Scope
Double-blind peer review process
Anti-plagiarism policy
Open access
Copyright
Code of ethics
Archived

Scope

Sociedad y Ambiente is a scientific journal that seeks to contribute to the understanding of socio-environmental issues related to the impact of human activities on the natural environment, as well as the effects of environmental changes on social and cultural conformation, whether from historical, contemporary or prospective perspectives.

Sociedad y Ambiente publishes articles, essays, scientific notes, interviews and critical reviews of books, as well as historical or current documents related to the topics of interest of the journal. Both articles and trials undergo a double-blind peer review process. We publish texts in both English and Spanish, in pdf and xml format, with a quarterly period and free access without extra costs for editorial services. It is a publication edited and financed by El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, a public research center attached to the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) of Mexico.

 

Double-blind peer review process

In order to guarantee the quality of texts published in Sociedad y Ambiente, both articles and essays undergo a double-blind peer review process, as described below:

Once received through the "Submissions" platform, the contributions are reviewed by the magazine's director, who evaluates the relevance of these with the thematic line of Sociedad y Ambiente, as well as the quality and relevance of the contents and their presentation (Grammar correction and adaptation to the format indications). After this first review, all texts are reviewed by the Turnitin Anti-Plagiarism software in order to ensure their originality.

Of a register (constantly updating) of about 240 judges, at least three specialists on the subject and of institutional ascription different from the author are chosen, who evaluate the contributions through a format. At all times the impartiality of the opinion is taken care of making anonymous the authorship for the dictators, as well as the identity of the dictators for the authors. The report takes about a month, and the follow-up of this process is carried out by the director of the magazine or by the associated editors of the same.

Based on the results of the opinion, the journal's editors and editors determine whether the articles will be published: two negative opinions imply the rejection of contributions; Two positive opinions imply their publication.

Likewise, based on the comments of the reviewers, the articles may enter into a process in which, through the intermediary of the journal's editor or associate editors, different versions of the essays and articles are elaborated and evaluated Published.

 

Anti-plagiarism policy

All texts received in the journal Sociedad y Ambiente are rigorously reviewed to avoid academic plagiarism or an excess of bibliographic similarities (a maximum of 20%). Our anti-plagiarism policy seeks to ensure that all contributions published are unpublished and original. For this we use the Turnitin tool, which allows us to verify the originality of the manuscripts received prior to their acceptance. This allows us, in addition to the different reviews of form and content and the opinion of specialists, maintain the quality of our publications.

 

Open Access

In order to support the global exchange of knowledge, Sociedad y Ambiente emerges as an open access journal. All contents are available at no cost and without registration. We recommend our readers, however, to register on our page (see our policy on data usage) to receive notifications about the latest news of the magazine.

In addition to reading all the contents of Sociedad y Ambiente, our readers can freely download, copy, distribute, print, search and share the links of the full texts of the articles of the magazine, or use them without prior permission from the author Or the editorial team, provided that their use is not for commercial purposes; This as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) initiative.

Sociedad y Ambiente does not make any type of payment to the authors that send contributions, neither by concept of publishing processes nor by its publication. Nor is any charge made to the institutions to which our authors are attached.

 

Copyright

The magazine Sociedad y Ambiente respects the copyrights of all the people that publish in her, according to the Mexican laws. Only temporary assignment of the economic rights that facilitate the distribution process is requested.

The contents of Sociedad y Ambiente have a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA-4.0), which supports copyright at the international level while contributing to the construction of free culture.

 

Code of ethics

Society and Environment seeks to ensure that all persons involved in the editorial process (editors, authors, reviewers and committee of the journal) subscribe to the code of ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at publicationethics.org

 

Archived

This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed storage system among the participating libraries and allows the creation of permanent files in the journal for conservation and restoration purposes.

 

Funding source

The Sociedad y Ambiente journal is totally supported by El Colegio de la Frontera Sur.

 

Esperanza Tuñón Pablos
Editor in-chief
Sociedad y Ambiente