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ÁMBITOSIREVISTA DE ESTUDIOS DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y HUMANIDADES, núm. 38 (2017)129PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENTREQUIREMENTS1.  About the reviewersThe reviewers will be expert on the subject of the evaluated manuscript. None of them will have relationshipneither with the members of the Editorial Board nor the author of the evaluated manuscript. The author will alwaysremain anonymous to them. If the reviewers would think they could know the possible identity of the author (becauseof the thematic, the style of the manuscript), they should notify it immediately to the Editorial Board, so a newreviewer will be looked for in order to keep the impartiality and the objectivity through the process of revision.The referees should avoid personal criticism at the author. Any objection, suggestion or change should bereferred to the content of the manuscript.2.  Double-blind peer-review processAny manuscript is reviewed by two anonymous experts who will write an assessment, which will be crucial forthe approval or rejection of the manuscript by the Editorial Board.If the assessment of the referees regarding to the article would not be unanimous, the Editorial Board will askfor the assessment of a third referee, whose report will decide whether the manuscript should be included in thevolume or it should be returned to be reviewed by the author in depth.The author whose manuscript has been returned due to the necessity of a major revision according to thereviewers, could sent it again to the journal provided that the corrections indicated in the reports had been included.The reviewers can suggest the definite rejection of the manuscript, if it does not meet the usual criteria in anyacademic publication. If two assessments agree with the rejection of the manuscript, it will not be published in thejournal.3.  PlagiarismIf the Editorial Board and/or the reviewers find plagiarism in any manuscript, the manuscript will be rejectedimmediately and its author will be notified of the reasons for the refusal of the journal for its publication.4.  OriginalityThe manuscript submitted to the journal for their publication should be original, which means that they shouldnot be a total o partial copy of others publications which describes the same or similar research to the submittedmanuscript. In the case that the Editorial Board and/or the reviewers find evidence of this malpractice, once that ithad been verified, the manuscript will be rejected and banned from further publication.Likewise, in the case that the Editorial Board and/or the reviewers find that the manuscript had been publishedin a different language to the submitted one to the journal or the manuscript is available either entirely or partially inothers publications, which means that the manuscript is not original, the manuscript will be rejected immediately andits author will be notified the reasons for the refusal of the journal for its publication. Under no circumstance thisrejected manuscript will be accepted for a second chance of submission in another volume.

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