Focus and scope

Focus and Scope

Definition of the journal: The multidisciplinary Journal Perspectivas Investigativas (RMPI), is a bilingual (Spanish - English) scientific multidisciplinary journal, belonging to the Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinaria Perspectivas Globales (IIMPG), of international character with headquarters in Portoviejo - Ecuador, of quarterly periodicity (January - March), (April - June), (July - September), (October - December), publishing within the indicated lapse. Its objective is to disseminate open science through the publication of refereed articles of high scientific and methodological value. Having as thematic coverage the areas of: Education, economic and social sciences, tourism, management, migration, agricultural sciences, public health, engineering, informatics, arts, humanities, literature, sociology and politics, law, complexity, environment, ecology, epistemology. Aimed at an audience of academic-scientific researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, inventors and popular technologists.

It is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which publishes original research articles in Spanish - English language, which must have been carried out with epistemological - methodological rigor, contributing to scientific growth. It is governed by the publication standards of the APA (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition of 2019). 

Proposals of empirical rigor will be accepted, as well as of revision, reflection, committed to the critical discussion of the investigative - methodological, social, educational, technological field, debating topics of interest and polemic, being able to be presented from the different research approaches, as long as the epistemological - methodical rigor of each one of them is kept. It is of great interest for the journal to promote the different types of Disciplinarity. The articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Quarterly (January - March), (April - June), (July - September), (October - December), published within the indicated period.

Once the editorial audit is approved, the arbitrators are sent under the double-blind or double-anonymous arbitration system (Double-blind peer-review), which guarantees that there is no conflict between the parties, prioritizing the transparency and impartiality of the process.

The Multidisciplinary Journal Perspectivas Investigativas adheres to open access policies, following the guidelines of the following declarations: Budapest (BOAI, 2002), Berlin (2003) and Bethesda (2003).