Sections policy

The articles received in the journal can be published in three sections:

Short articles

Open submission

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Originals articles

Open submission

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Revisions articles

Open submission

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Scientific evaluation policy

Peer Evaluation Process

Contributions sent to the "original articles", "review articles", and "short articles" sections will always be subject to the double-blind peer-review process. If there are differences in the criteria among the selected reviewers, the work will be submitted to a third expert for their opinion on whether to publish it. In all cases, the identity of reviewers and authors will be protected to avoid, as far as possible, the existence of conflicts of interest in the verdict. The decision taken in the arbitration process is final and unappealable.

The evaluators can recommend to the Editorial Committee that the article be:

• Accepted
• Accepted with modifications
• Rejected

The publication of contributions in other sections will be carried out at the discretion of the editorial committee.

Revision policy

The revision policy serves as a guide to how the Editorial Board of the Innovation and Software Journal evaluates the scientific contributions it receives.

• Editorial evaluation

The first review is carried out by the Editor and/or associate editors; It has a maximum duration of 5 days. Some of the criteria considered are:

1. The relationship between the content of the article and the themes of the journal.
2. Structure of the article according to the rules for the presentation of the article that the journal requires.
3. Adequate technical vocabulary.
4. General aspects of the novelty of the work.
5. Adequate structure of the summary, keywords, conclusions, and sufficiency of bibliographic references according to the norm required by the journal.

According to the result of this evaluation, three possible decisions are made:

• Decision 1: Reject in case of not complying with points 1, 2, 4, and 5.
• Decision 2: Make editorial changes to form and presentation. The author will have one week to make and deliver the corrected article.
• Decision 3: Accept it without modifications. In this case, the article is ready for academic evaluation.

Each decision will be managed and communicated to the authors, associate editors, and reviewers by the journal's Executive Editor, as appropriate in each case.

• Academic evaluation

It is conducted through a double-blind peer-review system in strict anonymity. For this process, two reviewers are employed; if their decisions conflict, the article will be evaluated by a third party. The members of the International Scientific Committee, the review committee, will use the following form to review all articles submitted to the platform.

Reviewers selection

Innovation and Software Journal has a database of national and international reviewers, classified by academic category, distributed by disciplinary areas and institutions, in this way the Editorial Board guarantees that the reviewers are external to the publishing entity and the entity of the authors who send their contributions.

Academic review time

The article can be evaluated up to 3 times, depending on the complexity of the changes and reviewers' suggestions. In the first academic review, the referees will provide their initial opinion within 4 weeks. If necessary, it will make and deliver a second and third academic opinion within a maximum period of 2 weeks for each case. The total time of the academic review will not exceed 3 months.

Decisions of the academic review:

Reviewers can make three types of decisions:

Decision 1. Reject the job, in case:

• Do not promote a new scientific contribution.
• The result is outdated.
• Verify that it is plagiarism.
• There is no correspondence between the investigation's objective, the methods used, and the results obtained.
• Insufficient results and their analysis are outlined in the article.
• References are not current, are not under the standard designated by the journal, are not correctly bound, are not sufficient, and are not from reliable sources.

Decision 2. Make changes to the article. On the other hand, the changes have been classified into minimal, moderate, and complex.

Minimal changes:

• Sort bibliographic references correctly.
• Consistent writing of the introduction.
• Appropriate keywords.
• Titles of tables and figures.

In this case, the author will have 2 weeks to correct and deliver the article. If the article is reviewed again, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

Moderate changes:

• Clarify materials and methods.
• Reorganize the article structure.
• Remake the introduction (clarify novelty/importance and contribution).
• Synthesize results.
• Improve tables and figures.

In this case, the author will have 3 weeks to correct and deliver the article. If the article is reviewed again, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

Complex changes:

• Clarify correspondence between: introduction/materials and methods/results and conclusions.
• Improve the discussion of the results.
• Exposing better results according to the objectives set.
• Update references.
• Claim materials and methods in correspondence with the results obtained

In this case, the author will have 4 weeks to correct and deliver the article; if it is reviewed a second time, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

Decision 3. Accept the article without modification.

Each decision will be managed and communicated to the authors, reviewers, and the drafting and realization committee by the journal's editor-in-chief, as appropriate in each case.

Evaluación final

It is made after the article has been edited and processed by the drafting and realization committee. The article is sent to the author so that, within a maximum period of 5 days, they notify the editor of the journal of their agreement for publication. The author may make only minimal changes to grammar and writing. If the author exceeds the established time limit, the article will be postponed for publication in later editions of the Innovation and Software Journal.

Article dismissal

In the case of dismissal of the scientific article, the editor will inform the author. On the other hand, he may submit a claim within 72 hours, to which the editor will respond within a maximum period of 5 days.

Frequency of publication

The journal publishes its numbers semiannually and covers the following periods:

• October, November, December, January, February, March (publication: last week of March)
• April, May, June, July, August, and September (publication: last week of September)

Publication fee

The journal has no charge for the presentation, reception, review, or edition of the work submitted or during publication.

Ethics declaration

Innovation and Software Journal of La Salle University is committed to maintaining high standards through rigorous peer review and strict ethical policies. Any violation of codes of professional ethics, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or false claims of authorship, is taken very seriously by the editors.
Innovation and Software Journal follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and uses COPE flowcharts to resolve cases of suspected misconduct. Authors wishing to publish in this journal must meet the criteria of the international standard for authors.
The works submitted for publication must be original and must not have been previously published (in print or electronic form). Likewise, the works should not be under another publication process and should not be submitted for such purposes during the evaluation process of this journal, as well as other terms expressed in it.

Conduct code

This code is intended to establish the fundamental principles of the editorial process: the selection, editing, and publication of content by order or assignment of its authors, and the agreement or sponsorship of its representatives.

This code shall apply to all publications and content edited and published by the Innovation and Software Journal of La Salle University, as well as to authors, reviewers, and editors. Failure to comply with its sections will compromise the integrity of the editorial. The good practices promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) are assumed.

Fundamental principles of the evaluation process:

• Authorship: limited to those who have contributed substantially to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the research. All those who have contributed in this way should be listed as co-authors.
• Double-blind arbitration: the reviewer does not know the article's author, nor does the author know the reviewer who evaluates his work. Two experts in the field submit the articles for consideration, aiming to reach a consensus on their acceptance or rejection. When both specialists differ in their criteria, a third party is sought to render a final verdict. The reviewers will be independent of each other.
• Confidentiality: obliges all participants in the review process to maintain strict confidentiality over everything that comes to their knowledge. Any document submitted to the Editorial for possible publication must remain confidential by all those involved in the opinion process.
• Transparency: obliges the editorial board members to maintain transparency about the evaluation process.
• Celerity: obliges compliance with the deadlines established in the procedures for the acceptance, arbitration, and publication of the contributions submitted. The speed is not incompatible with the time necessary to reach a fair decision.
• Recognition: obliges to review the sources contributing to the result, personal and institutional, public or private, projects, investors, or other sources of financing, or any other type that has been influential in the results presented.

Section A: Obligations for authors

• All collaborations submitted for publication must be unpublished. The authors of the documents should avoid any form of plagiarism, conscious or unconscious, including autoplagium. If this inappropriate practice is detected, the document will be immediately withdrawn, and the sources involved will be notified. Subsequently, documents from authors who have violated this criterion will not be accepted.
• The author should not send the manuscript simultaneously to more than one journal or other means of publication. If this inadequate practice is detected, the same procedure as the previous point will be followed.
• The submissions must comply with the editorial and style standards requested by the publications.
• All work should indicate the sources from which it is nourished. The author or authors use information obtained in a personal way (unpublished lectures, classes, conversations, and/or unpublished interviews, etc.).
• The fragmentation or division of texts by the authors is prohibited. All text must be presented in its full version to avoid reproducing unjustified publications.
• As the author or authors of the text, they should only appear in the header who participated in the preparation of the text in a decisive way. All text based on the collection of citations without argumentation and presented as an original and unpublished work will be rejected by the Editorial Board.
• The authors must reliably inform of the contribution made in the document submitted for possible publication. They must also explicitly recognize the contribution of authors and co-authors in previous publications. If the document is part of the products of an investigation sponsored by an institution or program, the authors must give the corresponding credit.
• The authors must not present data or matters that do not exist, submit documents or supposed objects, falsify accurate data, or present deliberately distorted evidence or data.
• Authors should consider and avoid including confidential or classified information in their articles.

Section B: Obligations for the reviewer

• Every reviewer must be fair and impartial. No reviewer can or should evaluate any text by an author with whom they have a notable closeness, in accordance with the policy that "all participants in the peer review and the publication process must declare all relationships that could be considered as potential conflicts of interest".
• Every reviewer of texts, before accepting a review, should consider whether he has the relevant expertise, as well as the time necessary to evaluate any text with a view to its publication, following the policy that "the reviewer must declare in writing any conflict of interests that could affect your evaluation of a manuscript and should refrain from evaluating manuscripts if they consider it appropriate".
• The reviewer's performance is not delegable. They may, however, within their responsibility, seek the help or collaboration of other arbitrated subject professionals, provided they comply with the principles of the Editorial Board's Code of Ethics.
• The reviewer shall refrain from using any information they acquired during the arbitration procedure for personal gain or the benefit or damage of third parties.
• The result of the arbitration process can only be sent through the channels established by the editorial board and the publication's publishing body.
• Every arbitrator has an obligation to send the result of his verdict where he explains precisely the reasons for his decision, whether for or against; taking into account the originality, quality of the results and conclusions, clarity of the presentation, updating, and sufficiency of the references, as well as other criteria that are defined to ensure the scientific quality of the contributions.

Section C: Obligations for publishers

• The editors have the responsibility and the power to accept or reject the texts sent for publication, always taking as a reference the compliance with the editorial and style norms of the corresponding publications.
• The editors are guided by the imperative of being impartial, honest, and confidential in their decisions on the texts' rulings and the selection of the arbitration body, leaving aside any prejudice toward the authors and reviewers.
• The responsibility to ensure the originality of the works, free from plagiarism or fraud, is the responsibility of the authors. Meanwhile, publishers are responsible for identifying and retracting any article or content found that contains elements of plagiarism or fraud.
• The editors agree to send the results of the contributions to the authors.
• Publishers must respond promptly to authors' requirements and make every effort to avoid fraud, plagiarism, and other actions that are contrary to compliance with this code in publications.
• Publishers are prohibited from publishing any text without the author or authors' authorization once they have been informed that their text has obtained a favorable verdict and they have consented to the published version.

Anti-plagiarism policy

In accordance with its Code of Conduct, the Innovation and Software Journal of La Salle University maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that requires all submitted works to be uploaded through professional applications, thereby ensuring the originality of all manuscripts. Innovation and Software Journal establishes its position against any form of plagiarism, conscious or unconscious, including autoplagium.
This anti-plagiarism policy ensures originality standards to guarantee innovative and impressive scientific production, reaffirming our Statement of Ethics. Authors, reviewers, and editors also have specific tools for detecting plagiarism: Grammarly, Plagium, CopioNIC, WriteCheck, PaperRater, Plagiarisma.net, Viper, Plagiarism, etc., open-access or licensed platforms that monitor originality and control plagiarism.

Open access policy

Innovation and Software Journal of La Salle University, following the Budapest Open Access Initiative, declares itself an open-access scientific and academic journal and allows readers and authors to read and publish manuscripts, respectively, free of charge, in any way, to increase visibility, impact, and access to its contents.
Free, immediate, and unrestricted access to the contents of the Innovation and Software Journal is provided under the principle that making research freely available to the public encourages greater global knowledge exchange.
La Salle University publishes the contents of the Innovation and Software Journal under the Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon their work, even for commercial purposes, provided that the authorship of the original creation and any changes they make to it are recognized, if applicable.

Copyright policy

Sending a contribution to the Innovation and Software Journal implies an EXCLUSIVE TRANSFER of rights, which includes:

1. Reproduce the article in whole or in part and communicate the Article to the public in print or electronic format, combined or not with third-party works, such as by making the Article available to the public through the Internet or any other network, as part of a database, with online or offline access, for use by third parties;
2. Translate the Article into other languages ​​and disseminate the translation to the public.
3. Create adaptations, summaries, or extracts of the Article and other derivative works thereof, as well as exercise all your rights over such adaptations, summaries, extracts, and derivative works;
4. Include the Article, either in its translated version, adapted or summarized, in whole or in part, in a computerized database and make it available to third parties;
5. Include the article, totally or partially, either in its translated version, adapted or summarized, in a selection or collection of texts;
6. Rent or lend the article to third parties;
7. Reproduce the article through reprography without prejudice to legal limitations.

The author of the articles published in the Innovation and Software Journal may exercise the following rights:

1. Reproduce the article, in whole or in part, and disseminate its content or make it available to the public, in printed or electronic format, as part of teaching content or as a compilation, for use in the academic or research field in the institution to which the author belongs or in those institutions to which it belongs.
2. Publish the article on the Internet or authorize the institution of the author (or any other appropriate organization) to do the same immediately from the date of publication of the article in this journal: within the closed network of the institution ( e.g., the intranet); or in publicly-accessible institutional repositories or centrally organized repositories, provided that a link to the article is included in the journal's website.
3. Grant to the author's own institution (or any other appropriate organization) the authorization to reproduce the article to avoid deterioration or, if the original was in an obsolete format or the technology to use it was not available, to ensure that the article is still available for educational or research purposes;
4. Present the article at a meeting or conference and distribute copies to attendees.
5. Grant to end users of the author's institution (or any other appropriate organization) the authorization to copy, use, transmit, and present the work in public, and to create and distribute works derived.

Interest conflict disclosure policy

The authors of a manuscript, the editors of the journal that receives it, and their reviewers (internal and external), must disclose any conflict of interest that could influence the manuscript or its revision and approval. If the authors declare a conflict of interest, it must be disclosed to the manuscript's reviewers. In turn, those invited to review a manuscript should excuse themselves if they have a conflict of interest with the authors or the subject. The journal guarantees that the most suitable reviewers will be selected based on thematic and academic compatibility.

In the event of a dispute, the Innovation and Software Journal undertakes to resolve such cases through its Editorial Board. He will be in charge of resolving these cases, and reasonable measures will be taken to identify and prevent the publication of articles involving misconduct cases during the investigation. In no case shall the Journal encourage such improper conduct, nor will it knowingly allow such improper conduct to occur.

If the editor or the magazine's editors learn of any accusation of misconduct during the investigation, the editor will treat the accusation appropriately, retracting or correcting items when necessary. Posting the corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies if necessary.

GenAI use statement

Authors must declare the use of generative AI in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper. Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal can use AI Tools to support them. However, these tools must never be used as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise, and evaluation. AI technology should always be applied with human oversight and control. Authors are responsible and accountable for the contents of their work. This includes accountability for:

• Carefully reviewing and verifying the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and impartiality of all AI-generated output (including checking the sources, as AI-generated references can be incorrect or fabricated). 

• Editing and adapting all material thoroughly to ensure the manuscript represents the author’s authentic and original contribution and reflects their own analysis, interpretation, insights, and ideas.

• Ensuring the use of any tools or sources, AI-based or otherwise, is made clear and transparent to readers. If AI Tools have been used, we require a disclosure statement upon submission. 

• Ensuring the manuscript is developed in a way that safeguards data privacy, intellectual property, and other rights by checking the terms and conditions of any AI tool that is used.

• Publishers are prohibited from publishing any text without the author or authors' authorization once they have been informed that their text has obtained a favorable verdict and they have consented to the published version.

Finally, authors must not list or cite AI Tools as an author or co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans. The use of AI Tools in the manuscript preparation process must be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the published work and should be placed after the CRediT Author contributions section. The declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as those used to check grammar, spelling, and references. If you have nothing to disclose, you do not need to add a statement.

CRediT author statement

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) was introduced to recognize individual author contributions, reduce authorship disputes, and facilitate collaboration. CRediT enables authors to provide an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed upon by all authors. All authors' roles should be listed using the relevant categories above. Authors may have contributed in multiple roles. CRediT in no way changes the journal’s criteria to qualify for authorship. CRediT statements should be provided during the submission process and will appear above the acknowledgement section of the published paper.

• Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Validation: Verification of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs, whether as a part of the activity or separate.
• Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments or data/evidence collection.
• Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data, and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
• Writing - Original Draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing - Review & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre-or postpublication stages.
• Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation.
• Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Privacy declaration

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. La Salle University's privacy policies, available on its official website, are followed.

Comment policy

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Persistent identifier policy

All the articles and issues published by Innovación y Software have a DOI that guarantees permanent access to the articles, thanks to the constant registration, tracking, and monitoring of metadata. To ensure its operation, the DOI is always displayed as a full URL, both in article submissions and in the journal's issues. The DOI prefix is 10.48168.

All the articles and numbers published by Innovación y Software have an ARK ("Archival Resource Key) and a PURL ("Persistent Uniform Resource Locator") that guarantees permanent access to the articles, thanks to the constant registration, tracking, and monitoring of metadata. To ensure its operation, the ARK and the PURL are always displayed as full URLs, both in article presentations and in journal issues. The NAAN ("Name Assigning Authority Number") is resolved by N2T.net (Name-to-Thing) and can be verified in the following link. The PURL service is resolved by The Internet Archive and can be verified in the following link.

Since 2020, authors have been required to register on the platform to submit papers with their ORCID ID. It is a persistent identifier that distinguishes authors from other researchers, facilitates the recognition of their contributions, and reduces the chances of errors in their registration. This identifier is requested by the authors via the ORCID website, a global non-profit organization that promotes the transparent exchange of information.

Authors are also requested to register their institution's ROR on the platform. The ROR (Research Organization Registry) is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization worldwide. ROR records include basic metadata about an organization. Additional metadata will be added soon. It can support multiple languages and character sets. The ROR identifier is a URL that links to the institution's ROR registration form.

Archiving policy

This journal uses the PKP Preservation Network to create a distributed filing system among collaborating libraries, enabling them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration. If the journal page ceases, the PKP PN stores a copy of each item across at least 9 data centers to ensure access to all items. You can read more about the PKP PLN. A preserved issue list of the journal in PKP PN is available. You can verify the registration of this journal in a LOCKSS network on the page of The Keeepers Registry. LOCKSS and CLOCKSS gateways are also enabled.

Interoperability protocol

All Innovation and Software Journal publications incorporate interoperability protocols that enable their content to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. Journals published through OJS (Open Journal Systems) support the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), enabling metadata retrieval in various formats.

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata formats: OAI_DC; JATS; MARC21; OAI_MARC; RFC1807; OAI_OPENAIRE_JATS; BIBLAT.
Route for harvesters: https://revistas.ulasalle.edu.pe/innosoft/oai

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