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About
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The
journal of Ingeniería Mecánica publishes in Spanish and
English languages. It adheres to and promotes respect for the norms of
the Spanish and English languages.
Copyright
Authors should not include information extracted from other published
or unpublished works without proper citation of the source. The author
must cite and give proper attribution to those publications that have
influenced and determined the nature of the article to be published in
order to guide the reader toward previous works that help understand the
published work.
If an article is accepted for publication, the author has the right to
have it published. The main author has the right to withdraw their article
from the evaluation process at any time without this affecting their consideration
for future publicationsf.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and agree that the article is licensed under
a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allows others
to share the work with an acknowledgment of the authorship of the work
and publication in this journal. They assign to the journal the rights
of reproduction and publication of the article in other works and media,
maintaining recognition of its authors.
b. Authors may establish separate additional agreements for the non-exclusive
distribution of the published version of the work in the journal (e.g.,
place it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with
acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their works electronically
(e.g., in institutional repositories or on their own website) before and
during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges,
as well as earlier and greater citation of published works, see The
Effect of Open Access.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (IDEIA)
The journal publishes scientific articles selected under a peer review
process without any discrimination. It promotes Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion in research and communication of scientific results.
The journal adopts the Declaration
of Support for Open Science with IDEIA, Impact, Diversity, Equity,
Inclusion, and Accessibility. SciELO Network, September 25-29, 2023, São
Paulo, Brazil.
Article Processing Charges (APC)
The journal adopts the principles of open access established in the Budapest
Declaration, which is why it accepts that published works are distributed
in open access, protecting copyright under a Creative
Commons license.
The journal of Ingeniería Mecánica does not apply charges
for the submission, processing, or publication of articles. The editing,
publication, evaluation, and downloading of articles are completely free
for authors. Likewise, the review process is carried out without any type
of remuneration for the evaluators.
The journal does not allow any commercial or lucrative use, nor does it
accept or host commercial advertising of any kind.
Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest is defined as a set of conditions in which professional
opinion on a primary interest, such as the validity of research, can be
affected by a secondary interest, such as financial gain. These interests
can be personal, academic, research, political-religious, economic or
financial, commercial, and related to employment, research funding, investments
of the entity, payments for conferences, travel, consultancies, or any
other type of interest that provides some benefit and favors one's own
or third-party benefit. To support impartiality against possible conflicts
of interest, funders should not participate in the design, data collection,
analysis of results, or preparation of the manuscript.
They can manifest in the planning, implementation, writing, peer review,
editing, and publication of scientific work. All authors are requested
to manifest, if any, in the Publication Request, any real or potential
conflict of interest with other persons or organizations related to the
work.
They must also be declared, when necessary, by members of the editorial
committee, referees, advisors, or other professionals related to the journal.
The Declaration of Conflicts of Interest expressed by the authors is published
at the end of the work.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
The journal adopts the Recommendations of the World Association of
Medical Editors, WAME
Recommendations on Chatbots and Generative Artificial Intelligence in
Relation to Scholarly Publications
Evaluation of Works
-Selection of Articles and Peer Review
Works submitted for publication must be original and unpublished and not
have been published in any other medium, except for Preprint articles
which are admitted. The criteria for selecting articles will be conditioned
by their quality and will be subjected to an editorial evaluation and
a peer review process.
The selection process begins with the submission of the work by the authors
to the Editorial Committee. The article is initially evaluated by the
Editorial Committee to check if it complies with the Drafting Standards
and if it corresponds to the originality and level required for the journal,
then it passes to the peer review process, this process has a duration
of 30 days.
-Peer Review Systems Used for the Evaluation of Works
1. Double-blind Peer Review: Two (or more) high-level referees intervene
confidentially and anonymously, external to the entity where the authors
work.
Double-blind means that the document received by the referees does not
have the name or any other data of the authors; they will also not know
the identity of the referees. In case of discrepancy between the reports
of both referees, the editor decides whether to resort to other referees.
2. Open Peer Review: Two (or more) high-level referees intervene, external
to the entity where the authors work.
This system allows fostering transparency in the editorial and scientific
communication process. Authors have the possibility of suggesting possible
evaluators for their articles and of directly interacting with the reviewers
responsible for evaluating the work.
This system will be applied as long as authors and referees express their
agreement.
On the first page of the articles, the names of the reviewers who agree
to make their identity public and of the editors who intervened are published.
The reports of the results of the open peer review of articles accepted
for publication are made visible as supplementary material on the journal's
website linked to the article.
It is recommended to read the document published by PLOS (Public Library
of Science): Open
Peer Review.
Reviewers should be selected in such a way that they have not shared authorship
of any article or collaborated directly with the authors in the last 12
months.
Each referee will issue a report on the convenience or not of its publication,
this report will be taken into consideration by the Editorial Committee
for the publication or not of the article.
Referees should read in the Committee
on Publication Ethics: COPE Committee. COPECOPE
Council. COPE Flowcharts and infographics - What to consider when asked
to peer review a manuscript: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.17
Referees may recommend to the Editorial Committee that the article be:
-Accepted.
-Accepted with modifications. The author has a period of 15 days to send
a new version with the proposed corrections, after this term, if the new
version has not been received, the Editorial Committee will consider the
article denied.
-Rejected.
Essential Aspects for the Acceptance of Submitted Works:
-Correspondence with the journal's themes.
-Originality, novelty, or validity of the proposed work.
-Quality of bibliographic research (study of the state of the art).
-Quality of the content of the work.
-Quality of exposition in its structure and writing.
-Currency and importance of bibliographic references.
-Compliance with Drafting Standards.
The main reasons for rejecting a work will be:
-Lack of originality.
-Poor scientific strength.
-Deficient study of the state of the art.
-Unreliable methods and procedures used.
-Poor bibliographic references in quantity, quality, or value and currency.
-It is of little interest to the journal's audience.
Considerations on the Work of Referees
The referee must objectively judge the quality of the manuscript on its
own merits and respect the intellectual independence of the author(s).
Personal criticism is not appropriate. The referee will express their
opinions and judgments in an objective, precise, clear, truthful, and
convincing manner, particularly negative judgments, so that editors and
authors can understand the basis of their observations.
There cannot be a conflict of interest between the authors of the manuscript
or the people involved (such as family relationships, colleagues, competitors,
or collaborators among possible referees or editors) and the referees.
If a manuscript sent for review represents a potential conflict of interest
or the referee has a personal opinion about it, they should return the
manuscript without delay and without conducting the review.
The referee shall observe any substantial similarity between the article
to be evaluated and any other already published or if they are aware of
any similar article submitted to another publication, in either case,
they should immediately inform the editor.
If a referee has convincing evidence that an article includes plagiarized
content or falsification of research data or knows that it has been published,
they should immediately notify the journal's management, which will take
appropriate measures.
The author should not make changes to the content of their work after
it has been accepted and has been sent back to make the proposed corrections.
If there is a compelling reason to make changes, the author should inform
the Editorial Committee, and the committee has the authority to approve
or not the proposed changes.
All the content of an article submitted for peer review is the property
of the authors, will not be used in any way by the referee, nor will it
be exposed in any other way except with the consent of the author and
with the appropriate attribution.
Code of
Conduct and Good Practice Guidelines for Ingeniería Mecánica
journal Editors
This document combines the original COPE Guidelines from 1999, the Code
of Conduct developed in 2003, and the Good Practice Guidelines developed
in 2007. This revision was prepared after extensive consultation with
COPE members and was approved by the COPE Council on March 7, 2011: Code
of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors, COPE.
The editors of the work are included at the end of the document.
Publication
Ethics
The Editorial Committee of Ingeniería Mecánica, in accordance
with the ethics and good practices of scientific publications, does not
allow any impunity with the types of conduct expressed below: the following
are considered improper conduct: plagiarism, self-plagiarism, scientific
fraud, invention and/or falsification of data, false or fictitious authorship,
redundant publication, double submission, and any other type of invalid
conduct in scientific research. Fragmentation of publication or salami
articles is not allowed.
In the Publication
Request of Ingeniería Mecánica, authors affirm that
the data (data published in data servers, Open Science may have been used)
and results presented in the submitted work are original and have not
been invented, distorted, or manipulated from other works published or
not in any type of medium.
The Editorial Committee reserves the right to disavow those works already
published that are subsequently determined to lack reliability as a result
of both involuntary errors and fraud or incorrect scientific practices:
fabrication, manipulation, or copying of data, plagiarism of texts and
redundant or duplicate publication, omission of references to consulted
sources, use of content without permission or without justification. The
objective of disavowal is to correct the scientific production already
published, ensuring its integrity.
In those published works where one of the aforementioned ethical breaches
is revealed, mainly plagiarism, a retraction letter will be published
at the end of the work that continues to be published as an example of
improper conduct by the authors. Expand this information at http://www.ithenticate.com/
The journal uses the Plagiarisma application http://plagiarisma.net/
and Google as plagiarism detectors.
Ingeniería Mecánica adheres to the promotion of integrity
in academic research and its publication by the Committee on Publication
Ethics-COPE https://publicationethics.org/
Use of Preprint Articles
Preprint articles are preliminary versions of scientific manuscripts that
researchers share by publishing them on online platforms known as preprint
servers, before peer review and publication in an academic journal.
Authors are responsible for the information contained in the final version
of the document that will be published on the preprint server, and in
no case does the journal guarantee exact similarity with the version published
after its peer review process, nor that the preprint document complies
with the policies laid out in its editorial bases and ethical precepts.
The approval or rejection of the document in the preprint repository is
not a binding element, so the journal reserves the right to approve or
reject the document if the peer review process so considers.
Manuscripts previously available on recognized preprint servers such as
ArXiv and SciELO
Preprints are accepted.
It is advised to read in open-access.network What
are Preprints?
Open Science. Research Data Openness
Ingeniería Mecánica promotes the transparency, credibility,
and reuse of research data (openness of research data) of published works,
as long as the level of confidentiality allows it. Authors are encouraged
to share this data and any other material used during the research that
may constitute an important source for other research by storing them
to be used in other projects in these specialized servers: Xenodo,
DataCite, SciELO
Data.
Self-archiving and dissemination of data by authors in institutional repositories,
social networks, academic profiles, and preprint repositories is approved.
Authors must maintain accurate backup records to allow the audience to
understand, verify, and replicate new results. Likewise, authors must
provide access to the data and store it in an appropriate storage repository,
for others to share and use.
Complying with the principles of Open Science, the author may publish
their research data in any of the servers available internationally for
such purposes, which guarantees compliance with the FAIR principles (Findability,
Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability).
The following servers are recommended: DataCite,
The Dataverse Network, Zenodo,
SciELO Data.
Author Contributions. Use of the CRedit Taxonomy
All authors of a manuscript must have contributed significantly to the
development of the research, in all or most of its phases.
To protect the integrity of the authorship of the work, only professionals
who have collaborated in the research or project and preparation of the
article will be listed as co-authors. The main author vouches for having
included all co-authors of the work when submitting the publication request.
All co-authors must have reviewed the article, agreed with the order of
their names, with the content and final form, and be in a position to
publicly defend its content. Upon submitting the article publication request,
the Editorial Committee assumes that this has been fulfilled, under the
moral responsibility of the author who submits.
Partial contributions to only some of the phases warrant the inclusion
of their names in the Acknowledgments section, but do not justify co-authorship
of the article.
In the Acknowledgments section, authors must attribute the respective
credits to all individuals and institutions that have contributed to the
research, including students. Likewise, sources of funding or logistical
support that made their work possible must be acknowledged.
CRedit Taxonomy
Authors of works submitted to the journal must send, along with the work,
the Declaration of Contribution, which includes the contributions made
by each author to it. The list of contributions is added at the end of
the article.
This Declaration of Contribution from each author is made according to
the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT),
CRediT, using the following concepts:
-Conceptualization: ideas; formulation or evolution of the general goals
and objectives of the research.
-Data curation: management activities to annotate (produce metadata),
scrub data, and maintain research data (including software code, where
necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
-Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, computational,
or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
-Funding acquisition: acquisition of financial support for the project
leading to this publication.
-Investigation: conducting a research process, specifically performing
the experiments or data/evidence collection.
-Methodology: development or design of methodologies and creation of models.
-Project administration: responsibility for directing and coordinating
the planning and execution of the research activity.
-Resources: provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients,
laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or
other analysis tools.
-Software: programming, software development; designing computer programs;
implementing computer code and supporting algorithms; testing existing
code components.
-Supervision: supervision and leadership responsibility for the planning
and execution of the research activity, including mentoring external to
the core team.
-Validation: verification, either as part of the activity or separately,
of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and
other research outputs.
-Visualization: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published
work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
-Writing - original draft: preparation, creation, and/or presentation
of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including
substantive translation).
-Writing - review & editing: preparation, creation, and/or presentation
of the published work by the original research group, specifically critical
review, commentary, or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.
At the end of each author's contribution, it should be added: worked on
the review and approval of the final version of the work. If any author
does not comply with the above, they are not considered an author of the
work.
The main author is responsible for forming the work's Contribution Declaration.
On File Preservation
The journal uses an internal self-archiving policy that allows the preservation
and restoration of all published information through the storage of file
copies on the server, as well as on 2 computer machines and an external
disk. Copies are updated weekly on the server and monthly externally.
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