Peer review policy

For submitted articles, two or more external expert reviewers will be assigned to confidentially and anonymously evaluate the article (double-blind review). They will use the online reviewer form for their report. As an exercise in transparency, the journal makes this model template available exclusively for consultation.

The publishing house will inform authors within 10 days as to whether the manuscript has been rejected or accepted for evaluation by the reviewers. In cases where the manuscript presents superficial problems of structure and/or form, the publishing house will send authors the pertinent suggestions so that they can be corrected before the manuscript is sent to the reviewers. In such cases, authors will have a maximum of 7 days to submit the corrected manuscript to the publishing house. The publishing house reserves the right to make basic formal modifications, which do not affect the content of the text, in order to expedite the publishing process.

Duration of the manuscript review process: the average time spent by the reviewers of the Revista de Trabajo y Seguridad Social. CEF  is 20 days. The publishing house will send authors the review reports received, as well as the recommendations (if any) for modification of the article or, failing that, the decision to reject the manuscript, together with the reviewers’ reports. In such cases, authors will have a maximum of 15 days to submit the corrected manuscript to the publishing house.

In case there are contradictions between the judgments issued by reviewers (for example, one reviewer is of the opinion that the article should be rejected and a second reviewer issues a judgment in favour of publication with minor changes), or editors are not completely convinced of the justification accompanying the judgment issued by one reviewer, the article will be sent to a third reviewer.

The journal has a database for internal use that processes and registers the transfer of articles and the set of reviewers. The list of reviewers in the one-year review period will be published thereafter. Reviewers receive an annual certificate of participation as reviewers of the publication, regardless of the number of articles they have reviewed per year.