Focus and Scope

Imaginario Social is a scientific journal dedicated to the biannual publication of articles of original research results in Spanish,  English and Portuguese which covers a variety of topics related to several knowledge in social sciences. The purpose of the journal is to spread the scientific knowledge of researcher. The journal is aimed at teachers, researchers and academic community

Imaginario Social is an edited publication by REDICME RED DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA MULTIDISCIPLINARIA EN EDUCACIÓN (reg-red-18-0061) All the material submitted to the journal for publication and accepted by the Editorial Committee in attention to its biannual and relevance is subjected to review by peer specialists in the corresponding fields of knowledge.

Section Policies

Papers

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Publication and authorship 

The Journal does not accept previously published material. Authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for citing the source correctly. The collaborations that appear here do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Journal. Collaborations are published under the authors’ responsibility.

If the author of an article wants to include it later in another publication, the journal in which it is published shall clearly identify the data of the original publication, previous permission requested to the journal Editor.

For its part, the Journal reserves the printing and total or partial reproduction of the material rights as well as the right to accept or reject the article. It also reserves the right to make any editorial changes it deems appropriate. 

Peer Review Process

Each of the articles received is subjected to a process of review and selection. The study and the initial selection of the writings are in charge of the Editorial Committee, which accepts or rejects the original work based on the scientific quality, agreement with the Journal themes, and the validity in time of the results. In addition, the Committee may request changes and make recommendations they deem necessary to adjust the document to the indications of the Journal. Following this review, the article will undergo double-blind evaluation by two external academic peers who will issue a concept in which the article is accepted without any changes, the article is accepted subjected to minor changes and does not require a new evaluation, the article is approved subject to major changes and requires a new evaluation or the article is rejected. In the case the evaluators’ concept leads to disputes, such disputes will initially be resolved by the Editor of the Journal or, if necessary, a second or third academic peer evaluation will be requested.

Anonymity of both, the authors and evaluators, is required in the evaluation process. Similarly, this evaluation will be reported to the author of the article via email in order to make the necessary adjustments requested by the evaluators. Upon receipt of the article with the corrections made, the Journal will verify compliance with the suggestions of the evaluators and will analyze the justifications for those corrections that have not been taken into account. Once approved this phase, the article will be sent back to the author, and if necessary, the author will make adjustments as may be appropriate. The review and acceptance process of the submitted material can take an average of four months, and the article reception does not imply its approval and automatic publication. 

Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

The journal provides immediate open access to all its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public to support a greater global exchange of knowledge.

In this way, the reader can access all the contents of the journal from the moment of publication without cost or subscription obligation.

The journal is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license agreement. The authors retain the copyright and third parties are permitted to copy, distribute and make use of the works as long as they comply with the terms and conditions set forth by such license cite authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher and URL of the work).

Do not use them for commercial purposes.
If you remix, transform or create from the material, you must disseminate your contributions under the same license as the original.
More information can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es.

The Journal declines any responsibility for possible conflicts arising from the authorship of the works published.

The Journal adheres to the COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/).

The Journal allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, or print the scholarly work published here without financial, legal, or technical barriers, in order to use the information for any responsible purpose with proper acknowledgment of authorship.

 

Authorship Policy

Only those persons who have contributed intellectually to the development of the work should appear in the list of authors. Having collaborated in the collection of data or having participated in any of the techniques used are not, by themselves, sufficient criteria for authorship. In general, to be included in the list of authors, the following requirements must be met

To have participated in the design and execution of the work that has given rise to the article being presented. 
To have participated in the drafting of the text and its revisions.
To have approved the version that will finally be published.
The Journal is not responsible for possible disputes over the authorship of published papers.

Assignment of copyrights
Together with the article, authors should submit the "Declaration of authors' commitment" form signed by each author.

The judgments and opinions expressed in the articles and papers published in the Journal are the judgments and opinions of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the Editorial Board.

Readers' rights
Readers have the right to read all articles free of charge immediately upon publication, and this publication makes no financial charge for publication or for access to its material.

Machine readability and interoperability
The full text, metadata and references of the articles can be tracked and accessed with permission.Our social policy of openness allows the readability of the files and their metadata, promoting interoperability under the OAI-PMH open data and open source protocol.The files are available in HTML and PDF format, making them easy to read on any device and computing platform. 

Publication rights
If the paper is accepted for publication, the copyright will belong to the journal. As mentioned, each article must be accompanied by the authors' Declaration of Commitment specifying that the article is unpublished and stating that the copyright is the exclusive property of the Journal, and other aspects made explicit in the document such as that the article has not been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. In addition, the author is responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any copyrighted material and must clearly specify which table, figure or text will be cited and the complete bibliographic reference. The opinions, judgments and views expressed by the authors are their own and do not reflect the opinion or policy of the Journal.

Frequency of publication

 Its current periodicity is six-monthly publication.

Archive

LOCKSS will store and distribute the contents of the journal to participating libraries through a LOCKSS publisher's manifest page. 

 DOI system

Journal articles adhere to the DOI system establishing the technical and social infrastructure for the registration and use of identifiers for use in digital networks.

Plagiarism detection

The works sent by the authors to the Journal will be submitted to an anti-plagiarism software (Urkund). The opinion will be known by correspondence by the authors in the cases that exceed 10% of coincidence. Papers that maintain a percentage lower than 10% will be submitted to editorial and blind peer review. 

 Code of Ethics

The journal is adhered to the COPE (https://publicationethics.org/).

1. Duties of authors
Originality and plagiarism: All articles must be original work of the authors and not show evidence of plagiarism.

Acknowledgement of sources: If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been duly cited.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: Authors should not submit the same article to more than one journal simultaneously.

Access and retention: If the Editor or members of the Editorial Board deem it appropriate, the authors of the articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which may be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and, eventually, made accessible.

2. Editor's functions
Publication decisions: The editor is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The publication decision should be guided by the policies of the Editorial Board of the Journal, and should be based exclusively on academic merit and the decision of the reviewers.

Honesty: The editor should evaluate articles for their intellectual content without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality: The editor and editorial staff should not disclose any information about a submitted article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and editorial advisors, as appropriate. 

3. Duties of reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions.

Promptness: Any selected referee who does not feel qualified or knows that prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse him or herself from the review process.

Confidentiality: Articles received for review should be treated as confidential documents. They should not be shown to or discussed with others, except with the permission of the editor.

Standards of objectivity: Reviews should be conducted in an objective manner. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their opinions clearly and with arguments.

Acknowledgement of sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any arguments that have been previously communicated should be accompanied by the corresponding citation. Reviewers should also bring to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work of which they have personal knowledge.

Conflict of Interest 

The Journal expects authors to declare any business associations that may pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. 

By the nature of the articles that may eventually be published in the Journal, there may be conflict of interest conditions that may affect fairness in editorial conditions or against the authors. Therefore, each author should make an effort to identify them.

In this sense, the authors must attach, together with the article and the declaration of commitment, a communication to the Journal indicating clearly and concisely if there are conflicts of interest, specifying each one of them. This communication should also specify the source of funding for the research, as well as the declaration of any commercial, financial or personal relationship that may affect the article or the publishing institution.

Procedure for duplication 

For the duplication of texts, which is the possibility of copying or reproducing in textual form one or more times a content or literary work in a new support (digital or any other format), the Journal is based on the following general procedure: all editorial material, for which duplication has been requested or set, must be headed by a legend that clearly identifies the quality of the duplicate and establishes a difference with the original.

To carry out this type of reproduction, the applicant must fill out the internal duplication request form and send it by mail to the Journal (see form). The form must be filled out by the person in charge of the process, even if it is the Journal that determines the need for it.

Procedure against originality and plagiarism

For the purposes of this policy, originality should be considered from two perspectives: first, as the certainty that the work comes from the person who claims to be its author; and second, that it is new and different from other works created previously. The concept of plagiarism also refers to the work or article being distinguishable from unauthorized copies, forgeries or ramifications, or the unauthorized or inappropriate use of fragments of another work. 

Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality of the articles contributed to the Journal, as well as the accuracy of the data and results included in them, clearly and concisely stating that the contents are original and have not been copied, fabricated, distorted or manipulated.

Plagiarism or unauthorized use of third-party content, in all its forms, is totally rejected by the Journal. Likewise, multiple or redundant publications are considered a serious offense to ethics. 

Authors shall refrain from submitting to the Journal, texts that have been sent simultaneously to another journal. It is possible to publish contents that expand on others published or under study, as long as the text on which it is based is properly cited.

Errata (erratum)

An erratum applies only to cases in which the journal has effectively made a mistake without the author's knowledge. The author has a number of cases where errors/errors can and should be corrected, such as the author's name, keywords, title, and errors in the main text.

The journal sends the final proof of the revised and ready-for-publication article to the corresponding author with the deadline of one week for review and correction of the article. If the response deadline expires without the authors return, the journal considers the article approved (since the author has not discussed the need for any changes/corrections) and therefore ready for publication.

Conflict of interest events against reviewers

It is incumbent upon the reviewers of the Journal to declare any conflict of interest that arises in relation to the papers submitted for consideration.

A conflict of interest in relation to a work submitted for consideration by an evaluator or the people who are part of the editorial team arises when there is a direct personal or professional relationship with the author, enmity, or there is a relationship of any kind with the research that gave rise to the article, as well as if there is a profound moral or ethical conflict with the subject under consideration. In general, members of the editorial team and external reviewers should refrain from reviewing papers when any of these or similar situations occur.

The Journal's editorial team will refrain from selecting reviewers who are aware that they are or may be affected by any of the aforementioned situations.