About the Journal
Aims and scope
South Sustainability is a peer-reviewed, open-access, and multidisciplinary journal focused on research and development in diverse fields related to environmental sustainability. Edited by the Environmental Science Department from the Universidad Científica del Sur (Lima, Perú) and open for publication, free of charge, for researchers, professionals, and students.
The focus of the publications is both regional and international. Original research articles, review articles, methods, policy briefs, and letters to the editor are admitted for publication. For further information, the Author Guidelines/a can be consulted.
Research themes are accepted in the next fields of study both in basic and applied research. The aim of our journal is to serve as a platform for the publication of the most recent research in:
- Conservation and ecology, agronomy, atmospheric science, biogeochemistry, civil engineering, urbanistic science and studies, environmental engineering, environmental science, forestry science, agroforestry engineering, geography, hydrology and water studies, industrial ecology, oceanography, soil science and renewable energy.
Periodicity
The publication is continuous, with a first number with the articles accepted between January and June and a second with the articles accepted between July and December.
Open Access policy
South Sustainability is an open access journal based on the support to the free knowledge and is ruled under a Creative Commons de Reconocimiento (CC BY 4.0) licence. This means that you are free to share and adapt, provided that 1) credit must be properly acknowledged and reported if changes have been made to the original work. You may do so in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that you or your use is endorsed by the licensor. 2) No legal or technological limitations may apply that restrict the use permitted by this license:
Editorial process
All the articles submitted to South Sustainability will be evaluated in first instance by a collegiate decision by the Editors in Chief and in some cases also by a Associate Editor with expertice in the area of the research. This first decision will take into account the interest of the journal, the originality criteria, and the compliance with the author´s guidelines. The decision could be the acceptance, rejection or request of modifications.
Once the article is accepted in the first revision, it would be sent to 2 reviewers (external to the Editorial Committee) with recognized expertise in the topic. These revisions consist of a simple blind (the reviewers maintain anonymity) and ad honorem. The reviewer´s decision could be acceptance for publication without changes, the rejection for publication or the request of modifications to solve (this modifications could be mayor revisions or minor revisions). The Editorial Committee reserves the right to send the article to a different reviewer in case of an unsatisfactory answer. The Editorial Committee makes the final decision about the article's publication based on the reviewer's suggestions.
In case of having to raise the observations, the author must respond with the corrected article and a letter responding to the reviewers' comments. The Editorial Committee decides if the updated version has adequately corrected the observations or if a re-evaluation is required. Finally, you will determine if the article is accepted for publication or rejected.
Each article accepted for publication, the edition, layout, and generation of the printed draft. The author will receive the author draft to check and correct any typographic error at the prudential time decided by the editors. If there is no response by the authors, the final version will be considered approved.
