About the Journal
Double-blind peer-review evaluation process
Focus and scope
Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura is a semestral academic publication of the Communications Department of Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Sede Ecuador.
The journal aims to debate and reflect on communications processes and phenomena and their repercussion in today’s society using analyses and studies which link communications practices and social uses to socio-cultural and political know-how and contexts.
The journal is aimed at graduate students, university professors and researchers in Latin America, who research and study all areas of the scientific field of communication and journalism, communication and culture, arts and communication, humanities and communication, with a strong openness to the participation of authors from outside the publishing entity.
The articles published are unpublished, in Spanish, evaluated by anonymous academic peers, linked to universities and research centers in Latin America, North America and Europe.
The journal is structured in the following sections: essays, monographic, reviews.
Each paper has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
From 2022 onwards, Uru maintains a semi-annual periodicity, publishing two issues per year in the months of January and July.
From 2018 to 2021, the journal maintained an annual periodicity.
Double-blind peer-review evaluation process
Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura is a refereed academic journal that uses the external peer-review system, under the double blind review methodology.
The articles received are submitted to the following process:
- All articles are received through the journal's Open Journal System (OJS): https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/uru/ , where the author must register.
- The editor, together with the issue coordinator, check that the received articles comply with the objective and scope of the publication, as well as their thematic relevance and academic quality, thus assuring that the articles are original and that they comply with our norms for collaborators.
- Suitable articles are reviewed through the double blind peer review system, where experts, external to the publishing institution, always with an academic degree equal to or higher than that of the author of the article reviewed, anonymously attest to the academic quality of the article and submit their recommendation through the evaluation report provided for this purpose.
- Peer reviewers anonymously determine if the article is:
- a) Publishable
- b) Publishable with modifications
- c) Non-publishable
- In case of discrepancies in the results, the article is sent to a third external evaluator, whose evaluation defines the publication of the article.
- The double-blind review process takes approximately 6 to 8 weeks.
- The results of the review process are final in all cases.
- The editor, guided at all times by the peer reviewers' reports, defines the publication of the article.
- Once this period is finished, the journal communicates the decisions and the evaluators’ reports to the authors.
During the entire process, the double-blind peer-review process guarantees objectivity, transparency, and impartiality.
Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura maintains its commitment to the policies of Open Access to scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and publicly funded research should circulate on the Internet freely, freely and without restrictions.
- Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura is open and free access, both for readers and authors, providing immediate access to its content after its publication, without the need to request prior permission from the editor or author.
- All the expenses, supplies and financing of Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura come from the contributions made by the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador.
- There is no financial charge for publication or access to the material:
- The authors can reuse and archive their post-print articles in databases, directories, repositories, etc.
- Readers can download, read, print, distribute, quote, archive all articles for free without restrictions, after publication without requesting prior permission from the publisher or author.
- The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) which entitles:
- Sharing: copying and redistributing the material in any media or format.
- Adaptation: remixing, transforming and constructing from the material.
Under the following terms:
- Credit: you should adequately give credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes have been made. You can do this in any reasonable way, but without implying that you or its use are supported by the licensor.
- Non-commercial: you cannot use the material for commercial purposes.
- Equal sharing: if you remix, transform or create something new from the material, you should distribute your contribution under the same license as the original.
- There are no additional restrictions: you cannot apply legal terms nor technological measures which legally restrict others from using the material in any way permitted by the license.
Ethical policies
Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura, is inspired by the standards of good editorial conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Some of these standards are detailed below.
Ethical practices for authors:
- The works sent to the journal should be original and without any type of alteration.
- Do not simultaneously submit the same article for evaluation in several journals.
- Always give credit to the people who have contributed to carrying out your research.
- Explicitly declare that there are no conflicts of interest that could have influenced the obtained results.
- Indicate any financing of agencies or projects that your research article stems from.
- Your academic literature review is always current and relevant, taking into account different knowledge streams.
- Deliver texts that comply with the established publication norms.
- Promptly collaborate with reviewers’ corrections and suggestions.
The responsibility for the content of the articles published in Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura is exclusive of the authors.
Ethical practices for reviewers:
- Perform a critical, honest, constructive, unbiased review that guarantees the academic quality of the research article.
- Immediately notify if for some reason you cannot evaluate the article, either because it is not in your field of expertise or because you cannot comply with the evaluation report delivery within the established timeframe.
- Always maintain confidentiality concerning the authorship of the article to review.
- Evaluation reports are delivered in the established revision template and substantiate the evaluations that have led you to your decision.
- Precisely indicate the bibliographical references of fundamental works that the author has possibly forgotten.
- Inform the editors of any similarity between the research article and other published works.
The evaluation is always carried out anonymously. If for any reason the author’s identity, institutional affiliations or any other information has been compromised that puts the document’s anonymity at risk, the reviewer should immediately notify the editors.
Editors’ commitment
- Evaluate the articles based on the content’s academic merit, without discrimination with regards to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, nationality or political opinion.
- During the whole process, the confidentiality of authors, articles, and reviewers is maintained.
- Editors are the most responsible for meeting deadlines for revision and publication of accepted works.
- Guarantee the selection of the most qualified reviewers to issue an academic, critical and expert evaluation of the work that is as unbiased as possible.
Digital preservation policies
Uru: Revista de Comunicación y Cultura establishes three means for the preservation of its publications:
- Internally: through the university’s centralized storage system that is updated twice a year.
- Institutional preservation: all the articles of the journal are archived in the University’s institutional repository (Link: https://acortar.link/zIm5kD)
Anti-plagiarism policies
In order to guarantee the originality of the articles that arrive at the journal, all are analyzed by the Turnitin system which allows for the prevention of plagiarism and guarantees that the received works are original.
Articles with a high percentage of similarity with other texts published or available online are rejected.
Privacy statement
The names and emails entered in this journal will be exclusively used for purposes established in said journal and will not be provided to third parties nor be used for other purposes.
revistauru@uasb.edu.ec
Academic Area of Communication, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador.
Toledo N22-80 (Plaza Brasilia) Quito, Ecuador.
(593 2) 322 8084, ext. 1426
