About the Journal
Anti-plagiarism Policy
SOCIAL REVIEW uses Turnitin to guarantee the originality of manuscripts, detecting plagiarism and self-plagiarism, and ensuring that sources are correctly cited. Authors must explicitly cite all sources of data, figures and information. Failure to comply in the initial evaluation phase will lead to automatic rejection of the submission, and if detected after publication, a retraction will be issued.
Peer Review Process
SOCIAL REVIEW features a rigorous peer-review process in order to guarantee the absolute scientific quality of the publications. The arbitration system is carried out through external reviewers and only original texts are accepted.
Peer review is double-blind, that is to say, the reviewers' indentities are not revealed to the author and viceversa. This way it is guaranteed that the reviewers do not have any conflict of interests.
As a rule, we send received papers to two reviewers. In case of doubts, we reserve the right to send it to a third reviewer, or as many additional reviewers as we may consider necessary to ensure the high quality of the publication.
To evaluate the articles, the reviewers will attend to 7 criteria that have been clearly defined by the journal. The reviewers will complete a form that will be sent (anonymously) to the authors. Each criterion scores from 0 to 5. Based on these scores (quantitative evaluation) and the comments and arguments of the reviewers (qualitative evaluation), the journal's editorial board decides whether to accept or reject the paper, whether to request a re-submission, or whether to suggest submission of the paper to another journal of Eagora Science editorial group.
Peer review double-blind is applied both to research articles and articles of the Special Issues.
SOCIAL REVIEW is peer-reviewed and inspired by the Ethical Code of COPE’s publications.
Editorial policy on gender equality
SOCIAL Review is committed to proposals for greater visibility of the presence of women in scientific production and its dissemination in order to contribute, from the objectives of a journal, to greater visibility of the management and research responsibilities of the women. This commitment of the SOCIAL Review journal is specified in the following measures:
1. Participation in the Editorial Team
At this time, the Editorial Team of SOCIAL Review is made up of 51 members with a presence of 43,1% women.
2. Use of inclusive language
SOCIAL Review reviews the originals sent, ensuring that an adequate use of inclusive language is complied with according to the Report of the Royal Spanish Academy on inclusive language.
3. Research, reviews and publications
3.1 SOCIAL Review reviews the originals sent to check if they are adequately informed about whether the source data of the research takes gender into account, in order to allow the identification of possible differences according to the proposals of the European Commission in Gender on the research.
3.2 SOCIAL Review includes the full name of the author on the first page of the article, on the journal's website and in the table of contents of the complete issue.
Evaluation time
To ensure efficiency and quality in the editorial process, we have established a maximum evaluation time of 40 days for each manuscript. This deadline allows reviewers to perform an exhaustive evaluation, maintaining a constant flow in the publication of articles. We appreciate the understanding and collaboration of our authors and reviewers to meet this deadline.
Publication Frequency
The articles are published immediately. They are published on the website as soon as layout, tests and pagination’s stages finish.
There is two issue per year (June, December).
In 2022, the biannual publication was interrupted due to the purchase and transfer of the journal. As of 2024 this frequency has been reestablished.
