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Publication Frequency

Revista Información Científica (RIC) organizes its articles in bimonthly issues, in a continuous publication model. Each issue will be available the first month of the corresponding two-month period, as follows:

They are issued in January (January-February), March (March-April), May (May-June), July (July-August), September (September-October) and November (November-December).

Sometimes special numbers or supplements are made independently of the regular issues.

Open Access Policy

RIC provides immediate Open Access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free and open access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge. Its content can be accessed freely and universally, at no cost to the reader, through the Internet or any other means.

With the passing of time, it has been granting more and more open access. It started from 2017-2019 using a CC BY-NC-SA license and transitioned from 2020-2021 to using a CC BY-NC.

Currently and from 2023, Revista Información Científica is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC) that allows sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format) and adapting (to remix, transform and create from the material), under the conditions of acknowledging the authorship and not making commercial use of the it.

More information at: http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/translations/spanish-translation

Archiving

This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, which allows the creation of permanent files of the journal for conservation and restoration purposes. More...

Ethical Considerations

Revista Información Científica applies the good practices promoted by the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), any ethical violation related to the study or research will be resolved using these protocols.

The research presented must comply with all the ethical declarations for the types of studies, whether in humans or in animals (Declaration of Helsinki).

Conflict of interests

Public confidence in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depends in part on how conflicts of interest are addressed before and during the editorial process.

A conflict of interest exists when an author(s) (or the institution to which they belong), reviewer(s), or editor have personal or financial relationships that may interfere with or influence their judgments in relation to the preparation, evaluation, or publication of a manuscript.

The most common are of financial cause, but other more subtle ones can be observed, such as academic rivalry or intellectual passion. If there is a conflict of interest in any of the actors: authors, reviewers or editors, it must be reported in writing.

RIC requires that authors explicitly disclose those conflicts of interest that may have been present in the development of their work. The idea is not to prevent authors with potential conflicts of interest from publishing; it is that such conflicts can be clearly identified, so that the reviewers and, above all, the readers, can judge if the authors could be affected by some predisposition, perhaps influential in the work.

Ethical code of duties and rights

To the Authors

Duties:

  • Not have previously published or sent the article to another journal (in case of preprint, provide details in Comments to the editor).

  • Comply with all the aspects that are oriented in the Instructions to authors.

  • Be aware of their responsibility, ethical consent, validity and legitimacy of the data and its interpretation, and assume it as such; and required to provide retractions or error corrections, if detected.

  • Declare the existence of conflicts of interest.

  • Wait patiently for the results of the arbitration during the time provided for it.

  • Resend the articles modified by suggestions of the reviewers within a term not exceeding 15 days, from the moment it is delivered for that purpose.

  • Accept the impartiality and probity of the experts designated for the evaluation of the articles.

  • Write to the director of the RIC in case of partial or total disagreement with the criteria formulated in the evaluation of the work.

  • Provide retractions or corrections of errors, in case of detection.

Rights:

  • Be treated with courtesy and professionalism.

  • Receive relevant guidance from specialists regarding the process of managing, reviewing and editing their scientific articles.

  • To claim in writing to the director of the RIC when their copyright is violated with the disclosure of details of their scientific document by reviewers, or those responsible for publication and to demand the corresponding response.

  • To distribute the version of the published work through an institutional repository or publish it in a book, with the acknowledgment that it was first published in RIC.

  • To spread the work through the Internet (for example: in institutional telematic archives or on private website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the published work.

To the Reviewers
 
Duties:

  • Meet the 30-day deadline if you agree to the review.

  • To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer reviews of submissions to this publisher, every effort will be made to prevent authors from knowing the identity of reviewers and vice versa.

  • Use the Arbitration Guidelines provided, as well as other internationally standardized evaluation guidelines (EQUATOR).

  • Clearly state what the suggested modifications consist of, if any, or the criteria used to reject the work.

  • Refuse to arbitrate any scientific article if a conflict of interest (personal relationships, academic rivalry, intellectual passion, or others) with the author(s) could prejudice opinions about the content.

  • Do not use the information contained in the articles evaluated to promote your own academic interests, nor discuss or comment publicly on the content of unpublished articles or the result of their arbitration.

  • Not superficially approving a manuscript submitted for review.

  • Report promptly if any evidence of plagiarism is detected, whether partial or total.

Rights:

  • Refuse to review the assigned article if you do not have the time required to evaluate it or do not consider yourself an expert on the subject.

  • Reject works that have not been formally presented by the RIC director.

  • Failure to superficially approve a manuscript submitted for review.

  • Know the final decision made by the editorial committee regarding the article that was evaluated.

  • Require some type of document that certifies your collaboration with RIC as a reviewer.

  • Send criteria or suggestions to the RIC editorial committee to improve the evaluation process.

  • Participate in workshops, work meetings or scientific activities related to their role as reviewer.

To the Editors
 
Duties:

  • Serve authors and reviewers with courtesy, impartiality and professional expertise.

  • Comply with the policies of the RIC Editorial Committee.

  • Consider the article without taking into account prejudices due to: skin color, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin or citizenship.

  • Formally evaluate the received article before submitting it to the reviewers, and return it to the author if it does not meet the established requirements.

  • Guarantee the arbitration by double-blind peers of the works that meet the established requirements.

  • Do not disclose or use any information about submitted articles to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, or member of the Editorial Committee.

  • Consult the author for all doubts, inaccuracies or substantial changes to the content of the proposed article.

  • Provide all information required related to the evaluation of scientific articles.

  • Publish a reliable and attractive journal that constantly introduces improvements in all aspects related to its management and production based on an efficient quality assurance system, with due respect for readers, authors and reviewers.

  • Reward the best referees and members of the Editorial Committee, as well as the most productive and cited author(s).

  • Train and educate all members of the Editorial Committee and reviewers in the process of production and management of scientific publications.

  • Be willing to post corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary.

Rights:

  • Return to the authors the articles that do not duly comply with the Instructions to authors.

  • Choose the works to make up each issue according to the variety or originality of the topic and not necessarily in order of arrival, taking into account the criteria of the members of the Editorial Committee.

  • Prioritize the publication of certain articles by decision of the director of the RIC.

  • Do not publish, whenever possible, the same author twice in the same issue of the journal.

  • Reject works that are considered inappropriate, propose modifications to the text, eliminate tables and graphs, improve the style and eliminate linguistic errors, always respecting the content and having the prior consent of the author when deemed necessary.

  • Not assume responsibilities derived from the affirmations sustained in the articles.

  • Remove from the current issue the article whose author has not completed certain data requested by the editor and move it to the next one.

  • Promote the improvement, qualification and training of all personnel who work or cooperate in the production of scientific articles.

  • Assume and give timely and clear responses to external and internal users.

Plagiarism Detection Policy

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) considers that plagiarism includes: “Both the theft or misappropriation of intellectual property and the substantial unattributed textual copying of another's work”. "The theft or misappropriation of intellectual property includes the unauthorized use of ideas or unique methods obtained by a privileged communication, such as a grant or manuscript review."

All the articles received in RIC are verified by the editors before and during their publication process by using tools like Google, Urkund and TinEye to detect possible plagiarism.

The reviewers and members of the Editorial Committee can also detect the occurrence of this bad practice.

All similarities with other documents, regardless of the percentage shown by the Urkund report during its review and processing, will be analyzed by a specialist. Articles found with a level equal to or less than 20% similarity will be accepted as long as they are approved by said specialist. If it is higher than 20%, the author will be notified and the article will be rejected to make the necessary modifications. On the other hand, if the percentage exceeds 50%, the article will be completely rejected without the right to resend.

RIC sanctions plagiarism and fraudulent data in documents; publishing the same article in more than one journal; copying and using textual information from any document; using data, images and other resources without the authorization of all the natural or legal authors of the work; the use of information that has not been consulted from the original source by some of the authors of the document; modifying or misrepresenting the meaning and context of the information contained in other works; as well as any other inappropriate use that alters the integrity of the information . In the event that the similarity matches 100%, the author(s) will be penalized for three years (minimum penalty) without the possibility of publishing in RIC.

Readers are kindly requested to inform the publishing house of RIC in case of plagiarism detection, by sending the article title, author(s) name(s), volume, number and year of publication to our email.

RIC does not support any form of plagiarism. Therefore, we recommend reviewing the content of your article before submitting it, as well as paying careful attention to the use of citations and bibliographic references.

We recommend reading Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing by Miguel Roig.

The editors of RIC are ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

Charges and Advertising

RIC does not apply article processing charges (APC); this means that the editing and publication of contributions are completely free for authors. Likewise, the arbitration process by the reviewers is carried out without any type of remuneration.

There is no payment exemption policy for authors from developing countries.

There is no commercial or lucrative use of any kind, nor does it accept or host advertising for any product, person or service mentioned.