About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Scientific articles in the area of business sciences, accounting, finance, administration, management, taxation, sustainability and others.

Peer review process

1. Authors will only be able to submit unpublished and original works. Collaborations will be received throughout the year.

2. ­­Once the receipt of a work has been confirmed, the author understands himself committed to waiting for the answer about its acceptance or rejection before submitting it to the consideration of another publication. Once the papers have been received, the Publisher will have the right to publish them in the Journal of Applied Research in Business Sciences

3. The papers will be submitted to the consideration of two specialist evaluators, who, within a maximum period of four weeks, will send their evaluation to the Journal. This will be immediately communicated, via e-mail, to the authors through the editor, informing them if the articles have been accepted, accepted with formal objections, observed or rejected. Reviewers will ignore the identity and background of the author and the author will ignore the identity of the reviewers. If a work has been accepted with formal objections, once these have been corrected by the author, the work will be published, as well as those rightfully accepted, in the volume of the semester following its final acceptance. An observed work may be reworked by the author in accordance with the suggested observations and, for publication, will be reviewed again by the reviewers, who must submit their opinion within two weeks. In the case of discordant evaluations, the editor will send the work to a third evaluator or the editorial team will make a decision evaluating the arbitrations made. 

4. The editors of the Journal of Applied Research in Business Sciences who make the final decision on the possible publication of a work should not have any personal, professional or financial relationship with its authors. The Revista de Ciencias Sociales undertakes not to use for any other purpose the Journal of Applied Research in Business Sciences to the resolution of the conflict of interest itself the information disclosed by authors and referees.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Frequency of publication

The "Revista de Investigación Aplicada en Ciencias Empresariales (RIACE)" has an annual periodicity, with its issue published in December.

Open Access Policy

The "Revista de Investigación Aplicada en Ciencias Empresariales (RIACE)" is an Open Access journal and has no costs associated with downloading content or publishing.

Publication ethics

The Journal of Applied Research in Business Sciences (RIACE) is committed to meeting and maintaining standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. To this end, RIACE closely follows the criteria contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) international guidelines for good practices. 

Responsibility of the author:  

1. It is the responsibility of the authors to submit to RIACE original works, not even partially published in another journal.

2. Authors are obliged to make corrections or, eventually, retractions, if appropriate.

3. Authors must adequately identify the sources used in obtaining the information necessary to carry out the research and the manuscript being submitted.

4. Authors must accurately describe any relevant data that relates to the results of their work. At the same time, they must obtain permission to play any content from other sources.

5. Authors undertake to mention all persons who have collaborated and contributed to the research and its results, so that they appear in the form of co-authors or collaborators, if relevant.

6. Authors are obliged to recognize and provide all sources used, therefore they must use appropriate citation formulas. It is understood that authors have complete knowledge that plagiarism is not accepted.

7. It is the authors' obligation to indicate any financial conflicts of interest that may interfere with the results or interpretations of the research. Therefore, each author must commit to describing the source of funding for the project or research, if relevant.

8. It is the obligation of authors to report any significant errors that may have occurred after the submission of the article; and that information must be made as soon as possible, in order to carry out the appropriate corrections.

9. Authors are required to participate in the peer review process.

10. Authors must immediately notify the journal editor if a significant error is identified in their publication. You must also collaborate with the publisher to publish an errata, an addendum, a correction notice, or retract the document, when deemed necessary.

Responsibilities of reviewers and reviewers:

1. Reviewers should contribute to the decision-making process and help improve the quality of published work by reviewing the manuscript in an objective and timely manner.

2. Reviewers are required to maintain the confidentiality of any information provided by the publisher or author. They must not retain or copy the manuscript submitted for review.

3. Reviewers should alert the publisher to any published or submitted content that is substantially similar to the one being reviewed.

4. Reviewers should make observations or corrections in a neutral tone and duly reasoned and argued. Criticism of a personal nature is considered inappropriate. Judgments must be objective.

5. Reviewers are obliged to be aware of any possible conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative or other relationships between the reviewer and the author) with respect to the manuscript being reviewed, they must alert the editor to them, and, if necessary, withdraw their services in the review of said manuscript.

Editor's Responsibilities

1. Publishers must act in a balanced, objective and fair manner while performing as such, without discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical origin of the authors.

2. Editors are required to handle submissions of sponsored supplements or special issues in the same way as other submissions, so that articles are considered and accepted solely on academic merit and without commercial influence.

3. The editorial committee shall ensure that the reviewers, under no circumstances, attempt to get the author to cite irrelevant texts of journals and/or authors for the sole purpose of fraudulently increasing the prestige of such journals and/or authors.

4. The editorial team will not disclose information about the authorship of articles to reviewers or potential reviewers.

5. Editors must always adopt and follow reasonable procedures in the event of complaints of an ethical nature, conflict of interest, or other nature, in accordance with the policies and procedures of the University of Valparaíso, where applicable. They must provide authors with a reasonable opportunity to respond to any complaint. All claims must be investigated, irrelevant when the original publication was approved. Documentation associated with such claims must be kept confidential. Editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies, when necessary.

6. Publishers are obliged to treat plagiarism as an inadmissible act. If plagiarism is detected, publishers must immediately reject the article, and must inform the author who submitted the manuscript.

Anti-plagiarism policies

The "Revista de Investigación Aplicada en Ciencias Empresariales (RIACE)" cautions the originality of papers submitted for publication, and precautions any possible plagiarism by analyzing documents through the OURIGINAL anti-plagiarism system.

Sponsors

Escuela de Auditoría 

Universidad de Valparaíso

Chile

• Escuela de Auditoría

History of the magazine

The "Revista de Investigación Aplicada en Ciencias Empresariales (RIACE)" is an annual publication published since 2012, it is indexed in Erih Plus Databases and Latindex Directory.

Digital Preservation

The Revista de Investigación Aplicada en Ciencias Empresariales is attached to Digital Preservation criteria PKP Preservation Network