ISSN 1390-6631 online version

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Focus and Scope
• Frequency of publication
• Section Policies
• Peer Review Process

Letras Verdes, Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales (Latin-American Journal of Socio-environmental Studies) is addressed to researchers, students and organizations with socio-environmental affinity, at a local and regional.
The journal has 3 main sections:

• Dossier: includes articles that contribute to the dissemination and discussion of social and environmental matters. The theme of each dossier is proposed by the Editorial Board of the journal; other subject-matter proposals are accepted for consideration.
• Essay: includes articles on socio-environmental researches (must be a concluded research); not related to the Dossier.
• Topicality: includes opinion articles on contemporary socio-environmental matters; not related to the Dossier.

Letras Verdes is published in Spanish and its bibliographic standards are set by the Chicago-Deusto quoting style system. The articles are received in Microsoft word format and the journal its published in PDF and HTML. The entire journal’s funding comes from the Latinamerican Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) sede Ecuador.   

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Deadlines

All articles received by the journal Letras Verdes follow a thorough review process. First, there is a verification process to determine if authors comply with publication norms, after which the articles is considered as “received”. In case of not complying with publication norms, authors will be notified the article was ‘not received’ and the editorial process will be interrupted.

Then each article is sent (anonymously) to two peer reviewers, external to the publishing institution and the country, from which their opinion is considered by the Editorial Council of the journal to decide if the article can be “published”, “published with minor changes”, “modified to be reevaluated”, or “rejected”. This process can take up to four months. If the article is accepted, an editing process will begin that can take approximately two months. The Editorial Board of the journal, after sending the feedback, will analyse the relevance or not of the incorporation made by the authors, following the suggestions of the reviewers. The Editorial board is responsible for the latest edition filter to conserve quality standards.