About the Journal

Journal Title: Revista Filosofía UIS

Journal Title Abbreviations: Rev. filos. UIS

Print ISSN: 1692-2484

Online ISSN: 2145-8529

ISSN-L: 1692-2484

Publisching House: Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

 

 

Mision

Revista Filosofía UIS is a biannual publication edited by the Escuela de Filosofía of the Universidad Industrial de Santander. The Journal specializes in the dissemination of philosophical subjects and its purpose is to be a national and international setting for research, reflection and discussion. It is aimed at students, teachers, researchers and those interested in different areas of philosophy.

Vision

Revista Filosofía UIS will position itself in 2023 as a nationally and internationally recognized journal publication in the dissemination and diffusion of philosophical research, through indexing in the main international databases and indexes to increase visibility and impact to the national and global level with publications of high scientific quality

Open Access Policy

Revista Filosofía UIS has open, free and immediate access to all its content, under the principle of supporting the exchange of global knowledge to the researcher public. All their numbers are available in PDF version to download, read and quote.

Content Licence

The articles are published under a Creative Commons licence. Authors publishing in Revista Filosofía UIS and its readers must have clear the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. For more information, please click here.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Revista Filosofía UIS will not require authors to pay the costs of the evaluation process and publication of articles, translations or reviews. Likewise, it does not pay royalties or fees to the authors.

Focus and Scope

Revista Filosofía UIS is a biannual publication that specializes in the dissemination of unpublished articles, advances and research results on philosophical topics. The Journal is open access and can be found in the following indexing and summary services: AmeliCA, Crossref, Dialnet, Fuente Académica Premier (EBSCO), JournalTOCs, Philosopher’s Index, Publindex, REDIB, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Latindex, Emerging Sources Citation Index de Clarivate Analytics y ROAD.

Evaluation Process

The proposals for articles and translations received in each call will receive three evaluations. The first evaluation will be on the part of the Editor, advised by the Editorial Assistant and informing the Editorial Committee. Here, the fulfillment with the minimum standards for the presentation of works established by the Journal will be determined. The Editorial Board will inform of this result. Regarding the unpublished nature of the work, use will be made of the technological tools available to the Journal. In the event that the result of this first evaluation is negative, the author will be informed so that, if he wishes, he can make the required changes. If the author does not carry them out within the granted time, the article will be understood as rejected.

The articles approved in the evaluation described above will initiate the evaluation through academic pairs, preferably two (double blind pair). The general rule is that these pairs are chosen from the international academic databases and that they have a publication on the same topic that is subject to evaluation. It is common for one of the pairs to be national and another international. These Evaluation reports

will focus on the scientific quality, the structure, the argumentation, the use of bibliographic references, the rigor in the handling of the subject, the category of the writing according to the classification of articles mentioned above and the respect for copyright and ethical standards of the Journal.

In the event that there is opposition or a tie in the evaluation of the designated pairs, the editor may directly resolve the controversy or request a member of the Editorial or Scientific Board of the Journal to express his or her opinion on the matter.

The Editor, based on the concepts of academic peers, will give one of three responses to the author: i) Rejected; ii) Accepted with modifications; iii) Accepted without modifications. In all cases, the editor will inform the author of the concept of the academic peers without giving details that allow the identification of the evaluators. The Editor will fix the dates of delivery of the works with the necessary corrections, for the purpose of a new formal and idiomatic evaluation. The Editorial Board will also be informed about the decisions made in this phase.

Once the text has been accepted and delivered with the indicated corrections, the author, through the format of the case, agrees to its publication, not without first assigning the author's economic rights and expressly reiterate that its production is an unpublished material.

The third evaluation will be formal and idiomatic and will be carried out on those works that were approved by the academic peers and will be in charge of the editorial team of the Journal.

Only texts elaborated rigorously according to these guidelines will enter the evaluation process.

Evaluation process of editorials, letters to editor, reviews and translations

Unlike the evaluation of articles, editorials, letters to the editor, reviews and translations are directly evaluated by the Editorial Committee of the Journal and do not require external peer evaluation.

Similarly, if the concept of the Editorial Board is positive, the text to be published must fully comply with the formal and idiomatic revision prior to its publication.

Times for editorial process 

A time of 7 days is estimated, from the receipt of the document on the OJS platform until the result of the first evaluation.

The peer review process is directly dependent on the availability of the reviewers. When the first stage of evaluation has been passed, we proceed to request the evaluation of the document from the peers. The time limit between the request and the response of an evaluator is 10 days. If there is no response during those days, the evaluation request is sent to another pair.

Once the evaluator agrees to review the document, the evaluation form is sent to him. The evaluator has a maximum period of 20 days to make and send your review.

The times for sending and receiving the evaluations are variable, as they are subject to the availability of the evaluators, who carry out an ad honorem review. Sometimes, the peers request to extend the term to carry out the review, for which an additional time of 7 days is granted. In case a longer extension of time is needed, for the peer evaluation, a notification is sent to the author or authors, via email.

In the event that after 3 months from the receipt of the text on the OJS platform, it is not possible to submit it to peer evaluation, the authors are notified, so that they can decide whether or not to continue with the editorial process.

After receiving the two evaluations, the case will be included in the next Editorial Committee meeting, for the corresponding consideration. Editorial decisions will be notified on the business day following the Committee. In the event of suggestions for changes or adjustments, the authors will have a maximum period of 15 days; in the case of requiring additional time, the authors must request in writing the extension of the term, which may not be longer than 30 days. When the term is exceeded, the text will be incorporated in the edition of the next volume.

After receiving the corrected version of the text, along with the required documentation (application letter and resume of the author), the editing process begins. The editing stage will have the necessary duration to perform a second anti-plagiarism check through Turnitin, the adaptation of the text to the format of the edition and the spelling and style correction. The document is prepared with the necessary comments to resolve editing adjustments. The correction time is subject to the amount and degree of complexity of the corrections, as well as the speed of response of the authors.

Once the requested adjustments are received, the layout process of the digital version of the document will begin, which the author may review, in a time no longer than 5 days, before it is published. After the author's approval, the contribution is published in the digital version. The time elapsed from the publication of the digital version to the printing of the paper version depends entirely on the management of the publications department of the Industrial University of Santander.

Editorial Ethics

Revista Filosofía UIS, as an institutional journal, adheres to the editorial policies approved by the Vice-Rectory for Research and Extension of the Universidad Industrial de Santander in its document (in Spanish): Ethical institutional considerations for the publication of scientific articles, based on international criteria like, among others, Committee on Publication Ethics: COPE. 

Revista Filosofía UIS is committed to high ethical standards and takes all possible measures to avoid fraud and plagiarism. For this reason, all the parties involved in the publication process, that is, the author, the reviewers (evaluators, referees, peers), the personnel assigned to the Journal and the editor-director of Revista Filosofía UIS, as well as the Universidad Industrial de Santander, the responsible entity in charge of the publication of the contents, are under the same code of conduct and ethical behavior.

All authors must submit original and unpublished manuscripts of their own, declaring these characteristics at the time of submitting their works for consideration by the Editorial Committee. Likewise, the journal is committed to guaranteeing a fair and objective review of the manuscripts, for which it uses the blind peer review system.

Confidentiality

The editor and all editorial staff should not disclose any information about any manuscript that has been sent to the journal for review. The only ones with whom the information can be exchanged will be with the author, reviewers, editorial advisors and members of the editorial committee and the scientific committee whenever appropriate.

Preservation

Revista Filosofía UIS uses the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) technology to guarantee the journal a permanent and secure digital archive.