About the Journal

Definition of the name of the Journal.

Name: Journal of Systems, Informatics and Information Technologies

Acronym: JSIIT

Defining the Focus and Scope of the Journal

Target Audience: The journal is aimed at working with researchers from different professions that involve the areas related to systems engineering, information technology and computing, whether they are students, academics or researchers in general.

Journal Theme: The approaches to consider are applied science research or basic research of different manuscripts related to the areas of computer science, systems engineering and computing.

Objective of the Journal: The objective is to provide a showcase for quality research to have a space and be published for an international audience. The journal is intended to publish carefully selected articles through peer review to ensure originality, currency, relevance and readability.

Definition of the Periodicity of the Journal

The journal publishes its issues semi-annually and covers the following periods:

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

Definition of Article Types

The journal defines the types of articles established by the Controlled Vocabulary for Academic Repositories (https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/). The article types which can be sent are:

  • Research article: A research article or an original article is a primary source. It reports the methods and results of an original study conducted by the authors.
  • Review article: A review article is a secondary source. It is written on top of other articles and does not report its original research.

Definition of Categories

  • Software and systems modelling
  • Big Data, data management, and visualisation
  • Graphic computing, computer vision and multimedia
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Internet of Things
  • High-performance computing
  • Networks and computer security
  • Software engineering
  • Pattern recognition
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer application development
  • Information technologies

Definition of the Scientific Assessment Process

Peer review process

Articles submitted to the “Original Article” and “Review Article” sections are subjected to a double-blind peer review process. In case of differences in criteria between the selected evaluators, the work will be submitted to a third expert opinion who will decide whether to publish the submitted work. In all cases, evaluators' identity and authors will be protected to avoid, as far as possible, conflicts of interest in the review process.

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

 

  • Accepted 
  • Accepted with modifications 
  • Rejected

 

Articles’ publications in other sections will be carried out at the editorial committee' criterion.

Revision Policy

The review policy is the guide that sets out how the Editorial Board of the Journal of Systems, Informatics and Information Technologies carries out the evaluation process of the scientific articles 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:

  • The article content deals with the themes of the magazine.
  • The article structure complies with the article presentation standards required by the journal.
  • General aspects of novelty and originality of the work.
  • Adequate structure of the abstract, keywords, conclusions and sufficiency of the bibliographic references according to the standard required by the journal.
  • Adequate technical vocabulary.

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

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

Each one of the decisions will be managed and informed by the Executive Editor of the journal to the authors, associate editors and referees, as proper in each case.

Academic evaluation

It is carried out from the double-blind peer review system. The reviewers identity will not be known to the authors. For this process, two evaluators are used and if there is a contradiction in the evaluators decision, the article will be evaluated by a third party.

Selection of referees

The Journal of Systems, Informatics and Information Technologies has a database of national and international referees, classified by academic category, distributed by disciplinary areas and institutions, in this way the Editorial Board of our journal guarantees that the proposed referees are experts. on the subject of the article and may not be linked to the institution to which the authors of the work belong.

Academic review time

The article can be evaluated up to 3 times maximum, depending on the changes complexity and the suggestions of the referees. In a first academic review, the referees will make and deliver a first opinion in a maximum period of 4 weeks. If necessary, they will prepare 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.

Academic Review Decisions

Referees can make three types of decisions:

Decision 1: Reject the work, in case:

  • Do not contribute new scientific input.
  • The result is not updated.
  • Check to be plagiarism.
  • There is no correspondence between the objective of the research, the methods used and the results obtained.
  • Insufficient results and analysis of these are presented in the article.
  • The references are not current, they are not in accordance with the standard designated by the journal, correctly delimited, sufficient and are not from reliable sources.

Decision 2: Make changes to the article. For their part, the changes have been classified as minimal changes, moderate changes and complex changes.

Minimum changes:

  • Order bibliographic references correctly.
  • Coherent writing of the introduction.
  • Suitable keywords.
  • Titles of tables and figures.

In this case, the author will have 2 weeks to correct and submit the article; In case the article is revised for a second time, the author will have 1 week to deliver the corrected article.

Moderate changes:

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

In this case, the author will have 3 weeks to correct and submit the article; In case the article is revised for 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 the results discussion.
  • Better expose the results in accordance with the objectives set.
  • Update references.
  • Clarify 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 the event that it is revised a second time, the author will have one week to submit 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, referees and the writing and production committee, as appropriate in each case.

Final evaluation

It is carried out after the article has been edited and processed by the writing and production 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 to publish it. The author may only make minor changes in grammar and wording. In the event that the author exceeds the established time, the article will be postponed for publication in later editions of the Journal of Systems, Informatics and Information Technologies.

Dismissal of the article

In the case of rejection of the scientific article, the editor will inform the author, for his part, he may present a claim within 72 hours, to which the editor will respond within a maximum period of 5 days.

Definition of the Open Access policy

This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available at no charge to the user or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or author.

This is an open access publication licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, including commercially, provided the original work is properly cited.

Definition of the Copyright policy

Those authors who have publications with this journal accept the following terms:

  1. At the time a work is accepted for publication, it is understood that the author assigns to the Journal the rights of reproduction, distribution of his article for exploitation in all countries of the world in paper magazine format, as well as in any other magnetic, optical and digital medium.
  2. The authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author is indicated and his first publication in this magazine.
  3. The authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the version of the published work (eg: deposit it in an institutional telematic archive or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated. .
  4. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work through the Internet (eg, in institutional telematic archives, repositories, libraries, or on their website), which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the publication. published work.
  5. The owner of the copyright on the manuscript is the journal, from the second version, the preprint and postprint version, the author will be able to disseminate his article.
  6. The dissemination by the author of the article can be done after being published.
  7. There is no lien period for the author to publish their article.

Definition of the Code of Conduct

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 this journal 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 Publications 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 revision: 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 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 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 conscious or unconscious plagiarism, including autoplagium. The paper will be immediately withdrawn, and the sources involved will be notified. Articles 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 publication means. If 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 personally (unpublished lectures, classes, conversations, and/or unpublished interviews, etc.), and the author or authors use that.
  • 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 participated in the preparation of the text in a decisive way. All text 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 recognise 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 exist, submit documents or supposed objects, falsify accurate data, and present deliberately distorted evidence or data.
  • Authors should consider, 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 special 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. However, they may have the help or collaboration of other arbitrated subject professionals assuming the principles of the Code of Ethics of the Editorial Board under their responsibility.
  • The reviewer shall refrain from using any information they acquired in 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 must 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 considering 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 authors' responsibility. Meanwhile, publishers are responsible for identifying and retracting any article or content found containing plagiarism or fraud elements.
  • The editors agree to send the results of the contributions received to the authors.
  • Publishers must respond promptly to the authors' requirements and make every effort to avoid fraud, plagiarism, and other actions contrary to 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 favourable verdict and they have consented to the published version.

Definition of the Statement of Ethics

The journal is committed to maintaining high standards through a 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.

The journal follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee Publications Ethics (COPE) and follows COPE flowcharts to resolve cases of suspected misconduct. Authors wishing to publish in this journal must meet the international standard criteria for authors.

The works submitted for publication must be original and have not been previously published (in print or electronic form). Likewise, the results should not be under another publication process. They should not be submitted for such purposes during the evaluation process of this journal, as well as other terms expressed in it.

Definition of the Anti-plagiarism policy

Based on its own Code of Conduct, the journal maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished through professional applications, 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: Ouriginal, Grammarly, Plagium, CopioNIC, WriteCheck, PaperRater, Plagarisma.net, Viper, Plagarism, etc, free access or licensed platforms that monitor originality and control plagiarism.

Definition of the Conflict of Interest Disclosure policy

The authors of a manuscript, the journal's editors that receive it and its reviewers (internal and external) must disclose any conflict of interest that could influence the manuscript or its review and approval. If the authors declare a conflict of interest, this must be informed to the manuscript reviewers. 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 also be chosen for thematic and academic compatibility.

In case of controversy, the journal undertakes to settle these cases through its Editorial Board. 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. The journal will not encourage such improper conduct, nor will it knowingly allow such improper conduct to occur.

 

Suppose the journal editor(s) becomes aware of any allegation of misconduct in the investigation. In that case, the editor will deal with the allegations appropriately, retracting or correcting articles as necessary, publishing the corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies if proceeded.

Definition of the Privacy and Personal Data Protection policy

The names, email addresses and other data entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated in it and will not be provided to third parties or for other purposes. The journal informs you that part of the services offered by the website, among the users and the website, cookies are used. The privacy, cookies and personal data protection policies established by the National University of San Agustín de Arequipa, available on its official website, are followed.