About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Educación Física y ciencia (ISSN 2314-2561) is a quarterly electronic journal published by Departamento de Educación Física, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Publishes original articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English (author's native language), on topics from Physical Education and related scientific disciplines, seeking to contribute to the advancement of disciplinary knowledge.

Educación Física y ciencia, first published in 1995, is aimed at researchers, teachers, administrators, officials, professionals and students of Physical Education.

Frequency

Educación Física y ciencia is a quarterly electronic journal published in January, April, July and October.

Peer Review Process

The Editorial Board reserves the right to accept or reject the work, in accordance with the scope and editorial standards.

When the evaluation is positive, the contributions undergo a double-blind peer review system (the anonymity of authors and reviewers are preserved).

Two specialists in the area are chosen to judge the quality of work.

The criteria includes:

Compliance with the stated purpose.
Methodological Rigor.
Quality in the development of the subject.
Style, terminology and clarity of exposition.
Bibliography.

Open Access Policy

Educación Física y ciencia provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Educación Física y ciencia is an open access journal licensed under Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.

Its contents are also available online in the institutional repositories Memoria Académica and SEDICI.

Our institution, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (UNLP), promotes and supports Open Access movement. Its editions have no charges for the author or for the reader, and encourages authors to deposit their contributions in other institutional and thematic repositories.

Plagiarism Policy

The policy of the journal is to publish original works, written by those who declare their authorship, and unpublished works, which may not have been previously published in any print or electronic medium.

Given the limitations of automatic plagiarism detection programs with the Spanish language and in order to respond to broader aspects that are recorded as plagiarism practices - including translations, fragmentation of results or "salami slicing", duplication, among others - the journal implements a specific procedure to prevent it, namely:

At the time of submission of an article, authors are asked to state that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation. In addition, they are asked to state that they are following the Author Guidelines, which state that the articles to be applied for must be original.
When it is received -and before starting the evaluation process-, internet search tools are used, in order to track other works of the authors and compare the title, fragments of the abstract, the methodological section and the results of the article presented for revision, in order to corroborate the originality and avoid plagiarism practices.
When sending it out to evaluate peer reviewers, evaluators are also asked to pay attention to possible indicators of plagiarism, as they are the ones who know the sources and literature on the subject.

The magazine considers the practices listed and explained below as plagiarism:

Direct plagiarism. You commit this type when:
a. There is omission of the authorship and what has been taken from another text is not indicated with quotation marks.
b. Minimal changes are made to the text of another (sentence structure is modified, lower case is substituted by upper case or vice versa, synonyms are used, etc.) and it is presented as original.
Plagiarism for the improper use of paraphrase is commited when:
a. Although authorship is noted, the original text is reproduced with a few changes that are not paraphrases.
Complex plagiarism using a reference is committed when:
a. The original authorship reference exists, but the pages of the source are indicated with inaccuracy.
b. Paraphrasing in which long texts are summarized, but with little or no indication that they correspond to paraphrases.
c. Absence of quotation marks in words and phrases of the original text that are reproduced textually.
Plagiarism with loose quotation marks is performed when:
a. A textual quotation continues to be reproduced once quotation marks have been closed or previous sentences have been omitted from the same quotation.
Paraphrasing as plagiarism occurs when:
a. There is paraphrasing and the original source reference is not noted.
b. The paraphrasing is continuous and extensive, no material is added that allows interaction or enriches the information, even though the source is mentioned.
c. Academic works - which require original thoughts and critical reflections on other people's points of view - become texts that do not surpass the repetition of other academic texts.
d. Paraphrased passages are not clearly identified as such.
It's not considered plagiarism when:
e. It doesn't dominate the work of the writer.
f. It is used to allow the author to interact critically with another person's views.
g. The argument of the original text is rewritten in different words.
The "self-plagiarism" or recycling fraud, is committed when:
a. The appearance of a job is changed and presented as if it were a different job.
b. The indication that the work is being recycled is omitted, i.e. that it is a previously published work but with corrections or new additions.
It's not considered self-plagiarism when:
a. Previous work is the basis for a new contribution, and key parts must be repeated to explain and defend the new arguments.
b. The author believes that what he has already said cannot be said in a better way for the new publication.
c. The repetition does not exceed 30% of the original work.

Ethical Aspects and Conflict of Interest

The publication of Educación física y ciencia is the collective result of the work and effort of authors, editors and evaluators who are interested in the development of science for social and cultural development. For this reason, and within the framework of the open access policy promoted by the National University of La Plata, the journal will not charge authors any fee for publication, and articles will be immediately available in Open Access.

The editors of the magazine undertake to avoid the existence of any conflict of interest between the actors involved in the production. Any text submitted will be evaluated for its intellectual content, avoiding interference in the process of the authors' ethnic or national affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political philosophy. Similarly, external evaluations that place any personal position on the quality of work will be rejected.

Authors and evaluators are asked to state in advance any relevant conflicts of interest they may have, so that they can be taken into account when allocating evaluations. If any conflict should arise after the publication of the contribution, if necessary, there will be a retraction or manifestation of the fact.

A "conflict of interest" is a situation in which an individual's personal interests diverge from his or her responsibilities for the scientific activities he or she undertakes, whether as an author, reviewer, or member of the editorial board, which may influence his or her critical judgment and the integrity of his or her actions. Conflicts of interest can be:

Economic: when the participant (author/reviewer/editor) has received or expects to receive money for activities related to the research and its dissemination.
Academics: when reviewers or editors adhere to a particular methodological or ideological trend in such a way that they may be biased to evaluate the work of others. For this reason they are asked to express themselves beforehand.
Personal or work relationships: when the participants (authors/reviewers/publishers) have some kind of friendship, enmity or work relationship. To avoid this, editors should take into account funding sources and author affiliation to choose evaluators who do not belong to those specific circles.

International guidelines

Based on an analysis of the specific problems of scientific publishing practice, various international organizations have taken on the task of agreeing on criteria and generating guides and documents that provide support to both editors and authors, among them:

The editors of the journal will consider guidelines and guides that have been agreed upon at the international level to solve the specific problems of scientific publishing practice. The instructions given by COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics will be taken into account. Guidelines from other internationally recognized organizations such as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the Council of Science Editors and the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) will also be considered | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Authors, researchers and reviewers are invited to familiarize themselves with the international guidelines linked to ethics in publication, specifically those linked below, in order to avoid faults that could be generated by their ignorance.

COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics

Provides guidelines to follow in the following cases:

What to do if you suspect that a publication is redundant or duplicated
a. Suspicion of redundant publication in a received manuscript
b. Suspicion of redundant publication in a published article
What to do if you suspect plagiarism
a. Suspicion of plagiarism in a received manuscript
b. Suspected plagiarism in a published article
What to do if you suspect data has been invented
a. Suspicion of invented data in a received manuscript
b. Suspicion of data invented in a published article
Changes in authorship
a. The corresponding author requests to add an additional author before publication
b. The corresponding author asks to delete an author before publication
c. Request to add an additional author after publication
d. Request to delete an author after publication
What to do if you suspect the existence of anonymous authors, guest authors, or gifted authorship
How to detect problems with authorship
What to do if the reviewer suspects that there is an undisclosed conflict of interest in a received manuscript
What to do if a reader suspects an undeclared conflict of interest in a published article
What to do if you suspect an ethical problem in a received manuscript
What to do if you suspect that a reviewer has appropriated an author's ideas or data
COPE's handling of complaints against publishers

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications
Last update: December 2017

Council of Science Editors
CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications
Last update: May 2018

Office of Research Integrity (ORI) | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing
Last update: 2015

Data Availability Policy

Educación Física y ciencia promotes the transparency and reproducibility of the published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in these articles, either to corroborate or refute the obtained results, under the provisions of the Argentinian National Law No. 26,899 on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories.

To promote the reproducibility of results, the journal requires authors to make available the data sets used to perform the research described in their articles without restrictions. In case of limitations for ethical or legal reasons, authors shall indicate how other researchers should proceed to access such data.

Any information and research data sent to Educación Física y ciencia shall be uploaded and made available in SEDICI, the repository of Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), to increase compliance with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (it should be possible to find and access data, which should be located in systems capable of interoperating, and people should be able to reuse them in other investigations).

Authors are encouraged to store data in SEDICI, or any other research data repository (for example, FigShare, Mendeley Data or Zenodo), before sending their contributions to the journal. When the article is submitted, this would allow simply mentioning the URL where the research data are located.

Authors are requested to use formats that maximize data accessibility and reusability (for example, regarding tabular data, using a spreadsheet is suggested). If necessary, it is recommended that, together with the data, they publish the algorithms or pipelines that must be used with the data for their correct interpretation.

Digital Preservation

Educación Física y ciencia uses PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). This system allows OJS journals safeguard their contents by permanent archives of journal for conservation and restoration purposes.

Educación Física y ciencia issues (from 2005 to 2016) were preserved by PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PLN).

Indexing

Educación Física y ciencia takes part of Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT-CONICET) and it is also included in LATINDEX (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal) Nivel I-Catálogo, en CAPES Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Qualis (Clas. B3, 2017/2018) and MIAR Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas. It is indexed in EBSCO SPORTDiscus, Dialnet, SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online, LatAm Estudios Latinoamericanos, DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, RedALyC, Journal TOCs, REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico), GALE Cengage Learning, SHERPA/RoMEO and ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science), Google Scholar. It is included in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, RevistALAS and LatinREV Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.

Submissions

Educación Física y ciencia accepts original and unpublished works in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Please, refer to Authors Guidelines and Open Call before submission.

Authors are expected to be aware of, and comply with, best practice in publication ethics specifically but not limited to authorship (for example avoidance of ghost or guest authorship), dual submission, plagiarism, manipulation of figures, competing interests and compliance with policies on research ethics.

Educación Física y ciencia reserves the right to accept or refuse contributions, in accordance with its thematic scope and compliance with publishing policies and standards.
The opinions expressed in papers and other texts published in Educación Física y ciencia are the sole responsibility of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Educación Física y ciencia board.

There are no charges for submission to, publication in, or access to Educación Física y ciencia. Once published, the article will be available for anyone to read or download without charge.

Editorial Policy establishes that an author or co-author can not publish more than one article in the same number.
In case of having published in our Magazine a new publication will be considered, after six issues (i.e. if the first publication is in Vol. 1 N. 1, a forthcoming publication will be considered from Vol. 2 N. 3).

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Online Submission Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, submissions may be returned to author/s that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The file is sent in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF format.
Web addresses have been added to the references where it has been possible.
The text is leading by 1, 5; the font size is 10 points; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end of everything.
The text adheres to the style and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Authors Guidelines, which can be found in About the Journal.
The article submitted responds to the Open Call.

Copyright Notice

Works are released under a Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional which provides unrestricted use, copy and redistribution in any medium or format and remix, transform and build upon the original work properly cited. The Creative Commons License stipulates that: "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)."

The assignment of non-exclusive rights also implies the authorization by the authors for the work to be deposited in the institutional repositories Memoria Académica and SEDICI and disseminated through the databases that the publisher considers suitable for indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the publication and its authors.

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