Focus and scope

The Revista de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Educación, Empresa y Sociedad - ITEES, is a peer-reviewed publication of a technical, scientific and cultural nature, published every four months by the EIDEC publishing house of the International School of Business and Entrepreneurial Development of Colombia; its main objective is the publication of works resulting from research or theoretical reviews that articulate with the interest of both the academic and entrepreneurial environment, and that contribute to the debates in the field of social sciences, specifically in the area of education, business and society.

Its target audience are professionals, academics, researchers and students, who seek to be updated in contents related to the thematic axes addressed by the publication. 

EDITORIAL POLICIES

Review Policy

Articles submitted for review for publication should be addressed and sent to the Revista de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Educación, Empresa y Sociedad - ITEES, in digital media, MS Word version, to OJS or to the e-mail revistagisst@eidec.com.co. The articles submitted must be original and must not be in the process of evaluation in another scientific publication at the same time they are submitted, for which reason it is essential that the authors sign a letter of presentation and partial use license, provided by the journal, where they certify the above.

All papers submitted to the journal undergo "single-blind" review (the authors will not know the reviewers, but the reviewers will know the authors) by "ad honorem" experts.

The following is a list of the arbitration stages that every document goes through:

• Editorial team review: the criteria of substance and form of presentation are reviewed according to the standards of the journal.
• Evaluation by academic peers: the manuscript is sent to two academic peers, experts in the field, who will elaborate a scientific and formal concept of the manuscript within a month. Based on these concepts, the editor will issue an editorial decision in which the author is formally informed of the results of publication of the article, which are: accepted, rejected, or accepted with conditions.
• Proofreading: when an article is accepted, the author must send the final version of the manuscript within a maximum of two months. At this stage, it is verified that the author has made the modifications suggested by the reviewers, if applicable.
• Layout: once the final version of the document is ready, the text is formatted and the necessary files are generated for the printed and digital publication of the journal issue.

In the event that the peers do not agree in their opinion, the manuscript will be sent to a third peer, so that the differences can be settled by means of a majority vote. If a unified solution is not reached in this way, the Editorial Committee will decide on the final publication of the manuscript in question.

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public, which fosters a greater exchange of global knowledge.
The content of the Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
However, any request by the author for permission to reproduce it will be evaluated.

Statement of ethics and best practices

The Revista de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Educación, Empresa y Sociedad - ITEES follows the guidelines of the Deontological and Bioethical Code of Research Practice. For the publication of manuscripts in this journal it is necessary that the author(s) guarantee(s) compliance with the ethical principles mentioned in the "Declaration of compliance with ethical principles", at the same time, the journal has as reference the Code of conduct and good practices defined by the Committee of Ethics in Publications, for editors of scientific journals, this guarantees an adequate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of what is published, protecting and respecting the content of the articles as well as the integrity of the same.

Embargo policy

The magazine must not present an embargo on its content.

Evaluation times

• It is estimated a time of six (6) days from the reception of the document to the issuance of the editorial committee's opinion on compliance with the standards, contents and parameters of the journal section.
• Once the article has been approved to continue with the process, the peer reviewers are requested to evaluate the document, depending on the availability of the peer reviewers. The time limit between the request and the response from a peer reviewer is ten (10) days. If there is no response within those days, a request for evaluation is sent to other peers.
• When the evaluator accepts to review the document, the evaluation form is sent. The evaluator has a maximum of twenty (20) days to complete and send the concept.
• Upon receipt of the evaluation, and if the evaluator included suggestions for changes, the authors are notified, who have a maximum period of (15) fifteen days to make formal changes and (30) thirty days to make substantive changes.
• After obtaining the corrected version of the document, a last revision is made verifying compliance with the suggestions, and if it complies, it is sent to layout. The correction time varies according to the characteristics of the manuscript.
• The layout of the document is sent to the author for review of the latest version. After approval, the document is published in its printed version and in its digital version. The time elapsed until the printing of the paper version depends entirely on the management of the external supplier and internal procedures.
• The authors of articles in the process of evaluation are notified every six months so that they can decide whether to continue with the editorial process.

Conflict of interest statement

In compliance with the requirements for the publication of articles in the Revista de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Educación, Empresa y Sociedad - ITEES, it is necessary that the authors inform, preferably as an author's note in the manuscript, the possible conflicts of interest in the research work.

Privacy Statement

The names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal and will not be made available to any other purpose or person.

Copyright notice

The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeWorks 4.0 International license, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in the Revista de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Educación, Empresa y Sociedad - ITEES.
Authors may make other independent and additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., inclusion in an institutional repository or publication in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in the Revista de Investigación en Revista de Investigación Transdisciplinaria en Educación, Empresa y Sociedad - ITEES.