Policies

Scope and Focus

Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research is an online open-access journal of the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences (ICSA) of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo. Its publication is biannual and is released at the beginning of each period (January and July).

 

Section Policies

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Peer Review Process

All manuscripts received by the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research undergo a double-blind peer review process, guaranteeing the anonymity of both the authors and the reviewers throughout the procedure.

In a first stage, the Editor conducts a preliminary review to verify compliance with the editorial guidelines, thematic relevance, and originality of the manuscript. Those submissions that pass this stage are assigned to a minimum of two external and independent reviewers, specialists in the corresponding area and outside the editorial team.

The reviewers assess the manuscript's academic quality, methodological rigor, and scientific contribution, and issue one of the following decisions: Accepted, Accepted with minor modifications, Accepted with major modifications, or Rejected.

In case of discrepancy between the reports, the manuscript will be sent to a third external reviewer, whose decision will be final. The editorial decision will be based on the academic reports received, according to the following scheme:

REVIEWER 1 REVIEWER 2 DECISION
Positive Positive Accepted
Positive Negative Sent to a third external reviewer (final decision)
Positive Conditioned The corrected article may be resubmitted for a second round of review
Negative Conditioned Rejected
Negative Negative Rejected

The final decision will be notified to the corresponding author through the editorial management system.

Before the arbitration process begins, all manuscripts are subjected to similarity detection tools to verify their originality.

Once the manuscript is accepted, it will move to the editing and layout stage. Galley proofs will be sent to the authors for final review before publication.

 

Publication Process

The publication procedure for manuscripts within the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research includes the following stages:

  • a. SUBMISSION (Receipt of manuscripts)
  • b. REVIEW (Evaluation of manuscripts)
  • c. EDITING (Submission to Webmetrics)
  • d. PRODUCTION
  • e. PUBLICATION

A manuscript cannot enter a stage without the previous one being completed, so the criteria that distinguish each publication stage must be clearly defined by the author and the editorial committee itself. See the Author Guide.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research is a biannual journal, published at the beginning of each period (January and July).

The publication period covers January-June and July-December.

 

Editorial Flow

 

Open Access Policy

This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is available free of charge to the user or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without needing prior permission from the editor or the author.

The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows the user to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format, under the following terms:

  • Attribution: proper recognition of the authorship of the journal, indicating the source.
  • Non-Commercial: the material may not be used for commercial purposes.
  • No Derivatives: the material may not be distributed if it has been modified or altered.
 

Self-Archiving Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication promotes the dissemination, preservation, and open access of scientific knowledge.

Authors retain the copyright of their published works and authorize the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo to publish, disseminate, preserve, and distribute the contents in accordance with the current license of the publication.

Authors may disseminate the bibliographic reference of their published works and share the official publication link provided by the publication.

Likewise, they may deposit the published version in institutional repositories, academic repositories, scientific dissemination platforms, or personal websites, provided that:

  • The corresponding attribution to the publication is maintained.
  • The DOI or persistent identifier is preserved when one exists.
  • The official published version is cited.
  • The current Creative Commons license is respected.
  • No derivative version is altered, modified, or distributed when the applicable license restricts it.

It is recommended that any subsequent dissemination preferably refer to the official version available on the UAEH institutional journals portal, in order to ensure preservation, traceability, and proper citation of the scientific content.

 

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication recognizes that Artificial Intelligence tools, including generative AI systems, writing assistants, machine translators, style correction tools, and information organization support systems, may be used as auxiliary support during manuscript preparation.

The use of these tools does not replace the intellectual, ethical, or legal responsibility of the authors. Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy, originality, relevance, and academic validity of all content submitted to the publication.

Artificial Intelligence tools may be used for auxiliary tasks such as spelling and grammar correction, style improvement, translation, preliminary organization of ideas, or support in the clarity of the text.

It is not permitted to use Artificial Intelligence tools to fabricate, alter, or manipulate data, generate nonexistent bibliographic references, produce results or conclusions without human supervision, or present AI-generated content as one's own intellectual production without review and corresponding declaration.

Artificial Intelligence tools may not appear as authors or coauthors of any manuscript.

Authors must expressly declare any significant use of Artificial Intelligence tools in the preparation of the manuscript, indicating the tool used, version or model when possible, purpose of use, and scope of participation.

The publication may request additional clarification when there are indications of improper use of Artificial Intelligence tools.

 

Open Science and Data Availability

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication promotes the principles of Open Science through practices that favor transparency, reproducibility, and the responsible reuse of scientific knowledge.

Authors are encouraged to share data sets, supplementary materials, instruments, codes, transcripts, or other resources derived from the research whenever possible and appropriate according to the nature of the work.

Materials may be deposited in recognized institutional, thematic, or academic repositories, preferably including the corresponding reference within the manuscript.

When ethical, legal, confidentiality, personal data protection, third-party rights, or institutional agreements prevent the sharing of information, authors must state this explicitly in the manuscript.

Data availability will be evaluated considering the nature of each study, disciplinary particularities, and respect for the applicable ethical principles.

 

External Authorship Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

External authorship is considered to be authorship made up of authors whose main affiliation does not correspond to UAEH. When a manuscript includes mixed authorship, the external character will be determined based on the main affiliation declared by each author at the time of submission.

The publication will promote external authorship as part of academic openness, interinstitutional collaboration, and disciplinary diversity.

For editorial follow-up purposes, each journal or bulletin will publish an annual verifiable external authorship report that will include, at a minimum, the evaluated period, the total number of published articles, the total number of articles with at least one external author, the total number of signing authors, the total number of external authors, and the calculation method used.

The suggested institutional indicator will be the following:

Percentage of articles with external authorship = (number of articles published in the period that include at least one author with affiliation external to UAEH / total number of articles published in the period) x 100.

The journal may complement this indicator with the percentage of external authors relative to the total number of signing authors.

The annual report will be available in this section, Announcements, or an institutional repository.

 

Social Relevance Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication will request that manuscripts include a brief section titled “Social relevance”, “Social impact”, or an equivalent term, in which the academic, social, community, institutional, or professional usefulness of the study is clearly explained.

That section should indicate, as appropriate, what problem the research addresses, which population or sector benefits, what contribution it generates, and what its disciplinary, territorial, or community scope is.

The length may be brief and adjusted to the nature of each discipline or article type.

In addition, the editorial presentation of each issue may include a summary of the social value of the published works and their possible use by academic, professional, or social communities.

This information must be incorporated into the author instructions and the corresponding manuscript template.

 

Public Communication Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The journal or bulletin will develop public communication and scientific outreach actions to give visibility to its calls for papers, editorial processes, published issues, and research results.

Dissemination actions may include announcements in OJS, institutional microsites, support websites, institutional social networks, electronic newsletters, outreach notes, infographics, interviews, information capsules, and other outreach pieces approved by the editorial team.

Whenever possible, each dissemination action should include a publication date, link, responsible person or issuing area, and evidence of dissemination.

The publication will seek to ensure that public communication always refers to the official version available on the institutional portal, in order to preserve traceability, proper citation, and editorial integrity.

Journals and bulletins may keep an annual record of public communication activities as evidence of compliance.

 

Web Accessibility Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the journals and scientific bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication adopts the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA as the technical reference for the progressive review of its website, graphic theme, plugins, forms, images, navigation, and PDF documents.

Compliance will not be presumed solely from the use of OJS 3.3.0-20 or the default theme; any compliance statement must be supported by documented technical verification of the specific installation.

The journal or bulletin will carry out periodic accessibility reviews and record the barriers detected, the corrections applied, and the remediation status.

When an inherited technical barrier cannot be corrected immediately, the publication will document the limitation and establish improvement actions as a priority.

As part of this policy, the publication will seek to ensure that published content meets minimum accessibility best practices, including sufficient contrast, semantic heading structure, keyboard navigation, alternative text in images, form labels, readable text, and PDF documents prepared for accessible reading.

The publication may issue an accessibility status statement once the corresponding technical review has been completed.

Accessibility status of the installation:

The journal is currently under technical review of its OJS installation, templates, and PDF documents. At present, there is insufficient evidence to declare full compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA. Any compliance statement must be supported solely by documentary evidence derived from that review.

The publication recognizes that web accessibility is part of a continuous improvement process. In this framework, the progressive migration to newer versions of the OJS platform is under evaluation, as they incorporate functional and technical improvements that may favor site accessibility and its components.

At present, the update to a newer version is conditioned by technical dependencies and legacy incompatibilities inherited from previous migrations, which are being addressed by the responsible team.

While that process is completed, the journal will maintain review, correction, and remediation measures on the current installation in order to reduce access barriers and document the actual accessibility status of its portal.

 

Code of Ethics

Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research declares its commitment to academic integrity, editorial transparency, and good scientific publishing practices. This code must be observed by authors, reviewers, editors, and all people involved in the editorial process.

Authors' commitments

  • Originality and plagiarism: Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts are original, unpublished, and not under simultaneous review elsewhere. They must also confirm the accuracy of the data and declare that it has not been altered, fabricated, or manipulated.
  • Authorship: Authors guarantee that the manuscript corresponds to the people who sign it. Authorship implies active and meaningful participation in the conception, development, analysis, writing, or critical review of the work. The order of authorship must be established according to each participant's level of contribution and responsibility.
  • Conflict of interest and disclosure: All authors must declare any conflict of interest that could influence the results, interpretation, or presentation of the work. They must also report sources of funding, institutional support, or projects from which the manuscript derives.
  • Responsibility: Responsibility for the content of published articles lies exclusively with the authors. Authors commit to reviewing current, relevant, and sufficient literature on the subject analyzed.
  • Attributions, citations and references: Authors must properly acknowledge the sources, ideas, data, images, materials, and contributions used in the manuscript.

Reviewers' commitments

  • Contribution to the editorial decision: Peer review contributes to editorial decision-making and helps improve the quality of manuscripts. Reviewers undertake to provide a critical, honest, objective, and constructive evaluation of the scientific and editorial quality of the work.
  • Respect for review times: A reviewer who does not consider themselves competent in the topic or who cannot complete the evaluation within the established deadline must notify the editors immediately. Reviewers must respect the assigned timelines to support timely communication of results to authors.
  • Confidentiality: Any manuscript assigned for review must be considered confidential. The texts, data, results, or ideas contained in them must not be discussed or used without the explicit authorization of the editors.
  • Objectivity: Reviewers must support their observations and recommendations with clear, respectful, and relevant arguments. They must also inform the editors if they detect substantial overlap with published works or works under review.
  • Anonymity: To preserve the impartiality of the process, the identity of authors and reviewers will remain anonymous during the evaluation. If information compromising anonymity is detected, the reviewer must notify the editors immediately.

Editors' commitments

  • Publication decision: Editors will seek to select reviewers with experience and academic competence in the manuscript topic in order to issue a critical, specialized, and objective evaluation. The journal will aim to have at least two external reviewers for each manuscript.
  • Honesty: Editors will evaluate articles based on scientific quality, topical relevance, originality, methodological rigor, and academic contribution, without discrimination on the grounds of origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality, political opinion, or any other personal or institutional condition of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: Editors and the Editorial Committee undertake to keep the confidentiality of manuscripts, authors, and reviewers so that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the entire process.
  • Conflict of interests and disclosure: Editors agree not to use the content of articles submitted for publication in their research without the signed authorization of the author.
  • Respect for deadlines: Editors are responsible for ensuring compliance with the time limits for reviews and publication of accepted manuscripts, in order to guarantee rapid dissemination of results.

Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research adheres to COPE's Core Practices (http://www.publicationethics.org).

 

Copyright

In the event that the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors retain the copyright of their published articles without restrictions and permanently grant Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research, on a non-exclusive basis, the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, and disseminate their work nationally and internationally, in order to preserve it and make it available in open access, in whole or in part, through current institutional digital media and channels, databases, repositories, and portals, under the applicable publication license.

 

Authorship and Changes in Authorship

The authorship of manuscripts must be fully defined from the initial submission stage through the OJS platform. The inclusion, removal, or reordering of authors, as well as a change of corresponding author, may only be considered during the evaluation phase of the manuscript, provided that this situation has been formally notified by the corresponding author before final acceptance and includes the corresponding justification.

Once the manuscript has been accepted and published, no changes in authorship will be allowed, except in duly documented exceptional cases, which will be evaluated in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Requests for post-publication authorship changes motivated by external administrative, institutional, or academic requirements do not constitute a valid criterion for editorial changes and may be rejected in order to safeguard the integrity, transparency, and credibility of the publication.

 

APC Processing Charge

Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research has no article processing charge (APC), which includes:

  • Submission
  • Receipt
  • Preliminary review
  • Peer review
  • Editing
  • Publication
  • DOI assignment
  • Markup
 

Plagiarism Detection

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research will be subjected to plagiarism detection tools: EduBirdie, Plagius, and Plag, which analyze texts for matches to ensure their originality. This is done by the Editor-in-Chief upon receiving the submission and before starting the peer review process. If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected in a manuscript submitted for publication, the procedure detailed by COPE will be followed as outlined in the following diagram.

 

Errata and Retractions

Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research follows the recommendations issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) regarding Correction, Retraction, and Republication, in order to avoid bad scientific practices and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions when necessary according to the following types of errors:

  1. Errata - Unintentional errors (errors in sampling, procedures, failure to reproduce results, accidental omission of information about methods or data analysis): When an author or other person on the committee discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, it is their obligation to immediately notify the bulletin and provide support, as applicable, to correct the document.
    The editor-in-chief, together with the editorial committee, will evaluate the situation and, if there is an erratum, the published document will be corrected and updated, attaching a second document that uses the corresponding template of the bulletin, which must contain and indicate the following:
    1. The modification date.
    2. Indicate exactly the parts of the document that were corrected or modified, showing the before and after.
    3. If necessary, the justification for the reasons for the change must be included.
    4. It must contain the information regarding the title of the affected manuscript, the numbers corresponding to the volume, issue, and year of publication of the original.
    5. You must include the approval signature of the editor-in-chief who validates said procedure.
    6. If there are future corrections, they must be updated in the latest modified version of the attached document, maintaining all previous versions of the incidents. This is to keep track of events.
  2. Retractions - Voluntary errors (forgery, fabrication, or plagiarism): In the event that an already published article presents substantive errors detected by the author and that threatens scientific quality, the author may request withdrawal or correction. But if plagiarism, prior publication, unethical conduct, or error is detected by a third party, it is the author's obligation and responsibility to publicly retract, which will be removed or corrected immediately after a thorough analysis by the editor-in-chief who validates this event. The manuscript will be withdrawn while keeping the title published, attaching a subsequent document in which the reasons and/or causes that led to its withdrawal are established, which must contain:
    1. Information regarding the title of the affected manuscript, volume, issue, and year of publication of the original.
    2. Indicate the causes and/or reasons, as well as the corresponding evidence for which the retraction or withdrawal of the manuscript was carried out.
    3. The date of original publication and the date of retraction or withdrawal of the manuscript.
    4. You must include the approval signature of the editor-in-chief who validates said procedure.

It should be noted that in either case the online publication and the assignment of the DOI to the manuscript will be maintained. If necessary, these corrections will be notified to the organizations in which the journal/bulletin is currently indexed.

 

Metadata and Interoperability Policy

The publication adopts a metadata policy aimed at ensuring interoperability, editorial traceability, correct citation of published works, and permanent retrieval of its content.

The publication uses Dublin Core as its main interoperability scheme through OAI-PMH, with public access to its harvesting endpoint at the following address:

https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/jbapr/oai

This implementation enables metadata harvesting and exchange with indexing, aggregation, and bibliographic preservation systems.

Required metadata

Every submitted manuscript and every published article must record, at a minimum, the following metadata:

  • title in the manuscript's primary language
  • title in English
  • full name of each author
  • complete institutional affiliation
  • country of affiliation
  • ORCID identifier
  • corresponding email address
  • abstract
  • keywords
  • language of the manuscript
  • dates of receipt, review, acceptance, postprint, when applicable, and publication
  • standardized bibliographic references
  • DOI or other persistent identifier, when applicable
  • publication license
  • volume, issue, year, and pagination of the published article

When the type of manuscript requires it, other metadata may also be mandatory, such as funding, conflict of interest statement, data availability, acknowledgments, and editorial notes.

Editorial capture and validation

Metadata are initially captured by the authors during the submission process in OJS.

Subsequently, the review and validation of metadata is the responsibility of the editorial team. In particular:

  • the section editor reviews that the metadata are complete and consistent with the submitted manuscript;
  • the editor-in-chief validates the final consistency between the metadata, the manuscript, the authorization or transfer letter, and the editorial publication information;
  • the editorial team may request corrections before advancing the manuscript to decision, editing, or publication.

Editorial validation must confirm that the published metadata match the final accepted manuscript, the corresponding authorization or transfer letter, and the version published in OJS.

Post-publication correction

If a metadata error is detected after publication, the publication will apply the editorial mechanism proportionate to the type of error.

  • For minor metadata errors, the corresponding editorial correction will be issued, such as an erratum or corrigendum, as applicable.
  • The original published version must not be removed or hidden.
  • The correction must be clearly linked to the original article.
  • The date of the correction and the nature of the change must be documented.
  • If the error affects citation elements, authorship, affiliation, DOI, abstract, keywords, or license, the published metadata must be updated in OJS and, where appropriate, in harvesting and indexing services.

If the detected problem compromises the integrity of the editorial record, authorship, originality, or validity of the content, the case will be assessed in accordance with COPE guidance on corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions.

Multiformat export development

The publication may progressively incorporate multiformat export processes from the editorial source file, based on a conversion and validation methodology that ensures consistency between the original and its derivative outputs.

Editorial commitment

The publication is committed to ensuring that its metadata are complete, verifiable, consistent, interoperable, and traceable for correction when a legitimate error exists.

 

Postprint

With a firm commitment and conviction to disseminate the results of scientific research and innovation as soon as possible, accepted manuscripts are presented for publication after a double-blind peer review process (Post-Prints). These manuscripts will appear in their final version in a future issue of the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research, and only the information related to volume, issue, publication date, and pagination will be modified. It should be noted that each Post-Print has its own Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which may already be used for citations/references. However, it will be officially registered when the manuscript is in its final version and appears in a specific volume and issue of the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research.

Digital Preservation

To ensure the integrity, accessibility, and long-term preservation of published content, this journal implements various digital preservation strategies. In particular, it actively participates in the following initiatives:

  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): a preservation system driven by the Public Knowledge Project, which ensures the safeguarding of the content of journals that use OJS and meet the established editorial requirements.
  • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): decentralized preservation technology that allows multiple copies of content to be stored in different participating libraries, ensuring recovery in the event of loss or damage.
  • CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS): controlled variant of LOCKSS, administered by academic and publishing libraries, offering a reliable and permanent archiving solution.

These tools make it possible to safeguard articles and editorial materials through distributed and secure copies, reinforcing the journal's commitment to the continuous availability of scientific knowledge.

Indexes and Databases

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