Editorial Policies

Open access 

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Paper Reception and Acceptance

Paper Reception

Paper reception is open all year round.

Paper reception does not imply any publication commitment from UTP Editorial

Paper Acceptance

When completing the evaluation process, a Publication Letter will be sent with information about the date and site where the publications will be available.

Originality verification

Papers sent for publication must be the result of original and unpublished pieces of research and academic work, and must not appear in simultaneously paper evaluation and selection processes in any other editorial.

UTP Editorial, following the code of ethics, copyrights as well as intellectual property issues rejects any plagiarism behavior, thus, the editorial reserves total authority to cancel the publication of papers after any plagiarism complaints and verification.

Evaluation process

Peer evaluation

Papers received for publication as books are submitted to a two-stage review process. The first stage is a preliminary evaluation carried out by the UTP Editorial editing committee. Such evaluation involves document format, topic relevance, scientific impact, structure, and content originality. Afterwards, authors are notified if any modifications are required.

The second stage consists of a double-blind peer review process which will be carried out by external expert evaluators assigned according to the discipline and topic approached in the submitted work (book or book chapter). Subsequent observations will be evaluated by the editorials committee and a dictamen will be given to authors. Obsrvations and/or modifications made to submitted papers must be completed to be considered for publishing.

Once a paper is accepted, an Acceptance Letter is sent to the author and an application for the ISBN registration is made (within a 15 working-day response time). Afterwards, a Publication Letter is sent to the author, notifying the date and site where the publication will be available.

Books and book chapters distribution for evaluation is made randomly. Author’s, as well as evaluators’ anonymity is kept all along the evaluation process.

The general publication process takes from one to three months, subject to the author’s and evaluators’ responses.

Cession of rights

Once a piece of work is submitted to the editorial process, a transfer of rights format is sent to the author(s) and it must be signed by all the authors and sent back to the editorial. 

The transfer of rights format are available in the following links:

 

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