Focus

The journal Quantica with eISSN: 2954-5838, ISSN 2711-4600 publishes its biannual issue, each paper is a representation of the social sciences, specifically the areas of education and social sciences. All papers submitted must be original and unpublished. Submissions in English and Spanish (two languages) are encouraged.

Quántica is edited by the institution of Higher Education - Colegio Integrado Nacional del Oriente de Caldas CINOC (editor) in the city of Pensilvania, Caldas, which is responsible for the editorial process and rigor of the scientific journal, Colombia since 2020 and all the material submitted to the journal for publication and accepted by the Editorial Committee in attention to its quality and relevance is subjected to arbitration by double blind peers specialists in the respective fields of knowledge.

The journal will be presented in its Open Journal System OJS in two types: PDF and HTML. The management of the journal is carried out through OJS. The scientific field is oriented from the social sciences and educational sciences base components for decision making, in different areas of knowledge that establish diverse topics in different disciplines. Articles derived from research, review articles and essays that comply with the publication procedure are published.

Frequency of publication

Quantica is published biannually in January and June since its inception in 2020, two issues per year, one in the first half of the corresponding year and the other in the second half of the year, ensuring the periodicity of publications.

ETHICAL POLICIES OF THE JOURNAL

Review times

The Journal requests its reviewers that the process takes no more than 8 weeks from the assignment of the paper, and that the author is notified of the results and corresponding opinion no later than 12 weeks after the assignment. 

Publication and authorship

The Journal does not accept previously published material. Authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for correctly citing the source. They are published under the responsibility of the authors; the contributions that appear here do not necessarily reflect the thinking of the Journal.

For its part, the Journal reserves the right to print, reproduce all or part of the material, as well as the right to accept or reject it. It also reserves the right to make any editorial modification it deems convenient, which will be reflected in its platform.

Peer review process

Those who referee articles submitted to the Journal must submit their evaluations in the format established for the opinion. All originals submitted will be submitted to the judgment process of the reviewers, through the peer review system, with the double blind modality. The anonymity and confidentiality of these persons is explicitly protected. The referees have the duty of confidentiality or obligation to keep secret and not to disclose the article they have been entrusted to review.

 The peer review process requires the anonymity of both authors and reviewers. It is expected to be carried out within 8 weeks after its formal appointment. Likewise, this evaluation will be informed to the author of the article via e-mail, so that he/she can make the necessary adjustments requested by the evaluators. Upon receipt of the article with the corrections made.

Each of the articles received is submitted to a double blind peer review and selection process. The Editorial Committee is in charge of the study and initial selection of the articles, which accepts or rejects the originals according to their scientific quality.

• Concordance with the journal's own topics.
• Temporal validity of the results.
• Percentage of plagiarism
• Compliance with editorial standards
• Review of references and editorial standards.

In addition, the Editorial Committee may request modifications and make any recommendations deemed necessary to adjust the document to the indications of the Journal.

• Approve without changes
• Approved subject to minor changes and does not require re-evaluation.
• Approves subject to major changes and requires re-evaluation.

Rejects it is not publishable in the Journal.
In the event that controversies arise from the evaluators' concept, these will be initially resolved by the Editor or, if necessary, a second or third evaluation by academic peers will be requested.

Open access policy

The Web contents of the Journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No Comercial-Compartir Igual 4.0 Internacional. This license allows others to distribute, mix, match, adjust and build upon your work, even for commercial purposes, as long as you are credited as the author of the original creation. The entire cost of the editorial process of the Quantica magazine is assumed by the Colegio Integrado Nacional del Oriente de Caldas CINOC (publisher).

Author's Rights 

The journal makes a non-commercial recognition and only retains the publication rights of the articles.

The articles published in the Journal are subject to the following terms:

Authorship Policy

 Only those persons who have contributed intellectually to the development of the work should appear in the list of authors. Having helped in the collection of data or having participated in any technique are not, by themselves, sufficient criteria to be listed as an author. In general, to be listed as an author, the following requirements must be met:

• To have participated in the conception and execution of the work that has resulted in the article in question.
• To have participated in the drafting of the text and possible revisions.
• To have approved the version that will finally be published.

The Journal declines any responsibility for possible conflicts derived from the authorship of the published papers.

The Journal adheres to the COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/).

Transfer of copyrights
The "Declaration of Authors' Commitment" form, signed by each of the authors, should be sent together with the article.

The judgments and opinions expressed in the articles and communications published in the journal are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the Editorial Committee or the institution that publishes them.

Readers' rights
Readers have the right to read all articles free of charge immediately after publication. This publication does not make any financial charge for publication or for access to its material.

Machine readability and interoperability
The full text, metadata and citations of articles can be tracked and accessed with permission. Our open social policy allows the readability of the archives and their metadata, enabling interoperability under the open data and open source OAI-PMH protocol. The files are available in HTML and PDF format, making them easy to read on any device and computer platform.

COPE Code of Ethics

PRINCIPLES

Open Access Principle

The people who collaborate with Temas for Quantica magazine subscribe to the principles of open access, which will seek to safeguard and promote to ensure rapid, universal, inclusive, free and democratic access to knowledge in each of the publications of the magazine, in attention and in accordance with the respect for the principles of intellectual property that cover the authors.

Principle of authorship 

Every person who collaborates with the themes of the Quantica journal recognizes and respects the intellectual production of the authors and manuscript submitters, as well as adheres to the responsible use of the published information and citation.  

Principle of quality

Every person involved in the Quantica journal respects the value of the university periodical academic publication and the production it gathers, subscribing to the principles of relevance, originality, coherence and importance on which academic production and research are based and justified. 

Principle of integrity

Every person associated with the publication recognizes and subscribes to the ethical principles of academic research and the publication of its results. The journal adheres in all its scopes to actively seek to avoid malpractices that may derive from works that are partially or totally related to falsification, manipulation, fabrication of results; misappropriation or insufficient crediting of texts whose authorship belongs to another author and duplicate publications.

Principle of mutual respect

All persons in their different roles accept and subscribe that in the publication and are governed by relations of agreement, dialogue and respectful collaboration in all parts of the editorial process, before and after publication.

Duties of authors
Originality and plagiarism: all articles must be original work of the authors and without evidence of plagiarism. Acknowledgement of sources: if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, they must be properly cited.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: authors should not submit the same article to more than one journal at the same time.

Access and retention: if deemed appropriate by the Editor or members of the Editorial Board, authors of articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which may be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly made accessible.

Duties of the Editor
Publication decisions: the Editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the Journal should be published. The publication decision should be guided by the policies of the Editorial Board of the Journal and should be based exclusively on academic merit and the decision of the reviewers.

Honesty: the Editor should evaluate articles for their intellectual content without distinction of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality: the Editor and any member of the editorial team must not disclose any information about the submitted article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisors, as appropriate.

Conflict of Interest

The Journal expects authors to declare any business associations that may involve a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.

Due to the nature of the articles that may eventually be published in the journal, it is possible that there may be conflicting interests that may affect the impartiality in the editorial conditions or towards the authors; therefore, each author must make an effort to identify them.

In this sense, authors should attach, together with the article and the declaration of commitment, a communication addressed to the journal expressing clearly and concisely if there are conflicts of interest, specifying each one of them. In this communication, they must also specify the source of funding for the research carried out, as well as the declaration of any commercial, financial or personal ties that may affect the article or the publishing institution.

Procedure for duplication

 For the duplication of texts, which consists of the possibility of copying or reproducing textually, one or more times, a content or literary work, in a new support (digital or any other format), the Journal follows the following general procedure: all editorial material, for which duplication has been requested or determined, shall be headed with a legend that clearly identifies its quality as a duplicate and differentiates it from the original.

To carry out this type of reproduction, the applicant must fill out the internal duplication request form and send it to the journal's mailing address (see form). The form must be filled out by the person responsible for the procedure, even when the journal itself determines the need for it.

Erratum

The erratum applies only to cases in which the journal has made a mistake without the author's knowledge. The author has a number of cases where errors can and should be corrected such as author's name, keywords, title and errors in the main text.

The Journal submits the final proof of the revised and ready-for-publication article to the author by correspondence within a period of one week for review and correction of the article. If the response period expires without the authors' return, the journal considers the article approved (since the author has not expressed the need for changes/corrections), therefore it is ready for publication.

Conflict of interest events with reviewers 

It is the evaluators' responsibility to declare any conflict of interest that may arise in relation to the articles submitted for their consideration.

A conflict of interest arises when, with respect to a work submitted for consideration by an evaluator or persons who are part of the editorial team, there is a direct personal or professional relationship or enmity with the author, or there is a relationship of any kind with the research that gave rise to it, as well as a profound moral or ethical conflict with the subject under consideration. In general, members of the editorial team and external evaluators must refrain from reviewing works when they incur in any of these or similar situations.

The journal's editorial team will refrain from selecting reviewers against whom they are aware that they are or may be affected by any of the aforementioned situations.

Declaration of confidentiality of reviewers

Always, without exception, whoever carries out an evaluation must consider it as totally confidential until its publication; therefore, it will not be possible to reveal any aspect of its content or opinions during the entire course of the review process and until the publication is finished.

It is clear that, in no case, it is possible to make public or use the information under consideration, as well as details, arguments or interpretations contained in the text under review, neither for your own benefit or that of third parties. Only in special and duly justified cases may the advice of experts in the field be used, a circumstance that must be reported to the Journal.

Privacy Statement

The Journal authorizes the photocopying of articles and texts for academic or internal institutional purposes with due citation of the source. The names and e-mail addresses entered in this Journal will be used exclusively for the purposes declared by the Journal and will not be available for any other purpose or to any other person.

DOI System

Articles in the Journal adhere to the DOI system, through which a technical and social infrastructure is established for the registration and use of identifiers for use in digital networks.

Plagiarism detection

 The works sent by authors to the Journal will be submitted to anti-plagiarism software. The opinion will be made known to the authors by correspondence in cases that exceed 10% of coincidence. Papers that maintain a percentage lower than 10% will proceed to editorial and blind peer review.