Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Propositos y Representaciones; academic journal delves publish focused on educational psychology, promotes scientific discussion since a perspective that favors diversity of subjects, disciplinary as well as theoretical approaches, and methodological proposals around learning psychology, educational strategies, educational research, developmental psychology, behavioural psychology, electronic learning.

Seeks to become a plural forum for the disclosure of knowledge that is produced from scientific research among academics, researchers, professors and postgraduate or undergraduate students.

Since April 2021, it is edited and published by the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the USIL. Previously, under the direction of the Vice Rectorate of Research.

Section Policies

Research Notes

Research articles

Contribuciones de corte empírico con sustento teórico, son textos que presentande manera detallada los resultados originales de proyectos de investigación; y, reportes analíticos de intervenciones, a través de la evaluación, la sistematización de experiencias o el estudio de casos, con el empleo de referencias a otras intervenciones y debate conceptual. El texto no debe ser mayor a 25 páginas ni menor a 15 páginas (incluye referencias y anexos). Los artículos de investigación deben incluir las siguientes secciones: (i) introducción, (ii) método, (iii) resultados, (iv) discusión; y, (v) referencias.

Review articles

Review articles, analysis, systematization and integration of results of research (published and unpublished) about a field of knowledge, topic or problem, with the purpose to establishing states of knowledge about them. Articles must include a relevant and updated bibliography. The text may not exceed 30 pages or be less than 10 pages. Research articles must include the next sections: (i) introduction, (ii) argumentation, (iii) conclusions; and, (iv) references.

Peer Review Process

The journal uses the double-blind peer review were reviewers are unaware of the identity of the authors, and authors are also unaware of the identity of reviewers.

There are at least two or more reviewers for each one manuscript evaluated, and between five to ten reviewers for total number of articles in each issue.

Peer review system is used as a quality assurance mechanism for published articles, according to the standard assumed by journal.

Peer reviewers are mostly academics and researchers outside institution publisher,  with recognized prestige in their field at the national and international level.

For manuscript evaluation will be assigned articles according to topics and research specialties of reviewer, fulfilling their function in total anonymity. The mechanism also provides for anonymity to authors being evaluated.

 The general procedure is as follows:

 - All articles received initially will be read by Editor and by a member of Editorial Board as a pre-sentence. If the contents have the quality characteristics required by the journal, they will be forwarded to Deputy Editor for delivery to appointed referees.

 - For each article, two referees will be appointed by subject and specialty.

 - For the evaluation and judgement of each manuscript, peer-reviewers will use a judgement guide that includes the prioritized criteria and the corresponding scores.

 - The result of the arbitration may be:

1. a) Accepted

Without modifications or with minor modifications.

Subject to review and resubmission within 30 days.

1. b) Rejected.

- When the rulings are not coincident, the procedure will be:

Between 1-2 it will be worth 2 and it will be asked to incorporate the proposed modifications.

Between 1-3, the participation of a third arbitrator is required, in the case of a member of the Editorial Board. With three arbitrators, the ruling is assumed to be the same and the different ruling will be discarded.

Between 2-3 it will be worth 3 and the article will be rejected.

- For articles that require modifications, once the authors return the corrected version, it will be sent to the arbitrator who gave the most unfavorable opinion to verify the lifting of the observations and approve the publication. At this stage, the arbitrator may not request additional modifications to those appearing in the ruling.

For development of their peer review work, peer reviewer will receive a version of the article to be evaluated, the instructions given to the authors and the reviewers evaluation sheet to be used. The Editor maintains contact with the referees and update register of accepted and rejected articles in online system, together with opinions that must be sent to the Editorial Board.

Open Access Policy

Esta revista proporciona un acceso abierto a su contenido, basado en el principio de que ofrecer al público un acceso libre a las investigaciones ayuda a un mayor intercambio global del conocimiento.

Archiving

El sistema de getión editorial en línea de la revista, Open Journal Systems es compatible con el sistema LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) que garantiza a la revista un archivo permanente y seguro. LOCKSS es un programa de código abierto desarrollado por la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Stanford y que permite a las bibliotecas conservar revistas web seleccionadas buscando regularmente en revistas registradas para recopilar el nuevo contenido publicado y archivarlo. Cada archivo es validado continuamente con registros de otras bibliotecas, así que cualquier contenido dañado o perdido se puede restaurar utilizando esos registros o la misma revista. 

Indexed in

The journal is indexed, summarized and registered in:

• ESCI, Emerging Sources Citation Index-Web of Science.
• SciELO Perú, Scientific Electronic Library Online.
• ERIC, Education Resources Information Center.
• PROQUEST, Psychology Database.
• EBSCO, Academic Search Ultimate.
• DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals.
• Dialnet, Portal de Difusión de la Producción Científica Hispana.
• REDIB, Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico.
• ERIHPLUS, European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
• CLASE, Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.
• IRESIE, Índice de Revistas de Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa.
• BIBLAT, Bibliografía Latinoamericana en revistas de investigación científica y social.
• MIAR, Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas.
• Latindex, Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal.
• Crossref.
• BASE, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine .
• CORE, COnnecting REpositories.
• Sherpa/Romeo, Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.
• Dimensions.
• Google Scholar, academic search engine.

Publishing format

The journal publishes in printed format with ISSN 2307-7999.

Also publishes in electronic version in format files (PDF) under e-ISSN 2310-4635.

Frequency

Since 2019 publishes three issues per year, first one between January-April, second on May-August, and last between September-December.

Article Processing Charge – APC

The manuscripts of the journal Propósitos y Representaciones will be published under the Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) allowing the free dissemination of the work, without alterations to the final version, attributing the credit to the original authors through the corresponding citations and with non-commercial purposes.

The journal does not charge the submission, processing, evaluation and publication of the manuscripts sent by the authors.

Code of Ethics

Propositos y Representaciones as an international journal of excellence is inspired by the code of ethics for publications prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors, authors and reviewers, which establishes standards and provides guidelines for best publication practices.

Propositos y Representaciones, Journal of Educational Psychology as an international scientific journal is inspired by ethics standards according to COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://www.publicationethics.org).

• Editor's and Editorial Board Responsibilities
• Author's Responsibilities
• Reviewer's Responsibilities

Editor's and Editorial Board Responsibilities

- Anonymity: To ensure the confidentiality of authors' and reviewers' data in the review process, so that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the entire process.

- Evaluation: Define and make explicit the criteria for acceptance of manuscript for review.

- Conflicts of interest: Avoid favorable treatment of authors.

- Equality: Manuscript submitted for publication are evaluated based on the scientific merit of the content, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, political opinion of the authors.

- Authorization: Not to use the research content of articles submitted for publication without the author's consent.

- Objectivity: Establish clear and objective review criteria to avoid subjectivity of reviewers.

- Evaluation time: Editors are responsible for complying with time limits for reviews and publication of accepted articles, thus ensuring rapid dissemination of their results.

- Authenticity: Review suspected plagiarism incidents and resolve any conflicts of interest.

- Reviewers: Editors ensure the selection of the most qualified reviewers to issue an expert and critical appraisal of the manuscript.

Author's Responsibilities

- Originality and plagiarism: To ensure the originality of manuscripts verifying that they have not been published in another source. In addition, the authors confirm the veracity of the data, i.e., that the empirical data have not been altered to contrast the hypothesis.

- Authorship: Authors guarantee that the manuscript really belongs to people who sign it. The condition of author implies the active participation in the realization of presented article, in writing text and in revisions of the same one. At the same time, authors have been organized hierarchically according to their level of responsibility and their respective roles.

- Conflict of Interest and Disclosure: All authors must declare that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results, and authors must also indicate information about research funding and/or the project from which the article arises.

- Sources: Indicate the sources of information used and differentiate those that have been used directly from those that have been used indirectly. If the article is accepted, the authors must undertake to make the modifications within the stipulated period.

- Responsibility: All authors accept responsibility for their writing. Authors undertake to review the most up-to-date and relevant materials on the research topic.

Reviewer's Responsibilities

- Contribution to editorial decision: Peer-review is a procedure that helps editors make decisions about proposed articles and allows the author to improve the contribution submitted for publication.

- Anonymity: Reviewers will not know authors and will not know identity of peer reviewer. In addition, texts should not be disclosed to others without the explicit permission of the publisher.

- Conflicts of interest: When a reviewer has a personal or financial opinion or interest that could affect the objectivity to his or her evaluation, he or she should refrain from participating in the editorial process.

- Objectivity: Reviewers are required to give adequate reasons for their judgments by submitting a full and critical report in accordance with the Purposes and Representations review protocol.

- Evaluation time: Reviewers undertake to evaluate the works in minimum time possible to respect the established deadlines and have the responsibility of notifying the editors in case of any inconvenience to deliver the evaluation on time. 

Anti-plagiarism

Journal uses a computer program (Turnitin) to detect originality and authenticity level of manuscripts received, which are analysed before being sent to peer referees, as part of the first editorial filter. A maximum percentage of similarity of 10% is allowed.

Self-archiving

Authors may self-deposit the post-print version of their manuscripts that are early-access published in journal website.