About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Revista Guatemalteca de Urología is a scholarly peer-reviewed Open Access journal. The journal aims to publish original manuscripts such as case series, controls and cases, systematic reviews, interesting clinical case reports, urology images and epidemiological studies among others. The journal is published semi-annually by the Asociación Urológica de Centro América y el Caribe.

Peer Review Process

The submission that meet the submission criteria will be assesed by the editor-in-chief. The author must send supplementary information (databases, etc.) as evidence of the results stated in the study. The editor will ask the author to do the corrections fixing errors and improving the manuscript.

Once the submission has been corrected, the double-blind peer-review process will start. The submission will be evaluated by a peer-reviewer who is an expert on the field of the study. The peer-reviewer will carry out an in-depth review of the study. The peer-reviewer will request the author to carry out corrections to improve the manuscript.

The peer-review process will finish when the peer-reviewer provides a decision to recomend the publication of the study. The editor has the right to take into consideration the decision of the peer-reviewer.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Therefore, all the contents of the journal are freely accessible and are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

 

Publication frequency

Revista Guatemalteca de Urología is published quarterly. The issues are published semi-annually at the end of June, and December.

 

Copyright and licensing

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0

 

Plagiarism and originality report

All submissions will be assessed on Turnitin in order to detect plagiarism. The journal accepts submissions with no more than 25% of plagiarism. If the manuscript has a plagiarism report more than 25%, the authors will have the opportunity to reduce it and resubmit the work to the journal

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The publication of an article in the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Revista Guatemalteca de Urología is a process of permanent knowledge improvement.  The journal encourages open publishing digital articles. Additionally, it considers its duty to promote the transmission of scientific knowledge, ensuring its rigor and quality, under the ethical commitment of the scientific and academic communities. The protocols and guidelines described make reference to the Code of Conduct for editors of scientific journals that established the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties and responsibilities
Revista Guatemalteca de Urología is committed to:
• assuring the quality of the scientific material published
• guaranteeing freedom of expression
• maintaining the academic integrity of the content, ensuring that the published material follows internationally accepted ethical norms
• publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed

Obligations of authors
Authors must guarantee the authorship of the documents presented. Authorship corresponds to those who have made a significant contribution to the work. If the work has significant contributions from more than one author, these contributors should appear as co-authors.
Authors must provide contact information in order to facilitate communication with other researchers in relation to their published work. This contact information will appear with the published work.

Originality and plagiarism
Authors must ensure that they have obtained permission to publish any materials presented in their work, as well as having exercised the right to quote other author´s work.
Those manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected will be rejected. Likewise, an author should not submit originals to describe essentially the same work as previously published.

Peer review process
The decision of the editorial board to accept or reject a paper for publication is based only on the importance of the work, originality and clarity, as well as the relevance of the study in relation to the editorial.
Any material submitted for publication will be considered confidential while under review, and, in the case of rejection, no evaluator can publish the original.
The evaluators’ identities must be protected at all times, ensuring their anonymity.

Complaints
Revista Guatemalteca de Urología should respond promptly to complaints.
In any case, if the individuals involved are unable to satisfy their claims, they have the right to raise their protests to higher authorities.

Protecting individual data
Revista Guatemalteca de Urología guarantees the confidentiality of individual information. It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain authorizations to publish images and trademarks used in their work, and any other personal data (e.g. age, sex, social status of study participants).

Monitoring malpractice
Revista Guatemalteca de Urología accepts the obligation to act accordingly in cases of suspected malpractice or misconduct. Any manuscripts that raise questions about possible misconduct will be rejected.
Revista Guatemalteca de Urología will make every reasonable effort to ensure that the manuscripts submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate.

Integrity and academic rigor
Any time a published article is suspected of containing major misstatements or misleading or distorted information, it must be corrected immediately.
Any manuscript whose content is found to be fraudulent will be removed immediately from the indexing systems and it will not be available for reading.

Complaints
Any author, reader or reviewer may send complaints by email to Revista Guatemalteca de Urología: [email protected]

 

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Archiving and digital preservation policy

Revista Guatemalteca de Urología allows self-archiving of accepted and published manuscripts. Authors retain copyright ownership and may archive pre-published or post-published versions or publisher's pdf versions in personal or institutional repositories or libraries at any time without the express permission of the journal or publisher.

Authors of articles published in Revista Guatemalteca de Urología have the right to deposit accepted or published versions of manuscripts in institutional repositories. Authors may make them publicly and immediately available upon citation as the site where they were originally published.

Revista Guatemalteca de Urología participates in the Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN) digital preservation that allows for long-term digital preservation should the journal go offline. The LOCKSS programme allows for decentralised and distributed preservation of long-term access to manuscripts. It also allows for the digital preservation of authentic versions of manuscripts.