Information For Authors

Submitting papers

Revista de Comunicación is a semiannual academic publication. Publishes two issues per year in March and September

 The usual deadline for receipt of originals:

• February 15 - March 15, for the September issue and
• August 30 - September 30, for the March.

Evaluation of papers

The Editorial Board will carry out a first review of the articles received in order to assess compliance with minimum quality requirements and adjustment to the profile of the journal, within 30 days from the closing date of the call.

The second review of articles is carried out by external academic peers, experts in each subject, with the double-blind procedure - anonymity of authors and evaluators-.

The Revista de Comunicación only publishes unpublished works that have the favorable opinion of two reviewers external to the University of Piura. The authors guarantee the originality of their work and the absence of plagiarism, self-plagiarism or duplicate publication. The Editorial Board finally defines whether or not to publish the article, in accordance with the criteria of scientific publication.

  Download template of review

In the event that the two reports received on an original are contradictory (Accepted-Not accepted), the Revista de Comunicación  will turn to a third external reviewer.

Once the concepts from the external academic peers have been received: Accepted, Accepted with minor changes, Second evaluation, Not accepted, the corresponding communication is carried out.

The final decision of publication, acceptance or rejection, is made on the basis of the reviewers' reports, together with the following criteria: 

a) Current, originality and  novelty of the research.

b) Academic contribution to the scientific knowledge  of communication.

c) Reliability and methodological relevance.

d) Relevant content for international researchers.

e) Scientific rigor of the written style.

The journal undertakes to communicate to the authors the positive or negative decision on the publication of their papers in the 12-th week after the closing date of each edition. The communication will be accompanied by the content of the anonymous reports of the external evaluators.

Authors whose articles have obtained a favorable opinion but with suggestions for corrections will send them again to the Revista de Comunicación, once the suggested improvements have been incorporated, within a maximum period of two weeks.

If the article requires a second revision, the author(s) have a period of two weeks to incorporate the changes. The editor, along with external reviewers, will then verify that these changes have been made. If so, the manuscript will be assessed as completed. Otherwise, you will be fired.

 Accepting the articles and making the adjustments and the precisions to which they occur, these pass to orthographic correction, in which process the particular style of each author is respected. This correction is of form, never of content. The communication is direct with the authors, not to alter the original contents.

We recommend authors read the article by Professor Luís Codína "How to respond to the evaluation (peer review) of a scientific article" https://www.lluiscodina.com/evaluacion-articulo-cientifico/

Rules on articles

 All articles must be original and unpublished. They can be written in Spanish or English. The translated text must meet the highest  professional standards. 

They must be sent to OJS of the journal. 

 The author is responsible for the authorship of the manuscript in the event of conflict with previously published articles.

The author will send, along with the article, the Author Presentation Form, signed by all co-authors, if applicable.

Please check the Journal Style Guidelines.

The recommended number of authors per article will be three. The priority of authors must be established. And justify the contribution of each author. In collaborative work, each researcher must identify his or her contribution role in the CrediT taxonomy, which has been implemented for the sake of transparency and quality of scientific research. Contributing roles will appear at the end of each published article.

Authors cannot submit two manuscripts simultaneously. The same author or co-author cannot republish an article for a period of one year, that is, two issues of the Revista de Comunicación. 

Revista de Comunicación recommends the citation of scientific publications from the field of journalism, audiovisual communication,  corporative communication,  and advertising.

In relation to the contents

- That it is really a scientific investigation, not essays on a topic, and that it corresponds to the communication theme.

- Have a complete vision of the proposed topic. Sometimes it is try to show the reality of a country, analyzing the issue in a company, or in a province. Or the reality of two countries, analyzing 4 or 5 cases of a province of each country.

- That they are novel topics, non-repetition of topics already widely analyzed in different realities, or counts of characteristics, or elements, of media, products, services, users, from which novel conclusions and guidelines for action cannot be drawn. They must contribute novelty to the analyzed scientific knowledge.

- That the authors confront their findings with those of other authors and clarify the contributions of their research work. That there is an interpretive and in-depth analysis of the object of study, and they are not merely descriptive. No to the partial publication of results.

- That the topics are not strictly local, or very specific, a case of a company, a medium, a movie. The results will allow to know the subject in that specific area and not in a comprehensive way. It cannot be generalized to a global setting.

- That the states of the question be a systematic study, of discussion, and critical and original contributions on the techniques and methods reviewed and not a simple bibliographic enumeration.

- That they are current, studies in which the analysis period has ended in a period not exceeding two years old, on the date of shipment of the article.

Integrity and Plagiarism Detection

The authors guarantee integrity in scientific research: honesty in all aspects of the Research and responsibility in the execution of the Research.

Editorial board performs plagiarism control through the Turnitin system -an internet plagiarism prevention service- and uses the same system to detect writing with Artificial Intelligence.

Style guidelines

Please check the Journal Style Guidelines.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence