Peer review policy

If the manuscript proceeds to the review process, two or more external expert reviewers will be assigned to evaluate the article confidentially and anonymously (double-blind). They will use the online reviewer form for their reports. As a transparency measure, the journal provides this form model exclusively for consultation.

The editor will inform the author within a period of 10 days whether the manuscript has been rejected or accepted for evaluation by the reviewers. If the manuscript presents superficial structural and/or formatting issues, the editor will send the relevant suggestions to the authors to be corrected before the manuscript is sent to the reviewers. In this case, the author will have a maximum of 7 days to submit the corrected manuscript to the editor. The editor reserves the right to make basic formal modifications that do not affect the content of the text to expedite the editorial process.

Duration of the manuscript review process: the average time employed by the reviewers of the Trabajo y Seguridad Social Journal,  CEF, is 20 days. The editor will send the author the received review reports, as well as recommendations (if applicable) for modifying the article or, failing that, the decision to reject the manuscript along with the review reports. The author will have 15 days to submit the corrected manuscript to the editor.

In the event that there are contradictions between the judgments issued by the reviewers (for example, one reviewer opines that the article should be rejected and a second reviewer issues a favorable judgment for its publication with minor changes) or if the editor is not completely convinced by the justification accompanying a reviewer’s judgment, the article will be sent to a third reviewer.

The journal has an internal database that processes and records the transfer of articles and the set of reviewers. The list of reviewers for a one-year period is published thereafter. Evaluators receive an annual certificate of participation as reviewers for the publication, regardless of the number of articles they have reviewed in the year.