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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • El envío no ha sido publicado previamente ni se ha sometido a consideración por ninguna otra revista (o se ha proporcionado una explicación al respecto en los Comentarios al editor/a).
  • El archivo de envío está en formato OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF o WordPerfect.
  • Siempre que sea posible, se proporcionan direcciones URL para las referencias.
  • El texto tiene interlineado sencillo; 12 puntos de tamaño de fuente; se utiliza cursiva en lugar de subrayado (excepto en las direcciones URL); y todas las ilustraciones, figuras y tablas se encuentran colocadas en los lugares del texto apropiados, en vez de al final.
  • El texto se adhiere a los requisitos estilísticos y biliográficos resumidos en las Directrices del autor/a, que aparecen en Acerca de la revista.
  • Si se envía a una sección evaluada por pares de la revista, deben seguirse las instrucciones en Asegurar una evaluación anónima.

Author Guidelines

Comité editorial
La revista Ciencia, Cultura y Sociedad, de la Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador (UEES) de edición semestral, publica temáticas relacionadas a las diferentes áreas sociales, humanistas , económicas y tecnológicas; en respuesta a las necesidades de difusión de la producción científica de la Educación Superior institucional, nacional e internacionalmente.

Los trabajos que se reciban, seleccionen y editen, deben cumplir con los parámetros que se detallan según criterios de una revista científica indexada y arbitrada. Los autores consienten la publicación física y electrónica de sus trabajos, al momento de notificarles que su trabajo ha sido recibido y posteriormente de su revisión editorial se les notifica de aceptado.

90% de trabajos de investigación son inéditos y un 10% de reseñas de literatura, ensayos, editoriales y cartas al editor; los artículos no podrán publicarse en su totalidad en otros medios de comunicación escritos, sin previa solicitud y autorización de la Editorial UEES. Si se publica parcialmente deberán citar la fuente, después de un año de publicado el articulo pude ser publicado en otro medio escrito, siempre citando que fue retomado de la revista Ciencia, Cultura y Sociedad de la UEES.

El proceso de edición: revisión de contenido por especialistas nacionales o internacionales, la evaluación por pares es la valoración crítica de los manuscritos realizada por expertos que forman parte o no del equipo editorial permanente. En este sentido, las observaciones emitidas se hacen llegar al autor, quien debe regresar el artículo corregido dos semana después de recibido; nuevamente se revisa de ser aceptado pasa al editor de gramática y estilo, el resumen se publica en español e inglés.

Formato
Presentar en lenguaje español, considerando las normas gramaticales y ortográficas de la Real Academia Española. Los artículos de investigación no deben superar las 16 páginas, y los ensayos minino 5 y máximo 20 paginas, en formato Word, tamaño carta, letra Arial 12, a espacio 1.5, sangrías izquierda y derecha de 3.5 cm, entregar en versión digital; las fotografías en alta resolución y un archivo de imágenes numeradas según orden en el artículo y su respectivo pie de tofo.

Formato de los artículos de investigación:

Título, autores, resumen, palabras clave, introducción, metodología, resultados, discusión o/y conclusiones, recomendaciones, agradecimientos (no obligatorios), fuentes consultadas. Utilizar las normas de citación APA, pueden descargar un resumen en http://www.uees.edu.sv/editorial/normas.htm

Título: breve y conciso, máximo 12 palabras, letra No. 14, si es insuficiente, puede auxiliarse de subtítulos en letra No. 12, máximo 10 palabras, no colocar siglas.

Autores: se considera autor la persona que ha hecho sustanciales contribuciones intelectuales a un estudio publicado, el crédito de autoría debe basarse en: las contribuciones sustanciales a la concepción, diseño, adquisición de datos o análisis e interpretación, la redacción del artículo o revisión del contenido intelectual importante y la aprobación final de la versión que se publicará.

Por otra parte, la participación exclusivamente en la obtención de fondos para realizar la investigación o en la recolección de datos o supervisión general del grupo de investigación no justifica la autoría, el resto de personas que contribuyan al trabajo, deben citarse en la sección de agradecimientos.

Si hay varios autores, el orden de quien encabeza la lista es decisión de los autores, nombres y apellidos completos, no iniciales; al pie de página colocar cargo e institución de procedencia, de todos los investigadores y una dirección electrónica para recibir comentarios, colocar el número que le corresponde según orden que aparece de ser más de un autor, ejemplo: Neurólogo del Instituto de Neurociencias de El Salvador. Comentarios: luisgonzalez128@gmail.com.

Resumen: El resumen no excederá de 250 palabras en un solo párrafo y debe contener los objetivos del estudio; una breve descripción de la metodología empleada (selección de los sujetos del estudio, métodos de observación y métodos analíticos); los resultados más destacados (la presentación de datos concretos y significación estadística), las principales conclusiones. Se resaltan los aspectos del estudio o de las observaciones que resulten más novedosos o de mayor importancia. Evitar el uso de referencias bibliográficas.

Palabras clave: Se utilizan para describir el contenido del documento y facilita el ingreso e identificación del trabajo en las bases de datos y motores de búsqueda, para identificar en forma rápida y exacta los temas más importantes del trabajo. Se utilizan entre tres y seis palabras incluyendo el nombre del País. En caso que los términos no se encuentren se pueden utilizar términos actualizados.

Introducción: Informa sobre el propósito del trabajo y la justificación del mismo. Presenta los antecedentes que fundamentaron el estudio en el caso de las revisiones bibliográficas. Da a conocer los rasgos generales del estudio y motiva e interesa a los lectores para completar la lectura del trabajo.

Metodología: Indica con claridad el cómo y por qué se realizó el estudio, especifica cuidadosamente el significado de los términos utilizados y detalla en forma exacta cómo se recolectaron los datos estadísticos. Describe los métodos y procedimientos empleados, con el suficiente grado de detalle para que otros investigadores puedan reproducir los resultados. Asimismo describe en forma breve los métodos nuevos o sometidos a modificaciones sustanciales, razonar su utilización y anotando las referencias pertinentes.

Incluye, trabajos de revisión, una sección de métodos utilizados para localizar, seleccionar, recoger y sintetizar los datos. Los métodos estadísticos deben escribirse en detalle para verificación de los expertos.

Deben indicarse las normas éticas a las que se sometió el trabajo; cuando se involucre la integridad física y sicológica de las personas, el anonimato para los menores de edad, siguiendo los lineamientos de la Declaración Helsinki (Seúl, Corea 2008), asimismo presentar el consentimiento informado autorizado por los padres, puede incluir fotografías que no comprometan la integridad de la persona . Indicar si los procedimientos empleados han respetado los criterios de un Comité de Ética para la Investigación, legalmente registrado y responsable de su evaluación, local o internacional (consentimiento informado) puede visitar y conocer el de la UEES en la siguiente dirección http://www.uees.edu.sv/investigacion/comite-etica/comite-etica.htm

Resultados: Presentar los resultados en el texto, tablas y gráficos siguiendo una secuencia lógica, no repetir en el texto los datos de las tablas o ilustraciones, deben limitarse estrictamente las necesarias, para explicar el argumento del trabajo, máximo 4 tablas. No solo presentar resultados numéricos derivados, por ejemplo porcentajes, presentar los valores absolutos de donde se obtienen.

Discusión: Se recomienda dar respuesta al objetivo general y hacer énfasis en los aspectos nuevos e importantes del estudio y las conclusiones que se deriven de este. Comparar las observaciones realizadas con las de otros estudios pertinentes, explicar el significado de los resultados.

Conclusiones y recomendaciones
Relacionar las conclusiones con los objetivos del estudio. Evitar repetir en forma detallada, los datos y otra información ya incluida en la introducción y resultados. Evitar información no contrastada y conclusiones no respaldadas y verificadas por datos disponibles. No realizar afirmaciones sobre costos o beneficios económicos, solamente que en el trabajo se incluyan datos y análisis económicos; no citar trabajos que aún no se han finalizado solo si se han publicado avances; proponer hipótesis justificadas e identificarlas detalladamente, incluir recomendaciones si son oportunas y sustentadas.

Limitaciones: explicar las dificultades del estudio o para futuras investigaciones, ser breve.

Agradecimientos: Aquí puede incluir el nombre de organismos o instituciones que apoyo financieramente o en especie la investigación. Como todas las personas que considere pertinentes que colaboraron en el trabajo de investigación, que no cumplan con los lineamientos de autoría.

Fuentes de información consultadas: Según formato de normas VANCOUVER. Las referencias que se realicen de originales aceptados, pero aún no publicados, se detallara “en prensa” o “próximas publicaciones”.

Las recepción de trabajos enviarlos a editorial@uees.edu.sv , se aceptan durante todo el año.

Copyright Notice

The authors give to the copyright to the journal Ciencia, Cultura and Sociedad, and copyright in all forms and media, to be notified of acceptance of your article. The authors can publish their articles in another journal after a semester published in this volume. The content of the articles is the sole responsibility of the authors. To refer to the articles correctly quote the authors.


Creative Commons License
Ciencia, Cultura y Sociedad articles are published in open access and are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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1.1 what data we collect

  • When you browse our website, we collect anonymised data about your use of the website; for example, we collect information about which pages you view, which files you download, what browser you are using, and when you were using the site.
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2.1 what data we collect

  • When registering an account we ask you to log in and provide certain personal information (such as your name and email address), and there is the option to register using an ORCiD which will pre-fill the registration form.
  • As part of submitting an article for publication, you will need to provide personally identifying information which will be used for the peer review process, and will be published. This can include ‘Affiliation’, ‘Competing interests’, ‘Acknowledgements’.

2.2 why we collect the data

  • Registering an account allows you to log in, manage your profile, and participate as an author/reviewer/editor. We use cookies and session information to streamline your use of the website (for example in order for you to remain logged-in when you return to a journal). You can block or delete cookies and still be able to use the websites, although if you do you will then need to enter your username and password to login. In order to take advantage of certain features of the websites, you may also choose to provide us with other personal information, such as your ORCiD, but your decision to utilize these features and provide such data will always be voluntary.
  • Personal data submitted with the article or book is collected to allow follow good publication ethics during the review process, and will form part of the official published record in order for the provenance of the work to be established, and for the work to be correctly attributed.

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  • As a registered author in the system you may be contacted by the journal editor to submit another article.
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2.4 why we store the data

  • We store the account data so that you may choose to become a reviewer and be able to perform those tasks, or to become an author and submit an article and then track progress of that article.
  • Published personal data that accompanies an article or a book forms part of the official published record in order for the provenance of the work to be established, and for the work to be correctly attributed.

2.5 what to do if you want to get a copy of your data, or want your data to be removed

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  • To conform to publication ethics and best practice any personal data that is published alongside an article or book cannot be removed. If you have a query about a publication to which you are attributed please contact info@ubiquitypress.com

3. When registering as a reviewer

3.1 what data we collect

  • To become a reviewer you must first register as a user on the website, and set your preference that you would like to be considered as a reviewer. No new personal data is collected when a registered user elects to become a reviewer.
  • When registering an account we ask you to log in and provide certain personal information (such as your name and email address), and there is the option to register using an ORCiD which will pre-fill the registration form.
  • Reviewers can also be registered by editors who invite them to review a specific article. This requires the editor to provide the reviewer’s First Name, Last Name, and Email address. Normally this will be done as part of the process of inviting you to review the article or book.
  • On submitting a review, the reviewer includes a competing interest statement, they may answer questions about the quality of the article, and they will submit their recommendation.

3.2 why we collect the data

  • The data entered is used to invite the reviewer to peer review the article or book, and to contact the reviewer during and the review process.
  • If you submit a review then the details of your review, including your recommendation, your responses to any review form, your free-form responses, your competing interests statement, and any cover letter are recorded.

3.3 what we do (and don’t do) with the data

  • This data is not shared publicly and is only accessible by the Editor and system administrators of that journal or press.
  • The data will only be used in connection with that journal or press.
  • Data that is retained post final decision is kept to conform to publication ethics and best practice, to provide evidence of peer review, and to resolve any disputes relating to the peer review of the article or book.
  • For journals or presses that publish the peer reviews, you will be asked to give consent to your review being published, and a subset of the data you have submitted will become part of the published record.

3.4 what to do if you want to get a copy of your data, or want your data to be removed

  • If you would no longer like to be registered as a reviewer you can edit your profile and tick the box ‘stop being a reviewer’. This will remove you from the reviewer database, however any existing reviews you may have carried out will remain.
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4.1 what data we collect

  • Co-author data is entered by the submitting author. The submitting author will already have a user account. According to standard publishing practice, the submitting author is responsible for obtaining the consent of their co-authors to be included (including having their personal data included) in the article/book being submitted to the journal/press.
  • The requested personal data for co-authors are at the bare minimum; first name, last name, institution, country, email address. This can also include; ORCID ID, Title, Middle Name, Biographical Statement, Department, Twitter Handle, Linkedin Profile Name or ImpactStory ID.

4.2 why we collect the data

  • Assuming that it is accepted for publication, this data forms part of the official published record in order for the provenance of the work to be established, and for the work to be correctly attributed.
  • Author names, affiliations and emails are required for publication and will become part of the permanent cited record.

4.3 what we do (and don’t do) with the data

  • The co-author’s personal data is stored in the author database. This personal data is only used in relation to the publication of the associated article.
  • Any co-author data collected is added to the author database and is only used in association with the article the user is co-author on.

4.5 what to do if you want to get a copy of your data, or want your data to be removed

  • To receive a copy of your data, please contact info@ubiquitypress.com
  • To conform to publication ethics and best practice any personal data that is published alongside an article or book cannot be removed. If you have a query about a publication to which you are attributed please contact info@ubiquitypress.com

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5.1 what data we collect

  • We require you to include your name and email address

5.2 why we collect and store the data, and for how long

  • This data would be collected to keep you updated with any news about the platform or specific journal

5.3 what we do (and don’t do) with the data

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5.4 what to do if you want to get a copy of your data or want your data to be removed

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(Updated: 10 September 2025)