About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal focuses on the multidisciplinary intersection of law, education, and international relations, with an emphasis on original and cutting-edge research that contributes to theoretical and practical understanding of these areas and their interrelationship in the contemporary global context. The journal is aimed at academics, researchers, professionals, and students interested in the fields of law, education, and international relations, as well as policymakers and professionals working in related areas. The RCES publishes essays and articles (research and review). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Law and Society: Research exploring the role of law in shaping society, social justice, human rights, access to justice, and global governance.

Education and Social Development: Articles examining the impact of education on social development, educational equity, inclusion, education for global citizenship, and the formation of educational policies.

International Relations and Globalization: Studies analyzing the dynamics of international relations, global conflicts, diplomacy, international cooperation, international trade, international law, and global security.

Open Access Policy

RCES has a policy committed to open access to information and knowledge sharing. Its publications are protected and shared under the terms of the Creative Commons license with Attribution, Non-Commercial, and Share-Alike attributes. This means that anyone accessing the publication will not pay for it and is required to cite the author and/or authors of said article. Likewise, they are obligated to declare the same license for their product (article, essay, or other derivative work).

The Journal adopts the open access content model. Its orientation is not commercial but rather academic and research dissemination. Therefore, under no circumstances are authors charged for evaluation or publication of a submitted manuscript.

Preliminary Review

The Editorial Committee evaluates each contribution to determine its relevance to the Journal's theme and conducts a preliminary assessment of the text's quality and adherence to editorial criteria. Manuscripts that do not meet the minimum criteria are returned to the authors within a period not exceeding one month from receipt.

Peer Review Process

The evaluation system used by these journals is external, confidential, and double-blind. All received articles and essays undergo an external peer review process; referees are individuals whom the Editorial Committee considers most appropriate based on their professional profile, academic merits, and track record.

Referees evaluate the scientific relevance, originality of the work, text quality, argumentation rigor, use of original and updated sources in a specified format. Referees are asked to complete their evaluations within a maximum period of one month, and evaluations are not requested simultaneously. Therefore, the Editorial Committee and peer review process may take a minimum of two months. Once the evaluation results are known, the author is presented with the submitted observations.

If the material requires adjustments for publication, the author must make them within a maximum of 15 working days and resend the manuscript via the journal's email. If the manuscript with the requested modifications is not submitted within the specified time, it will be understood that the author does not wish to continue with the publication process. Once the document is submitted and it is confirmed that the manuscript has been adjusted, it proceeds to the approval, editing, layout, and pagination phase corresponding to the issue. After addressing the referees' observations, if deemed pertinent by the author, the Editorial Committee issues its final decision.

Articles may be rejected at any stage of the editorial process if serious style, writing, and grammar issues are detected, or if plagiarism is evident.

Publication Rights

With the aim of making evident the integrity of the authors collaborating in the journal and their work, the main author of each article must draft a letter ensuring and attesting that the presented material is unpublished and will not be submitted or presented in any other medium before knowing the RCES editorial team's decision.

RCES reserves the exclusive rights to reproduce the published material here, governed by an open access policy under the Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

Plagiarism Declaration

RCES rejects plagiarism as a means of usurping intellectual property from others and presenting it as one's own. This includes stealing ideas, textual lines, projects, monographic works, research, images, software, designs, etc., without giving credit or definitively denying the people who contributed to science and scientific work. RCES does not use any anti-plagiarism software.

Therefore, it adheres to intellectual property legislation: Intellectual Property Rights, Law No. 312: Copyright and Related Rights Law; Republic of Nicaragua. approved on July 6, 1999. Published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette No. 166 and 167 of August 31 and September 1, 1999:

Article 5) Copyright comprises moral and patrimonial rights that grant the author full disposal and exclusive exploitation rights of the work, with no further limitations than those established in this Law.

It also adheres to the Research Regulation of the Universidad Americana, in its articles 10,47, which states:

Article 10) The University, in accordance with the essential principles of all scientific work, will respect research freedom, understanding this as the researcher's ability to create, innovate, adapt concepts, theoretical frameworks, or explanatory models, as well as to choose the most suitable means to carry out their work.

Article 47) All publications or other types of research products must ensure the required scientific quality.

Therefore, RCES requests researchers to cite the texts consulted for their research, according to the citation and referencing manual, APA Standards, seventh edition (2020). In this regard, and with the purpose of maintaining compliance with the quality standards of scientific publication, product of the arduous study task, according to its themes, and out of respect for it, likewise, to guarantee the unpublished and original nature of results, all contributions received by this editorial instance will be subjected to strict and thorough study to preserve the integrity and quality of scientific research.

Temporality

Starting from 2022, the journal is published continuously semi-annually, in the months of June and December.

Publication Time

The average time for the publication process of an article is four months. The process of verifying originality and compliance with formal requirements lasts one month. If the article is not original, shows signs of plagiarism, or does not meet the minimum quality requirements demanded by the journal, the text is rejected and returned to the author immediately. If it meets the requirements of originality and formality, two academic peers are assigned to conduct their evaluation within one month. The time between the search for peers, their acceptance, and the receipt of their concepts is one month. Once the editor receives the two opinions, the decision to approve or reject the article is made, and it is communicated to the respective author.

Registration in ORCID

Applicants must include their unique ORCID identifier personally. To create the ORCID number for the first time, use the following email address, this is free: https://orcid.org/register

Language and Support for Works

The works must be written in the Spanish language. The electronic support must be in the default file format for Word Office (extension .docx or equivalent).

Academic Inbreeding Regulations

To prevent academic inbreeding and comply with the international standards required for scientific journals, RCES may have up to 20% of publications per semester by authors or co-authors belonging to UAM or related in some way to research projects directed by academics of the same university (when the published work is a product of such investigations). The aforementioned percentage will be calculated based on the works of all sections of RCES, except for reviews, in a given semester. Once the 20% quota is completed, the remaining works will be put on hold, and for their selection in a subsequent issue of RCES, a chronological order will be followed according to the approval date for publication of said work.

Copyright Notices

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to be the first publication of the work as well as licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the authorship of the initial work in this journal. According to these terms, the material can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and adapted (remixed, transformed, and created from the material another work), provided that the authorship and original source of its publication (journal and URL of the work) are cited, and the same license.