Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y de Zootecnia

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the journal must comply with the presentation, style and citation standards of the journal described in this document. Otherwise, the documents will be returned and the peer review process will be postponed until the authors have made the pertinent correction.

In the first instance, the submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the journal editor to determine if the manuscript is into the interest area, if so, the assignment and sending to external academic peers will be approved through the double-blind modality with at least two evaluators by manuscript; otherwise, an email will be sent to the authors indicating that the article is not accepted to continue with the external academic peer review process.

The evaluation by external academic peers will try to identify the contributions to the scientific, technological or pedagogical innovation of the proposals, compared to the current state of knowledge in a discipline; the academic reviewers must give a concept of approval, modification or disapproval. In case of a divided concept by the evaluators, the manuscript will be sent to a third expert reviewer in the area to define if the manuscript is accepted or rejected. The Editorial Committee or the editor-in-chief may recommend or deny the publication of the manuscript, or request the correction of its form or material.

The criteria considered during the evaluation will be:

- Compliance with the style rules of the journal.
- Relevance of content: the texts should address the issues that are relevant, directly or indirectly, for the understanding of any of the disciplines of health and animal production.
- Originality, novelty, relevance of the topic.
- Scientific quality: Appropriate methodologies must be used to the subject studied, be understandable and possible to reproduce.
- Rigor of argumentation: the works must have a coherent and logical formal thought.
- Methodological coherence: agreement between the problem statement, the objectives, results and interpretations.
- Conceptual clarity: correspondence between scientific or technical terms used in the thematic purpose.

If the articles are accepted for publication, the authors must correct them according to the observations of the peers and / or the editorial committee within the time allotted for it. The observations that are not accepted by the authors must have an appropriate support and sent in a document attached to the corrected manuscript indicating the page and the line number to which it refers, these changes and clarifications will be evaluated by the corresponding editor. The editor and editorial committee reserve the right to reject or accept materials submitted for publication.