Evaluators

ETHICS CODE

Ágora de Heterodoxias

Ágora de Heterodoxias is a scientific journal of social sciences from the Deanery of Economic Science and Business Studies of Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Its publications meets to what is present in the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf), from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Therefore, establishes the following:

From peer evaluators responsibilities

• Respect the confidentiality policy of the articles’ opinion stated by the journal, which implies that the identity of the evaluators cannot be revealed to the authors, and that they should not do any kind of distribution or dissemination of the material subject to evaluation.
  Respect the confidentiality of the writings before, during and after the arbitration process. Therefore, they must not be shown or discussed with other people.
  Offer specific recommendations to the authors, in order to improve the quality of the writings presented.
  Accept only the products that correspond to their academic training and to their specialty areas, and turn in an explicit evaluation adjusted to the journal’s evaluation format.
  Decline the arbitrage when they do not have the conditions to revise the writing, whether due to time factors, the form of the manuscript, the theme or other; for this, they must notify the editor in a hasty manner so as not to delay the evaluation process.
  Revise the writings in an objective and impartial manner, sustaining in detail and in a clear and respectful language the reasons for rejecting, if that were the result of the verdict.
  Deliver a verdict within the agreed term with the editor-editor.
  Inform of any conflict of interest identified at the moment of evaluating the writing assigned.Register and inform the editor the similarities of a document with any other document published or any work in progress