Peer review process

Article selection and arbitration method 

Papers sent for publication must be original, the criteria for selecting articles will be conditioned by their quality and will be subject to a peer review process. 

The selection process begins with the submission of the work by the author or authors in electronic version. The articles are initially evaluated by the Editorial Committee to check if they comply with the Writing Rules and if they correspond to the originality and level required for the journal, then they go to the arbitration process. The Editorial Committee has seven business days for this process, counted from the moment the article is received. 

In the process of reviewing the articles, the peer review system is applied, where two high-level referees intervene. Initially the referees do not know the identity of the authors and vice versa. However, if during the arbitration process, the referees need to talk directly with the authors, the editor will be asked to establish such communication. This exchange may be made from the opening of their respective identities or having the editor as an intermediary. If the identities are revealed, the communication may be established directly, but the editor will request a copy of the exchanges, in order to ensure that the established process is duly complied with.

The magazine has a Committee of Referees, made up of professionals from different specialties of Hydraulic Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geophysics, among others, of which a high percentage comes from institutions outside  Cujae, both national and international. 

Each arbitrator will issue a report on the convenience or not of its publication, this report will be taken into consideration by the Editorial Committee for the publication or not of the article. In case of discrepancy between the reports of both arbitrators, a third party will be used. 

The referees can recommend to the Editorial Committee that the article be:-

-Accepted. 

-Accepted with modifications. The author has a period of 30 days to send a new version with the proposed corrections, after this term, if the new version has not been received, the Editorial Committee will consider the article rejected. 

-Rejected. 

The following aspects are essential for the acceptance of the works presented: 

• Correspondence with the themes of the magazine.
• Originality, novelty or validity of the work that is proposed.
• Quality of the study of the state of the art.
• Quality of the work content.
• Quality of the presentation in its structure and writing.
• Update and importance of bibliographic references.
• Compliance with the Drafting Rules. 

The review process, in general, lasts several months, because to the time that the judge takes to review the work is added the time required by the authors to make the suggested changes. The latter has a maximum period of one month (counted from the date on which the results of each evaluation are sent), for the delivery of the corrected version of their article according to the recommendations of the referees.