Peer review

Peer Review Process

The Revista del Instituto de Investigación de la Facultad de Minas, Metalurgia y Ciencias Geográficas receives works carried out by academics and national and foreign researchers, prepared according to editorial regulations. The articles are submitted to an evaluation process that begins with the first review by the Editors. Then the article is submitted to a review process (double blind or double-blind review) by two (2) or more designated peer reviewers (Ad honorem), members of the Advisory Committee, who grant approval or not for its publication. This process has a maximum period of 2 to 3 months.

The reviewers are chosen by the editorial committee for their specialty and affinity with the research topic, anonymity is maintained throughout the process. The reviewers' duties with the journal once the manuscript is accepted for review is to evaluate, within the established term, the confidentiality until its publication or in the event of any conflict of interest such as suitability of the topic, they can return the manuscript without issuing an opinion. The reviewer's evaluation will be on the substance and form of the article considering the importance of the topic, originality, degree to which the conclusions are supported by the data, organization and clarity, coherence of the arguments, appropriate method, presentation of the results, the design and statistical analysis, consistency and writing style. The criticisms, suggestions and/or corrections issued will be delivered to the editorial committee to continue with its editorial process with the authors making their final evaluation known. In this process, the duties and ethics policies that the reviewers must follow are indicated and, in the event of a conflict of interest, the editor must be informed. The editorial committee will consider the evaluation issued by the reviewer for its final publication.

The opinions and suggestions issued by these will be transmitted to the authors in order to be taken into account, their editorial process will continue after review by the editorial committee and, if necessary, by a third peer reviewer.

Evaluation: The reviewers issue criticisms, suggestions and/or corrections on the substance as a way of improving the article. The evaluation is classified into:

• Acceptable for publication without modification.
• Acceptable for publication with minor comments.
• Acceptable for publication with major comments.
• Unacceptable for publication.