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Publication policies

Editorial workflow

  1. Upon the receipt of an article, an identification code will be assigned to establish the anonymity of the document.
    • Articles must be sent via OJS or REPP email to: revistaepp@dii.uchile.cl
    • The journal accepts articles in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
    • Original and unpublished articles that are not submitted for publication simultaneously in another medium will be considered for possible publication. In this regard, authors must consider that the journal will use an anti-plagiarism software.
    • The same author may not publish more than one article in a period of two years (4 issues of this journal).
    • Original articles based on previously published data will be acceptable, as long as the attribution is correctly referenced.
    • The use of textual extracts from the following types of publications will not be considered self-plagiarism:
      • Previous versions of the same work (working papers) published on preprint servers or academic collaboration networks.
      • Conferences at congresses, scientific posters, and presentations.
      • Theses published in institutional repositories.
    • The Editorial Team may make public, if it has found them, the following scientific malpractices: plagiarism, self-plagiarism, falsification or invention of data, individual appropriation of collective authorship, and duplicate publication.
    • A permanent communication will be maintained with the authors, with the aim of clarifying doubts in the different stages of the process.
  2. In the first review phase, the Editorial Team will evaluate the quality and relevance of the article with the objectives and scope of the journal, also considering compliance with publication standards.
    • The Editorial Team may make grammatical corrections, edit figures and tables in the evaluated works and request modifications to adapt the article to the published editorial standards.
    • In case of rejection, the author will be notified that they will not pass to the round of external peer evaluation. The decision of the Editorial Team will be final.
  3. If accepted, the article will go to the peer-review phase, with double-blind methodology, guaranteeing the confidentiality and anonymity of authors and evaluators.
    • The evaluation of external peers will be carried out following the evaluation guideline, available here. The evaluators will be asked to make a qualitative report that reflects their general opinion regarding the manuscript considering the relevance, pertinence, and overall coherence of the article, as well as the adequacy of the methodology used, the analyses carried out, and the conclusions and/or discussions.
    • Evaluators should report on potential conflicts of interest. In case of any irregularity in relation to the ethics of research or publication, referring to the refereed article, the evaluators must inform the Editorial Team.
    • The results of the external peer evaluation may be:
      • Accept this document
      • Publishable with modifications
      • Re-submit for a review
      • Re-submit for another publication
      • Non-publishable
    • If there is a contradiction between the reports of the two external evaluators, the Editorial Team may forward the text to a third external evaluation, which will be considered definitive. In some cases, the third round of evaluation will be carried out by the Editorial Team of the journal.
    • To continue with the editorial flow, the authors must make the corrections requested by the Editorial Team and by the external evaluators, in the evaluation phases.
    • The final decision on each of the articles will be made by the REPP Editorial Team. This will be notified to the authors through the Open Journal System platform.
    • If the author believes that the decision to reject the submission does not align to the policy and procedures of the journal, they may appeal the decision by providing the Editorial Team with a detailed point-by-point response to the comments of the evaluation. The Editorial Team will review the peer review process that was conducted. If the decision has been made in accordance with the editorial criteria, the rejection decision will be final.
  4. After publication it will be possible to include corrections to the documents in the following cases:
    • In the event that errors are detected in the published articles, they must be reported to the Editorial Team to evaluate the relevance of the correction. If it is considered that it has a factual importance, it will be corrected and informed through a footnote of errata.
    • REPP is committed to complying with all requests to change names or pronouns, whether for reasons of marriage, divorce, religious conversion, gender change, etc. Relevant documents will be corrected online and indexing metadata updated accordingly.

Ethical standards

The Revista Estudios de Políticas Públicas (REPP) is committed to maintaining the integrity of the works it publishes. REPP is governed by the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), so we encourage authors to consult this website, where you can find the details of the guidelines. In this sense, the following points are only intended to provide a guiding overview and are not intended to be in-depth.

If you are unsure about any ethical issues related to the journal, you may find the answer on the COPE website. However, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the REPP Editorial Team.

REPP is committed to rigorous peer review by experts who will ensure compliance with the strict policies and ethical standards established to ensure the incorporation of genuine high-quality scientific work into the field of international scholarly publishing.

Duties of the Editorial Team
    1. Evaluate the articles based on purely academic and scientific criteria, and their adequacy to the theme and objectives of the journal.
    2. Conduct a review of the quality and relevance of the articles with the theme and objectives of the journal, also considering compliance with the publication standards.
    3. Anonymize all received manuscripts to ensure total impartiality in the evaluation of the work.
    4. Anonymize all reviewers of the articles.
    5. Request all the necessary modifications to the author to adapt the article to the published editorial standards.
    6. In case of non-compliance with the publication rules, the Editorial Team will reject the publication of the article.
    7. Communicate within a period not exceeding 6 months, the result of the evaluation, indicating whether or not the manuscript continues the evaluation process.
    8. Carry out all measures to avoid or repair scientific malpractices, such as: plagiarism, falsification or invention of data, individual appropriation of collective authorship, and duplicate publication.
    9. Make grammatical corrections, style suggestions, and incorporation of figures and tables in the articles to be published.
    10. Maintain permanent communication with authors and peer reviewers, with the objective of clarifying doubts at different stages of the publication process.
    11. If editors receive a substantiated complaint from an author, external evaluator, or journal dossier editor, they have a duty to investigate together with the editors associated with it.
    12. After the publication of each issue, make clarifications, rectifications or withdrawal of articles in order to solve any inconvenience detected after the disclosure of the issue.
    13. Ensure that there are no situations of abusive treatment or intimidation of people, both for authors, evaluators, members of the Editorial Team and any other participant of the editorial flow of REPP. This includes offensive or intimidating behavior, speech, or conduct that may occur in any form, including electronic communication.
Duties of the authors

Authors who wish to publish articles in the Journal of Public Policy should consider the following duties:

      1. Submit original works and written by them
      2. It is the duty of the author to declare conflicts of interest before submitting them to the journal.
      3. The results presented must be accurate and reliable, and must be accompanied by the detail of the methodology used and an objective discussion of the relevance of their results.
      4. The methodology must be precise and detailed to allow its replicability in academia.
      5. It will be taken as an unethical practice the simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal, even if the manuscript is in different languages, being cause for rejection of the article by the Editorial Team
      6. Plagiarism*, the use of false data and the manipulation of images that alter the reality of the results are strictly prohibited. In the event of plagiarism, REPP will reject the manuscript immediately.
        *It is considered plagiarism to copy text, images or data from another source, or previous publications of one's own, if the corresponding credit is not given to the original source.
      7. REPP recognizes the usefulness of language generation models based on artificial intelligences, but emphasizes their limitations. That is why it is the duty of the authors to clearly indicate the use of language generation models in their manuscripts, as well as to verify the accuracy and suitability of the content, in addition to providing a list of the sources from which the content was generated, to avoid potential plagiarism.
Duties of peer reviewers
      1. Inform the Editorial Team about their potential conflicts of interest to evaluate articles.
      2. Reject the evaluation of the article in case of not having the knowledge and skills necessary for arbitration.
      3. Maintain the confidentiality of the article during the review process. They may not disseminate the content of the document without the consent of the Editorial Team and/or author of the article.
      4. Report any irregularities related to the research or publication ethics regarding the reviewed article to the Editorial Team.
      5. Submit the evaluation within the deadlines requested by the Editorial Team, explicitly indicating the alternative recommendation for publication.

Additional resources

 
Journal Studies of Public Policy
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Universidad de Chile
DATOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
Dirección de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB)