Frequency

ReLMeCS publishes twice a year:  June and December.

Peer Review Process

The accepted submissions are double blind external peer reviewed, each article is submitted to two reviews but in case of a divided opinion, a third review is requested.

Open Access Policy

ReLMeCS provides immediate open access to its content under a  Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional licence.

Its contents are available online in the institutional repositories Memoria Académica , SEDICI, and AmeliCA , in Open Acces, CreativeCommons 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es).

Our institution, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (UNLP), promotes and supports Open Access movement. Its editions have no charges for the author or for the reader, and encourages authors to deposit their contributions in other institutional and thematic repositories.

Data Availability Policy

ReLMeCS promotes the transparency and reproducibility of the published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in these articles, either to corroborate or refute the obtained results, under the provisions of the Argentinian National Law No. 26,899 on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories.

To promote the reproducibility of results, the journal requires authors to make available the data sets used to perform the research described in their articles without restrictions. In case of limitations for ethical or legal reasons, authors shall indicate how other researchers should proceed to access such data.

Any information and research data sent to ReLMeCS shall be uploaded and made available in the Repository of Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), to increase compliance with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (it should be possible to find and access data, which should be located in systems capable of interoperating, and people should be able to reuse them in other investigations).

Authors are encouraged to store data  before sending their contributions to the journal. When the article is submitted, this would allow simply mentioning the URL where the research data are located.

Indexing and Inclusion

ReLMeCS takes part of Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT-CONICET). It is included in LATINDEX (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal) Nivel I-Catálogo,  Indice de revistas en consolidación AmeliCA,  SHERPA/RoMEO, CAPES-Qualis (Clas. B2, 2017/2018), MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas) and ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca) as a scientific journal. It is indexed in Dialnet, REDIB (Red Iberomericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), EBSCO Fuente Académica Premier, GALE Cengage Learning, Biblioteca Virtual CLACSO, LatAm (Estudios Latinoamericanos). It is also included in  Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, RevistALAS, ResearcH CFP J&A, EuroPub and ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science).

Ethical Aspects and Conflict of Interest

The publication of ReLMeCS is the collective result of the work and effort of authors, editors and evaluators who are interested in the development of science for social and cultural development. For this reason, and within the framework of the open access policy promoted by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, the journal will not charge authors any fee for publication, and articles will be immediately available in Open Access.

The editors of the magazine undertake to avoid the existence of any conflict of interest between the actors involved in the production. Any text submitted will be evaluated for its intellectual content, avoiding interference in the process of the authors' ethnic or national affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political philosophy. Similarly, external evaluations that place any personal position on the quality of work will be rejected.

Authors and evaluators are asked to state in advance any relevant conflicts of interest they may have, so that they can be taken into account when allocating evaluations. If any conflict should arise after the publication of the contribution, if necessary, there will be a retraction or manifestation of the fact.

A "conflict of interest" is a situation in which an individual's personal interests diverge from his or her responsibilities for the scientific activities he or she undertakes, whether as an author, reviewer, or member of the editorial board, which may influence his or her critical judgment and the integrity of his or her actions. Conflicts of interest can be:

• Economic: when the participant (author/reviewer/editor) has received or expects to receive money for activities related to the research and its dissemination.
• Academics: when reviewers or editors adhere to a particular methodological or ideological trend in such a way that they may be biased to evaluate the work of others. For this reason they are asked to express themselves beforehand.
• Personal or work relationships: when the participants (authors/reviewers/publishers) have some kind of friendship, enmity or work relationship. To avoid this, editors should take into account funding sources and author affiliation to choose evaluators who do not belong to those specific circles.

International guidelines

The editors of the journal will consider guidelines and guides that have been agreed upon at the international level to solve the specific problems of scientific publishing practice. The instructions given by COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics will be taken into account. Guidelines from other internationally recognized organizations. Authors, researchers and reviewers are invited to familiarize themselves with the international guidelines linked to ethics in publication, specifically those linked below, in order to avoid faults that could be generated by their ignorance.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

The policy of Revista Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales - ReLMeCS - is to publish original works, written by those who declare their authorship, and unpublished works, which may not have been previously published in any print or electronic medium.

The journal considers the practices listed and explained below as plagiarism:

• Direct plagiarism  (There is omission of the authorship, what has been taken from another text is not indicated with quotation marks,  changes are made to the text of another and it is presented as original).
• Plagiarism for the improper use of paraphrase.
• Plagiarism with loose quotation marks (there are not indicated with inaccuracy, absence of quotation marks in words and phrases of the original text that are reproduced textually).
• The "self-plagiarism" or recycling fraud (the  appearance of a job is changed and presented as if it were a different job, the indication that the work is being recycled is omitted.

ReLMeCS implements procedures to avoid plagiarism practices - translations, fragmentation of results or "salami slicing", duplication, among others -:

1. The authors are asked to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and to declare that the text is original.
2. It is evaluated through reviewing specialists, who are also asked to pay attention to possible indicators of plagiarism, since they are the ones who know the sources and literature on the subject.
3. ReLMeCS uses iThenticate: Plagiarism detection Software provided by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata through Crossref.

If plagiarism and dishonest declaration are detected, the authors will be notified so that they can make a discharge or withdraw the submission within a period of 10 days. If plagiarism is confirmed, FAHCE Magazines will remove the text, indicating in the bibliographic record (if it exists) “Excluded due to plagiarism.”

Copyright Notice

Acceptance of the manuscript by the journal implies that it will not be presented simultaneously to other journals or editorial bodies and that the authors' patrimonial rights will not be exclusively transferred to the publisher, who will allow the reuse, after its edition, under a Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional. You may share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and create from the material another work), provided that: a) you cite the original authorship and source of your publication (journal, publisher, and URL of the work); b) they are not used for commercial purposes; c) the same terms of the license are maintained.

The assignment of non-exclusive rights also implies the authorization by the authors for the work to be deposited in the institutional repositories Memoria Académica and SEDICI and disseminated through the databases that the publisher considers suitable for indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the publication and its authors.

Publisher

Red Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales
Centro Interdisciplinario de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales 
IdIHCS  (UNLP - CONICET)
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Calle 51 e/ 124 y 125  |  (1925) Ensenada  |  Buenos Aires  |  Argentina
e-Mail: relmecs@fahce.unlp.edu.ar

Sponsors

Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la UNLP.

Support Contact

Prosecretaría de Publicaciones y Gestión Editorial - FaHCE. UNLP
Phone: +54 221 4236671 ext 1268
Email: publicaciones@fahce.unlp.edu.ar