About the Journal
Scope
This international journal is the channel of scientific dissemination of basic and applied psychological research. Acción Psicológica is therefore a general journal that aims to be an outlet for integrative theoretical research and its applications, publishing original research articles, reviews, theoretical or methodological contributions, and also case studies on the various areas of psychology. Thus it is accepted manuscripts containing studies on relevant aspects of behavior, with empirical data and justified and analyzed ideas, which may represent a real contribution to the psychological knowledge.
Evaluation process
Acción Psicológica will acknowledge receipt of manuscripts received, which will be reviewed first by the editorial coordinator to check their originality, then they will be evaluated by the editor-in-chief to determine their suitability for the editorial line of the journal, and if applicable, assigned to an associate editor for peer review through a double-blind process, which guarantees the anonymity of authors and reviewers. The result of the review will be reported to the corresponding author, whether it is an initial rejection, a rejection after revisions, or unconditional acceptance or conditional on changes. Once an article is accepted, it will be published online and then will appear in the first available issue. The final layout and the relationship with the authors for the proofs will be carried out by the editorial coordination. Manuscripts maybe submitted in Spanish or English.
Acción Psicológica follows the Committee on Publication Ethics -COPE- guidelines.
Acción Psicológica verifies the possible existence of plagiarism through the software Compilatio.
The plagiarism check will be performed at the beginning of the review process. In the event that some form of plagiarism is detected, the editor will ask the authors for the appropriate explanations, which if not satisfactory will result in the rejection of the submission.
Publication frequency
Accion Psicologica is published biannually (January and June).
Open access policy
This journal provides immediate and free access to its content based on the principle of making research freely available to the public, thereby fostering a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Acción Psicológica is a Diamond journal, that is, an open-access academic journal funded by an academic institution, which charges no fees to authors or readers and whose content is shared under open licenses and without registration.
The works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors are authorized to post the published version of their articles (offprint in PDF) or the link to their article on the journal's website in open-access institutional or thematic repositories.
Interoperability Protocol
Psychological Action uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol to collect metadata from published content: https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/accionpsicologica/oai
Preservation Policy
Digital preservation is understood as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information currently existing in digital formats is backed up and distributed to guarantee long-term, continuous access. It is supported by the services of the UNED's CSI (Computer Services Center), which is responsible for preservation through backups.
Furthermore, the journal is part of the private LOCKSS network of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP-PLN): https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2255-1271
The preservation policy also includes the assignment of DOIs to the journal title, each issue, and each article.
Code of ethics
Acción Psicológica follows the Committee on Publication Ethics -COPE- guidelines for editors, reviewers and authors.
1. Commitment of the Editor and the Editorial Board
On the decision to publish an article
The Editors of Acción Psicológica are ultimately responsible for the publication or rejection of articles received in the journal. This decision will be based exclusively on scientific criteria and the expert opinion of external reviewers.
All members of the Editorial Board undertake not to use, without the express authorization of the author(s), the information generated by the originals sent to the journal and not to reveal information about them to people outside the editorial process.
Acción Psicológica is responsible for verifying possible plagiarism.
On the disclosure of content and its confidentiality
The Editors of Acción Psicológica undertakes not to use the contents of articles submitted for publication in their research without the written consent of the authors.
Likewise, the publisher and its editorial team undertake not to divulge the information relating to the articles received to other agents than those involved in the editorial process (i.e. authors, reviewers and editorial team) in such a way that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the work.
With respect to the time limits for reviews and publication
The editorial team is ultimately responsible for adherence to the time limits for reviews and publication of accepted papers, so as to ensure rapid dissemination of scientific findings.
Acción Psicológica undertakes, within a maximum period of 30 days, to inform the authors if the article is rejected for publication or if the peer review process is initiated. In the latter case, authors will receive comments from reviewers and the editor-in-chief or the associate editors, who will inform of the decision taken on their manuscript (acceptance, rejection, or invitation to review and resubmit) within a maximum of approximately 150 days of receipt. Likewise, Acción Psicológica will publish the articles as soon as possible, avoiding waiting lists.
2. Commitments of the reviewers
Peer review should be conducted objectively, without bias, contributing effectively to the editorial decision. In addition, reviewers undertake to maintain confidentiality during the review process, to declare potential conflicts of interest, and to respect the response times set by the journal.
3. Authors' commitment (originality, plagiarism and conflict of interest)
Authors agree to submit original articles free of plagiarism. In addition, authors must state whether they have received external funding and indicate any conflicts of interest that may occur.
Similarly, papers submitted by authors must conform to the standards published on the journal's website.
The opinions and contents of the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not compromise the scientific opinion and policy of the journal. They will also be responsible for providing copies of raw data, scores, and, in general, relevant experimental material to interested readers.
Finally, when an author identifies a material error in an article published in the journal, he or she should inform the editors of the journal and provide the information necessary to make the necessary corrections.
Indexing and Database
Acción Psicológica is supported by impact indices and metrics compiled annually by various national and international agencies and databases.
Below is the table prepared by the UNED Library with all the indicators for 2024, the last year evaluated:
Sponsor
School of Psychology. UNED.
