Review Policy

The review policy constitutes the guide in which it is exposed how the Editorial Board of the magazine Directivo al Día carries out the process of evaluating the scientific contributions that it receives. Contributions sent to the original articles and short articles sections will be submitted anonymously to peer review on the object of study and/or methodology used, using the double-blind system to guarantee the impartiality of the process and that they comply with the standards of publication, maintaining special care with the established ethical standards and avoiding conflicts of interest.

The Board of Evaluators is made up of prestigious Cuban and foreign personalities, scientists and researchers. The evaluators will have 30 days to issue their criteria on the acceptance or not of the articles.

 This review process protects both the authors and the experts reviewing the manuscripts. The editorial staff of the magazine reserves the right to reject contributions that it deems inappropriate for publication.

The evaluators can recommend to the Editorial Board that the article be:

  1. Accepted.
  2. Accepted with modifications.
  3. Rejected.

 And they will take into account:

  1. Quality and rigor of the arguments presented
  2. Validity of the data presented
  3. Opportunity and relevance of the article for the discussion of problems in the research area
  4. Originality of the work
  5. Importance of the subject matter

Review Policy

The review policy is the guide in which the Editorial Board of the magazine  Directivo al Día reviews the scientific contributions it receives.

Editorial evaluation

It is the first review carried out by the Editor and/or associated editors; It has a maximum duration of 5 days. Some of the criteria considered are:

  1. The relationship of the content of the article with the topics of the magazines.
  2. Structure of the article according to the instructions for the presentation of the article that the journal requires.
  3. Appropriate technical vocabulary.
  4. General aspects of the novelty of the work.
  5. Adequate structure of the abstract, keywords, conclusions and bibliographical references.

According to the result of this evaluation, three possible decisions are made:

  • Decision 1: Reject in case of not complying with points 1, 2, 4 and 5.
  • Decision 2: Make editorial changes to form and presentation. The author will have one week to complete and deliver the corrected article.
  • Decision 3: Accept it without modifications, in this case the article is ready to be submitted for academic evaluation.

Each of the decisions will be managed and informed by the main Editor of the journal to the authors and referees, as appropriate in each case.

Academic evaluation

It is carried out from the double-blind peer review system and in strict anonymity. Two arbitrators are used for this process and if there is a contradiction in the arbitrators' decision, the article will be evaluated by a third arbitrator.

Selection of the arbitrators

Directivo al Día magazine has a database of national and international referees, classified by academic category, distributed by disciplinary areas and institutions. In this way, the Editorial Board of our magazine guarantees that the referees are external to the publishing entity and to the entity of the authors who send their contributions.

Academic review time

The article can be evaluated up to 3 times maximum, according to the complexity of the changes and the suggestions of the referees. In a first academic review, the referees will make and issue a first opinion in a maximum period of 3 weeks. If necessary, they will make and deliver a second and third academic report in a maximum period of 2 weeks for each case. The total time of the academic review will not exceed 4 months.

Academic Review Decisions

Referees can make three types of decisions:

Decision 1. Refuse the work, if the work:

  • Does not make a new scientific contribution.
  • The result is out of date.
  • It is verified that it is a plagiarism.
  • There is no correspondence between the objective of the research, the methods used and the results obtained.
  • Expose insufficient results and analysis of these in the article.

Decision 2. Make changes to the article. On the other hand, the changes have been classified as minimal changes, moderate changes, and complex changes.

  • Minimal changes:
  1. Order bibliographical references.
  2. Consistent writing of the introduction.
  3. Suitable keywords.
  4. Titles of tables and figures.

In this case, the author will have 2 weeks to correct and submit the article. In case the article is revised for the second time, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

 

  • Moderate changes:
  1. Clarify materials and methods.
  2. Reorganize the structure of the article.
  3. Redo the introduction (clarify novelty / importance and contribution).
  4. Synthesize results.
  5. Improve the tables and figures.

In this case, the author will have 3 weeks to correct and deliver the article; In case the article is revised for the second time, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

  • Complex changes:
  1. Clarify the correspondence between: introduction / materials and methods / results and conclusions.
  2. Improve the discussion of the results.
  3. Better present the results, in accordance with the established objectives.
  4. Update bibliographical references.
  5. Clarify materials and methods in correspondence with the results obtained.

In this case, the author will have 4 weeks to correct and submit the article. In case the article is reviewed for the second time, the author will have one week to deliver the corrected article.

Decision 3. Accept the article without modifications.

Each one of the decisions will be managed and informed by the main editor of the journal to the authors, referees and proofreading and style, as well as implementation, as appropriate in each case.

Final evaluation

It is carried out after the article has been edited and processed, it is sent to the author so that the latter, within a maximum period of 5 days, notifies the editor of the journal of his agreement for its publication.

The author may only make minimal changes in grammar and writing. In the event that the author exceeds the established time, the article will be postponed for publication in a number of subsequent editions of the magazine Directivo al Día.