About the Journal

Approach and scope

Focus

The scientific journal Investigación Valdizana, is a quarterly publication, edited by the National Hermilio Valdizán University of Huánuco - Peru, with free access to the content of all articles. The magazine publishes its productions in its printed and electronic versions, in order to extend to the national and international scientific community and place the scientific debate. Likewise, the journal adopts the best practices of the code of research ethics, contemplating responsible conduct in research.

Scope

The Valdizana research magazine publishes articles and scientific essays from different areas and lines of research, which are: Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Engineering research areas, Social Sciences and Pedagogical Sciences, where the theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome innovative companies with scientific solvency. Likewise, these scientific products must bring pertinent theoretical, empirical or methodological contributions.

Mission

The main mission of the journal is to disseminate national and international results of local, national and international multidisciplinary research, in order to contribute to innovation and knowledge development in different areas of human knowledge.

Target audiences

The target audience is made up of researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals interested in obtaining in-depth knowledge in some area of ​​knowledge.

Peer evaluation process

Arbitration system

The articles sent to the magazine Investigación Valdizana are selected by the following procedure:

Internal evaluation:

• Review of the article by the editorial committee according to the rules of the magazine Investigación Valdizana.
• Application of anti plagiarism software to all articles received, a tool available on the net.
• The articles that do not comply with the norms of the journal and that present more than 30% of coincidences of concepts, similar ideas with other authors are rejected.

External evaluation:

The external evaluators are invited by the Director and Editorial Board for their extensive knowledge of the subject and as a researcher. External evaluators should not have any conflicts of interest. The selected external evaluators do not receive remuneration, but they are mentioned in the virtual volume where they contributed. When the article requires it, expert reviewers are also available in the area of ​​statistics and epidemiology. The requirements to be a Valdizana Investigator reviewer are: knowledge of the subject, impartiality, responsibility and ethics.

The articles received will be initially evaluated by the Editorial Committee according to the requirements and a prior review of the editors. Subsequently, they will be submitted to an arbitration by pairs, for which at least two reviewers are summoned by original article and one for the other sections of the journal, who anonymously and within 20 days will rate the works at the request of the Editorial Committee through a report based on the Evaluation Form provided by the magazine. The type of review is double blind pair. The referees or reviewers issue their qualification and submit suggestions and recommendations on how to improve the article. In consideration of the Editorial Committee and the methodology reviewers, the authors will be asked for the database used in the methods and results described and presented in the article.

After the review the evaluators issue suggestions on how to improve the article and final result, which may be the following:

• Acceptance for publication without changes
• Acceptance for publication with minor changes
• Acceptance for publication with major changes
• Rejected work

Once the qualification, suggestions and recommendations of the arbitrators have been received, the Editorial Committee will decide if it does not accept the publication of the article or send the observations that it considers pertinent to be acquitted by the authors. These observations are sent to the author who is given a period of 20 days to send the modified article. No work will be definitively accepted until all the observations have been clarified and / or modified. When the authors submit their manuscript again with the corrections requested, they must send it in Word format with change control and attach a letter where they will present the modifications made and, where appropriate, the divergent points of view. Depending on the case, Investigación Valdizana may send the corrected article back to a reviewer before considering its publication. If the corrections were not sent until a period of two months, the article will be discharged and will go to the file, notifying the author of this decision. Investigation Valdizana reserves the right to make changes or introduce changes in the article in order to better understand them, without resulting in changes in its content. The correspondent author will agree to the final version (PDF), before its publication.

The average time of the editorial process from the reception of the article until the decision of the Editorial Committee varies between three and five months. The author can request information on the progress of the review of the article, as well as the stage of the editorial process in which his article is found.

In the opinion of the Editorial Committee, articles will be published in electronic format before the respective peer review. Also, in consideration of the Editorial Committee, the articles that, having been peer-reviewed, will be published in electronic format, are suitable for publication prior to the quarterly regular publication deadlines.

Frequency of publication

The magazine Investigacion Valdizana has a quarterly publication, published four times a year (january-march), (april-june), (july-september), (october-december).

In addition to this, the magazine Investigación Valdizana publishes special editions, based on public announcements or concurrency of thematically related works.

Plagiarism

The Valdizana research journal uses the method of search for plagiarism using software under license from TURNITIN, so all manuscripts that exceed 30% of plagiarism will be returned to their authors without initiating the review process.

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps in a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Sponsors of the Magazine

• Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán de Huánuco y Vicerrectorado de Investigación

Payment and payment policy

The Revista de Investigación Valdizana, does not charge fees for sending manuscripts, or for the evaluation or publication of articles.

Digital Preservation Policy

LOCKSS Open Journal Systems is compatible with the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure file. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to keep selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect and publish new published content. Each file is continuously validated with records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the magazine itself.

• LOCKSS stores and distributes content from Revista Investigación Valdizana in collaborating libraries through a page of the LOCKSS editorial manifesto.

CLOCKSS Open Journal Systems also supports the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to guarantee a permanent and secure archive for the journal. CLOCKSS is based on the open source software LOCKSS developed at the Stanford University Library, which allows libraries to keep web journals selected by regularly checking the websites of registered journals for recent content and archiving it. Each file is constantly validated against other library caches and, if it is detected that the content has been corrupted or lost, the other caches or the magazine are used to restore it.

• CLOCKSS stores and distributes content from the Revista Investigación Valdizana to the participating libraries through the CLOCKSS Publisher Manifest page.

Records

The Revista de Investigación Valdizana is indexed, registered in Database or Directory in:

Indexed

• LATINDEX: Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Catalogue)
• ESJI: Eurasian Scientific Journal Index
• DRJI: Directory of Research Journals Indexing
• ACTUALIDAD IBEROAMERICANA
• BASE

Database

• REDIB: Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge
• JOURNALTOCS: The latest Journal Tables of Contents
• MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Magazines
• CZ3: Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
• EDINA: Innovation Into Service
• WORLDCAT
• CROSSREF

Directory

• DOAJ: Directory of open access journals
• ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources

Notice of copyright

The concepts contained in the scientific articles included in this edition are the exclusive responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the institutional criteria.

The authors will keep their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons License NoComercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)