The Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences ISSN: 2961-287X (online) is open access; It will have a quarterly periodicity in which there is a scientific committee that will help us evaluate the articles that will be published and thus comply with one of the scientific requirements to become a high impact journal.

Aims and Scope

Its objective is to disseminate innovative research on how Complexity Sciences affect our daily lives, as well as how complexity theories are used to improve and understand processes in other spheres of life. Its themes are Complexity Sciences, Economics, and Interdisciplinarity. It is aimed at the audience of students, teachers, researchers, and the general public who wish to publish or read for free on the topics of Complexity, Economics, and the application of Complexity Sciences in daily life.

Journal sponsorship

The journal is published under the auspices of the La Salle University.

Publication frequency

The journal publishes its issues quarterly.

About the publishing system

Acceptance and Rejection rate

The journal has an average acceptance rate of 87.5% in each published issue.

Publishing costs

The journal does not charge for the presentation, reception, revision or editing of the submitted work, nor during the publication process.

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 criteria between the selected reviewers, the work will be submitted to the opinion of a third expert who will decide whether or not to publish the work in question. 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 constitutes the guide in which it is exposed to how the Editorial Board of the Journal carries out the process of evaluation of the scientific contributions that 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 with 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 of 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 to be submitted to the academic evaluation.

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

• Academic evaluation

It is done from the double-blind peer review system and in strict anonymity. For this process, two reviewers are employed and in case there is a contradiction in the reviewers' decision, the article will be evaluated by a third party. The members of the International Scientific Committee, the review committee, will use the following form for the review of all articles submitted on the platform.

Reviewers selection

The 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 maximum, depending on the complexity of the changes and the suggestions of the reviewers. In the first academic review, the referees will make and deliver the first opinion in a maximum period of 4 weeks. If necessary, it will make and deliver a second and third academic opinion in 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 objective of the investigation, the methods used and the results obtained.
• Insufficient results and analysis of these are outlined in the article.
• References are not current, are not under the standard designated by the journal, correctly bounded, 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 changes, moderate changes, and complex changes.

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; In case the article is reviewed a second time, 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; In case the article is reviewed a second time, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

Complex changes:

• Clarify correspondence between: introduction / materials and methods / results and conclusions.
• Improve discussion of the results.
• Expose 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; In case it is reviewed for the second time, the author will have one week to deliver the corrected article.

Decision 3. Accept the article without modification.

Each of the decisions will be managed and informed by the editor in chief of the journal to the authors, reviewers, and drafting and realization committee, 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, notify the editor of the journal of his agreement for publication. The author may only make minimal changes in grammar and writing. In case the author exceeds the established time, the article will be postponed for publication in later editions of the 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.

Statement of ethics

The Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences is committed to maintaining high standards through rigorous peer review along with strict ethical policies. Any violation of professional codes of ethics, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or false claims of authorship, is taken very seriously by the publishers.

The Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences follows the Code of Conduct of the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE), and follows the COPE flow charts to resolve cases of suspected misconduct. Authors who wish to publish in this journal must meet the criteria of the international standard for authors.

Papers submitted for publication must be original and must not have been previously published (in printed or electronic form). Likewise, the works should not be under another publication process and should not be presented for such purposes while the evaluation process of this journal lasts, 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, edition, and publication of the contents by order or assignment of their authors and agreement or sponsorship of their representatives.

This code shall apply to all publications and contents edited and published by the Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences and those who hold the status of authors, reviewers, and editors. Failure to comply with its sections will compromise its integrity with 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 in 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 author of the article, nor does the author know the reviewer who evaluates his work, the articles are submitted for consideration by two experts in the field to seek a consensus regarding the acceptance or rejection of the material presented. When both specialists differ in their criteria, the judgment of a third party is sought, to draw up a final verdict. The reviewer will be independent of each other.
• Confidentiality: obliges all participants in the review process to keep a strict reserve of everything that comes to their knowledge in the course of it. Any document submitted to the Editorial for possible publication must remain confidential by all those involved in the opinion process.
• Transparency: obliges the members of the editorial board 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 provided been influential in the results presented.

Section A: Obligations for authors

• All collaboration 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. In case this inadequate practice is detected, the same procedure as the previous point will be followed.
• The submitted submissions must comply with the editorial and style standards requested by the publications.
• All work should indicate the sources from which it is nourished. Information is obtained in a personal way (unpublished lectures, classes, conversations, and/or unpublished interviews, etc.) and that is used by the author or authors.
• The fragmentation or division of texts by the authors is prohibited. All text must be presented in its full version to avoid the reproduction of unjustified publications.
• As the author or authors of the text, they should only appear in the header, who or who participated in the preparation of the text in a decisive way. All text that is based on the collection of citations without argumentation and that is presented as an original and unpublished work will be rejected by the Editorial Board.
• The authors must reliably inform 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; as well as falsify real data and present deliberately distorted evidence or data.
• Authors should take into account, 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 of an author with whom he has notable closeness, following 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 performance of the reviewer is not delegable. They may, however, under their responsibility, have the help or collaboration of other arbitrated subject professionals assuming the principles of the Code of Ethics of the Editorial Board.
• The reviewer shall refrain from using any information they acquired in the course of 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 through the publishing body of the publication.
• Every arbitrator has the 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 reference the compliance with the editorial and style norms of the corresponding publications.
• The editors are managed under the imperative of being impartial, honest, and confidential in their decisions regarding the ruling of the texts and selection of the arbitration body, leaving aside any prejudice of any kind concerning the authors and reviewer.
• 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 received to the authors.
• Publishers must respond promptly to the authors' requirements and must make every effort to avoid fraud, plagiarism, and other actions contrary to compliance with this code in the publications.
• Publishers are prohibited from publishing any text without the authorization of the author or authors of the text, once he or they has been informed that their text obtained a favorable verdict and they have consented to the published version.

Anti-plagiarism policy

The Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences, based on its own Code of Conduct, maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, through professional applications, which allows guaranteeing the originality of all manuscripts. The journal clearly states its position on any form of plagiarism, conscious or unconscious, including self-plagiarism.

This anti-plagiarism policy ensures standards of originality to endorse novel and impressive scientific production, which is reaffirmed in our Statement of Ethics. Authors, reviewers and editors also have a set of specific tools for detecting plagiarism: Grammarly, Plagium, CopioNIC, WriteCheck, PaperRater, Plagarisma.net, Viper, Plagarism, etc, free access or licensed platforms that monitor originality and they control plagiarism.

Conflict of the interest disclosure policy

The authors of a manuscript, the editors of the journal that receives it and its reviewers (internal and external), must disclose any conflict of interest that could influence the manuscript or its review and approval. In the event that the authors declare a conflict of interest, this must be informed to the reviewers of the manuscript. In turn, those invited to review a manuscript should excuse themselves from doing so if they have a conflict of interest with the authors or the subject. The journal guarantees that the most suitable reviewers will be chosen also in terms of thematic and academic compatibility.

In case of controversy, the Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences undertakes to settle these cases through its Editorial Board. That it will be in charge of resolving these cases, and reasonable measures will be taken to identify and prevent the publication of articles in which there have been cases of misconduct in the investigation. In no event will the Journal encourage such improper conduct, nor will it knowingly allow such improper conduct to occur.

In the event that the journal editors become aware of any allegation of misconduct in the investigation, the editor will deal with the allegations appropriately, retracting or correcting articles as necessary. Publishing the corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies if the case arises.

Open access policy

The Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences, following the Budapest Open Access Initiative, declares itself as an open access scientific and academic journal and allows readers and authors to read and publish manuscripts, respectively, free of charge, free of charge, to increase the visibility, impact and access to its contents.

Free, free and immediate access to the journal's contents is carried out under the principle that making research freely available to the public encourages a greater exchange of global knowledge.

The contents of the Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows copy, distribution, display, perform, and perform only verbatim copies of the work if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these. Not derivative works and remixes are allowed. 

Copyright Policy

Sending a contribution by the authors to the Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences implies an EXCLUSIVE TRANSFER of rights to Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences, which includes:

1. Reproduce the Article in whole or in part and communicate the Article to the public in printed or electronic format, such as by making the Article available to the public through the Internet or any other network, as part of a database, with online access. online or off-line, for use by third parties;
2. Translate the Article into other languages ​​and disseminate the translation to the public;
3. Include the Article, either in its translated version, in a computerized database and make it available to third parties;
4. Include the Article, whether in its translated version, in a selection or compilation of texts.

Persistent identifiers policy

All the articles and issues published by Iberoamerican Journal of Complexity and Economics Sciences 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 link, both in the submission of articles and issues of the journal. The DOI prefix is 10.48168.

Since 2020, authors are suggested registering on the platform to submit papers with their ORCID iD code. 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 themselves through the website of ORCID, a global non-profit organization that promotes the transparent exchange of information.

Archiving policy

This journal uses the PKP Preservation Network to create a filing system distributed among collaborating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. If the journal page ceases, the PKP PN has a copy of each item stored between at least 9 data centers to provide access to all items. You can read more about The PKP PLN. A preserved issue list of the journal in PKP PN is available. 

Privacy statement

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