Editorial Policies

Transdisciplinary Science takes account of the importance of considering potential editorial conflicts of interest when processing and evaluating new manuscripts submitted.

We therefore provide this policy to the authors and scientific community in the interests of transparency to the editorial policies of the journal. The Editorial Board will recuse themselves from evaluating or handling a paper according to the following rule: Transdisciplinary Science takes account of the importance of considering potential editorial conflicts of interest when processing and evaluating new manuscripts submitted. We therefore provide this policy to the authors and scientific community in the interests of transparency to the editorial policies of the journal.

The Editorial Committe will recuse themselves from evaluating or handling a paper according to the following rule:

• For submitted papers where the Editor-in-Chief is a co-author, the manuscript will be handled by other member of the Editorial Committee.

Transdisciplinary Science is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the Editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous especialist referees.

Focus and Scope

Publishing Regulation: Transdisciplinary Science is the Instituto Antioqueño de Investigación official publication in Medellin, Antioquia. The journal relies on a vast and diverse theoretical and thematic publishing material, which includes unpublished productions of diverse Education, Engineering and Science issues, and others areas of the Humanities.

Published Work Classification: The journal publishes articles that respond to the following typology being strict in the number of pages accepted (references included):

• Scientific and Technological Research Articles: document that presents, in detail, the original results of completed research projects. The structure followed generally contains five sections: Introduction, method, results, discussion and conclusions.
• Review Article: is the document resulting from a completed research project where the results of published or unpublished research on an area of science or technology are systematized and integrated to inform the State of the Art and trends in development in the field. It is characterized by containing a minimum of 50 bibliographic references from literature review.
• Reflection article: This document reports the results of a research project from an analytical, interpretive or critical point of view of the author on a given topic using original sources.
• Letters to the editor: contain critical, analytical or interpretive positions on the material published in the journal that, for the editorial committee, constitute an important contribution to the discussion of the topic in the scientific research community.

Peer Review Process

Editorial Process: the editorial process starts with the sending of the manuscript to the journal's platform and it ends once the article has been declined or accepted for publication on the established dates. As soon as the sending has taken place, the review processes will occur as described below:

Review process: in order to facilitate the articles review process, Transdisciplinary Science requests authors to suggest at least three possible peers to review their article (including name, institution, and email). These peers should be specialists on the field and be unconnected to the research developed on the manuscript. They cannot belong to the editorial committe or scientific committe of the journal. The journal reserves the right to use the proposed peers services. In this case, the editor will assign other reviewers.

Articles sent to the journal will be initially reviewed by the Editor-In-Chief and his or her assistant to verify the compliance with the journal's criteria. Then, they will be submitted to a software that verifies similarity percentages with previous written and published material to check for plagiarism. With an index of 20% or higher number of similarity found, the paper will be discarded. Once this is done, authors will be notified whether the article adjusts to editorial policies, if corrections are needed or if it has been rejected.

The journal relies on a vast international scientific committeof researches with doctored studies who have specializations in the fields of Education, Engineering, Science and others humanities related areas. Therefore, any article sent to the journal, will be subject to specialized peers evaluation according with the topic developed on the article.

Authors sending their article to the journal, can rely on the fact that their academic-scientific contribution will be assessed with high confidentiality of their names and affiliation. (Double-blind peer evaluation). Likewise, the editorial will refrain from revealing the pares names or their affiliation.

Once the article has been reviewed and approved by the editor, and the assistant, the following procedure will take place:

• Potential peers will be contacted depending on the topic developed on the manuscript (The journal assigns minimum two pares do the article's review)..
• Once the roles have been accepted by the judges, the following is done:
  • Sending the manuscript in word processing format to the corresponding peers.
  • The names and affiliations of the authors within the manuscript are excluded.
  • Sending the format for evaluation of articles according to type (research, review, reflection).
  • Instructions for the peer to complete the evaluation within the next four weeks.
• After receiving the peers verdict, the editor analyses the evaluations and presents them to the scientific committee, which makes a decision that is informed to the main author.
• In case the article has been approved, but it requires corrections suggested by the peers, the main author will be contacted to proceed with the necessary changes, or counter argue the peers suggestions. (The author has ten days for this task from the moment he or she has been notified by the editorial committee). Once the author has carried out the corrections or counter argued them, the need for sending it to a different peer specialized in the feels will be analyzed in order for a final verdict to be given (this process should take between 10 and 20 days maximum). After evaluation is sent back, a final decision on approval or rejection will be reached.
• If the evaluators approved the article, the author will make the necessary adjustments (10 days will be given from the moment of the scientific committee communication).

Style correction: as soon as the changes applied by the authors and approved by the evaluators and the editor, the style correction process begins. This process will be carried out depending on the cases needs, and the style corrector will contact the authors to make necessary adjustments. .

Layout and Design: once the style correction is approved, the article will be sent to the design area for layout. This process will be done within the following 15 days.

Draft: when the article has been designed and after editors approval, a preliminary sending to the author will take place. The author should review it in a detailed manner to check for mistakes that could have occurred during the layout and design process. If the author identifies any omission, mistake or lack of information, he or she should notify the editor referring directly to he manuscript (page, column, paragraph, line, word, etc.). Changes directly applied to the draft will not be accepted: Only those notified by the journal.

Publication: once the adjustments have been made on the article, it will be queued for the next issue publication, which will be available to the public on the established dates (this is, at the beginning of each semester).

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:

• Editorial proposals must be unpublished
• When sending the article to the journal, legal and formal requirements are automatically accepted as well as terms for publications evaluation and selection.
• Reception of the manuscript does not compromise to the journal to its publication; only to its analysis under diagnosis, evaluation, and editorial policies.
• The author commits to refraining from presenting the manuscript or any of its parts to other journals for as long as the decision and evaluation are taken about its content without prior editorial consent; this includes not participating in contests that affect the assessment process.
• Text ethics to avoid plagiarism is something we insist on. Rights must be respected in citing texts and images adequately and avoiding the use of other texts in an excessive manner.
• Figures and tables must be placed after citation into the text. Nevertheless, during the layout process, required adjustments will be carried out for the best possible presentation of the final manuscript.
• In all cases the author will need to inform the editorial, in written form, the use of images or illustrations, show its source, quantity and explain the technical requirements for their use (multimedia, software, special illustrations, and others).

Declaration on conflict of interest

In order to comply with the requirements for the publication of articles in the Journal , it is necessary for the authors to show, preferably in a note of copyright in the manuscript, the activities and relationships that could be interpreted as a conflict of interest, even if it is not believed that is no conflict or bias exists. Compliance with the Editorial, the shares in a company through a mutual fund almost never represents a mutual conflict of interests that need to be known, while wages, research scholarships, research grants and personal actions do. They are also seen as potential sources of bias, that the authors are holders of copyright or beneficiaries of royalties from a product or service used or dealt with in the study, as well as the relationship of the authors with an entity or person involved in the development of the same.

Declaration of compliance with ethical principles

Transdisciplinary Science adheres to the guidelines of the Code of Ethics of the Institute Antioqueño de Investigación and other international regulations in relation to ethical standards of research and publication. Based on what is described above, those that ignore the following principles will be considered violations of the ethics of research and publication in the fields of the journal:

• Institutional approval: In order to obtain approval of institutional research, accurate information about research proposals must be provided.
• Informed consent for research: The collection of primary data for research and publication must have proper informed consent. Researchers can ignore the informed consent only when there are reasonable grounds to believe that the research will not cause injury or harm, and when it is permitted by the laws, federal or institutional regulations
• Clients/patients, students and subordinates as participants in the research: Researchers should follow the appropriate steps to protect possible participants of the adverse consequences of decline or withdraw from the study; in addition, those who participate in the research as a school requirement, will be given the choice of equivalent alternative activities.
• Incentives for participation in research: Efforts will be made to avoid excessive economic incentives or inappropriate incentives, when they constitute a form of coercion for participants; but if it is offered a professional service as a change, then it should clarify the nature of the service, as well as the risks, obligations and limitations.
• Cheating on the research: An study might not be done when cheating is involved, at least that the justification for the possible scientific or educational value that is ineffective through non-deceptive research can be determinate. If the deception has become part of the research for valid reason, as soon as the participants have finished it, they will be notified on such proceeding; this notification will not be after they have finished collecting data, since the participants may request their exclusion at any stage of the process. Cheating on research involving physical or emotional pain is also not supported.
• Feedback: Participants should be properly informed of the characteristics of the research (objectives, results, and conclusions) and their concerns must be clarified. If for scientific reasons it should be delayed the transmission of any results, take the necessary measures to reduce the risk of damage. If the resulting information could be harmful for the participant, it shall take a timely decision on its transmission (hide it or show it, can cause some kind of damage).
• The care of animals in research: Researching with animals should carry out of agreement with legal standards, by trained persons and avoiding cause injury or unnecessary pain to animals.
• Result of data in research: The invention or data modification is considered a violation of the ethics of research. If it is found mistakes in published data, it must be taken the right steps to correct them and make them public.
• Plagiarism in research: the authors should not use work or non- own data as if it were from themselves. The use of non- own data requires accreditation.
• Publication credits: Researchers only acquire credit, including authorship, for those works that they have done and which they have contributed to substantially. Credit is awarded in direct function with the contribution to the work and irrespective of the institutional status of the person. In relation to students, this should be listed as principal author in a work with multiple authors, which is based on its doctoral dissertation.
• Duplicate publication of data: It will not be published as original data those that have been previously published. This does not preclude the reissue of data when they have their respective recognition.
• Arrangement of data of the research for verification: Data must be available for the verification of the published results, provided to protect the confidentiality of the participants.
• Reviewers: Material under publication reviewers or other academic work must respect confidentiality, ownership and authorship rights related information.

Letter of certification of authorship

To Journal, people must award the credit of authorship for a work that they really have made, or with which contributed substantially . The smaller contributions, which are not authorship, should be recognized in a note . It is responsibility of the authors to determinate the authorship and the order in which the names of the authors will appear in the work. The principal authorship and the order of the credits of authorship must accurately reflect the contribution of people involve.

Copyright assignment

By ceding the copyright rights the authors allow Transdiaciplinary Science to distribute the work broadly, check the reuse of the work by others and take care of the necessary procedures for the registration and administration of copyright. At the same time our scientific committe represents the interests of the author and allows authors to re-use his/her work in multiple forms.

** Transferred the copyright to the journal called "Transdisciplinary Science". This transfer does not imply other rights which are not those of authorship (such as for example those concerning patents). Also, preserves the authors rights to use the work integral or partially in lectures, books, and courses, as well as make copies for educational purposes. Finally, the author (s) may use freely the tables and figures in its future work, wherever make explicit reference to the previous publication in the Journal. The assignment of copyright includes both electronic rights and forms of the article to allow publisher to disseminate the work in the manner that it deems pertinent.

Copyright Notice

The work that is sent to this journal must be original, not published or sent to be published elsewhere; and if it is accepted for publication, authors will agree to transfer copyright to the Journal.

To give up copyright, the authors allow that, the Journal, distribute the work more broadly, check for the reuse by others and take care of the necessary procedures for the registration and administration of copyright; at the same time, our scientific committe represents the interests of the author and allows authors to re-use his work in various forms. In response to the above, authors transfer copyright to the journal, Transdisciplinary Science. This transfer does not imply other rights which are not those of authorship (for example, those that concern about patents). Likewise, preserves the authors rights to use the work integral or partially in lectures, books and courses, as well as make copies for educational purposes. Finally, the authors may use freely the tables and figures in its future work, wherever make explicit reference to the previous publication in the Journal . The assignment of copyright includes both virtual rights and forms of the article to allow the editorial to disseminate the work in the manner which it deems appropriate.

The editorial committe reserves the right of amendments deemed necessary in the application of the rules of publication.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes declared by this journal and are not available for any other purpose or another person.

In addition, the names of the participants in the study will be coded with numbers, letters or essays that remain strictly confidential the personal identification .

Printing errors: in case printing errors on the published material due to editing process occur, the Journal will indicate the correction on its following volume in a section called, "printing errors".

The editorial process and the publication of the papers has no fee charges for the authors in Transdisciplinary Science.

Publication Frequency

The journal has a frequency of two issues per year, covering from january to june and from july to december, respectively. Every manuscript goes through review, selection, and final decision processes to be finally published in the next issue.

Open Access Policy

The Journal provides free access to its content under the premise that making available for free the knowlegde and the research results to the public, will favors the exchange of global knowledge.

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