The editorial process of Revista Ean consists of the following phases: 

Nomination and evaluation phase 

• The editorial team of the Revista Ean receives the manuscripts submitted through the  portal web of scientific journals and registers them in the journal editorial tracking matrix.  Then, The authors are notified via the scientific journals web portal or e-mail about the  reception of the article for their participation in the editorial process. Subsequently, the  editor then conducts a preliminary review, where he personally reviews the manuscripts  or defines a review methodology (depending on the number of articles submitted) to  verify their typology, compliance with the guidelines for submission of articles and  compliance with the thematic focus. Based on its review, it may or may not request a  concept from the editorial committee, in order to select those articles that are sent to a  second evaluation filter. The concept regarding each article is recorded in the editorial  tracking matrix. All authors are notified of the results of this evaluation phase the scientific  journals web portal or e-mail, and for those articles that continue to the second evaluation  phase, adjustments may or may not be requested prior to sending them to peer reviewers.  
• According to the selection of articles made in the first review filter, the process of external  peer review is managed. The follow-up of this process and its results are recorded in the  editorial tracking matrix. The evaluation is recorded in the Peer evaluation form, which  is sent to the peers together with the text, the general indications for completion and the  notification of the deadlines established for the respective evaluation. Finally, all authors  are notified, by e-mail or by the scientific journals web portal, of the results of this process  and, if necessary, the execution of the adjustments suggested by the peer reviewers is  requested. 
• In case adjustments have been requested, their execution is verified by the peer reviewer  in a second review of the text, in which he/she must deliver a positive concept, for the  article to be considered for publication. Once the article has been approved for  publication, the authors are notified by e-mail or by the scientific journals web portal platform and are asked to fill out the individual Authorization for publication form of journal articles in favor of Universidad Ean, after which the process of editing and  publication of the article is processed. 

Editing and publication phase 

• The editorial assistant sends the material to the proofreader via e-mail or the scientific  journals web portal platform, who reviews and adjusts the text of the article in terms of  spelling, orthotypography, syntax, grammar and style, as well as verifying and adjusting the  bibliographic references in the body of the text and in the list of references, in accordance  with the journal's policies. He/she must make the corresponding modifications and leave  evidence of them through the Microsoft Word® change control tool. Once the proofreader  delivers the revised version of the article, the editorial assistant proceeds to review it and  sends the file with the correction to the author so that he/she can approve the adjustments  made and respond to the comments made by the proofreader. Once the correction has been  approved and the adjustments have been reviewed, the author sends the text to the editorial  assistant, who will send the document back to the proofreader to clean it up and make it  ready for design. In the event that language revision is required (this activity is only carried out with articles  whose original language is mainly English, French or Portuguese). For this task, the editorial  assistant manages the review process, through which the reviewer adjusts the article in  terms of spelling, orthotypography, syntax, grammar and style according to the  corresponding language. The reviewer must make the corresponding modifications and  leave evidence of them through the Microsotf Word® change control tool. Once the reviewer  delivers the revised version of the article, the editorial assistant proceeds to review it and  verify if there are any adjustments that should be requested to the authors; if there are such  changes, they are compiled in a separate Word file, which is sent to the authors by e-mail  together with the request for the adjustments to be made. When the authors submit the  adjustments, the editorial assistant proceeds to incorporate them into the revised text and  thus completes this task with the final version of the article content. The editorial assistant  manages the translation of the title, abstract and keywords of the article from Spanish into  English, French and Portuguese.

• Once the final version of the content of the article and the sections of title, abstract and  keywords are translated, the editorial assistant proceeds to make the assembly in Word of  the article, incorporating the data of the authors (names, affiliations, e-mail, ORCID code)  and the specific data of the journal and the edition (name of the journal, ISSN, volume,  number and year), and converts it into PDF, thus leaving the online first version of the article.  Then, the editorial assistant requests the Hidelbrando Perico Afanador Library to publish  the PDF online first version, together with its respective DOI, in the Open Journal System  portal of institutional scientific journals. 
• Once all the articles in the issue are completed, the editorial assistant performs the final  design work, who distributes the text of the articles in accordance with the style criteria  established for the journal. Likewise, the cover page proposal for the issue is requested;  however, if necessary, this proposal may be requested earlier. When the editorial assistant  delivers the layout version of the journal, he and the respective authors proceed to review it  and, by means of comments on the PDF, record the adjustments to be made. The editorial  assistant makes the requested corrections and sends the adjusted version of the PDF for final  approval. 
• Once the final version of the articles has been approved for publication, the editorial  assistant requests the Library to replace the first online versions of the articles in the  scientific journals web portal with the final PDF versions, and the authors are notified of the  final status of the process. 

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