Review process

First phase of evaluation

Manuscripts are received by the scientific editor and submitted to the Editorial Board. The Board determines the relevance, timeliness or adequacy of the article to the focus and style of the publication and decides whether to proceed to the peer review phase or to reject it.

This first phase of the process takes a maximum of 2 months.

Peer-review

Papers submitted to refereed sections that approve the first phase of evaluation are sent to two external reviewers according to the double-blind system, i.e., the author does not know the identity of the reviewers and the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors.

The evaluators suggest whether or not to publish the article, according to the following possibilities: a) Publishable, b) Publishable with minor modifications, c) Publishable with major changes and resubmit for review, and d) Not publishable.

When an article receives an opinion of “Publishable with minor modifications”, the Editorial Team is in charge of corroborating that such corrections have been incorporated; when the opinion is “Publishable with major changes and resubmit for review”, the reviewer has the possibility of revising the manuscript once it has been corrected, if he/she so wishes. If an article receives one of the two opinions as “Not publishable”, the Editorial Board reserves the right to reject the article. In case of substantial differences between two evaluations, the article may be sent to a third referee.

The anonymous evaluation is given to the authors so that they can incorporate the necessary corrections for the publication of the article. The aspects evaluated are: compliance with editorial standards; originality and contributions to the field of knowledge; solid foundation of the topic; internal coherence; clear enunciation of the main idea of the article; presentation and discussion of the findings or results of the research; adequacy of the conclusions to what was initially proposed; ample and pertinent handling of the bibliographic references; spelling and syntactic correctness. You can access the evaluation form for research articles here.

The judgment is delivered to the authors within a 6-month period, counted from the date the work was received. Also, the Editorial Team reserves the right to define in which volume to publish the articles.

Dixit’s acceptance rate for 2023-2024 was 47 %.