Guidelines for Evaluators

Peer review is an important process within the scientific publication that largely guarantees the quality and relevance of the manuscripts submitted for publication, for this reason, should be done with utmost care and responsibility possible.

Duties of reviewers:

• Contribution to the editorial decision
• celebrity
• confidentiality
• Objectivity
• Disclosure of conflicts of interest

The evaluation process for articles submitted to the  Journal pensamiento Americano is double-blind, assigning peer reviewers who are specialists of recognized expertise in the subject, in which both assessors and authors know their identities. Evaluators examine the items in terms of quality, originality, relevance and issue their technical judgments about possible publication. According to the format established for this format established for the article: Form

After verifying that the subject of the referred article is within your area of expertise, the reviewer has one (1) month from the date of receipt of the item, to deliver their assessment of the manuscript.

Evaluators should make the exercise of impartial and confidential manner and in full freedom to communicate potential conflicts for evaluation, either by conflicts of academic, professional or personal interest, regarding the article that are asked to evaluate.

For evaluation pairs have an  format Evaluation items that are given along with the article, to facilitate their reading and response on the relevance and possible publication of the article. With the help of the evaluator evaluation form pair may deliver its opinion under one of the following alternatives:

Article recommended as it is presented.

• The article can be accepted after minor revisions described in the written report of the evaluation.
• The article can then accept to make major revisions described in the written report of the evaluation.
• The article is not accepted for publication.
• Someone added me as assessor should review the article before being accepted.

Once the results of peer evaluation are received, the Editorial Board of the journal analyzes the responses and considering comments from peer reviewers and international editor for the English language, makes decisions on the publication of the article.

The Journal is inclined to the double-blind evaluation, especially to ensure fairness in assessments and in any case the identity nor the authors nor the reviewers will be revealed.