Scope and Purpose
Albores, Journal of Political and Social Sciences with ISSN 2954-3878 is a peer-reviewed, biannual, open-access publication focused on various disciplines within the social sciences. Edited by Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales of Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ). The journal employs a blind peer-review process, with external arbitration and plagiarism detection software. The final decision on the publication of manuscripts is made by the editorial board with the support of the scientific committee.
Albores publishes research articles, essays, book reviews, and photographic works. The first two categories undergo blind peer review, while the last two are evaluated internally by the editorial team.
The objective of Albores is to disseminate social research in disciplines such as cultural studies, communication, sociology, politics, gender studies, local development, international relations, and public administration, among other social sciences. Additionally, it seeks to foster dialogue, exchange, and exposure of work at the local, national, and international levels within the Spanish-speaking academic community of social sciences.
The audience that Albores targets consists of researchers, academics, and students engaged in social research and action research, who wish to share their findings and contributions to knowledge.
The mission of Albores is to serve as a space for discussion, critique, and reflection on contemporary social issues. The journal aims to encourage researchers, academics, and students to conduct social research and action research, and to share their findings as contributions to knowledge, with an impact on solving social problems.
The vision of Albores is to establish itself as an accessible, reliable, and prestigious source for academic dissemination and scientific knowledge with social impact, based on standards, guidelines, and criteria that ensure the clarity, validity, and quality of the published material.
Rights Policy and Publication Conditions
Authors grant the journal Albores the right of first publication of their works, which will be subject to the Creative Commons 4.0 License. This license allows third parties to share the work under the same terms, as long as proper credit is given to the authors and acknowledgment is made that the work was first published in this journal.
Authors retain their moral rights over the work, including ownership, recognition, and integrity. However, they transfer the property rights to Albores and the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro for publication, open-access dissemination, reproduction, and distribution. Once the text has been accepted for publication, authors will receive a rights transfer agreement that must be signed. In this context, authors retain control over the integrity of their work, as well as the right to be recognized and cited when their works are reproduced or distributed. Additionally, they are responsible for any claims related to intellectual property, exonerating the journal Albores and the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro from any liability.
Open Access Policy
The published material may be used to create new articles, as long as proper credit is given to the original author and the journal, in accordance with the Creative Commons 4.0 license, which can be accessed at the following link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Editors’ Ethics
The editor's decision to accept or reject a submission is based on its relevance, quality, clarity, and thematic appropriateness, supported by reviewers' feedback and plagiarism detection software (Turnitin). Through the blind peer review policy, Albores ensures the confidentiality of the identities of both authors and reviewers.
Albores is committed to transparency and to providing information to interested parties about the stages of the editorial process and the status of a submission. Manuscripts are evaluated without consideration of the author's ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, institutional affiliation, nationality, or any other personal characteristics.
Authors’ Ethics
All submitted work must be original, not previously published, and not currently under review or pending publication in any other medium, whether print or electronic. A text will also be considered previously published if it contains substantial portions of material that have been published before or if it is part of published conference proceedings.
Authors agree not to submit their manuscript to another journal for simultaneous evaluation. They also guarantee that the text does not contain any illegal material and that any content derived from other scientific documents (whether their own or others') is properly cited, does not infringe on copyright, and constitutes no more than 30% of the article's content. Plagiarism in all its forms is considered unethical behavior and will result in the removal of the manuscript and its exclusion from the publication process.
As a mandatory part of the process, an originality statement will be signed at the beginning, and a declaration of conflicts of interest and copyright will be signed at the end of the process, both of which will be sent via email.
Reviewers’ Ethics
Manuscripts sent for review are confidential documents and should not be shown or discussed with others without Albores' authorization. If a reviewer cannot evaluate a manuscript, they should delete all copies of the document (printed and/or digital) that they possess.
Reviewers must notify the journal as soon as possible whether they can review a manuscript. They should report any unethical behavior or irregularities detected during the review process and support any rejection decision objectively, avoiding personal criticism. It is essential that they express their opinions clearly and provide valid arguments.
It is imperative that no unpublished material disclosed in a reviewed manuscript be used for personal benefit without the author's written consent. Privileged information obtained through the peer review process must remain confidential and not be used for personal gain. Reviewers must refrain from evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.
Readers’ Ethics
Readers and users have free and unrestricted access to the content published in Albores, as soon as a new issue is published on the platform. They are permitted to cite, share, print, and distribute the material, as long as it is clearly acknowledged that the work was originally published in the journal. The material must not be used for commercial purposes.
Digital Preservation Policy
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ) is committed to ensuring the long-term access and preservation of digital objects hosted on its servers. To guarantee the continuous availability of these resources, the Office of Periodical Publications, responsible for the Journals Portal (OJS Multirevistas), collaborates with the Office of Information, Technology and Innovation, in implementing the following measures:
- Regular backups.
- Constant monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible format migrations or updates of obsolete software.
- Use of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to ensure document traceability.
In addition, the PKP PN module, integrated into the UAQ Journals Portal, uses the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) program, which provides a decentralized and distributed digital preservation system. This program ensures the preservation of original and authentic content versions, allowing long-term access. Albores also complements these efforts by storing information on internal hard drives and in the drive associated with the journal's official email account.
Use of Interoperability Protocols
Albores manages editorial processes through the Open Journal System and provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface, allowing other portals and information services to access the metadata of published content.
Specifications:
OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Version 1.1
Access address: https://revistas.uaq.mx/index.php/albores/oai