About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Revista de Investigación is a peer-reviewed journal of scientific nature published every six months, edited by the Research Department of the Fundación Universidad de América (Bogotá, Colombia).

The journal´s foundation was in 2008. Before 2017, the objective of the journal was to publish scientific articles resulting from research in engineering,  architecture and economics programs. From the second semester of 2017, redefined its scope and now its main objective is to disseminate the results of scientific and technological research on topics specifically associated with engineering.

The journal aims at researchers, teachers, students, entrepreneurs and professionals interested in knowing the results of recent research in the engineering area.

Peer Review Process

Peers will receive the articles  until the maximum date established in each call and submitted to the following process:

Before starting the process of peer assignment, the editor will perform a prior evaluation of the articles received to verify that the article complies with the criteria established in the guidelines for the presentation of articles of the journal, as well as to verify the originality through specialized software. In case of finding similarities that reveal that the work was already published or has problems in the citation of sources, the author of the contact will be informed and asked to review the article. It performs this review within a maximum period of three weeks.

For articles that do not comply with the presentation standards, the editor will ask the authors to make modifications to the article before its submission to the peer evaluation. For this purpose, the authors will have a maximum extension of fifteen days to adapt the article to the format defined by the journal in the presentation guidelines and send it to the editor again for its consideration. Once the editor verifies compliance with these criteria, the articles may initiate the peer evaluation process.

The decision whether or not to continue with the evaluation process will be communicated to the authors within no more than four weeks.

The articles that met the criteria defined in this first filter will be submitted to the evaluation of two anonymous expert peers in the subject, meaning that, the authors do not know the identity of the evaluators, and vice versa (dually blind evaluation).

The editor, with the support of the members of the Editorial and Scientific Committee, assigns the peer reviewers according to the specific theme of each article. Then, the editor sends the invitation to the evaluators and once accepted the participation of the peer reviewers, send them the article and the evaluation format. In this application, it notifies that the deadline for such review is approximately three weeks from the date of acceptance. However, the review times depend on its availability.

Regarding the concept, Peer Reviewers must complete the evaluation format, in which the editor received the recommendation whether publish or not the article. The result of the evaluation process will be the input that the editor and Editorial Committee will use to decide if the article is: publishable, publishable with minimum adjustments, publishable with significant adjustments and not publishable.

In case of receiving a favorable and an unfavorable concept, the article will be sent for evaluation by a third evaluating pair.

Once the peer evaluation is available, the editor communicates the decision to the main author, indicating whether the article will continue or not in the process, or if it requires adjustments. The author has four weeks to adjust the article and send it back to the journal. Subsequently, the editor reviews the article and makes the final decision about the acceptance of the corrected version, considering the concept of the evaluators and the corrections made by the authors.

If the article has the approval for publication, the style review process will proceed; Once the final version of the article is available, it will be sent to the author for approval before beginning the process of diagramming the journal.

Download here the Instructions for Peer Reviewers

Transfer of rights and dissemination of published material

The authors must sign the transfer of rights before the publication of the article; This letter authorizes the editorial team of the Revista de Investigación to disseminate it through the media considered relevant, whether printed or electronic. For this purpose, the authors should send the letter of assignment of rights duly completed and signed through the OJS platform by entering the Portal de Revistas of the Fundación Universidad de América https://revistas.uamerica.edu.co/

Open access policy

Revista de Investigación is an open-access publication and can download the files of the articles through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform in PDF format. It has no cost for authors and readers.

The journal uses the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - No Derivate 4.0 license; in such a way that the texts of the journal are freely distributed and published, if the authorship is recognized, and the text is not modified.

Ethical declaration and good editorial practices

The editorial team of the Revista de Investigación, committed to the scientific community, guarantees the ethics and quality of the articles published. The editorial practices of the journal have its basis on the code of conduct and good practices that the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines for editors of scientific journals, as well as the ethical and editorial standards established in the sixth edition of the Publications Manual from the American Psychological Association (APA).

All parties involved in the publication of Revista de Investigación (editor, committees, authors and peer reviewers) must accept and respect the ethical principles expressed in the Code of Ethics and Good Practices.