POST-EVALUATION POLICY

All decisions will be communicated via the platform and/or email to the corresponding author. The journal is committed to notifying the author of the decision as soon as possible, along with the reviewers' comments, suggestions, and observations. However, the time required to process a manuscript varies depending on the complexity of the topic, the availability of suitable reviewers, and the number of manuscripts in the queue.

The acceptance of an evaluated and approved contribution does not imply its immediate publication. The journal "Investigaciones y Estudios - UNA" reserves the final decision regarding the publication and the volume in which it will be included.

To avoid holding onto relevant, original, and unpublished manuscripts for extended periods and to comply with Open Science guidelines, we offer an Early Access publication option. The considerations and specifications for this option are described below:

Early Access Publication   

The journal offers an option called Early Access, where articles are published online before their formal inclusion as part of a scheduled volume/issue and represent the final version of the record. Manuscripts in this category may be presented in a preliminary, unformatted state and can be available online a few days after acceptance. This means that the article will be considered published and citable by its DOI as soon as it is published online. When submitting a new manuscript, you will be asked in the cover letter: "Would you like your article to be published online before its formal inclusion?" If you select "yes" and your article is accepted, you will receive a notification to proceed with "Early Access" in your author center. If you select "no," you will not be able to submit your work for Early Access later.

It is the authors' responsibility to provide a clean version for Early Access publication. If you used Microsoft Word's track changes or inserted comments for the editor in the final review, they must be removed in this version. The article will not be published without your final acceptance. Articles published under Early Access will include a statement identifying the article as a preliminary version. On the management platform (OJS), the following phrase will appear: "This article has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication, but it has not yet been edited or corrected. The final published version may differ." 

Articles will be removed from Early Access and assigned a page number when the article is included in a numbered issue