Review Procedure

The editorial process of the journal is structured in three phases: document submission, peer review, and professional editing.

Initial Review

Once the manuscript is received, the Editorial Committee evaluates whether it complies with the journal’s Author Guidelines. During this phase, submissions may be rejected for various reasons, such as lack of thematic alignment with the journal's areas of research, lack of originality (verified through Turnitin), failure to comply with formatting and submission requirements, or insufficient relevance and scope of the research. Manuscripts that meet these criteria will proceed to the next stage, the Peer Review.

Ethics. The journal Cuidado y Ocupación Humana adheres to the recommendations and core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and includes within its policy a set of ethical considerations. Finally, if a manuscript is deemed viable after editorial review, the peer evaluation process will begin.

Editorial Decision

Upon receiving the evaluation results, the Editor and Editorial Committee will notify the corresponding author of the editorial decision, accompanied by the relevant arguments. If the manuscript is accepted with revisions, the Editor will return the work along with the reviewers’ recommendations, which must be implemented and resubmitted to the Editorial Committee within a maximum of 20 days, together with a response letter addressed to each reviewer.

Final Review and Publication

Once approved for publication, the processes of copyediting, layout, and online publication on the editorial management platform will begin. This process may take up to one month. It is important to highlight that, due to the evaluation procedures, immediate publication cannot be guaranteed by the authors.

Authors’ Responsibility

Authors must actively participate in the editing process whenever requested by the Editor. Lack of response from an author to complete or resolve issues that arise during editing may result in delays in publication or even a decision to decline the manuscript.

To facilitate this process, authors are expected to prepare their manuscripts with the highest level of rigor, verifying spelling, using short and consistent paragraphs, employing punctuation marks correctly, and following the established editorial standards and conventions. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to modify document titles and make any editorial adjustments deemed necessary to ensure that texts are published in their cleanest, most coherent, and readable version.