- Notes for reviewers
The Editorial Board of the Journal, once it has been verified that the article is original and complies with the standards regarding style and content indicated in the guidelines for authors, will forward the article to two expert reviewers according to the double-blind model. These reviewers can be members of its different Committees and Councils, or may be external evaluators who are considered suitable, within the field of research. In the event of discrepancies in the evaluation, the original would be sent for a third reviewer.
The assessment will affect formal aspects (clarity, structure and organization, expository style, thematic precision, grammatical correctness) and content aspects (coherence with the journal's line, relevance of the topic, current issues, review of the themes, foundation, internal coherence, bibliographic references). The reviewers will have an evaluation sheet that contains information for both the journal and the authors. In addition, they will be able to comment on the text for the authors, with recommendations and proposals for changes, if any, for possible improvement.
Based on the evaluation and recommendations of the reviewers, the management of the journal will communicate the results to the authors by email, at the address they have used to send the article. The management will send to the main author the result of the review: 1) admission for publication without changes; 2) admission for publication with minor corrections; 3) the article needs important corrections for its admission 4) rejected. Observations and comments, with the pertinent modifications, derived from the review will also be sent.
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Ethical criteria
People who participate in the review of articles play an essential role in the process that guarantees the quality of the publication. They assist the editorial board in making editorial decisions, helping to improve the published works, and providing a guarantee of scientific accreditation.
Whoever does a review must consider the work to be reviewed as a confidential document until its publication, both during and after the review process. In no case should they disseminate or use the information, details, arguments or interpretations contained in the text subject to review for their own benefit or for the benefit other persons, or to harm third parties. Only in special cases, they can seek for the advice of other specialists in the field, a circumstance of which they must inform the direction of the journal.
Whoever does a review must objectively judge the quality of the complete work, that is, including the information on which the working hypothesis is based, the theoretical and experimental data and their interpretation, without neglecting the presentation and writing of the text.
Likewise, they must specify their criticisms, and be objective and constructive in their comments. They have to argue properly their judgments, without adopting hostile positions and respecting the intellectual independence of whoever has made the work.
Whoever does a review must warn, whoever has commission it to them, for any similarity relevant between the work submitted to evaluation and another work published or in the process of evaluation in another publication of which they have knowledge. In addition, they have to call on the attention to texts or data plagiarized by others or by the same author or authors of the work evaluated, or on the suspicion or founded certainty that they are falsified, invented or manipulated.
Whoever does a review must act quickly and must deliver her/his report in the agreed time, so she/he will notify the Direction of the journal or collection of possible delays.
If the person does a review does not consider herself/himself capable of judging the work commissioned, or If she/he believes that she/he can not complete the task within the agreed period, she/he must notify it as soon as possible to the Direction of the journal or collection.
Whoever does a review must verify that the relevant works published on the subject area, are already mentioned. With this objective, they will review the bibliography included in the text, suggesting the elimination of superfluous or redundant references, or the incorporation of other not cited.
Whoever does a review must refuse to review a work when they suspect or know that they are included in any of the situations that may affect their judgment about that work.
Conflicts of interest may also arise when the work to be evaluated is closely related to the one that the evaluator is developing at that time or with the one the evaluator has already published. In these cases, when in doubt, they must renounce the task entrusted to them and return the work to the Editorial Board, indicating the reasons for such decision.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Esteban de Manuel Jerez, PhD (Editor-in-Chief)
Ibán Díaz Parra, PhD (Editor)
Secretary
Glenda Dimuro Peter, PhD
Marta Donadei, PhD
Publication Frecuency: Hábitat y Sociedad is published in November in one yearly volume.
ISSN: 2173-125X
https://doi.org/10.12795/HabitatySociedad
Hábitat y Sociedad is a scientific journal of the Seville University Press, with international arbitration, of annual periodicity, which is published in November.
It is aimed at the dissemination of papers that contribute to a complex understanding of the social habitat, prioritizing research on participatory processes of Social Production and Social Management of the Habitat for the achievement of the right to the city and the recovery of balance with the ecosystem.
It is an interdisciplinary journal insofar as we understand social habitat as a complex concept that is generated by the dynamic interaction of physical, social, cultural, economic, legal, environmental and political situations, on scales that go from housing to territory.
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