About the Journal

ISSN/eISSN

0257-1439/1659-2913

Publishing entity

Colegio de Profesionales en Psicología de Costa Rica

URL de OAI-PMH: http://www.rcps-cr.org/openjournal/index.php/RCPs/oai

FOCUS AND SCOPE

The Costa Rican Journal of Psychology since 1982 is the official scientific publication of open access of the Professional Association of Psychologists of Costa Rica  and published in Spanish and English. Its objectives are to disseminate theoretical, technical and practical, updated and relevant to psychology and related sciences knowledge.

The Costa Rican Journal of Psychology is a publication  open to different historical and contemporary traditions of psychological thought, while welcoming the most diverse theoretical, methodological and instrumentals in the different areas of knowledge and disciplinary work, both nationally and internationally.

It is dedicated to publishing original and unpublished works and covers both basic research and applied research and experimental development. Its purpose is to provide an intellectual and academic platform for the scientific community that is harmonious with international standards in research and scientific publication. Thus, the journal aims to publish content, information and highly accurate, precise, reliable and verifiable developments. Is published in continuous publication organized by two issues per year (the first issue corresponds from January to June, the second from July to December).

All research and studies published in the Journal of Psychology Costarricense are governed by international standards of ethics in research and go through the process of review of double-blind.

 REVIEW PROCESS

Revista Costarricense de Psicología accepts for publication original, unedited papers and those that have not been submitted to consideration for publication in other published media. The manuscript will be delivered in Microsoft Word format, by E-mail to the Journal’s editorial board (editorial@rcps-cr.org) copying the Director (director@rcps-cr.org) for pre-approval. The following manuscript guidelines will be strictly observed for Manuscript Format.

Upon approval for entry into the peer review process, a curriculum of no more than two pages, a signed letter on motives directed to the Journal Director and an Affidavit attesting that the article is original and unpublished, that it complies with international ethical standards and follows the format recommended by the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, (APA, 2020, 7th ed., <http://www.apa.org>). In the latter, the principal author will transfer the author’s rights (copyright) to the Journal, in the event that the manuscript is accepted for publication.

The editorial board will assign an identification number (ID) to the manuscript, as soon as delivery is complete, pursuant to the editorial board’s requirements. To see a flow-chart of the editorial process, please click here

If the Editorial Board considers in necessary, it may send the article for review to other referees. Independent of its acceptance or rejection, the documentation delivered will not be returned.

Publication frequency

The journal is published on a continuous basis organized semi-annually (two issues per year). The journal will appear in the first month of each issue's opening (January and July respectively). This change takes effect from 2024.

The journal may publish supplements or special issues dedicated to exclusive topics (symposia, courses, congresses, etc.). Manuscripts that make up the special numbers must follow the same review and approval process as those of regular issues, those for the supplements do not.

Open Access policy

The Revista Costarricense de Psicología supports and provides free and immediate access to its content under the principle that making research freely available to the public promotes a greater interchange of global knowledge.

Our users may read, download, store, print, search, index and link to the full texts of the Revista. Authors are authorized to deposit the post-print and final versions in pdf format of their manuscripts in open access repositories. All of this may be carried out as long as it is not done for commercial purposes, no derivative works are generated and the source and author are mentioned according to what has been established in the Creative Commons -Non Commercial-Non Derivative-Attribution License 4.0 Costa Rica.

Authors need assume no cost for either the editorial process for their articles or their publication.

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

Revista Costarricense de Psicología (RCP) ascertains that it publishes articles with original and unedited content, and for that reason it carries out an analysis during the initial review of the articles received, with the objective of determining if there has been plagiarism, which implies, according to the Publication Manual Of the American Psychological Associaton (2020):

  • Plagiarism: presenting the work of others as own.
  • Self-plagiarism: presenting one´s previously published work as new scholarship.

Our journal warns also about the following practices:

  • Duplicate publication: publication of the same data or ideas in two separate sources.
  • Piecemeal publication: unnecessary splitting of the findings from one research effort into multiple articles.
  • Previously published research: submitting an article that has been published in whole or in a substantial part elsewhere, whether in English or in another language; it also implies submitting articles that have been published elsewhere in substantially  similar form or with substantially similar content.
  • Double submit of articles: sending a same article to two different journals, this to have greater probabilities of acceptance of the manuscript. In case the manuscript is accepted in both journals, this would imply self-plagiarism (Soto, 2012*).

During the initial review process for each article submitted for publication, the document submitted will undergo analysis by the on-line platform Crossref Similarity Check to determine it’s degree of originality, which will allow a determination whether the article has access to the peer review process or not.

Procedure.

The RCP editor will proceed to carry out an analysis of the originality of the article in the following manner:

  1. The article is loaded on the Crossref Similarity Check platform, which carries out a search and comparison of the contents of the articles, which are up-loaded on it, with different articles, papers, books, theses and electronic addresses, among others, stored on Internet and determines a percentage of originality for the manuscript.
  2. Once the result issued by this platform with regards to the article’s degree off originality, we will determine whether in will be entered into the peer review process or not. For this purpose, the following will be taken into consideration:
  • Articles with a degree of originality less that or equal to 50% will be rejected.
  • Articles with a degree of originality between 51% and 69%: The authors will be requested to review the article and improve the degree of originality of the manuscript
  • Articles with a degree of originality in the range of 70% to 100% of originality will enter the peer review process.
  • Articles that are detected as already published in other media will be rejected.
  1. The journal editor will inform the author by E-mail of the result of the degree of originality of authorship together with the corresponding editorial decision, pursuant to the criteria indicated in point 2
  2. In the case of the articles in which the authors are requested to revise their degree of originality, once the revised manuscript is received, it will once again be up-loaded to Crossref Similarity Check, to effect a new analysis of the level of originality of the article: if the originality increases to a range equal to or greater than 70%, it will enter the process for peer review; in the event that it receives a level of originality less than or equal to the originality with regard to the first analysis effected, the article will be rejected.

It is necessary to indicate that the journal performs other controls during the editorial process in order to comply with the aforementioned in terms of originality and detection of plagiarism.

Revista Costarricense de Psicología invites the authors of articles to carry out their own review of the degree of originality of their manuscripts at the on-line platforms available for this purpose, prior to their submission, to determine if this criterion must be improved or may be maintained.

*Soto, A. (2012). El plagio y su impacto a nivel académico y profesional. Revista e-Ciencias de la Información, 2(1), 1-3. Recuperado de http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=476848735003

Preparation of bibliographical references

The bibliographic references are prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020, 7th ed.).

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

The Costa Rican Journal of Psychology keeps a digital archive of the articles published in its numbers through an account in the DROPBOX storage system, on external hard drives, as well as the articles uploaded to different indexers, platforms and databases. Likewise, a digital copy of the contents of the site, which is updated on a recurring basis, is preserved on the servers of Colegio de Profesionales en Psicología de Costa Rica

Also, this journal uses the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS system, developed by Stanford University, to create a distributed archive among participating libraries. The system allows such libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

Additionally, it belongs to the PKP Preservation Network, which provides preservation for any OJS journal.

Withdrawal of Articles

To effect a withdrawal of articles from the editorial process, you must send an e-mail specifying that request to the Revista Editorial Board (editorial@rcps-cr.org), with a copy to the Director (director@rcps-cr.org). This will become effective as soon as the e-mail is received by the Revista, indicating a manuscript withdrawal from the editorial process.

EVALUATION DURATION

The result of the evaluation of the manuscripts submitted for eventual publication in the RCPs will be communicated as soon as possible. This is subject to the degree of complexity of its content and the availability of external peers, who carry out the revisions of the manuscript.

ARTICLE REJECTION RATES - YEAR 2021

Received articles: 23

Accepted articles: 12

Acceptance percentage: 52.17%

Rejection percentage: 47.83%

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Use of Interoperable Protocols 

The Revista Costarricense de Psicología employs complementary metadata standards: DUBLIN CORE, MODS, OpenURL and NML; as well as the metadata format Open Archives Initiative (OAI), provided by Open Journal System.