-History

On Monday, November 4, 1946, the inaugural course of students, professors and administrative personnel that formed the School of Jurisprudence, the first academic unit of what is now the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, opened its doors.

Three years after the founding date, the students of the School of Jurisprudence created the "Revista de la Asociación Escuela de Derecho" (Law School Association Magazine). Its first issue was published in March 1949. The rector at that time, Father Aurelio Espinosa Polit, wrote in the opening words of the magazine "the publication of a magazine is a serious commitment to the public. The assurance of its regular publicity entails very complex problems. As long as these problems are not solved with certainty, a serious institution cannot risk its name and reputation".

In 1963, after bearing several names, the magazine reached its 18th issue in which it was called "RUPTURE", in its editorial it was written: "rupture with the legalized disorder".

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- Focus and scope

The objective of RUPTURA is to contribute to the development of the science of law and legal dogmatics, promoting the critical discussion of relevant legal issues with special emphasis on the production of research with high quality standards, to become an invaluable input for the Ecuadorian legal work.

The journal is aimed at students, professionals, teachers in the area of law and the community interested in legal and scientific debates, from any disciplinary approach, both nationally and internationally. RUPTURA is comprised of scientific-legal articles, reviews, current analyses, research, book reviews, research notes, miscellaneous articles and original translations, whose thematic axis is related to law.

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- Frequency of publication

RUPTURA will be published annually. However, the cut-off date will be announced through our website and through the journal's official networks.  It is important to mention that the call for papers is open throughout the year.

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- Section policies.

Articles

Articles must present in detail original results of finished research projects and indicate their origin. They must be original and not be subject to evaluation processes by any other publication. The minimum length should be 5000 words.

Book reviews 

Short structured essays that critically analyze and contextualize an editorial novelty of academic interest for the topics of the journal. The minimum length will be 3,000 words. They must be original, not be subject to evaluation processes by any other publication and the texts analyzed must be recent.

Miscellaneous

Articles related to the broad areas (within the legal science) that are generally addressed by the Journal. It must be an original document that deals with research of diverse types, where Law has a significant transcendence. The minimum length will be 4,000 words.

Research Notes

These are articles of legal significance characterized by being based on preliminary work (inserted within an ongoing parent research) which, without prejudice to the scientific method and rigor, present innovative methodological aspects or results which, due to their novel nature, the author considers of interest to publish before finalizing his research. The minimum length will be 3,000 words.

Research Information 

Two types of legal-scientific research reports are accepted: the technical report and the informative report.

The technical report emphasizes the methodology and techniques employed, validity and reliability of the results, theoretical framework of the research and use of specialized terminology.

The informative report includes the research procedure, simple and expressive illustrations of the results and emphasizes the conclusions and recommendations.

The minimum length will be 3,000 words.

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- Open access policy

Ruptura has an open access policy. All published articles are licensed under Creative Commons 4.0. That is, they are available for reading by the general public, free of charge and immediately after publication. Articles can be printed, quoted and shared citing their respective source.  This policy seeks the equitable development of societies in the Latin American and global region, through the free exchange of knowledge generated by research.

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-Shipping Policy

Following the line of our open access policy, no monetary charges are made to authors for the reception and evaluation of submitted materials. The author must submit through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform, which can be accessed from the journal's official website. This platform allows greater transparency and reliability in the editorial process, to which all submitted articles are submitted. Articles should only be submitted through the Open Journal System platform. For more information about the aforementioned platform, please contact the following e-mail: revistarupturarfj@gmail.com.

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-Evaluation policy

The papers received and that meet the requirements for publication will be submitted to the anonymous review process by the "double-blind" system, which guarantees the confidentiality of authors in the evaluation process. The estimated time between the reception of articles and the notification to the author of their publication is 60 days.

Review process

The author will send his/her proposal through the journal's registration system, within the deadlines established in the annual call for papers. The submission must be written in accordance with the journal's publication guidelines. The author must fully accept the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license.

The submission will be reviewed in the first instance by the Editorial Management Group, which will verify whether the article conforms to the journal's publication standards and parameters, in addition to evaluating whether the content is of a legal nature. The Editorial Management Group has the prerogative to reject articles that do not comply with these basic guidelines or that it considers not relevant in their conceptual proposal.

Articles accepted for review are sent to peer readers with a blind peer review system. The period for reading and issuance of verdicts, by means of an evaluation rubric, will be approximately 15 working days. The reviewers' verdict will determine whether the text is:

Accepted in full;

Accepted subject to minor modifications;

Accepted subject to major modifications and must be reevaluated; and;

Rejected.

In all cases the decision must be communicated to the author. The decision of the evaluator is final.

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-Originality verification policy

The articles received by Ruptura will be submitted to the anti-plagiarism software, which allows to determine the percentage of similarity of the article.

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-Rights

Ruptura manages its rights under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license.

 The copyright grants the authors of the articles the quality of unrestricted owners of the intellectual property rights.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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-Statement of ethical practices in research and publication.

Ruptura is committed to high ethical standards and good practices in the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, to ensure rigor and scientific quality. That is why it has adopted as a reference the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Academic Publications, established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics).

About the Authors

Ruptura is committed to ensuring the quality of the material it publishes. Authors who submit their proposal declare that their work is original and unpublished and that it has not been published in any other journal or publication, adding that it should not be sent simultaneously to another journal or publication in order to avoid that the text is published more than once, in addition to accepting the objectives and rules of the journal, prior to sending their contribution.

Authors must respect the intellectual property of third authors, respecting the latest edition of the APA norms of citation and references in order to avoid plagiarism and academic dishonesty.

Ruptura includes a description of the editorial process. It has academic submission guidelines for authors in which this information is presented and regularly updated. It recognizes the right of authors to appeal editorial decisions, but not those of external evaluators.

The decisions of the Editorial Committee to accept or reject a received paper are based solely on the relevance of the paper, its originality, the quality of the writing, and the pertinence of the study in relation to the editorial line of the journal.

The Editorial Committee will not modify its decision on the acceptance of submissions, unless irregularities or extraordinary situations are detected. Any change in the members of the editorial committee will not affect the decisions already taken, except in exceptional cases in which serious circumstances arise.

Authorship

To be considered an author in Ruptura magazine, the Code of Ethics of Research and Learning of PUCE will be considered, which determines that responsibility and credit, including authorship, should be assumed only for the work actually done and for which they have contributed, that is, it is based on honest work and recognizing the contributions of other members of a team, when it exists.

Authorship will be recognized when a significant contribution is made to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the work. In this sense, it is the author's responsibility to properly identify, at the time of submitting the proposal for review, authors, co-authors and collaborators, in order to avoid the falsification of authors and the so-called ghost authors.

The documents submitted to Ruptura must inform the degree/level/percentage/order of authorship and/or participation of the authors. This information will be brought to the attention of the corresponding and/or principal author of the submitted text. In the case of research documents attributed to multiple authors (five or more) and in order not to affect rights, this situation should be expressly reported (indicating responsibilities and/or level/level/percentage/order of authorship).

About Peer Reviewers

The Editorial Group of the journal Ruptura counts on prestigious professionals, of prestige in the different areas of knowledge, for the review of the submitted texts. The Editorial Board of Ruptura informs the reviewer or evaluator of the consent of the author of the proposal to be reviewed. In addition, it makes available to the evaluators the appropriate format with the parameters to be taken into account.

The members of the Editorial Management Team will be in charge of sending the contributions that arrive through the OJS platform, and they will take into account the subject and level of instruction of the author to select the reviewers. Likewise, the selected reviewers will receive an anonymous document, so that the author's identity will not be known. The members of the Editorial Board have a peer review evaluation report form in which, according to the parameters established therein, a grade will be recorded to determine whether the article is publishable, should be corrected or is not accepted.

It is the evaluator's responsibility to issue a rating on an article within the deadline established for this purpose, and based on the evaluation rubric provided by the journal's Editorial Committee, in accordance with the provisions of the journal's regulations.

About the Editorial Management Team

The members of the Editorial Management Committee are in charge of the editorial process. This includes the reception of articles, their referral to peer reviewers, style correction, contact with authors and reviewers.

The main objective of the Editorial Management Team is to ensure the quality of the published content, as well as to contribute to the study of various areas of Law through spaces of free access to innovative and updated research material. Therefore, the main commitment has no commercial interest that may interfere or compromise the intellectual criteria of the journal, and that the diversity of criteria prevails. The objective is the dissemination of ideas and spaces for reflection on current issues.

Revista Ruptura will guarantee the transparent management of the evaluation process of the proposed article. Additionally, the Editorial Committee is committed to achieve maximum dissemination of the articles published in the journal. In this sense, there is a commitment to include the journal in indexes and academic databases, in order to achieve a better dissemination of the knowledge generated by the journal.

The functions of the Editorial Committee are to ensure the quality of the journal, make revisions and corrections on the reviewer's proposals regarding the journal's contents and policies. The Editorial Committee will also be involved in the dissemination of calls for papers and new publications of the journal.

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-Copyright Policy

Ruptura has a copyright policy under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. In that sense, submissions are subject to the author's decision to accept the terms of this license.

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- Data exchange and reproducibility policies

The responsible handling of information is a fundamental axis to carry out the publication of an article within the journal. The rules for authors and reviewers are clear and previous, so that the commitment acquired by them is understood.

The cession of rights by the author implies that the first publication is reserved for Revista Ruptura, leaving the author's freedom to publish the material, so that once it is published it can be disseminated and shared by the author, encouraging academic exchange.

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-Ethical Supervision

The articles submitted for review and subsequent publication will contain the declaration of their authors about the responsibility of the content, as well as their authorship and originality. The review process includes a similarity identifier, which facilitates the detection of plagiarism or conduct that contravenes the journal's publication policies.

In case of suspicion of malpractice or inappropriate conduct within a research, which are evident through the product received as an article, the Editorial Management Team is empowered to reject the documents submitted that raise doubts about possible misconduct, or that are considered ethically questionable prior to the respective report. The journal will make every reasonable effort to ensure that the papers submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate.

In the event of detecting any work whose content is fraudulent, it will be withdrawn as soon as it becomes known, immediately informing both readers and the indexing systems.

The following practices are considered unacceptable and will be denounced as such: the simultaneous submission of the same paper to several journals, duplicate publication or publication with irrelevant changes or paraphrasing of the same paper, or the artificial fragmentation of a paper into several articles.

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-Conflicts of Interest

It is the author's responsibility to inform if the article is the result of a project that received some type of funding, in which case such funding must be expressly acknowledged.

For Reviewers

When handling blind peer review, reviewers have no contact with the authors. However, in the event of any conflict of interest that could influence their opinions about the work, they should refrain from evaluating certain papers if they deem it convenient, and the Editorial Committee should be made aware of this.

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- Complaints and Appeals

Any request, complaint, or appeal of publication decisions made by the Editorial Committee will be received and resolved in general committee with the members of the journal Ruptura.

Post-publication corrections

If comments or suggestions are received from readers and/or authors, the Editorial Committee will evaluate their relevance. The article will be removed from the publication while it is being evaluated. The updating of current regulations is not considered an error, since the articles are limited to a specific time and place.

The editorial management group will inform the authors, during the process of style and design correction, of the possible minor modifications to their papers that may be necessary for the standardization of the papers. Such minor modifications may not modify the author's own style or the essential content of the text.