Horizontes Pedagógicos Hop with more than 20 years of experience, is a biannual open access journal, which belongs to the Editorial IberAM of the Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana in Colombia.

It circulates in print and electronic media through its participation in indexes, databases and academic repositories, focusing mainly on issues related to teaching, Inclusion and diversity, interculturality, action research and learning in educational contexts.

Hop is especially aimed at national and international researchers who daily seek to nurture the knowledge base of the discipline and its adjuvants, teachers who seek sources to improve the development of their practice.

social and professional and they dedicate their time to research to be able

recognize the practices, standardize the methods and pluralize the reach of its results to the general public interested in the topics covered.

Preliminary review

All manuscripts submitted for submission to the journal Horizontes Pedagógicos HoP must be submitted through the OJS platform in the access called SEND A MANUSCRIPT. In response to the shipment, you receive an acknowledgment email, which does not mean that the item is considered “submitted”.

Manuscript files in editable software formats such as Microsoft Word (.docx), Open Office Documents (.odt.sxw) are supported, both support features such as bibliographic management and equation editor; In no case are documents in binary formats such as PDF, RTF or DOC admitted as a manuscript file and in no case are files with restrictions or keys for opening them accepted.

Supplementary files such as tables or graphs are supported in files in Microsoft Office (.xslx) and Open Office Calc (.ods .sxc) formats, illustrations in: Microsoft Power Point (.pptx), Open Office (.odp .sxi) , as well as other graphics, illustrations and photographs (which do not contain data) in extensions such as: vectors (.pdf, .ai, .svg), images (.psd, .jpg, .tiff, .eps, .png), equations (odf, .sxm, .smf, .mml).

In addition to your manuscript, you are expected to receive a letter of interest and commitment in which you present your work to the editor, describe the need to be published, agree to respond promptly to any request the journal may make, acknowledge that the publisher has his judgment may readjust the title or description, he accepts that the work be submitted to the review of a specialized proofreader, he is clear that the work may not be or be submitted to another magazine and warns that, if his work is accepted, It will formalize by means of a public document the transfer of rights and accepts that it be published in Open Access, admits that it will make the respective rectification to which there will be place yes in the future, the evidence and science show that in whole or in part its postulates, meanings and statements can be distorted.

The manuscripts received undergo a review by the editor-in-chief and the editorial team in which it is verified that the article complies with the stipulations indicated in the journal's presentation and publication regulations, which the author will find in the Instructions for Authors, in case of non-compliance, the author will be informed of the elements to be adjusted, and after the adjusted delivery, a certificate will be issued from the publisher as a public document that acknowledges the submission of the work to the magazine.

The Institutional Editorial Policy states that the maximum time for this response corresponds to 5 business days from the acknowledgment of receipt of the work. Once the author receives the Certificate of Submission, it can be verified online and will have a period of 3 working days for its withdrawal, otherwise it will automatically start the editorial evaluation process.

Editorial assessment

The article will be assigned to a section editor, who will carry out the following tasks taking into account the proposed times established in the table below:

• Anti-plagiarism review

• Review and validation of citations and references

• Review and adjustment of editorial format

• Review and format adjustment of materials

complementary

• Search for experts to evaluate the article

The editor will be able to determine some needs that he has identified in the article and that need to be rectified before being sent to the editorial rounds of evaluation by peer evaluators, so he will send the manuscript as it is at the time.

Editorial rounds

Your manuscript is submitted to peer reviewers under the double-blind methodology so that they recommend or not its publication based on a set of criteria related to the concretion, cohesion and soundness of the proposed work, keep in mind that the referees may recommend the rejection of the work, its acceptance with major adjustments that require a second revision, minor adjustments that allow them to be corrected with the editor or its unconditional acceptance.

The editor must make a comparison between the recommendations of the referees to make his decision and communicate it to the authors:

• If the two pairs show substantial differences in their evaluation, it constitutes a reason for the editor to appoint a third arbitrator to settle the differences and make the corresponding decision.

• In cases of unconditional acceptance of both arbitrators, the manuscript is transferred to the publication process.

• In the case of rejection, the editor will notify the author of this situation and the reasons presented by the evaluators; the author will have a period of 5 working days to make effective his right to be reevaluated arguing the reasons for this purpose; In this case, the editor will present the situation to the editorial committee and this will determine whether or not the right is brought and will order a new round of evaluation or, failing that, notify the author of the negative decision and report the novelty to the issuer the respective certificate of release of responsibilities.

• In all other cases, the editor will document the evaluators' recommendations and will send them to the authors so that they can make the respective adjustments at the times indicated.

• Once the authors submit the requested adjustments, the editor will verify their compliance. If the evaluation indicates that it has major adjustments, the editor will start a new evaluation round.

• Once the editor determines that the manuscript is publishable, it will be transferred to the publication process.

Publication

In this process, it issues the certificate of announcement of acceptance of the article that the publisher sends directly, together with the documents that the author must attach for publication and a notification of the responsibilities existing at the time.

The manuscript undergoes a review by a style editor with experience in the discipline. This may or may not communicate with the authors by any means to resolve doubts and concerns regarding the writing of the manuscript and thus be able to debug it so that it complies with the current grammatical rules for the language, this is a process that should not take more than 3 business days.

Once the manuscript has been adjusted in style, it is submitted for graphic (PDF), scientific (JatsXML) and web (HTML) montage. At the end the PDF is sent for review by the authors, who will have up to 5 business days to send their comments, if they do not receive any in this period, they will be incorporated into the number, validating the completeness of the documents of the authors and issue the certificates of publication and release of responsibilities.

The PKP Preservation Network provides preservation services to the magazine through the OJS platform.

The patrimonial rights of the works are transferred by the authors to the ĬbērAM publishing house, institutional publishing seal of the Iberoamerican University Corporation in perpetuity, so that they can be published in Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 license, in the which the end user is required to respect and apply the right of appointment that assists the authors as moral owners of the work; The publisher also undertakes to preserve the same license in perpetuity so that it can be used and reused by society in general regardless of where it is located. It is understood that the author or authors know about this assignment that arises at the time of its presentation and that it automatically applies if the work is accepted for publication.

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

The journal Horizontes Pedagógicos HoP does not charge any value for the reception of contributions, evaluation or publication, therefore, the publication of articles in the journal does not entitle any remuneration for authors, evaluators and committees.