Focus and Scope

Aglala is a scientific journal of the Faculty of Accounting and Administrative Sciences of Corporacion Universitaria Rafael Nuñez. It's indexed in PUBLINDEX, in the databases REDIB, EBSCOHOST, FUENTE ACADEMICA, DIALNET, LATINDEX, WORLDCAT, ECONPAPERS, ACADEMIA.EDU, MIAR, CROSSREF, DOTEC, REPEC, ERITHPLUS, BASE, LATIN REV and GOOGLE SCHOLAR. It publishes inedited research, reflection and revision articles and short articles in the area of social sciences (accounting, administration and economics), even though interdisciplinary works are also accepted. The publication is addressed to the academic, scientific and professional community at a regional, national and international level.

The journal began in 2010; it is edited annually and it is promoted virtually. From the year 2019 it will have an biannual periodicity.

The content of the articles and facts expressed are those of the authors and not, in any way, the magazine or the university. Authors interested in submitting a contribution for assessment should forward it to the magazine, according to the guidelines set forth in the section Instructions to authors.

Items are subject to a double-blind refereeing process (both assessors and authors remain anonymous). The editorial board reserves the right to accept or reject the publication of the items received, as well as suggest that the author changes the structure in terms that it does not involve major modifications. The section corresponding to arbitration proceedings lists the special features of this process.

The journal publishes original articles in Spanish, English and Portugues. The period for submitting articles is open throughout the year.

To send comments to the magazine, please contact the editor in chief: Alain Castro Alfaro, Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, Cartagena Branch. Address: Centro Calle De La Soledad 5- 70 Tels: +57 5 6642484 to 6601828 Ext: 112 Cartagena Colombia, School of Accounting and Administrative Sciences. E-mail address: aglala@curnvirtual.edu.co; alain.castro@curnvirtual.edu.co

Aglala does not charge authors costs for editorial processes

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Artículos Cientificos

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Preliminares

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The reception of articles for publication in AGLALA is done throughout the year.

An enclosed file with the signature of the principal author should be sent certifying the originality of the article, which has not been nor will be sent to another magazine which also accepts publication form and format of AGLALA Journal.

The manuscripts received undergo an internal review process in order to identify if they meet the topic of the magazine, standards of academic quality and originality.

Subsequently, the article goes into a review process where items are subjected to a double blind arbitration by national and international peers (both assessors and authors remain anonymous), who receive a copy of the work and the arbitration protocol of the journal.

The evaluation process takes into account aspects such as: originality of content and significant contributions in the field of study; theoretical foundation; accuracy, clarity and coherence of the objectives, hypotheses, methodology and conclusions; relevance and quality of the sources.

The outcome of the assessment will depend on whether the Editorial Board of the magazine declares that the article is publishable, it requests that the author makes any changes or it is rejected.

The decision peer evaluators can provide three scenarios:

• Publishable Article

• Acceptance for correction or adjustment

• Rejection

If the first scenario, the peer emits a publication concept in the version presented; in the second, some recommendations to help strengthen the text and its publication is conditioned; in the third, the peer indicates the reasons for its decision prompting the author to continue making improvements to his text, although individually, in order to be eligible in future calls. Given these considerations, the editorial committee will inform the authors of the decision. In any case, the comments of the arbitration process will be informed to the authors.

Notification to the author of the review report with the relevant decision (publishable article, correction or adjustments acceptance or rejection) is set to a maximum period of six months after the article is received. Once the evaluation process is exhausted, the process of copyediting and layout begins. The draft will be sent to the author in PDF format, and must be returned within a maximum period of one week, with the respective corrections and final approval of the document.

The overall evaluation process usually takes about six months. Upon acceptance of the article, the final publication can usually take up to three more months.

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Accounting and Administrative Sciences begins with Volume 1 number 1 in August 2010 and had an annual periodicity, but since 2019 has a biannual periodicity.

N°1 de Junio.
N°2 de Diciembre.

It is available at: (http://revistas.curn.edu.co).

Open Access Policy

Aglala is an open access scientific journal, so that is available on the Internet for online reading, downloading, printing, partial or complete copying of the document, or any other dissemination physically or digitally with the condition they are given the proper publication credit and the author, either or through a referral or a full citation in accordance with recognized style manuals. This journal can't be used with commercial objetives.

 Copyright notice

This Journal in under creative commons licence (CC  BY-NC-4.0)

Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International

Archiving

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a file distributed among the participating libraries, allowing those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

AGLALA Journal,  based on the provisions of COPE'S Good Practice Guide for Publishers Publications, and in accordance with the principles of transparency established established there are ethical practices in the publication regarding the author, plagiarism items , data manipulation and conflicts of interest, establishes the following statement of editorial ethics, taking into account the following aspects:

1.    Responsibilities of the editors:

 The editor and the editorial board must act justly, objectively and with no type of discrimination (sexual, political, religious, ethnic) in the application of the procedures described on this declaration.

Works based solely in their academic merits will also be edited and published, that is without considering any type of business influence or conflict of interests.  Therefore, the editor must be free of any conflict of interested related with the authors or work financers who incline him to accept or reject a particular article.

The decision made by the editor, no matter what, will be based on the concept of the peers. When there is a suspicion of plagiarism, the committee will use the free available software.

The members of the editorial committee must not reveal information of any of the articles submitted to the journal. The only ones they can talk to about this will be the authors and peers. At the same time, confidentiality will be guaranteed using the double blind evaluation, where the authors do not know who the peers are and vice-versa.

When a member of the editorial committee sees mistakes in any article already published in the AGLALA, he must inform the other members to proceed with a correction or whatever the case merits They must also accept  and follow the pertinent procedures to solve possible complaints or misunderstandings of ethic character of conflict of interest, acting according to the editorial policies and ethic norms of  Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez.  

2.    Responsibilities of the authors:

 The authors must only submit original and unedited texts, which they must declare at the moment they register their work in the AGLALA. It is also the author’s responsibility of the author who inscribes the work or in his defect the one who is going to keep in contact with the editor, see that all the authors approve the content of the manuscript and that all the people who made significant contributions to the work appear as authors. Additionally, the correspondence author must guarantee that the work has not been published or accepted in any other journal or publication and that it has not been considered for publication in any other journal.

In case that part of the content has been previously published, the authors must recognize and cite the respective sources and academic credits. They will recognize that the article does not infringe copyright, property or institutional rights. Therefore, charts, figures or patents which need a special permission to be reproduced must be accompanied by a letter giving permission for reproduction of whoever has the copyright.

The presentation of articles must be objective. There must not be any false or distorted affirmations because this constitutes a non-ethical behavior. At the end, articles must also have information of the manuscript about the sources of financing and declaration of conflict of interests.

 The authors must confirm their copyright rights with a letter of relinquishment addressed to the journal.  They must become actively involved in the peer revision process by timely contributing the peers or editorial board requests. Carefully revise the final version of the article to inform about any mistakes there may be and which should be corrected. In case of finding any significant errors once their article is published, the authors must notify the editorial board, cooperation with the publication of an errata sheet on where necessary, remove the article from the published number.

3.    Responsibilities of peers/revisers:

 Peers must contribute to the evaluation process of the articles by given their objective concepts which are free from value judgment, respectful, constructive and timely. If he does not consider himself an expert or qualified to revise the article, he must say so once he has read the summary, before the receives the complete article. At the same time, he must state if he has a conflict of interest related with the work or the financers of the same which inclines him to accept or reject the article.

It is the peers’ responsibility to tell the authors of any relevant references they have not included in the work. They must also warn the editorial committee of any episode of double publication that has not been noticed by the journal or if it presents any plagiarism elements. 

Handle the information received from the editorial committee or the author in strict confidence, making a correct use of the same. Nevertheless, it is his decision to keep or reject the article in the evaluation process.

4. Process to follow in case of non-ethical behavior:

Editors must take reasonable measures to identify and prevent publishing works where non-ethical or bad conduct in research has been found.  As to the content of an article, the invention and manipulation of data and plagiarism are considered non-ethical behavior. They constitute scientific fraud. Manipulation of citations and falsification of data also constitutes unethical conduct and also omitting the name of an author, among others.

Initially the communication of the author’s non-ethical behavior must be done to the editor of the journal. Later to the editor and the members of the editorial board will be the ones in charge of starting the investigation. The information of non-ethical behavior must be done in writing and it must be accompanied of sufficient proofs to start the investigation.

Non-ethical behavior considered as a misdemeanor by the editor may be solved with the authors without having to consult with the editorial board. 

 In case the non-ethical behavior is catalogued grave, the editor, together with the editorial board must:

-  Send an official communication in writing addressed to the authors and peers in which the bad conduct is listed, considering any available evidences.

-  The editorial board must decide if it should warn employers of institutional affiliation entities of any non-ethical behavior of the authors.

-  if the accusation of inappropriate conduct are not backed up by convincing evidence, the editors may request the advice of an expert.

-  The authors may have the opportunity of answering inappropriate grave conduct accusations.

-   Authors must make corrections, modifications or if necessary, remove the article from the journal.

5. Antiplagium

Through the Turnitin software, the magazine Aglala performs a plagiarism and autoplagio check in order to ensure that the manuscripts received are unpublished.

6. Gratuity

Aglala an open access journal that does not charge for processing and editing of articles (APCs). In that sense: DO NOT charge authors for sending their articles and DO NOT charge readers for access to articles