Editorial Process and Peer Review
Sociedad y Ambiente is a peer-reviewed journal using a double-blind review process. Its editorial process consists of three general phases: 1) technical review and pre-evaluation, 2) peer review, and 3) production and publication. The first phase takes a maximum of one month; the second, a minimum of three months, and may be extended depending on the specialist's opinions and the rounds of review and corrections necessary for an editorial recommendation; and the third, when accepted, one to two months depending on demand and volume.
Non-Commercial Open Access
Sociedad y Ambiente is a publicly funded journal with no fees for manuscript processing or publication, or for reading and downloading its content, adhering to the Diamond Open Access (non-commercial) model. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), this is “an equitable model of scholarly publishing, supported by shared infrastructure and open licenses, that makes scientific knowledge available to everyone as a digital public good.” Therefore, we operate under the premise that knowledge is a common good and access to it a human right, and we support the global exchange of knowledge without restrictions or barriers that promote exclusion and inequality.
Copyright and Licensing
In Sociedad y Ambiente, authors retain the moral rights to their work, as established by the Federal Copyright Law (Article 11), and only the temporary transfer of economic rights is requested, on a non-profit basis, for publication by electronic means, under the conditions of a Creative Commons (CC) license.
The publications are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which allows open and free access to the content and the use of the published material, provided that the authorship of the work and the original publication by the journal are properly cited, and that the resulting material is shared under the same chosen license.
Interoperability Protocols and Persistent Identifiers
We implement the Open Archives Initiative (OAI 2.0) protocol on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. This interoperability standard allows external repositories and search engines to automatically harvest publication metadata. We also use persistent identifiers for digital resources, specifically the Digital Object Identifier (DOI: 10.31840), a code that uniquely identifies publications and ensures their long-term retrieval, and the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), a unique code for authors that avoids ambiguity regarding authorship regardless of name changes or institutional affiliations. Interoperability protocols and persistent identifiers are fundamental for the management, tracking, and visibility of scientific output in the digital environment.
Publication Frequency
Sociedad y Ambiente publishes one issue annually using a continuous publication format. This means that when a manuscript is accepted, it is made available on our website immediately after the production phase is complete.