Scope and Approach

Desafíos is an open access bi-annual journal that disseminates articles, reflection papers, and reviews in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Just as a specialized publication would, it targets researchers and scientists in the Political Science and International Relations fields and related disciplines.

The objective of Desafíos is to disseminate unpublished, relevant, and high-quality articles about research conducted on Political Science and International Relations and related disciplines among the academic and professional community, written by Colombian and foreign authors. The manuscripts submitted to the journal are reviewed under the double-blind modality by highly renowned academic peers.

The journal seeks to meet the needs of our changing world by conducting thorough analyses and opening spaces for debate and discussion on thematic areas presented on a 6-monthly basis, consistent with the present-day reality. The journal welcomes original articles and bibliographic reviews covering every bi-annual thematic area associated with the Political Science and International Relations fields.

Peer-Review Process

1. Desafíos constantly receives manuscripts for the general section. A widespread call will go out for manuscript submission for the thematic section; those who wish to participate will have a previously stipulated limited timeframe to send their proposal.
2. Upon manuscript receipt, the Open Journal Systems (OJS) will send an automatic notification to the author. The coordination team will check whether this article has been previously published or not by using the Turnitin software package. The journal’s editor reserves the right to reject manuscripts showing persistent signs of non-authenticity. After that, if the editorial staff considers the manuscript to meet the quality elements required, the document will be anonymously sent to an external reviewer. Reviewer(s) will be carefully chosen on the basis of the article theme and their specialized knowledge in each subject.
3. External reviewer(s) will review the articles and send the result of their assessment in writing, filling out the journal’s assessment form. The review process conducted by external peers will take 4–6 months.
4. The article’s acceptance, rejection, or return for adjustments or changes will be subsequently established.
5. Where appropriate, the editorial coordination team will proceed to do the following:

• Inform the author of the article’s acceptance and initiate the process for the text’s
• In case of rejection, the author will be informed of the reasons that prevented its publication as provided by the anonymous peer reviewer.
• When the peer reviewer finds that an article is suitable for publication albeit requiring some adjustments or additions, the editorial coordination team will send the corresponding notes to the author in writing.
• In any of the three cases above, the author will know the anonymous review’s result, which will be shared in writing by the Journal’s editorial coordination team.
• Under no circumstances will the final results of the review process be subject to appeal.

Open Access Policy and Publication Fees

This journal provides free and immediate access to your content under the principle of making research available to the public for free to promote increased exchange of global knowledge. This means that no fees are charged to authors for their article’s management, evaluation, and publication.

Deeply committed to the dissemination of scientific knowledge to nonspecialized audiences, Universidad del Rosario’s journals also advertise their content via www.lasillavacia.com/iq, in addition to various registration and indexing systems at the national and international levels.

Preservation and Self-archiving policies

The journals edited by Universidad del Rosario ensure the digital preservation of its content through the system Preservation Network de PKP (Public Knowledge Project).

In addition, the works published in this university’s journal allow for the self-archiving of the version published by the editor (“published version”) in the repositories of the institutions where the authors are affiliated, and the inclusion of the URL corresponding to the journal’s file in which the article can be found is strongly advised.

Conditions:

• Copyrights and publishing rights must be certified.
• A link to the editor’s version must be included.
• The version published by the editor (“published version”) needs to be included.

Roles of Desafíos members

Roles of the Journal’s Director/Editor-in-Chief:

1. Managing the journal.
2. Ensuring the journal’s academic quality.
3. Leading and guiding the Editorial Board.
4. Scheduling the Editorial Board’s regular and special meetings.
5. Proposing potential members for the Editorial Board.
6. Recommending and assigning national and international reviewer(s) for the articles submitted to the journal.
7. Suggesting general criteria for the journal’s operation.

Roles of the Journal’s Editorial Coordination Team:

1. Managing the publication logistics and contact with Universidad del Rosario’s publishing house.
2. Receiving the manuscripts submitted to the journal.
3. Supporting the Director/Editor-in-Chief in the selection of reviewers (judges) to evaluate the articles.
4. Contacting reviewers.
5. Sending a letter of acceptance or rejection to the author on the basis of the reviewer’s decision.
6. Sending a letter to the author asking for the corrections, documents, and information required for the editorial process.
7. Sending a letter to the reviewer asking for the documents and information required by the editorial process.
8. Remaining in contact with Editorial Board members to keep their information up-to-date.
9. Resending the articles for review when the Director/Editor-in-Chief opines that a second opinion is necessary.
10. Conducting a final revision to check whether the reviewers’ recommendations have been addressed.
11. Preserving the journal’s visibility in the databases that it is indexed in and seeking indexing options in new databases.
12. Reaching a final decision on the content to be included on the Desafíos website with the Webmaster.

Roles of the Journal’s Editorial Board:

1. Jointly establishing the editorial policy with the Director/Editor-in-Chief.
2. Defining the editorial criteria together with the Director/Editor-in-Chief.
3. Suggesting readers or reviewers to the editor for the articles submitted to the journal, whenever required.
4. Assisting the journal’s coordination team.
5. Advising the Director/Editor-in-Chief on the establishment of the journal’s scientific quality parameters.
6. Inviting renowned members of the national and international academic community to publish their work in Desafíos.
7. Promoting the journal’s dissemination in national and international academia.
8. Serving as reviewers of works received for publication or suggesting other experts as academic peers.

Sponsors

• Universidad del Rosario

Funding Sources

The Desafíos journal is funded by the School of International, Political, and Urban Studies of Universidad del Rosario.

The Journal's History

Desafíos has been published since 1999 and always aims to disseminate high-quality articles from national and foreign authors in the fields of Political Science and International Relations.