Criterios de Calidad

The Perfiles de Ingeniería magazine meets the quality criteria and indicators in its editorial process, which are: impact and prestige, visibility and accessibility, punctuality and seriousness, rigor and process, ethics and commitment, editorial management, scientific community, originality and authorship.

Impact and prestige

Engineering Profiles magazine has a presence in 15 international databases: 03 open access databases, 03 publication evaluation platforms, 04 selective scientific portals and directories, 03 repositories and 01 search engine.

Visibility and Access

Engineering Profiles maintains a policy of access to open and shared knowledge, having all its 120 published articles available on the journal's website and on the OJS platform, completely free of charge and in full text. In addition to being a bilingual publication with versions in 02 languages: Spanish, English. The international visibility of Engineering Profiles originates from its different access formats (pdf, html) in different academic social networks (Academia Edu) and generic (LinkedIn, Twitter), author identifiers (ORCID, DOI ), as well as in document managers such as Mendeley.

The periodicity of publications is biannual and is guaranteed by an efficient flow of manuscripts. In a meticulous, rigorous and explicit manner in the publication rules, authors can follow the entire process of receiving and evaluating manuscripts:

1. In the first instance, the manuscripts received are evaluated by the Scientific Council, considering the theme, form and relevance of the article (10 calendar days).

2. In the second instance, the articles are sent to two external evaluators, considered experts on the subject, having a maximum of 30 days to submit their reports, using an article evaluation format.

3. In the third instance, once the evaluation of the manuscript has been completed, the author receives a notification of the peer's opinion, where the observations, comments and/or suggestions issued by them are indicated verbatim. Said opinion is sent with one of the following notifications: a) approved, b) recommended with specific changes, c) conditioned or d) rejected.

4. Editing of the texts and publication of the new issue in online format.

Rigor of the Process

Engineering Profiles guarantees a rigorous and transparent system of anonymous arbitration of peer evaluations, through an International Scientific Committee of Reviewers from different countries on the five continents, specialists in communication and advertising. Each manuscript is submitted to a minimum of two blind reviews by experts on the subject.

Ethics and Commitment

The Perfiles de Ingeniería magazine has an ethical code that guarantees the rights and duties of the entire scientific community: authors, reviewers and editors. The engineering profile code of ethics , based on the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), regulates the commitments made by all authors regarding originality in the authorship of works, access to data, conflict of interest, correction of errors and responsibility. The reviewers, for their part, commit to honest and constructive criticism, respect for time, confidentiality and maximum objectivity that avoids redundancies or conflicts of interest. Finally, the editors guarantee the ethics and commitment of Engineering Profiles , assuming an honest and objective practice, ensuring the optimal selection of reviewers, confidentiality and maximum respect for the established times.

Editorial Management

Engineering Profiles guarantees the quality of the editorial process through the OJS Platform 3.1.1.2. The scientific rigor of the texts is based on editorial neatness, based in turn on the work of national and foreign reviewers, professional layout and adaptation to different online editing formats for better visualization and impact (PDF y HTML). The journal has a very rigorous and serious editorial process, it is accessible on the web (completely free of charge in full text) and transparent for the author throughout the process (from receipt of the manuscript, evaluation by double-blind reviewers, opinion of the reviewers and the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript).

Scientific Community

Engineering Profiles has an important scientific community of national author y/o foreign, national y/o foreign reviewers and readers around the world. In addition, it has a solid editorial team that collaborates intensely in the growth and consolidation of the journal, made up of: Editorial Board (editor, scientific committee and editorial assistant), Editorial Committee (made up of representatives from different countries and universities), Committee Scientist (reviewers), copywriter (specialized in the area), layout designer (in charge of layout and layout). This entire human team of collaborators ensures the scientific, formal and ethical quality of the editorial process, from the moment a manuscript is submitted until its publication.

Emerging technologies

Both the editorial process, as well as the subsequent dissemination and impact, progressively, and according to technological advances, are continually adapted to emerging technologies, which implies that from time to time adjustments are made and new media formats are modified or incorporated. visualization of the articles, improvements in the communication models with the authors and/or reviewers, and the updating of new versions of the use platform for editorial management (OJS) and the process of dissemination of published articles. For this reason, Perfiles de Ingeniería magazine has a network of national and international collaborators, and maintains open communication networks, with the aim of increasing the impact of the published articles.

Originality and Progress

In Engineering Profiles the originality of the work is paramount. For this reason, all manuscripts, from the beginning, are subjected to plagiarism checks (Turnitin). According to the journal's regulations, plagiarism is an automatic reason for immediate rejection of a research project and the author is excluded from subsequent calls. Only unpublished and original articles are published in the areas of communication sciences, which guarantee true scientific research where the results presented provide relevant and interesting data for our scientific community. In this sense, the magazine's publications are aimed at the progress of science in the field of media.

Authorship

In Engineering Profiles the author is the primary figure, who initiates and sustains the entire editorial management process, always prevailing originality and novelty. The editorial committee aspires to achieve the greatest visibility of the journal, academic excellence and respect for the authors.