About the Journal
Focus and Scope
SCIÉNDO is a scientific journal published by the National University of Trujillo. The aim of SCIÉNDO is to disseminate the findings and advances of scientific research conducted in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities. Accordingly, the journal is intended for professionals and researchers working in these areas of knowledge.
SCIÉNDO primarily publishes Original Research Articles, both Full-Length Articles and Short Communications, Review Articles, and other scholarly contributions written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese, provided that their scientific quality is verified through peer review.
The journal is currently indexed in Latindex Catalog 2.0, REDIB, SHERPA/RoMEO, MIAR, and Google Scholar.
The content of published contributions is the sole responsibility of their authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the journal or the institutions with which the authors are affiliated. Manuscripts submitted to SCIÉNDO must be original and must not have been previously published or submitted to any other publication outlet, regardless of its type.
Authors must strictly adhere to the ethical standards for publication established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Data fabrication or falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication of an author's work without proper citation, and misappropriation of intellectual work are unacceptable practices. Cases of ethical misconduct are taken very seriously and handled in accordance with COPE guidelines.
By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that it constitutes original, unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including the duplicate publication of all or part of a work without appropriate citation, is not tolerated. Submitted manuscripts are screened using plagiarism-detection software to verify their originality.
SCIÉNDO does not charge any fees for manuscript submission, peer review, or article publication.
Peer Review Process
Manuscripts submitted to SCIÉNDO are first evaluated for compliance with the journal's editorial scope and policies. The Editor reserves the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with these requirements and to communicate the reasons for rejection to the authors. In other cases, the Editor may request revisions or modifications, in which case the authors must initiate a new submission process.
Manuscripts that meet the editorial requirements are subsequently screened using Turnitin to verify their originality and detect potential plagiarism. If a manuscript presents a high similarity percentage (greater than 10%), it is returned to the authors for revision to reduce the similarity level.
If the submission meets these requirements, it undergoes a single-blind peer review process, involving at least two (2) external reviewers or evaluators, who are given a maximum of 60 days to provide their assessments and recommend acceptance or rejection.
Based on these evaluations, the Editor and the Director make the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection. A report is prepared, and the decision is communicated to the authors.
The identities of the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors throughout the entire review process.
Open Access Policy
SCIÉNDO provides open access to its content, based on the principle that making research freely available to the public promotes greater global exchange of knowledge.
All content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Once an article has been accepted and published in SCIÉNDO, the journal holds the right to publish the work; however, authors retain their copyright without restrictions.
SCIÉNDO deposits its published works in the institutional Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform of the National University of Trujillo.
https://revistas.unitru.edu.pe/
Digital Preservation Policy
SCIÉNDO operates on Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source journal management and publishing platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).
The platform includes preservation services such as Portico or CLOCKSS and the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which uses the LOCKSS program to digitally preserve OJS journals.
These mechanisms are intended to create permanent archives of the journal, ensure the long-term preservation of original content, enable its restoration when necessary, and facilitate the distribution of archived materials among libraries and digital repositories.
The journal's preservation policy includes assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each published article.
Ethical Principles
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
SCIÉNDO ensures that editors, reviewers, and authors strictly adhere to international ethical standards throughout the review and publication processes.
The journal declares that its procedures follow the recommendations issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submitted manuscripts undergo plagiarism screening, double-blind peer review, verification against data falsification (including research data, tables, graphs, and images), and assessment of compliance with confidentiality and privacy requirements for research participants.
Manuscripts involving the improper use of animals, including human beings, in research will be rejected.
Every manuscript submitted to SCIÉNDO must meet the following requirements:
CONSENT: All authors must consent to the submission and publication of the manuscript under evaluation.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS: All authors must have made significant contributions to the manuscript, and no eligible author may be omitted. The order of authorship must reflect each author's level of participation in the study, from greatest to least.
ORIGINALITY OF THE WORK: The submitted work must be original, must not have been previously published, and must not be simultaneously submitted for evaluation to another journal. It must not contain original material copied from other authors without their consent. If the manuscript includes material from previously published works, permission for reproduction must be provided.
CITATIONS AND REFERENCES: All information derived from previous studies must be properly cited and referenced in accordance with the journal's Instructions for Authors.
SUGGESTED REVIEWERS: Professionals suggested as reviewers must not have any professional, academic, or personal relationship with the authors.
ETHICAL PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES: Authors must have read the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and declare their compliance with these principles. Any work that fails to comply with these recommendations and is found to involve ethical misconduct will be withdrawn or retracted, depending on the manuscript's stage in the editorial process when the misconduct is detected.
If a manuscript does not meet these criteria, any of its authors may notify the journal to request its withdrawal.
Ethical Principles of SCIÉNDO
1. Institutional Approval
Approval from an Ethics Committee is required for:
(a) Research involving human participants.
(b) Research directly involving human biological material or identifiable human data.
2. Informed Consent
When applicable, authors must obtain signed informed consent from study participants (patients).
If requested by the Editor or a reviewer, the authors must provide the corresponding documentation.
3. Incentives for Study Participation
Researchers must make every effort to avoid offering excessive or inappropriate incentives. However, financial compensation may be provided to participants for the time devoted to the study.
4. Deception in Research
The use of deceptive techniques or misleading information intended to deliberately misdirect participants must be avoided.
5. Research Closure
Upon completion of the study, researchers must provide participants with the study's results and conclusions, taking appropriate measures to prevent misunderstandings.
6. Ethical Principles
a) Culture and Heritage
Manuscripts approved for publication must not include images of objects that have cultural significance or form part of a country's cultural heritage.
b) Research Involving Animals
Animal experimentation is primarily conducted in three areas: education, industry, and scientific research.
The use of animals in research is a privilege that must be exercised responsibly to contribute to the alleviation of disease and suffering in humans and animals. Disregarding animal or human suffering is irresponsible and unethical.
Researchers who use laboratory animals must uphold a fundamental principle: respect for life and for the pain or suffering to which animals may be subjected during research.
Animal research must consider the 4Rs:
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Replacement: Whenever possible, seek alternative methods that do not involve animals.
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Reduction: Minimize the number of animals used in research.
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Refinement: Implement measures that promote the overall welfare of animals.
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Recycling: Consider using experimental animals more than once for different research purposes.
Authors must have obtained the ethical and legal approval of the institution supporting the research and provide documentation when requested.
7. Reporting Research Results
Researchers must not fabricate data or manipulate figures. If errors are discovered, they must be publicly corrected.
8. Research Integrity
a) Misconduct
Research misconduct includes actions or omissions related to designing, organizing, conducting, evaluating, or applying for research projects that deliberately or negligently distort research findings, provide misleading information about individual contributions, or violate other professional standards governing research activities.
If misconduct is suspected, an investigation will be conducted.
b) Reporting Irregularities
Reports of research irregularities submitted by identified individuals or anonymously will be investigated only when accompanied by sufficient supporting evidence.
c) Fabrication, Falsification, and Image Manipulation
A modern scientific article should present findings through an appropriate combination of text, tables, and graphs to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of information. Articles may also include images.
Inappropriate image manipulation may produce misleading results.
d) Plagiarism
Verbatim copying of text must be avoided. Authors are encouraged to paraphrase information obtained from scientific literature while always providing appropriate acknowledgment to the original authors.
Plagiarism also includes using tables or data without crediting the original source and reproducing images or figures without the required authorization.
e) Duplicate and Redundant Publication of Data
Researchers must not present previously published data as original findings.
Authors may not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously.
If the Editorial Committee identifies such a situation, the manuscript will be retracted.
Translations of previously published manuscripts must not be published as original articles.
9. Editorial Standards and Procedures
a) Authorship
As a general rule, all authors must participate in at least two of the following four stages of the research project: planning, data collection, interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.
All authors of a scientific article must make a significant contribution to the research.
b) Authorship Disputes
If the Editorial Committee suspects or receives reports of authorship-related problems, it will contact the corresponding author to request additional information.
c) Funding
All sources of funding must be disclosed and included in the acknowledgments section.
d) Peer Review
Original full-length and short research manuscripts, as well as review articles, are initially evaluated according to the journal's criteria, as established in the Instructions for Authors.
Once these requirements have been met, manuscripts are evaluated by two or more reviewers selected on the basis of their expertise in the manuscript's subject area.
e) Publication Timeline
The average duration of the editorial process, from manuscript submission to the final decision of the Editorial Committee, ranges from two to four months.
f) Editors and Journal Staff as Authors
The Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and members of the Advisory Committee do not participate in editorial decisions concerning their own manuscripts submitted to the journal.
g) Conflicts of Interest
Editors, authors, and reviewers must disclose any conflicts of interest that could affect their ability to submit or evaluate a manuscript objectively.
Conflicts of interest may include financial, personal, political, or religious interests.
h) Corrections
Readers and authors must notify the journal through a Letter to the Editor if they identify errors in a publication that may affect the interpretation of its results.
Corrections will be published. When significant errors that could invalidate the work are identified, the journal will consider retracting the published manuscript.
i) Retraction of a Manuscript
Retractions are issued when reported errors may affect the interpretation of data, when the information presented is fraudulent or falsified, when data are fabricated, when the study cannot be reproduced, or when serious ethical violations have occurred.
j) Withdrawal of a Manuscript
The removal, suppression, or concealment of a published article is permitted only in cases involving legal violations, defamation, other legal restrictions, or false or inaccurate data.
In such cases, a withdrawal statement will be published.
Withdrawal may also occur when proven ethical misconduct is identified before the article has been published. In this situation, the authors are notified that their manuscript has been withdrawn from the review process.
10. Peer Reviewers
Original full-length and short research manuscripts, as well as review articles, are initially evaluated according to the criteria established by SCIÉNDO in its Instructions for Authors.
Once these requirements have been met, manuscripts are evaluated by two or more reviewers selected according to their expertise in the subject area.
Reviewers participate anonymously and on a voluntary, unpaid basis.
Editorials and Letters to the Editor are evaluated by an Editor only, except when an external review is deemed necessary.
Reviewers must conduct their assessments objectively, providing constructive and consistent criticism that contributes to improving the manuscript.
Their recommendations may include:
(a) Acceptance for publication without modifications.
(b) Acceptance for publication with minor revisions.
(c) Publication subject to major revisions, particularly concerning methodological aspects.
(d) Rejection, with a clear justification of the reasons.
Based on the reviewers' comments and recommendations, the Editor decides whether to accept or reject the manuscript or request revisions from the authors.
Reviewers may:
(a) Notify the Editor of possible falsification or manipulation of research findings, as well as suspected ethical misconduct.
(b) Promptly inform the Editor if substantial portions of the work have already been published or, to their knowledge, are under review elsewhere, in order to prevent overlap with previously published research.
Reviewers must:
(a) Meet the agreed deadlines established for manuscript evaluation.
(b) Decline invitations to review manuscripts outside their area of expertise, when they cannot complete the review within the established timeframe, or when they have a relationship with the authors.
(c) Respect manuscript confidentiality and authors' intellectual property rights, refraining from discussing or sharing manuscript content with unauthorized individuals.
