About the Journal

 

General Information

Andares: Revista de Derechos Humanos y de la Naturaleza is an academic publication by the Programa Andino de Derechos Humanos (PADH) at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. Originating from the 2002–2014 semiannual electronic journal Aportes Andinos: Revista de Derechos Humano, it became the region’s first human rights-focused journal. This new stage, initiated in 2022, integrates insights from Aportes Andinos along with emerging challenges in human and nature rights.

Andares encourages academic reflections and publishes original essays and research results, written in Spanish and English, incorporating diverse perspectives, disciplines, and practices on human and nature rights, highlighting the interdisciplinary, critical, complex, contextualized, and evolving nature of the field.

This peer-reviewed academic journal, published biannually (January and July), uses an external expert peer review system (double-blind review) and follows the UASB-E Style Guide based on the Chicago Deusto Style Guide.

The journal targets a national and international audience interested in or engaged with human and nature rights.

Scope and Objectives

Andares aims to establish a rigorous platform for exchanging opinions, ideas, debates, analyses, and promoting the exercise of human and nature rights. Its objectives are:

  1. To promote the dissemination of knowledge on human and nature rights from diverse geographic and cultural spaces.
  2. To contribute to debates and proposals on issues from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives.
  3. To enhance reflection on experiences in promoting and protecting human and nature rights.

Publication Frequency and Manuscript Submission Dates

Andares is published biannually in January and July.

Manuscripts must be submitted by the deadline established in the current call for submissions.

Editorial Process

Manuscripts must be submitted via the OJS platform. Andares acknowledges receipt, communicates on acceptance/rejection, and, if accepted, informs about the editing process.

Within 30 days post-call deadline, authors receive notification of receipt and a preliminary assessment. Manuscripts with formal deficiencies or that do not fit the thematic focus will be rejected without reconsideration. Superficial deficiencies will be returned for correction before evaluation. Submissions are only dated upon complete manuscript submission.

Manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer review by two anonymous experts. External peer reviews guide article acceptance/rejection and any necessary revisions regarding length, structure, or style, while respecting the original content. The peer review process takes up to 100 days.

Authors receive anonymous scientific evaluation reports to enable improvements or responses. Works requiring modifications are returned within 7 days. If review results conflict, the article goes to a third anonymous expert for the final decision.

Criteria for Acceptance/Rejection by the Editorial Board

  • Timeliness and novelty.
  • Relevance and significance as scientific contributions.
  • Theoretical and methodological rigor and quality.
  • Logical coherence and formal presentation.
  • Co-authorship and international collaboration.
  • Good writing quality.

Authors can access digital publications via the OJS platform. Necessary corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies will be issued by the journal.

Open Access Policy

  • Andaresis open access and free for both readers and authors.
  • No fees are charged for publishing or accessing the material.:
    • Authors may reuse and self-archive their post-print articles in databases, directories, repositories, etc.
    • Readers can access all articles freely post-publication.
  • Andares adheres to the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows for:
    • Sharing: copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format.
    • Adapting: remixing, transforming, and building upon the material.

      Under the following terms:

    • Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This can be done in any reasonable manner but not in a way that suggests endorsement by the licensor.
    • Non-commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
    • ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
    • No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Ethics Policies

Andares complies with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) standards. Key ethical practices include:

Ethical Practices for Reviewers:

  • Submissions must be original, unpublished, and unaltered.
  • Authors must not submit the same article to multiple journals simultaneously.
  • All contributors to the research must be credited.
  • Conflicts of interest must be explicitly declared.
  • Any funding sources must be identified.
  • Academic literature reviews should be current and relevant.
  • Manuscripts must adhere to publication standards.
  • Authors should promptly address reviewer suggestions and corrections.

The authors are solely responsible for the content of articles published in Andares.

Ethical Practices for Reviewers:

  • Review should be critical, unbiased, constructive, and ensure academic quality.
  • If unable to evaluate due to expertise or timing, reviewers must notify promptly.
  • Reviewer and author identities remain confidential.
    Evaluation reports should be submitted in the designated review template and thoroughly reasoned.
  • Bibliographic references to essential works that may have been overlooked should be noted.
  • Any similarity to other published works must be reported to the editors.

Evaluations are conducted anonymously, and reviewers must inform editors immediately if confidentiality is compromised.

Editors' Commitment

  • Articles are evaluated based on academic merit, free from discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or political opinion.
  • Confidentiality is maintained throughout regarding articles, authors, and reviewers.
  • Editors are responsible for timely reviews and publication of accepted works.
  • They ensure the selection of qualified reviewers for unbiased, expert evaluation.

Digital Preservation Policy

Andares employs three preservation methods:

  • Internal centralized storage updated biannually.
  • Institutional repository deposit.
  • PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network) archival system.. 

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

All submissions are screened using Turnitin for originality.

Manuscript Promotion and Dissemination

  • Authors commit to the broadest dissemination of their manuscript once published, as well as to promoting the journal as a whole.
  • Andaresencourages authors and the scientific community to widely promote and disseminate final versions of works through:
    1. Contact lists (emails) and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...).
    2) Institutional university repositories and public repositories (Mendeley, Cosis...).
    3) Academic social networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Kudos...).
    4) Personal or institutional websites, blogs, etc.
    5) Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchID, ScopusID, Dimensions, PlumX...
    6) Directly acquired printed copies sent to specialists for reading and possible citation.

Interoperability Protocols

Andares includes the OAI-PMH interoperability protocol, allowing its content to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and aggregators.

OAI-PMH URL: https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/andares/oai