About the Journal

Focus and Scope

I+D Revista de Investigaciones is a peer-reviewed, biannual publication edited by the Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo - UDI, which disseminates the work and research results by academics and professionals in the areas of social sciences, arts and humanities, and engineering. The journal accepts research articles, reviews, and reflections in Spanish and English.

I+D Revista de Investigaciones has been in circulation since 2013 and was created to generate effective strategies for communicating the results of science, technology, and innovation in the national and international academic environment.

Peer Review Process

All submitted documents undergo a thorough review process to ensure the quality and integrity of the publication. Here at I+D Revista de Investigaciones, we follow a "single-blind" review process, where the authors' identities are not concealed from the reviewers to maintain objectivity. Still, the peers are anonymous to the researchers.

Our expert reviewers are carefully selected from outside the editorial team and publishing institution. They are chosen based on their expertise and publications related to the subject matter in Scopus or Web of Science.

The review process consists of the following stages:

    1. Editorial Team Review: Our dedicated editorial team evaluates the manuscript's content and presentation according to the journal's guidelines. They assess the quality, relevance, and adherence to the journal's standards (it takes one week).
    2. Evaluation by Academic Peers: The manuscript is then sent to two academic peers who are experts in the field. These external reviewers comprehensively evaluate the manuscript within 20 days, focusing on its scientific merit, methodology, and overall presentation.

Based on these evaluations, the editor makes an editorial decision, which is promptly communicated to the author. The decision can be acceptance, rejection, or acceptance, with conditions requiring specific revisions or improvements.

If the article is accepted, the author is given a deadline of two months to submit the final version of the manuscript, incorporating any suggested revisions.

    1. Acceptance, Revision, or Rejection: The decision to accept, revise, or reject articles is based on several factors:

Plagiarism: We employ PlagScan, a reliable plagiarism detection tool, to ensure originality. Articles with a plagiarism percentage exceeding 20% will be rejected, while those below this threshold will be considered for revision.

Style Revision: The manuscript may undergo revisions if significant changes are required to enhance the document's style and clarity.

Length Compliance: Articles that exceed the journal's specified word or page limit will be rejected.

Evaluation Component: The reviewers' opinions and comments play a crucial role in determining the acceptance or rejection of an article. Their expert assessment of the work's scientific validity, methodology, and contribution is carefully considered.

Novelty: We evaluate the degree of originality and novelty presented in the work.

Methodological Problems: Significant methodological issues identified in the study may impact the decision.

References Quality: The quality and relevance of the references cited in the article are assessed.

We greatly appreciate your adherence to these guidelines when submitting your articles to I+D Revista de Investigaciones. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or additional information. We are excited to receive your valuable contributions.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research available to the public free of charge, which fosters a greater exchange of global knowledge.

This work is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License. However, any request by the author to obtain permission for their reproduction will be evaluated.

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research available to the public free of charge, which fosters a greater exchange of global knowledge.

This work is under a Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License). However, any request by the author to obtain permission for their reproduction will be evaluated.

I + D Revista de Investigaciones does not charge for the submission of works or publication in case of acceptance.

Declaration of ethics and good practices

I+D Revista de Investigaciones follows the guidelines of the Deontological and Bioethical Code of Research Practice. For the publication of manuscripts in this journal, it is necessary that the author(s) guarantee(s) compliance with the ethical principles mentioned in the "Declaration of compliance with ethical principles," at the same time, the journal has as a reference the Code of Conduct and Good Practice (http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf), defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for publishers of scientific journals. This guarantees an adequate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of what is published and protecting and respecting the content of the articles and their integrity.

Responsibility of authors

The ICMJE instructions on what constitutes authorship are followed with two fundamental features:

- Substantial contribution to the work.

- Responsibility for what is published.

Those who do not follow this designation should be included in the acknowledgments. The following is a list of where responsibility lies:

- Originality and plagiarism: authors must ensure that their work is original. If they use another individual's work, they must cite it appropriately.

- Multiple, redundant, or simultaneous publications: authors should not publish research with the same results in multiple journals or written mediums. Submitting your manuscript in parallel constitutes significant ethical misconduct.

- Acknowledgment of sources: authors must acknowledge the work on which they rely.

- Disclosure of conflicts of interest: authors must disclose financial, business, legal, and professional relationships with organizations that may affect their research results.

Responsibility of reviewers

- Contribution to decisions: reviewers assist the editor in editorial decisions. They also help authors to improve the article.

- Promptness: a reviewer who considers that the paper is outside their field of work or cannot complete their work in time should notify the editor in sufficient time for them to find someone else.

- Confidentiality: reviewers must treat the files they receive with the utmost confidentiality. They should only show or discuss these manuscripts with the editor's permission.

- Acknowledgment of sources: reviewers will acknowledge papers that the authors have not appropriately cited.

Responsibility of editors

- Responsibility: The editor of a journal is responsible for the articles published there. Decisions about what goes into an issue are determined by the Editorial Board's policies and legal considerations. The editor bases their judgment on objective and scientific elements, leaving aside economic matters.

- Impartiality: the editor reviews the articles.

- Confidentiality: The editor and editorial staff will not disclose information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the author, reviewer, or editorial advisors.

- Disclosure of conflicts of interest and other matters: the editor will consider COPE guidelines when retracting articles.

Restriction policy

The journal shall not impose any restriction on its content

Evaluation period

    • The estimated time from receipt of the document to issuing the editorial committee's opinion on compliance with the journal's standards, content, and parameters is one week. PlagScan, a tool for detecting cases of plagiarism, is used at this stage. The detection of plagiarism in an article sent to the journal for evaluation of more than 20% will result in its rejection.
    • Once the article has been approved to continue with the process, the peer reviewers are asked to evaluate the document, depending on the availability of the evaluators. The time limit between the request and the response from a peer reviewer is ten days. If there is no response within these days, a request for evaluation is sent to other peers.
    • The evaluation form is sent when the peer reviewer agrees to review the document. The peer reviewer has a maximum of twenty (20) days to submit the evaluation.
    • Upon receipt of the evaluation, and if the evaluator included suggestions for changes, the authors are notified and have a maximum period of (15) fifteen days to make changes to the form and (30) thirty days to make substantive changes.
    • After obtaining the corrected version of the document, a final review is carried out to verify that the suggestions have been complied with. The correction time varies according to the characteristics of the manuscript.
    • The document's layout is sent to the author so that they can review the final version. After approval, the article is published in its printed and digital versions. The printing time depends on the management of the external supplier and internal procedures.
    • The authors of articles in the evaluation process are notified every six months so that they can decide whether to continue with the editorial process.

Conflict of Interest Declaration

To avoid any conflict of interest, compliance with the requirements for publishing articles in I+D Revista de Investigaciones is necessary; the authors must inform (preferably as an author's note in the manuscript) of possible conflicts of interest in their research.

Copyright notice

The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the article being registered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license allows third parties to use the published work as long as they attribute the manuscript's authorship and acknowledge its first publication in I+D Revista de Investigaciones.

Authors are permitted to enter into separate, independent contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published article in this journal. For example, they may include it in an institutional repository in the formats in which the journal is published or publish it in a book. In such cases, authors must indicate that the work was initially published in I+D Revista de Investigaciones.

Guidelines for the presentation of articles in I+D Revista of Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo – UDI

I+D Revista de Investigaciones is a peer-reviewed publication by Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo - UDI. It is a biannual journal that aims to disseminate the research and scholarly work conducted by academics and professionals in social sciences, arts and humanities, and engineering.

The journal does not charge any article processing charges (APC) from the authors. The issues are usually published in December (first issue) and June (second issue). However, once an article is accepted, it will be promptly uploaded to the platform following the parameters of continuous publication.

I+D Revista de Investigaciones welcomes research, review, and reflection articles in social sciences, arts and humanities, and engineering. Authors must adhere to the submission format and consult the article submission format template provided by the journal.

Authors should follow I+D Revista de Investigaciones guidelines for manuscript preparation, which include the following:

    • The articles submitted to the journal should be a minimum of 6 pages and a maximum of 15 pages, including references.
    • Appropriate authorizations for publication must accompany non-original photographs and figures.
    • Standard English is recommended for scientific publications, avoiding idioms, regionalisms, or similar language.
    • It must follow the following structure: (1) heading, (2) abstract and keywords, (3) introduction, (4) method(s) or methodology, (5) results, (6) discussions, (7) conclusions, (8) acknowledgments, (9) conflicts of interest and (8) references.
    • The title of the article should be written in English and Spanish. It should summarise the main idea, be concise, be self-explanatory of what has been investigated, mention the variables investigated and the relationship between them, and indicate which subjects were studied; the use of abbreviations should be avoided.
    • The abstract should be 150 words in Spanish and English.
    • The keywords are a maximum of 5 that can be found in the UNESCO thesaurus. If you choose another thesaurus of your specific area of knowledge, please indicate its name in brackets after the fifth keyword. They must be in Spanish and English.
    • References must be at least 20; if it is a review article, at least 50 references are accepted. The citation form must comply with the format of the APA norms, seventh edition.
    • Acknowledgments should be a maximum of 100 words. They should indicate the sources of funding, persons, and institutions that have contributed to the completion of your work in a formal manner. Provide specific information on budget approval minutes for your study, specific grant payments to researchers, and other significant support without which the project would not have been a reality. List any international, national, or local public or private agencies that intervened to support your project in some substantially effective way.
    • Authors should submit the manuscript in Microsoft Word ®; they should also send complementary files (cover letters and high-resolution tables and images).
    • Once the article and cover letter have been successfully submitted via the website, the editor will send an acknowledgment of receipt to the author. All communication regarding the paper and the processing of supplementary material will be carried out via email.
    • It is the sole responsibility of the author(s) to make changes suggested by the editors, evaluators, and proofreaders, as well as to verify that the article complies with the conditions of the form.
    • At any time, the author may withdraw their article, provided they explain the reasons for the withdrawal to give the editorial team valuable information to improve its editorial practices and policies.

Indexing and abstracting

Directories

    • Latindex Directory.

Databases

    • EBSCO Academic Source Plus.
    • Latin American Citations in Social Sciences and Humanities (CLASE).
    • DIALNET.
    • Sherpa Romeo.

Indexes

    • Asian Science Citation Index.
    • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
    • ERIH Plus.
    • LATINDEX Catalogue 2.0
    • Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge (REDIB).
    • Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals (MIAR).

Corrections, Retractions, Reprints, and Version Control

Honest mistakes are part of the advancement of science. When they are detected, they need to be acknowledged and corrected appropriately. To deal with corrections, R&D Research Journal has decided the following, following the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Publications of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE):

    • Publish a notice of correction as soon as possible, detailing the implemented changes and citing the original publication. The revision should be numbered to ensure indexing.
    • The journal will publish a new version of the article with details of the changes and the dates of these modifications.

The journal will archive all versions of articles. These versions will be accessible to authors.

Authorship role credit

This taxonomy makes it possible to identify and differentiate the roles that can be assumed by researchers who identify themselves as authors of a study. Its main objective is to provide due credit to the study participants. This taxonomy distributes the roles of participation into 14 typologies by which an author can be credited in the publication:

    • Conceptualisation - Ideas, formulation, or evolution of the overall aims and objectives of the research.
    • Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent re-use.
    • Formal analysis - The application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize research data.
    • Acquisition of funding - Financial support for the project leading to this publication.
    • Research - Conducting an investigation and research process, explicitly conducting experiments or collecting data/evidence.
    • Methodology - Development or design of methodology and modeling.
    • Project management - Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and conduct of the research activity.
    • Resources - Provision of study materials, reagents, patients, laboratory specimens, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analytical tools.
    • Software - Programming, software development, software design, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components.
    • Supervision - Supervisory and leadership responsibility for planning and conducting research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.
    • Validation - Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replicability/reproducibility of results/experiments or other research outputs.
    • Visualisation - Preparation, creation, or presentation of published work, specifically visualization/presentation of data.
    • Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation, or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
    • Writing - reviewing and editing - Preparation, creation, or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision - pre- or post-publication stages should be included.

Sponsors

Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo -UDI

Sources of Support

Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo -UDI

Journal History

I+D Revista de Investigaciones has been in circulation since 2013 and has emerged to generate effective strategies for disseminating the results of science, technology, and innovation in the national and international academic environment.