Editorial policy

The Revista de Comunicación is an academic journal of the School of Communication of the Universidad de Piura. The publication aims to disseminate material of high theoretical, philosophical, methodological and empirical quality, on issues of communication developed in both the academic and professional field. The editorial criterion that leads the publication is the knowledge acquired through research on communication issues and their practice.

The content and selection criteria of the articles in the publication agree with the purposes that inspire the Guiding Principles of the Universidad de Piura. The Revista de Comunicación is sponsored by the University of Piura, Peru.

It is aimed at academics, scientists, information professionals, the communication industry, and students of Communication Faculties.

Revista de Comunicación is a non-profit project. In compliance with open access policies, it provides free access to all published articles and encourages the exchange and dissemination of texts at no cost to readers. The journal does not include costs for the authors for processing the articles or for their publication.

The magazine provides immediate Open Access to its digital content. The printed content (2002-2012) is also available in the digital edition.

Self-archive conditions allow Authors to reuse published works, including depositing them in institutional, thematic repositories or personal web pages. Recognizing the initial publication in our  Journal.

Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles published in the journal, when they are used for any legal purpose and according to the Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

The journal uses different archiving repositories where the publication is hosted: SCOPUS, WEB OF SCIENCE,SCIELO, DOAJ, LATINDEX, REBIUNREDIB, DIALNET, MIAR, C&MMI, CONFIBERCOM, JSM, EBSCO,  ERIH+, MENDELEY, etc.

Adherence to International Declarations

The Revista de Comunicación began as an open access scientific publication and is committed to good practices related to research, authorship and scientific publication, which is why it promotes compliance with the following statements at the different stages of the publication process :

Revista de Comunicación adheres to the Budapest Declaration on Open Access.

Revista de Comunicación adheres to the Singapore Declaration on Research Integrity.

Revista de Comunicación adheres to the authorship principles established by the Contribution Roles Taxonomy (CRediT), on Authorship Policies.

Revista de Comunicación adheres to the principles and practices defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on Publication Ethics.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The growing use of generative AI has prompted us to establish the first policies around its use to guide editors, authors and reviewers.

The editor, as responsible for the editorial process, receives the manuscript as a confidential document, and has the obligation to keep it as such throughout the evaluation process, until its publication. The manuscript should not be uploaded to any artificial tool. Doing so may violate confidentiality, authors' proprietary rights, or data privacy rights. This confidentiality extends to communications about the manuscript.

Authors, as responsible for their works, must accurately declare the use of generative AI, the tool used, the content generated, and the corresponding purpose. They can be used only to improve language and writing, not to interpret data or draw conclusions, as their results may be incorrect, incomplete or biased.

The AI ​​should not be cited as the author; as computer technology, it lacks the human capacity to take responsibility or give consent.

Human authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity and originality of their documents.

Reviewers should not use generative AI in their review processes. The manuscript is kept as a confidential document at this stage. Assessment is a critical exercise in human responsibility, and there is a risk that technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions. These policies follow the protocol proposed by Elsevier (2024).