About the Conference Proceedings Series

Focus and Scope

RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación, eISSN 2992-7315, is an electronic, semiannual, open-access scientific publication, peer-reviewed under the double-blind modality. The journal is published by the Instituto de Innovación y Ciencias Aplicadas, with the editorial participation of Leonardo Miguel Moreno Villalba and Francisco Jacob Ávila Camacho, in collaboration with higher education institutions, research centers, and academic communities linked to science, technology, innovation, and applied development.

RICT aims to provide an academic space for the publication, dissemination, preservation, and open circulation of original results from scientific research, technological development, and innovation. The journal promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge transfer, and the generation of relevant contributions for the scientific, technological, educational, productive, and social communities.

The journal is aimed at researchers, faculty members, graduate students, specialists, industry professionals, members of higher education institutions, and people interested in the advancement of science, technology, and applied innovation.

Subject Areas

RICT publishes contributions related to lines of knowledge generation and application linked to:

• Engineering, technological development, and applied innovation.
• Information technologies, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
• Information security, cybersecurity, data analysis, and digital transformation.
• Educational innovation, emerging technologies, and technology-mediated learning.
• Industry 4.0, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and intelligent systems.
• Chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, materials, and applied sciences.
• Research, technological development, and innovation projects aimed at solving social, productive, educational, environmental, and institutional problems.

Types of Contributions

The journal receives and publishes original contributions that provide scientific, technological, or methodological knowledge. The accepted types of documents include:

• Original scientific research articles.
• Technological development and applied innovation articles.
• Review articles, systematic reviews, or state-of-the-art studies.
• Case studies with methodological support and verifiable contribution.
• Outreach, technology transfer, or problem-solving projects for the productive, educational, or social sector.
• Academic reviews, when relevant to the journal’s field of knowledge.

The publication of outreach articles will only be considered when the manuscript maintains academic rigor, scientific relevance, and a clear contribution to the journal’s editorial scope.

Publication Frequency

RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación is a semiannual publication. The journal publishes two regular issues per year and may publish special issues when there is academic, thematic, or institutional relevance, provided that peer review processes, editorial quality, academic integrity, and open-access availability are maintained.

Open Access Policy

RICT provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that the free and unrestricted availability of scientific knowledge promotes the global exchange of knowledge, the democratization of knowledge, and the social appropriation of research results. The journal does not charge readers to consult, download, or read its articles.

The journal operates under an open-access editorial model and declares that it does not charge fees for article submission, processing, editing, or publication. All content is available online for consultation in accordance with current editorial policies.

RICT publishes its content under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) , which allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given, it is not used for commercial purposes, and modified versions are not distributed.

Funding and Editorial Sustainability Model

RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación explicitly declares that it operates under a self-financed journal model. Its editorial, technical, and operational sustainability is supported through the own resources of the publishing entity, the Instituto de Innovación y Ciencias Aplicadas, as well as through the academic, technical, and editorial collaboration of its working team, without this implying any charges to authors or readers.

The journal does not charge fees for article submission, processing, review, editing, publication, consultation, or download. Therefore, RICT does not apply article processing charges, publication fees, subscriptions, payments for access to content, or mandatory fees for authors, reviewers, or readers.

RICT’s sustainability model is based on open-access editorial management, the use of the Open Journal Systems platform, the collaboration of members of the Editorial Committee and the Technical Reviewer Committee, the voluntary academic participation of external reviewers, the digital preservation of content, and the progressive strengthening of its editorial, technological, and administrative processes.

The journal maintains editorial independence from commercial, political, institutional, or private interests. No support, collaboration, technical resource, or sustainability mechanism conditions editorial decisions, which are based exclusively on criteria of academic quality, thematic relevance, originality, scientific integrity, peer review, and compliance with current editorial policies.

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to RICT undergo a preliminary editorial review to verify thematic relevance, compliance with author guidelines, academic structure, originality, formal quality, and suitability to the journal’s scope. Articles that pass this initial review are sent to external academic peer review under the double-blind modality.

Each manuscript will preferably be evaluated by at least two specialist reviewers. Evaluation criteria include originality, relevance, clarity of objectives, methodological rigor, consistency of results, academic discussion, currency of references, scientific or technological contribution, and relevance to the journal’s focus.

After each review round, the Editorial Committee will communicate the decision to the corresponding author. Editorial decisions may include: acceptance, acceptance with minor revisions, request for major revisions with a new review, rejection with the possibility of resubmission, or definitive rejection.

Estimated Editorial Process Times

In order to strengthen editorial transparency, RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación informs authors of the estimated processing times for submitted manuscripts. These timeframes are approximate and may vary depending on the complexity of the manuscript, the availability of specialized reviewers, the number of review rounds, the timely submission of corrections, and compliance with editorial guidelines.

The first editorial decision may consist of continuing the evaluation process, requesting formal adjustments prior to review, returning the submission due to non-compliance with guidelines, or rejecting the manuscript for lack of thematic relevance. Final acceptance will depend on the results of peer review, the adequate response to the observations issued, and the approval of the Editorial Committee.

Originality, Similarity Verification, and Plagiarism Prevention

Authors must guarantee that the manuscripts submitted to RICT are original, unpublished, and not under simultaneous evaluation in another journal, book, editorial repository, or formal publication medium, unless a justified situation is expressly declared in accordance with the journal’s policies.

All manuscripts may be submitted to similarity verification and plagiarism detection tools, such as Turnitin, Plagius, Plag, EduBirdie, or other platforms available to the editorial team. The purpose of this review is to identify textual matches, self-plagiarism, content duplication, improper use of sources, or possible editorial malpractice.

If plagiarism, self-plagiarism, citation manipulation, data fabrication, redundant publication, or other irregularities are detected, the Editorial Committee may reject the manuscript, request clarifications, suspend the evaluation process, or apply the procedures recommended by COPE, depending on the severity of the case.

Editorial Code of Ethics

RICT promotes academic integrity, editorial transparency, author responsibility, and ethical, impartial, and confidential peer review. The journal adheres to the best practices in academic publishing promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Author Responsibilities

• Originality: guarantee that the manuscript is original, unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to another publication.
• Authorship: include only individuals who made substantial contributions to the work.
• Responsibility: take responsibility for the accuracy of data, methods, results, analyses, and conclusions.
• Sources and references: properly cite all sources used and employ a standardized reference system.
• Conflicts of interest: declare any personal, institutional, academic, or financial relationship that may have influenced the work.
• Funding: declare, when applicable, the sources of funding, institutional support, or projects associated with the manuscript.

Reviewer Responsibilities

• Confidentiality: treat every assigned manuscript as a confidential document.
• Objectivity: provide critical, respectful, well-founded evaluations aimed at improving the academic quality of the manuscript.
• Subject-matter competence: accept review assignments only when sufficient knowledge of the topic is available.
• Timeliness: inform the editorial team when it is not possible to meet the review deadlines.
• Conflicts of interest: communicate any situation that could compromise the impartiality of the evaluation.

Editorial Team Responsibilities

• Impartiality: evaluate manuscripts according to their academic quality, relevance, originality, and scientific or technological contribution.
• Confidentiality: protect the identity of authors and reviewers during the double-blind review process.
• Transparency: clearly communicate editorial decisions and evaluation criteria.
• Integrity: address complaints, appeals, corrections, retractions, and malpractice according to reasoned editorial procedures.
• Reviewer selection: ensure that reviews are prepared by external specialists who are competent in the manuscript’s subject area.

Artificial Intelligence Use Policy

RICT recognizes that artificial intelligence tools may support auxiliary tasks such as writing, translation, editing, grammar correction, organization of ideas, preliminary analysis, and formal text improvement. However, the use of these tools does not replace the intellectual, ethical, methodological, or authorial responsibility of those who sign the manuscript.

Authors must explicitly disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence tools when they have been used at any stage of manuscript preparation. The statement must indicate the name of the tool used, the purpose of use, the scope of its intervention, and the sections in which it was applied.

Artificial intelligence tools may not be credited as authors, nor may they be used to fabricate data, manipulate results, create nonexistent references, misleadingly alter images, produce unverifiable content, or replace the authors’ critical analysis.

Reviewers and editors must not upload unpublished manuscripts to external artificial intelligence tools when doing so compromises the confidentiality of the editorial process. Any use of AI in the review process must be authorized by the editorial team and transparently disclosed.

Multilingualism, Metadata, and Editorial Identification

To strengthen the national and international visibility of its content, RICT promotes the inclusion of titles, abstracts, and keywords in Spanish and English in research articles. The journal seeks to ensure that editorial metadata registered in OJS is complete, consistent, and retrievable by academic search engines, catalogs, repositories, directories, and specialized indexes.

The minimum metadata for each article will include title, authorship, institutional affiliation, country, persistent author identifier when available, abstract, keywords, publication date, volume, issue, pages, DOI or another persistent identifier when applicable, publication license, and standardized bibliographic references.

Editorial Dates

In order to strengthen the transparency of the editorial process, RICT will record and publish the dates of receipt, acceptance, and publication in each research article. This information documents the editorial traceability of the manuscript and supports compliance with good academic publishing practices.

Digital Preservation

RICT promotes the digital preservation of its editorial content through the use of the Open Journal Systems platform, periodic institutional backups, and digital file preservation strategies. The journal keeps its issues, articles, metadata, and supplementary files available in stable and recoverable formats.

The journal promotes the activation of preservation mechanisms such as PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, as well as ZENODO and other systems compatible with OJS. At the same time, institutional backup copies are carried out to ensure the permanence, integrity, and future access to published content.

Self-Archiving Policy

RICT allows authors to deposit versions of their works in institutional, thematic, or personal repositories, provided that the integrity of the work is respected, the original publication source is cited, and a link to the article published in the journal is included.

The versions permitted for self-archiving may include the preprint, the accepted version, and the final published version, in accordance with the license conditions and current editorial policies. Self-archiving supports the open circulation of knowledge, the visibility of articles, and the preservation of scientific output.

Indexes, Records, and Academic Visibility

RICT permanently strengthens its academic visibility through the registration, updating, and monitoring of its presence in academic search engines, catalogs, directories, databases, and specialized indexes. The journal maintains editorial improvement actions to comply with national and international standards of quality, interoperability, metadata, open access, and academic integrity.

The journal has visibility or registration in academic platforms and information systems such as Google Scholar, Latindex, LatinREV, Latinoamericana Revistas, Euroasian Scientific Journal Index, ResearchBib, and the ISSN/ROAD Portal, according to the publicly available information and the verifiable links included on the journal’s website.

As part of its editorial consolidation plan, RICT will continue strengthening its policies, processes, metadata, web accessibility, digital preservation, and open science practices to advance toward inclusion in national and international recognition and indexing systems, including the National System of Scientific and Humanistic Publications.

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