Focus

Repique. focuses on the exploration of

• Social sciences
• Culture and humanities

From an interdisciplinary perspective from scientific research. Repique, is a refereed journal of scientific character, specialized, dedicated to the continuous publication publishing 2 issues during the year in January and July, the works that are approved must be of original and unpublished character in Spanish or English version. Repique, is a publication edited by the Technical University “Luis Vargas Torres” of Esmeraldas-Ecuador, through the management of the Vice Rectorate for Research, Innovation and Graduate Studies. All articles submitted to the journal for publication are evaluated by the Editorial Committee for quality and relevance and undergo a double-blind peer review before publication.

ETHICAL POLICIES OF THE JOURNAL

Publication and authorship

1. The Journal does not accept previously published material.
2. Authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for properly citing the source.
3. The contributions that appear here do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Journal. They are published under the responsibility of the authors.
4. For its part, the Journal reserves the right to print, reproduce all or part of the material, as well as the right to accept or reject it. It also reserves the right to make any editorial modification it deems convenient.

FREQUENCY

Repique, is a refereed journal dedicated to continuous publication , publishing 2 issues during the year in the months of

• January
• July

Peer review process

Each of the articles received is submitted to a double-blind peer review and selection process. The review and initial selection of the papers is in charge of the Editorial Committee, which may present an opinion of

• Accepted with corrections
• Accepted
• Rejected

The criteria of originality and scientific quality, the concordance with the journal's own topics and the temporal validity of the results. In addition, the Editorial Committee may request modifications and make recommendations deemed necessary to adjust the document to the indications of the Journal.

After this review, it will be submitted to double-blind peer review.

This evaluation will be carried out by two academic peers external to the institution; who will issue a concept that can be:

• Approved without changes
• Approved subject to minor changes and does not require re-evaluation.
• Approved subject to major changes and requires re-evaluation.
• Rejected, i.e., it cannot be published in the Journal.

In the event of controversies arising from the evaluators' concept, these will be initially resolved by the Editor or, if necessary, a second or third evaluation by academic peers will be requested.

The evaluation process requires the anonymity of both authors and evaluators. Likewise, the author of the article will be informed of this evaluation via e-mail, so that he/she can make the necessary adjustments requested by the evaluators. Upon receipt of the article with the corrections made, the Journal will verify compliance with the reviewers' suggestions and will analyze the justifications for those that have not been taken into account. Once this phase has been approved, the article will be sent again to the author to make any necessary adjustments. The process of review and acceptance of the material submitted may take an average of four months, and its receipt does not imply its automatic approval and publication.

Open access policy

The journal provides immediate open access to all its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public to support a greater global exchange of knowledge.

In this way, the reader can access all the contents of the journal from the moment of publication without cost or obligation to subscribe.

The journal is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license agreement .

The journal incorporates interoperability protocols that allow the collection of information by other distribution systems, in this case the protocol applied is OAI.

Plagiarism detection

Plagiarism or unauthorized use of third-party content, in all its forms, is totally rejected by the Journal. Likewise, multiple or redundant publications are considered a serious breach of ethics.

Authors shall refrain from submitting to the Journal, texts that have been sent simultaneously to another journal. It is possible to publish content to expand on other published content or content under consideration, as long as the text on which it is based is duly cited.

The works sent by the authors to the Journal will be submitted to the anti-plagiarism software (URKUND). The opinion will be known by the authors by correspondence in the cases that exceed 10% of coincidence.

Papers that maintain a percentage lower than 10% will be submitted to blind peer review.

Publication charges

The journal DOES NOT MAINTAIN ANY CHARGE for review, submission or publication of papers, each paper should be subject to the editorial policies above and to the regular submission of information through the OJS platform.

Archive

LOCKSS will store and distribute the contents of the journal to participating libraries through a LOCKSS publisher's manifest page.

Code of Ethics

1. Duties of authors

Originality and plagiarism: All articles must be the original work of the authors and not evidence plagiarism.

Acknowledgement of sources: If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, it has been cited or quoted appropriately.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: Authors should not submit the same article to more than one journal at the same time.

Access and retention: If deemed appropriate by the Editor or members of the Editorial Board, authors of articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which may be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly accessible.

The Journal adheres to the COPE guidelines(https://publicationethics.org/).

Conflict of Interest

The Journal expects authors to declare any business association that may involve a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.

By the nature of the articles that may eventually be published in the Journal, there may be conflict of interest conditions that may affect fairness in editorial conditions or against authors. Therefore, each author should make an effort to identify them.

In this sense, the authors should attach, together with the article and the declaration of commitment, a communication to the Journal indicating clearly and concisely if there are conflicts of interest, specifying each one. This communication should also specify the source of funding for the research, as well as the declaration of any commercial, economic or personal relationship that may affect the article or the editorial institution.

Conflict of interest events against reviewers

It is the responsibility of the evaluators of the Journal to declare any conflict of interest that may arise in relation to the work submitted for consideration.

The conflict of interest in relation to a work submitted for consideration by an evaluator or persons who are part of the editorial team arises when there is a direct personal or professional relationship with the author, dispute, or any kind of relationship with the research that gave rise to the article, as well as if there is a deep moral or ethical conflict with the subject under consideration. Generally, members of the editorial team and external reviewers must refrain from reviewing papers when any of these or other similar situations arise.

The Journal's editorial team will refrain from selecting reviewers who are known to be or may be affected by any of the aforementioned situations.