After the application of the article, the editor of the Journal FIGEMPA: Investigación y Desarrollo selects and classifies articles that meet the requirements set out in the guidelines for authors. The publisher may first reject articles, without recourse to a review process, if it considers them to be of low quality or for presenting evidence of ethical misconduct or incomplete documentation or contravene the criteria of the editorial policy.

The articles shall be submitted to a first opinion of the editor, the section editors and/or the Editorial Committee, taking into account:

1. Thematic affinity, theme relevance and correspondence with the defined sections. 
2. Investigative support. 
3. Consistency in the development of the article, as well as correct writing and spelling. 
4. Relationship between figures and tables with the text of the article.                                                                                                                                                                This review will verify the level of originality through the use of specialized software and existing digital resources for this purpose (URKUND), and will also observe consistency and clarity in the sections of the document in accordance with the journal's Publication Guide, the quality of sources and appropriate subpoena, this will be recorded in the format (RevFIG FP01 Review of articles); this information will be uploaded to the editorial management platform and will be available to the author.

In case the article requires preliminary adjustments, it will be returned to the author before being forwarded to reviewers. In this case, the author will have up to twenty days to forward the text again with the requested settings.

After the preselection a specialized reviewer is assigned, who will issue his report using the format (RevFIG FP02 Evaluation of articles) and the annotations deemed appropriate in the text; at this stage the confidentiality and anonymity of authors and reviewers (double-blind mode) will be ensured.

From the review process is issued one of the following concepts that will be reported to the author:

1. Accept the article: with or without comments.
2. Publishable with modifications: the most appropriate form may be suggested for a new presentation, the author may or may not accept the observations according to his arguments. If you accept them, you have fifteen days to make the appropriate adjustments.
3. Reevaluable: meets some criteria and must be corrected. It is necessary to make specific and structural modifications to the article. In this case, the reviewer can accept or decline to re-read the article after adjusted.
4. Not publishable: the author may repost the article and start the arbitration process again, provided that the corresponding adjustments are evident.

In the event of substantial and contradictory differences in the concepts on the reviewer's recommendation, the publisher shall forward the article to one more reviewer or a member of the Editorial Committee who may act as a third arbitrator, in order to take a editorial decision on the publication of the article. (15 days)

Authors should consider the comments of reviewers or editors, and each correction incorporated or omitted must be justified in the text or in an accompanying communication. In the event that the authors omit the indications made without an adequate argument, the article will be returned and will not be received until there is clarity in this regard.

The publisher will respect the intellectual independence of the authors and they will be given the right of reply in case the articles have been negatively evaluated and rejected.

The authors, with their username and password, will be able to enter the Editorial Management platform, where they will find the concepts issued and the editorial decision on the article.

The publisher and the Editorial Committee reserve the right to accept or not the publication of the material received. They also reserve the right to suggest shape modifications, adjust keywords or summary, and perform style correction. The author will know the final version of the text before the official publication of the text.

When an article is accepted for publication, the author must sign the reproduction authorization (RevFIG FP03 Reproduction authorization).

Explanatory notes:

The FIGEMPA: Investigación y Desarrollo Journal publishes a limited number of articles by volume and seeks the balance between the sections, which is why, even if an article is accepted or continued to be reviewed, it may be deferred to be published in next issue; in this case, the author will be able to withdraw the application of the article or include it in the bank of articles of the next issue.

The editor and editors of the thematic areas of the FIGEMPA: Investigación y Desarrollo Magazine are responsible for establishing contact between authors and reviewers, as these processes are carried out anonymously.