Assessment Protocol
Protocol for the revision of research articles
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1. If you consider that the manuscript is not suitable for publication, please use this table. In the first part, one or more substantive reasons have to be selected to justify your decision. In the second part, optional reasons can be selected. If you consider that the manuscript meets the requirements for publication, please skip the table and go to nº 2 and nº3 below.
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Main reasons for rejection. Check all options that you consider relevant. |
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The topic of the article is not relevant to the journal or is not of scientific interest |
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The article is not a contribution to the discipline or the theoretical model in which it is framed |
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Bibliographic references for the theoretical framework are inappropriate, outdated or not very exhaustive |
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The article contains plagiarism |
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The article has serious deficiencies in its methodology: inappropriate corpus, analysis tools, etc. |
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The results are not consistent with the proposed methodology, are presented in a confusing way or are unreliable |
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The conclusion is poor or incomplete, that is, it is not related to the main findings and it does not include any projections |
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Optional reasons for rejection.
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The article is not formatted properly |
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The article has writing problems (spelling, punctuation, grammar) |
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The style is inconsistent with a scientific work |
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The article shows inaccuracies in the terminology and definitions |
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The abstract is inconsistent with the investigation |
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The titles of sections and subsections are inconsistent: they fail to clearly identify the sections of the article and do not follow a coherent logic |
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Figures, tables and graphs are confusing or incomplete |
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The introduction is poor, i.e., it does not introduce the topic, justify the investigation or present the aims |
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2. If you recommend accepting the manuscript, please provide the author with mandatory changes that must be accomplished in order to be published. Changes should be expressed using imperative mode (Explain, Include, Describe, etc.).
3. Here, you can provide the authors with some suggestions that may help them to improve the manuscript. Please, notice that these suggestions are not mandatory for the authors.