute between the opinions of two external peer reviewers, the editor will ask for a third peer review as a tiebreaker of referees’ opinions. Afterwards, the editor will inform the main author about the decision made by the Journal Editorial Board and the comments from evaluators. Once the author receives the comments from evaluators, he or she should correct and/or modify the text, if required. Cuidarte Journal reserves the right to make changes in the text of articles in order to improve writing and edition of the documents, when absolutely necessary.
Summaries and titles of the accepted manuscripts will be translated into English and Portuguese if their original language is Spanish; those in Portuguese will be translated into Spanish and English, and those in English will be translated into Spanish and Portuguese.
The Journal uses an electronic editorial manager as a tool to control the assignment of external peer reviews, from which comments and opinions are obtained through the online questionnaire form. Open Journal Systems (OJS) version 3.1.2.1 is currently used.
