About the Journal

  • Focus and scope
  • Peer review process

  • Focus and scope

    The Amazon Biodiversity Journal (RBA) is a refereed, disciplinary, open access scientific publication, sponsored by the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and edited by the Directorate of Research Institutes in coordination with the Academic Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics of the National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado, Peru; It has a biannual publication frequency (January-June and July-December), in its Online version.

    RBA publishes original and unpublished articles that contribute to scientific knowledge in subject areas of the disciplines of Computer Science, Automation and Control Systems, Systems and Communications Engineering, and Telecommunications. Only articles in Spanish are accepted, sent by the Open Journal System (OJS) platform following the rules indicated in the Guidelines for authors.

    Its mission is the dissemination of scientific, pertinent and rigorous production that allows it to contribute to the solution of the problems of world society in the aforementioned thematic areas. The target audience is researchers, undergraduate and graduate thesis students from the university community of the National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios, as well as national and foreign professionals interested in obtaining in-depth knowledge of the journal.

    Peer review process

    Contributions must favorably accredit the academic opinion process, which will operate under the double-blind peer review modality, where the identity of both the authors and the reviewers will remain anonymous:

    1. We will send articles, which accredit the editorial opinion, to expert academics in the same disciplinary and thematic area as those of the postulated paper. We will select reviewers from the portfolio of referees –made up of specialists from national and international institutions-, who will comment on the relevance and quality of the proposed paper and determine the feasibility of its publication.
    2. The reviewers will be responsible for reviewing and analyzing the original contribution of the papers, that the theoretical references are relevant, the appropriate methodology and assess the relevance of the findings described.
    3. We will send all papers to two experts –attached to an institution other than the authors–, who will issue their comments. Ultimately, based on the reviewers' recommendations, the editor's decision will be:
      REFEREE A REFEREE B RESOLUTION
      Positivo Positive Accepted
      Positive Negative Sending the article to referee C, whose decision will be final and unappealable
      Positive Conditional (subject to change and resend) The corrected article returns to the referee, who accepts or rejects the publication (2nd round)
      Negative Conditional (subject to change and resend) Rejected
      Negative Negative Rejected
    4. The editorial committee will guarantee, in all cases, that the opinions delivered to the authors contain solid arguments that support the editorial decision.
    5. The results of the academic opinion process will be final in all cases.
    6. The time for the document submitted for opinion will depend on the number of articles on the waiting list. Once we notified the article reception to the author, the estimated time for the opinion is 6 weeks.
    7. In case of receiving comments, the author will have a period of two weeks to send the new version of the paper to the editor.
    8. The referees, once the article has been received, will have a period of one month to carry out the review and deliver the result.
    9. Accepted papers that are going to be published, will begin the editing process (correction of style, layout, metadata marking, etc.), according to the decision of the editorial direction.
    10. Once the editorial process is complete, we turned out the preliminary version of the paper to the authors for final review and approval. These will have a period of three calendar days for the delivery of the approval, if there is not comments within that period, the journal's editorial coordination will assume that the authors have given their tacit approval.
    11. We will only issue publication certificates to those authors who request it from the journal editor.