About the Journal
Focus and Scope
EHQUIDAD is a scientific and international journal that meets the main criteria on quality editing required by the scientific community (committees, boards, magazines, evaluations…). Likewise, it will include the publication of articles related to the research or innovation in Social Work and Social Sciences, with two missions: on one hand, an approach to the study,reflection, knowledge, and social intervention that may enhance our collective imagination and on the other, obtain and applythe research outcomes on society.
The editing of the journal is under The International Association of Social Science and Social Work, which supports the creation of this publication. If you would like to know more about the projects linked to our association, please visit the web page www.ehquidad.org You will also be able to find updated information on Ehquidad Journal in the publications section.
EHQUIDAD operates under the following premises:
- An internationalnature journal
- Multilanguages articles included (english, portuguese, spanish)
- Electronic publication
- Biannual
- Peer-reviewed
A Biannual Publication for the January and July regular issues every year. The Editorial Team and Board of Directors can decide to publish a special annual issue either of monographic or other nature compiling relevant contributions of national, international, scientific or professional conferences.
Ehquidad publishes scientific works, which are conducted with methodological rigor and involving a contribution to the progress of any field related to Welfare Policy and Social Work. The content of the journal will be divided into the following sections:
Presentation Articles:
- Dossier. When a particular theme is specified.
- Articles, of professional interest linked to Social Sciences, which enable the study and analysis of social reality. Research, professional experiences, intervention programs, case studies, literature reviews, etc., will be published.
Reviews
Information and documents of professional interest
Journal details:
Name: Ehquidad: International Welfare Policies and Social Work Journal
Editor:International Social Sciences and Social Work Association
Director: Tomás Fernández García
ISSNe- Electronic Edition: In process Periodicity: twice a year
Language: Spanish and English
Subject: Social Sciences and Social Work
Code of Ethics
The “Ehquidad” journal is a digital tool that allows dissemination of knowledge in a global society where technology, communication and information play an important role. This publication is focused on the equity of opportunities that facilitates knowledge.
Under this purpose, the journal commits itself with published contents, establishing a Code of Ethics based on the following principles:
- Texts received by journal must be original and unpublished, that is, have not been published, released or previously submitted to other publications. Authors should refrain themselves from copying texts they have published previously.
- Authors are responsible of requesting timely license for the publication of texts, figures or tables from other publications, with the corresponding references and reference cites.
- Copies of texts, figures, images and tables must be referenced in orden to follow anti-plagiarism policy. Articles will be reviewed using Anti-Plagiarism Software called Turnitin. In case of detecting practices of plagiarism, self-plagiarism or scientific fraud the submission will be rejected.
- If experiments involving human beings are published, these must comply and follow the ethical regulations on responsible human experimentation and the 1975 Helsinki Declaration. Personal data from involved participants and institutions, should be respected.
- If project was funded by an entity, such entity should provide authorization to release results. In the cover letter sent to the journal, the source of funding must be indicated, and later it is going to appear referenced in the article before the bibliography.
- Projects involving people as subject research, must have an informed consent from them, where they are previously informed of the research purposes and the outcome release, ensuring confidentiality of personal data.
- Projects will follow a double blind evaluation guaranteeing anonymity of authorship and evaluator’s data. Terms agreed to complete evaluation will be complied, and the possibility of waiving the evaluation if subject is not consistent with the formation of evaluator or any conflicts of interest.
- Journal expects authors to report any business partnership that may entail a conflict of interest associated with the article submitted. Journal shall not be liable of any potential conflicts derived from the authorship of projects published in journal.
- Article’s Authorship. List of authors should only include those individuals who have contributed intellectually to the project development, that is, those that who have participated in the research design and execution, in drafting and result evaluation and lastly, that have approved the final version of text before it is submitted to journal.
- The “Ehquidad” journal facilitates free access of all on-line contents.
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Inclusion and Gender Equality. Ehquidad Journal exposes its commitment to gender policies that work to facilitate parity between women and men. Journal has main tasks: a). To equate number of women and men in different editorial boards, as well as to guarantee that 50% of the evaluations are carried out by women; b). To use inclusive language guidelines, so authors are recommended to use it in articles following gender equality guidelines that refer to the use of both sexes indistinctly as well as the use of generics; c). To avoid stereotypes and prejudices regarding gender, delimiting this variable in the results without adding connotations that could show differences or unequal treatment; d). Reviews need to check if the studies have a gender-disaggregated analysis and if they address its importance in research design, results, discussion, and limitations when submitting reports.
Section Policies
Artículos
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reseñas
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Dossier Educación
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Dossier Trabajo Social
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Número completo
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
Process for article submission and review
Articles will be reviewed based on the following criteria:
Receipt of the submission through this web along with a letter of presentation requesting for the article to be evaluated for publication, with specific indication that the submission is original and has not been neither distributed nor published previously, and that it has been sent only to the journal for this end. The letter must be signed by all the authors of the manuscript, in which the information of the person responsible for the correspondence must also be indicated.
Once the original manuscript has been received electronically, the department of the publications section of the International Association of Social Sciences and Social Work will notify the primary author, through email, of the receipt of manuscript, indicating, as is the case, if: 1) we can proceed making changes to the presentation format; 2) if the minimum requirements indicated on the instructions for authors were or not met. The department will acknowledge the receipt of the originals in a maximum time frame of 15 business days starting from its receipt, and the Editorial Council, after studying the reports submitted by the external evaluators, will reach a decision about the publication in a period of approximately three months.
After its receipt, the publication department representative will proceed to assign the manuscript as anonymous to reviewers. The first evaluation will be done by a member of the Editorial Council, who will verify the adequacy of the content for the theme of the journal and its quality in general.
The member of the Editorial Council will propose two professional external reviewers to carry out the evaluation, also anonymously. They will determine the appropriate considerations about the quality of the manuscript. The evaluators will have a month to conduct their review and will send their review comments via email to the Editorial Council.
The Editorial Council will take into account the reviews of the external evaluators to make a final decision. The authors of the articles will be notified via email if the article was approved or not, and will receive the corresponding reasons.
Five decisions could be made:
- Can be published without modifications.
- Can be published with minor corrections.
- Propose an extensive review for its publication.
- Reject the publication, proposing it should be rewritten following the instructions provided.
- Reject the publication.
The authors will be notified about the dates of publication in case it was to be accepted. The criteria that the Editorial Council’s decision will be based on, is the following: methodology, originality, subject matter relevance, presentation, and the redaction. The evaluation of the articles will be done following a model-guide available online.
If the article is accepted for publication, the author or authors will commit to reviewing the galley proofs in a maximum period of four days after they receive the manuscript back. The authors will have access to the journal via the webpage.
At the end of the year, the publications section will make public the number of articles received, approved, rejected, and the average time since their receipt until their approval and corresponding publication.
Governance and Funding
The journal is managed by the International Association of Social Sciences and Social Work (AICTS), which is a non-profit association registered. Its objective is to promote studies and research worldwide through internationalization and interdisciplinarity.
The magazine is funded by the Association as it is an essential tool for disseminating results, Raise awareness, make society aware of the problems affecting the most vulnerable groups and try to reduce global inequality using the dissemination of knowledge.
The mission of this publication is to study the areas related to Social Work and the Social Sciences: children, youth, families, seniors, poverty, exclusion, inequality, etc., in order to understand, intervene and disseminate the results obtained. For this reason, the exchange of ideas and experiences between professionals through publications is essential in a globalised society.
Academics, professors, researchers, and professionals from all over the world who are connected to this mission form the team behind the journal. Once a year, the management team convenes to select members of the editorial boards and renew mandates as needed.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that offering public a free access to research helps to have a greater global knowledge exchange.
The journal complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access and has no embargo period. Authors are not required to pay for publication in the journal. It is advised that they submit the complementary material, at the very least the research data that underpins the publications, to federated open-access institutional or thematic repositories on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The final version accepted for publication can be deposited by authors into institutional or thematic open access repositories within the time limits and terms set by the funding institution of the published research.
Intellectual property Policy
Articles published in Ehquidad: lnternational Welfare Policies and Social Work Journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoCommercial-SinDerivados (BY-NC-SA) 4.0 license. The authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication of the work, as well as a Creative Commons license that allows others to share the work with a recognition of the authorship of the work and the initial publication in this scientific journal.
Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in Ehquidad (for example, publishing it in an institutional repository or in a book), with the recognition of its initial publication in this journal.
Policies use of AI
The use of AI is constituted as an auxiliary tool to support the elaboration of manuscripts, which should be used following the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), that is, with responsibility and whose results are always validated by a human being.
In the cover letter, the author should refer to whether he has used Artificial Intelligence at any stage of the preparation of the submitted manuscript: writing, editing, revision or reuse of content. The author should be transparent, honest and responsible with the use of AI.
Authors who decide to use this tool in writing their papers should explain how it has been used and where the text has been incorporated. The AI can be used to obtain the sketch of contents to be treated, help improve writing, correct texts, design (tables, images, videos, audios...), perform analysis, generate databases, expand vocabulary, review bibliography, search for keywords, rework the summary, etc.
If used, the author should specify which instructions he has used to interact with IA, and the criteria he has followed to validate the information obtained. Intellectual property rights must always be respected.
To reference the AI, the author in the cover letter should refer that he has used the AI, indicate for what it was used, the instructions given, the tool, version, language and the author. According to APA standards, it should be cited in the bibliography.
OpenAI (2025). ChatGPT (January 13 release) [language model]. https://chat.openai.com/auth/login
Policy of journal on data exchange
The Ehquidad journal encourages authors to share their data in a trusted repository that allows long-term access to research resources in digital format.
Access. Structure. Web features
The journal uses OJS (Open Journal Systems), an open-source software program that allows you to manage and publish scientific journals online. Allows you to manage articles from receipt to publication. The journal has a direct access structure to articles, has a search engine to find content and is adaptable to any electronic device.
Archiving
This journal uses the system LOCKSS to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, to which it allows to create permanent files of the journal for conservation and restoration purposes.
OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata
