About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Lebret is a journal dedicated to Social Sciences. It gives a recognition to the work of Fray Louis-Joseph Lebret, illustrious Dominican friar who has focused his work in Latin America to the topic of Humanism. This and the results and progress of research published in the journal have been sufficient to achieve a category C in Publindex.

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Peer Review Process

Articles are received through an open call to the national and international, regional and institutional academic community, setting a time limit for reception. The Editorial Board makes the first assessment of the articles and chooses those that can be subject to evaluation by two experts outside the institution, who have one month to issue their concept. The criteria evaluated are: the importance and relevance of the topic, originality, argumentation, utility, language used and conclusions. The evaluators issue their concept in a format provided by the Lebret Journal publisher. Once evaluated the article, the referees must choose between the following options: publishable without corrections; publishable form with corrections; publishable with background correction and non-publishable. In case of two divergent concepts, a third arbitrator to adjudicate the subject matter will be elected.

Lebret submits manuscripts, most of the time, to peer evaluators certified by COLCIENCIAS and in all cases it checks their intellectual production in order to establish their ability and experience to judge the document. The evaluation process is confidential (double-blind mode) and the comments of the articles are sent to the authors with relevant suggestions of the Editorial Board of the journal, when adjustments are recommended in the document.

The final decision to publish their articles corresponds to the Editorial Committee.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate access with no costs to its contents in accordance to the principle of granting free of charge access to research, which increases the exchange of global knowledge.

Ethical Statement

Authors of contributions by signing the publishing license of the Lebret journal articles, state they have taken into account the ethical aspects in research and publication, especially in the following terms:

Originality in the publication presented. It does not correspond to work already disclosed in other media, and it was not simultaneously submitted to other journals or scientific or academic disclosure means.

Accuracy of the information submitted regarding the derivation of the writing of a research project, with funding and institutional support.

The authors presented in the written correspond to those who have made significant intellectual contributions to the final work, they have knowledge of the final version of the text and agree with that version.

Objectivity and scientific approach in obtaining and analyzing information. Methods and research techniques stated in the article, the data obtained and the respective analysis and objective results correspond to a rigorous screening process, which could be replicated and confirmed by another similar works.

The authors must have reproduction permission of photographic material, text, figures and tables from other sources, if necessary.

Editor and editorial board statement of Ethics

The editor of the LEBRET Journal agrees to give impartial consideration to all items that are proposed for publication, judging each on its own merits regardless race, gender of the author, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy. All authors are treated with fairness, courtesy, objectivity and honesty.

The editor and editorial board members in any case disclose any information about an article to anyone but the referees (peer reviewers). It also guarantees the confidentiality of the referees.

Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations disclosed in a paper submitted will not be used in research that the publisher may be developing, except with the consent of the author or after the work has been published.

Mission

Lebret has an annual periodicity and it is peer-reviewed. This journal seeks to set an academic space that contributes to qualify research practices, through the dissemination of research conducted around the issues of social, economic, administrative and accounting sciences, in the regional, national and Latin American areas.

Vision

In 2020, Lebret will be a scientific journal with national and international recognition. It will publish contributions from researchers recognized in the Latin American and Colombian field and from its pages it will contribute effectively to the spread of academic debate on development proposals for our country and the eastern region of Colombia.

General objective

To provide a space for analysis, exchange, discussion and updating of scientific knowledge in the field of economic, administrative and accounting sciences and related social sciences, consistent with the Educational Project of the Universidad Santo Tomás - Bucaramanga.

Specific objectives

To promote within the academic community a positive attitude towards the pursuit of knowledge and socialization, by publishing original articles presenting research results on issues of economic, administrative and accounting sciences.

To encourage debate with academic peers from other regions in order to qualify the research activity at the university, the region and the country.

To ensure the relevance and quality of content through arbitration processes by referees external to the institution.

To promote the dissemination of the journal to the public interested in economic and social sciences, particularly professionals, researchers and students.

Types of articles

Invoking guidelines by Colciencias, the Lebret Journal publishes research, reflection and revision articles derived from research projects.