ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Focus and Scope
The journal Inter-Cambios. Dilemmas and Transitions in Higher Education (ISSN 2301-0118, E-ISSN 2301-0126) is a free publication (it does not charge fees for submission or article processing), peer-reviewed, open access, and continuously published with an annual issue addressing themes and issues in higher education.

Designed in digital format, it aims to:

• Provide the academic community interested in higher education issues with an overview of its current state, research, dilemmas, and innovative experiences that offer a critical, reflective, and multidimensional perspective on the subject.
• Create a space for exchanging reflections that promotes awareness of this field’s identity, encourages knowledge production related to both theories and institutional practices, and fosters the creation of transformative alternatives for this educational level.

Indexing
It is indexed in the following databases: LATINDEX (Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal), TIMBÓ (Interinstitutional Multidisciplinary Online Bibliographic Network), COLIBRÍ (Institutional Open Knowledge Repository - Udelar), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), REDIB (Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge), SHERPA/RoMEO (RoMEO Journals Database), DIALNET (Hispanic Scientific Articles Online Library), ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources), and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online).

Open Access Policy and Licensing
The journal is a free, peer-reviewed, open-access publication with continuous edition and an annual issue that addresses higher education topics and issues.
Inter-Cambios contributes to knowledge democratization. This function is based on the application of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Under this license, authors retain copyright ownership of their articles but allow anyone to download and distribute published articles without requiring permission from the author or the editor.

Guidelines for Authors
Submissions to the journal must be original and unpublished contributions addressing topics of interest for higher education. They should be written in an academic style appropriate for dissemination in diverse educational contexts.
The journal publishes articles in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

• The title should clearly reflect the topic and not exceed 60 characters, including spaces.
• Articles must be accompanied by a 250-word abstract and three to five keywords. The title, abstract, and keywords must be provided in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
• Articles must be submitted anonymously. The maximum length is 30,000 characters (including spaces). Shorter articles are acceptable, but they must not be less than 8,000 characters (including spaces). Exceptionally, articles exceeding the maximum length may be accepted.
• The text must be in Arial font, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. Quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks.
• Articles must be submitted in ODT or DOC format, with integrated images. Graphs, diagrams, and tables must also be submitted separately in JPG, PNG, GIF, or JPEG format at 300 dpi resolution.
• The cited bibliography should appear at the end of the article under the title "References." Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. The general formatting must adhere to APA guidelines (www.apastyle.org).
• A separate file must be submitted with the authors' names and a brief curriculum vitae of no more than 320 characters, including spaces.

Since 2019, all authors must have an ORCID identifier. If you have not yet registered, you can do so here: https://orcid.org/
Authors must indicate their specific contributions to the article, specifying if they contributed equally or detailing their involvement in the following tasks:

1. Study conception and design
2. Data acquisition
3. Data analysis
4. Discussion of results
5. Manuscript writing
6. Final manuscript approval
   Example: Authorship contribution: A. Rodríguez: 1,2,3,4,5,6, B. Santos: 1,3,4,6

Original articles must include a "Data Availability" section, specifying whether the dataset is available and, if so, where it can be accessed.

Authorship Data
When registering in the system to submit an article, authors must provide their full name (up to two names) and the institutional affiliation, including the name of the department, center, faculty, or institution, as well as an email address.
For co-authored articles, one of the authors must be designated as the corresponding author.

It is recommended to mention any received support in the "Observations" field if the publication results from a funded project.

Editors reserve the right to publish or make modifications that do not alter the meaning of the submitted text to align it with the journal’s style. Ultimately, the author will decide whether to accept the publication with the suggested modifications.

Both files (anonymous manuscript and authorship data) must be submitted through the journal’s submission system, under the "Submissions" section.

Evaluation Process
The journal employs a "double-blind" peer review process. Submitted manuscripts undergo an evaluation phase, and reviewers are selected based on their expertise in the subject matter. Their identities, as well as the author’s identity, will remain confidential.