Publication Policies

Originality

Works submitted for publication must be original and unpublished contributions. That is, only works that have not been previously published in any other journal, newspaper, book, or other medium (whether or not they have a DOI or ISBN) can be considered for publication.

Only original works that make a substantive contribution to knowledge and are organized as an academic article can be considered for publication.

It is possible to publish articles derived, for example, from undergraduate or postgraduate theses, as long as the work submitted for publication is not a literal copy of the thesis but a different product worked on as an academic article.

All submissions are evaluated upon receipt using the Turnitin system to detect potential issues of similarity with other publications that could be the result of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or duplicate publication. In case of detecting any situation of substantive coincidence (greater than 30%) with other document(s), the Journal of Justice Studies reserves the right to automatically reject the submission.

Language of Publication

The Journal of Justice Studies publishes articles written in Spanish and English.

Evaluation and Review

Articles will undergo peer review by both national and international reviewers, using the double-blind technique. Each article will be evaluated by two external reviewers. Reviewers will be experts, duly qualified, in the area of law to which the article refers. The evaluation will consider the following aspects: specific contribution of the work to the area of knowledge, foundation of arguments, congruence between the objectives of the work and its development, application of appropriate methodology according to the object, conclusions based on the analysis carried out, proper use or handling of sources, exhaustive consultation and use of relevant national and comparative bibliography, among others that are pertinent. The Committee may request authors to complement, modify, or adapt their articles to the evaluation conducted by the experts, and may, as a result of this process, reject articles submitted for publication.

Submission Deadlines

The Journal commits to the following deadlines for authors:

- Preliminary review of received manuscripts within one week, responding whether their work is formally suitable for evaluation and, consequently, returning it for correction or proceeding with its evaluation.
- Conducting the arbitration process within five weeks, counted from when the work is formally ready for evaluation. At the end of this period, the author will be informed whether the article will be published, needs corrections for publication, or is rejected.
- Publishing approved manuscripts within four weeks after approval or correction.
The average time from submission to publication is 12 weeks.