Scope and Approach

Territorios is a bi-annual academic journal, the main objective of which is the dissemination of specialized knowledge on regional and urban topics to study and deal with issues related to territorial development by disseminating communication of critical analyses and alternative proposals, which ultimately seek to redefine the region and the territory under the current economic and political structural changes.

Like every specialized publication, it targets researchers who are experts in the Urban Studies and Regional Studies fields and their related disciplines.

Territorios aims to disseminate unpublished, relevant, and high-quality articles related to research conducted on the knowledge areas associated with Urban Studies, reviewed by highly renowned academic peers, under the double-blind modality.

The journal receives original research articles, reflection papers, and bibliographic reviews covering every thematic area related to the interdisciplinary social sciences.

Peer-review Process

1. The Territorios journal will launch an open call for article submission; those who wish to submit their proposal will have a previously stipulated deadline within which to do so.
2. Once an article is received, the journal will send an acknowledgment of receipt to its author through the platform. First, it will be checked to ensure the article’s unpublished nature. If prior publication is detected, the author will be informed of its rejection.

Then, if the Editorial Committee finds that the article should be subjected to evaluation, it will be anonymously sent to an external peer reviewer. Reviewers will be carefully selected by considering the manuscript’s subject and the required specialized knowledge of each topic.

1. The external reviewers will check the articles and deliver the result of their assessment in writing, filling out the Revista Territorios’ review form. This assessment stage will last between 4 and 6 months.
2. Afterwards, the article will be approved, rejected, or returned to make adjustments or changes.
3. Where applicable, the editorial coordination team will proceed to do the following:

• Inform the author of article approval and begin the text processing for its publication.
• The author will be informed of article rejection and the reasons that prevented its publication as provided by the peer reviewer.
• When the peer reviewer finds an article suitable for publication, although requiring some adjustments, the editorial coordination team will send the corresponding notes to the author in writing.
• In any of the three preceding cases, the journal’s editorial coordination team will inform the author of the peer review’s result in writing.
• 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.

Plagiarism Policy

Manuscripts subjected to review by Universidad del Rosario’s journals must be original and unpublished. The editorial team will review the authenticity of all manuscripts submitted to the journal through different means, such as the Turnitin tool. When an article is subjected to review, the authors accept that the document will be examined toward avoiding plagiarism of any kind and promoting ethical policies in publications.

Sponsors

• ACIUR

Funding Sources

The Territorios journal is funded Universidad del Rosario.