Information For Authors

Information for Authors

RICT Revista de Investigación Científica, Tecnológica e Innovación invites researchers, faculty members, graduate students, professionals, and specialists to submit original manuscripts related to scientific research, technological development, applied innovation, engineering, information technologies, artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0, educational innovation, biotechnology, and applied sciences.

Before submitting a manuscript, authors must carefully review the journal’s focus and scope, author guidelines, editorial policies, code of ethics, open access policy, artificial intelligence use policy, self-archiving policy, and publication conditions.

Registration and Manuscript Submission

To start a submission, authors must register on the journal’s OJS platform or log in with a previously created account. The system will guide the submission process through the established steps for submission, file upload, metadata entry, authorship confirmation, and editorial communication.

Types of Accepted Contributions

RICT receives original manuscripts that present scientific, technological, methodological, or applied innovation contributions. Contributions must be unpublished, relevant to the journal’s focus, and supported by a verifiable methodological, theoretical, or technical framework.

• 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 academic contribution.
• Outreach, technology transfer, or problem-solving projects for the educational, social, productive, or institutional sector.
• Academic reviews relevant to the journal’s fields of knowledge.

Minimum Manuscript Requirements

To be considered in the editorial process, the manuscript must comply with the formal, ethical, and academic criteria established by the journal. Incomplete submissions or submissions that do not follow the guidelines may be returned to the authors before peer review begins.

• The manuscript must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to another publication.
• The text must comply with the journal’s template, length, structure, and bibliographic standards.
• The title, abstract, and keywords must be registered in Spanish and English.
• Authorship information must include full name, institutional affiliation, country, contact email, and ORCID when available.
• Figures, tables, appendices, and supplementary materials must have sufficient quality and source information.
• Bibliographic references must be standardized and correspond to the citations included in the body of the text.
• When applicable, funding sources, acknowledgments, conflicts of interest, data availability, and ethical approval must be declared.

Mandatory Metadata for Submission

During submission in OJS, authors must enter complete, consistent, and verifiable metadata. Metadata quality supports article retrieval in academic search engines, catalogs, repositories, directories, and specialized indexes.

• Manuscript title in Spanish and English.
• Abstract in Spanish and English.
• Keywords in Spanish and English.
• Full name of each author.
• Full institutional affiliation and country.
• ORCID for each author, when available.
• Email address of the corresponding author.
• Complete and standardized bibliographic references.
• Funding, conflict of interest, and artificial intelligence use statements, when applicable.

Editorial Process and Peer Review

Received manuscripts will undergo an initial editorial review to verify thematic relevance, compliance with guidelines, originality, structure, formal quality, and alignment with the journal’s focus. Manuscripts that pass this review will proceed to external academic peer review under the double-blind modality.

Each manuscript will preferably be evaluated by at least two specialist reviewers. Editorial decisions may include: acceptance, acceptance with minor revisions, request for major revisions with further review, rejection with possibility of resubmission, or definitive rejection.

The journal will record and publish the dates of receipt, acceptance, and publication of articles in order to strengthen the traceability, transparency, and quality of the editorial process.

Originality, Similarity, and Plagiarism Prevention

Authors must guarantee that the submitted manuscript is original, unpublished, and has not been partially or fully published in another medium. They must also ensure that the text is not under simultaneous evaluation by another journal or academic publication.

RICT may use similarity detection and originality verification tools to identify textual matches, self-plagiarism, content duplication, inappropriate references, or possible editorial malpractice.

If plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, result manipulation, use of nonexistent references, or redundant publication is detected, the Editorial Committee may reject the manuscript, suspend the process, request clarifications, or apply the procedures recommended by COPE.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

RICT permits the responsible use of artificial intelligence tools as auxiliary support for grammar correction, translation, style editing, organization of ideas, or formal text review. These tools do 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 systems may not be credited as authors, nor may they be used to fabricate data, manipulate results, generate nonexistent references, misleadingly alter images, or replace the authors’ critical analysis.

Authorship, Contributions, and Conflicts of Interest

Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, development, analysis, interpretation, writing, or critical revision of the manuscript. All authors must approve the final submitted version and assume responsibility for the published content.

Authors are encouraged to declare authorship contributions according to a recognized taxonomy, such as CRediT, when appropriate. The journal may request clarification regarding authorship order, each participant’s contribution, or the inclusion of institutional collaborations.

All authors must declare possible financial, personal, institutional, academic, or professional conflicts of interest that could influence the development, results, or interpretation of the manuscript.

Research Data, Ethics, and Permissions

When the manuscript derives from research involving people, sensitive data, communities, institutions, identifiable images, protected materials, or restricted information, authors must declare that they have the corresponding permissions, consent, authorizations, or ethical approvals.

When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a data availability statement indicating whether the data, instruments, codes, supplementary materials, or repositories associated with the study are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, or restricted for ethical, legal, or institutional reasons.

Open Access, License, and Publication Charges

RICT publishes its content under an open access model. The journal does not charge readers to consult its articles and does not charge authors fees for manuscript submission, processing, editing, or publication.

Published content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) , which allows the material to be copied and distributed in any medium or format, provided that authorship is acknowledged, it is not used for commercial purposes, and no derivative works are created.

Self-Archiving and Dissemination of the Published Version

RICT allows authors to deposit versions of their works in institutional, thematic, or personal repositories, provided that the original publication is cited, the integrity of the work is maintained, 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.

Before Submitting Your Manuscript

Before starting the submission, verify that the manuscript meets the following requirements:

• The manuscript corresponds to RICT’s focus and scope.
• The file follows the journal’s template and author guidelines.
• The title, abstract, and keywords are available in Spanish and English.
• Authorship, affiliation, country, and ORCID information is complete.
• Citations and references are standardized and verifiable.
• Figures and tables have sufficient quality and include source information.
• The use of artificial intelligence has been declared, if applicable.
• Conflicts of interest, funding, data, and ethical permissions have been declared, if applicable.
• The manuscript is not simultaneously submitted to another publication.