About the Journal

PUCARA, revista de Humanidades y Educación (ISSN-e 2661-6912) founded in 1977, is a biannual publication of the Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias de la Educación of the Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. Its objective is to disseminate in Spanish and English, on a non-profit basis, original research on the different manifestations of culture and society, whose center of interest is the human being, according to UNESCO's fields: arts, fine arts, graphic and audiovisual arts, design, crafts, living and dead languages, regional studies, literature, linguistics, history, archeology, philosophy, anthropology, geography, ethnography, education, among others.
PUCARA does not receive or charge the authors any fees during the entire editorial process for the publication of the different texts, including blind peer review (double blind system), layout and publication. Access to its content is completely open. The University of Cuenca assumes its economic support in its entirety, through the Vice Rector for Research and Innovation.
Finally, communication with the academic community worldwide is one of PUCARA’s pillars and objectives. Thus, its website is continuously updated to receive and process the different manuscripts and / or documents, so authors have first-hand information. The responsibility for incorporating, updating or removing information lies with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief l, in collaboration with the Editorial Committee and the editorial managers.

PUCARA does not receive or charge the authors any fees during the entire editorial process for the publication of the different texts, including blind peer review (double blind system), layout and publication. Access to its content is completely open. Universidad de Cuenca assumes its economic support in its entirety, through the Vice Rectorate for Research and Innovation.
In the case of research articles and essays, once a manuscript is received, using the template provided on the web page, it undergoes an initial review by the Editorial Board to determine if it meets the journal’s editorial standards. Subsequently, upon passing this first review, the manuscript undergoes a double-blind peer review process by external reviewers, which should not exceed four weeks.
External reviewers will send their decision in the format required by the journal, which can be: accepted, accepted with modifications or rejected. If the article is accepted, it proceeds to the editing and layout process. If the article is accepted with modifications, it will be returned to the author for the necessary revisions. Once the author has made the necessary revision, the manuscript will move to the editing and layout process. If the article is rejected by both reviewers, it will be returned to the author with an explanation of the reasons for rejection. In any case, the article selection process, including all these steps, should not exceed six months. Once the final manuscripts have been accepted and formatted, they will be sent to the author for approval in the publication format (printing proofs).
In the case of reviews, interviews, and literary texts, the Editorial Board, through its section editors, will appoint experts to evaluate the submissions under the same peer review system, ensuring their quality and originality. Unlike the process for research articles, this process should not exceed two months.
An author may not publish more than one article (either as sole author or co-author) in the same issue. Additionally, it is not possible for the same author to publish in consecutive issues, even as a co-author.

PUCARA has a long-term archival preservation policy, supported by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Archiving Agency, whose data is tracked by the Keepers Registry. The PKP preservation network is based on LOCKSS preservation technology and its ongoing commitment to robust standards and protocols.
Upon publication, issues of the journal are automatically deposited into the distributed LOCKSS network of participating nodes. This creates a decentralized archival system across collaborating libraries, enabling them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.
The entire content of PUCARA is preserved not only in the digital repositories of the University of Cuenca and the international repositories of the databases where it is indexed, but also through the use of persistent identifiers (such as DOIs), which allow reliable access and facilitate data retrieval.

PUCARA adheres to the ethical standards and codes of conduct for publication, established by COPE.
The Editorial Board of the journal Pucara is committed to high ethical standards and good practices in the dissemination and transfer of scientific articles, aiming to ensure scientific rigor and quality. The driving forces of the Editorial Board are: ensuring the quality of the materials published, respecting freedom of expression, maintaining the academic integrity of its content, and publishing corrections, clarifications and apologies when necessary.
Through PUCARA's website, authors have access to information about the submission guidelines and the peer review process; as well as documents designed to assist authors, reviewers, and editors, ensuring transparent and effective communication.
Editors will not modify their decision regarding the acceptance of manuscripts, unless irregularities or extraordinary circumstances are detected. PUCARA provides reviewers a guide outlining expectations for their role, through a review template that is continuously evaluated to maintain the quality of published materials. It is necessary to indicate that the identities of both reviewers and authors are protected at all times, guaranteeing anonymity, transparency, and comfort throughout the review process.
Pucara is committed to publishing articles based on their quality and relevance at every stage of the process. The journal is committed to free access to knowledge, freedom of thought, and equal opportunities.

Authors' responsibility: Authors are responsible for the ideas and data contained in the manuscripts, the accuracy of the information provided, for the correctness of quotations, the rights to publish any material included in the text, and for submitting the manuscript in the format required by the Journal (Word template). A manuscript submitted to PUCARA must not have been previously published, nor simultaneously been submitted in the same form to another publication medium.
Copyright: Published articles do not necessarily reflect the views of PUCARA, which adheres to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Each author retains the right to the article published in PUCARA.