About the Journal

History:

The Andean Journal of Political Studies (RAEP) is a publication of the Institute of Andean Political Studies dedicated to the dissemination of relevant research in the social sciences, focused mainly on socio-political issues linked to Latin American reality. The RAEP (ISSN: 2221-4135) is indexed in the Emerging Source Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Latindex Catalog, International Bibliography of Social Science (IBSS), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and ProQuest. Created in 2011, the RAEP has contributed to criticism and discussion in the social sciences of the Andean region from the publication of articles prepared from various theoretical approaches, disciplines, methodologies, methods and academic communities. Like most indexed journals, the editorial process applies blind peer-review as it improves the decisions of the Editorial Committee regarding the publication of the texts received. The external review of the articles is frequently entrusted to the members of the Advisory Committee, who issue the respective opinions. RAEP is published semi-annually, but receives full texts permanently: Article submission.

Approach and scope:

The RAEP, like all scientific publications, aims to communicate - to the international academic community and to society in general - the results of relevant research in the disciplinary and geographical scope defined in its editorial line. In this sense, the magazine is oriented to the publication of articles framed in the social sciences and particularly in political studies, whose field of study is the Andean Region or Latin America. At this point, it should be pointed out that the Journal ratifies its multidisciplinary and regional sense, as an alternative route to the traditional division by disciplines or sub areas of scientific research and production.

Scientific publications, and particularly journals, have become the main means of disseminating quality research in the international scientific community, even displacing books, manuals and encyclopedias. This has advantages and disadvantages that are not worth mentioning, but that delimit incentives and opportunities both for scientific production and for the public incidence of scientific work. Whatever the social result of the spread or contagion of the “paper culture”, the truth is that the publication of a scientific journal is a task that involves enormous social responsibility. In particular, the publication of articles in journals has become a self-regulatory mechanism regarding the quality of the scientific production process. Research published in a scientific journal must go through an arbitration whose function is to assess the quality of the articles. There are different ways to exercise this arbitration, but only two of them are recognized as mechanisms that safeguard the quality of a publication: peer-review and blind peer-review.

Editorial process:

The RAEP, like all scientific publications, aims to communicate - to the international academic community and to society in general - the results of relevant research in the disciplinary and geographical scope defined in its editorial line. In this sense, the magazine is oriented to the publication of articles framed in the social sciences and particularly in political studies, whose field of study is the Andean Region or Latin America. At this point, it should be pointed out that the Journal ratifies its multidisciplinary and regional sense, as an alternative route to the traditional division by disciplines or sub areas of scientific research and production.

The editorial process begins with the acknowledgment of receipt of the full text sent by the authors through this OJS. Next step, the Editorial Committee is responsible for conducting a first evaluation, considering the relevance of the research proposed for publication and the adequacy of the text in relation to the publication standards of the Chicago Manual Style 16th edition. Subsequently, the texts evaluated favorably by the Editorial Committee are sent to external reviewers linked to the topics and problems of each investigation, who carry out a second evaluation that results in one of the following opinions: 1) Approved without modifications, 2) Requires revisions, or 3) Rejected for publication. The authors' anonymity is guaranteed by the Editorial Committee before starting the blind peer review. Finally, the authors are informed of the decision of the Editorial Committee based on the opinions resulting from the blind peer review. The editorial process usually considers a period of 6 months between the acknowledgment of receipt of the proposed text and its publication after the corresponding evaluation.