About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Latin American Journal of Ethnomathematics: RevLatEm, ISSN: 2011-5474, is an electronic publication that comes out every four months and is reviewed by the Latin American Network of Ethnomathematics and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Nariño, that has as its main objective the diffusion of works of investigation, of reflection or review of a topic, interviews, and book reviews in the area of Ethnomathematics, as well as works related to the sociocultural and political aspects of the process of teaching and learning mathematics.
The RevLatEm publishes three numbers per year, in the months of February, June, and October, and is distributed freely to the members of the Latin American Network of Ethnomathematics, investigation groups, graduates of mathe formation and those exercising and postgraduate national and international students.
The Latin American Network of Ethnomathematics and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Nariño, invite all graduates and investigators of Ethnomathematics, Math Education and The History of Mathematics to send their articles, written in Spanish, Portuguese, French or English, for evaluation by the editorial committee, during the entire year, ONLY through the electronic platform in which the journal is found (Open Journal System). If you are not registered, you must first standardize your signature in signature standardization and then register using the standardized signature in REGISTER. If you are already registered, sign in with your user name and password.
Peer Review Process
Each article will be submitted to the following evaluation process:
- The articles received will be objected to a preliminary evaluation by the editorial committee or editor, who will determine the thematic pertinence and the compliance with the norms of format established by the interview (Estimated time: one month)
- If the article does not comply with the norms of format, citation, or bibliographic references in APA norms, it will be returned to the authors to correct and send within a period of 15 days.
- Once the article is approved in the preliminary evaluation, it will be sent (without author) to two pairs of external scholars, who will determine in an anonymous way: a) publish without modifications, b) publish with minor changes, c) publish with major changes, and d) not accepted for publication. (Estimated time: three months)
- In the case of a discrepancy between both results, the article will be evaluated by an editor or member of the editorial committee whose decisión will determine its publication.
- If the article is accepted with changes, the author will be notified and he/she will send the changes within a period of one month together with a document that explains in detail the changes made.
- The article with changes will be submitted again to the reviewers to see if they are satisfied with the changes made.
- All works, including those carried out by the members of the editorial committee or editor, will be submitted to the same process of revision.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate, free access to its contents under the principal that making the investigation available for free to the public encourages a larger exchange of global knowledge.
Latin American Journal of Ethnomathematics by the Universidad de Nariño y Red Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática is distributed under a Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional.
