About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Tecnura journal is an institutional journal of the Faculty of Technology of Francisco José de Caldas University. It is a scientific-technological publication with quarterly periodicity, which is published in January, April, July and October. The first issue appeared in the second semester of 1997 and the date has maintained regularity.

The areas of interest of Tecnura journal are focused on all engineering fields, as electronics, telecommunications, electricity, systems, industrial, mechanic, civil, environmental, etc. as well as it has room for education and health issues, if they are related with engineering. The journal will only publish research, reflection and revision articles of scientific and technologic research. In consequence, during the initial editorial evaluation, short articles and case reports will be rejected. 

Tecnura Journal is published for professors, researchers, students and professionals interested in permanent update of their knowledge and monitoring their scientific-technologic processes in the field of engineering. 

Tecnura Journal has as mission to disseminate results of research projects in the areas of engineering, through the publication of original and unpublished articles, conducted by academics and professionals belonging to public or private national or foreign institutions. 

Articles submitted to Tecnura journal must be unpublished works written in spanish or english; nevertheless, but preference will be given to articles that show innovative concepts of great interest, related to the objective and scope of the journal.

Tecnura is an academic publication indexed in the ÍndiceBibliográficoNacional Publindex (IBN) de Colciencias (Colombia) in the category A2, in the Regional Index Scielo Colombia (Colombia) and Redalyc (México); besides of the following bibliographic databases: INSPEC of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (England), Fuente Académica Premier of EBSCO (United States), CABI (England), Index Copernicus (Poland), InformeAcadémico of Gale Cengage Learning (México), Periódica of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México), Oceanet (Spain) and Dialnet of the Universidad de la Rioja (Spain); also part of the following directories: regional information system for scholarly journals online for Scientific journals from Latin America, Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Latindex (México), bibliographic index Actualidad Iberoamericana (Chile), e-Revistas (Spain) , DOAJ (Sweden) and Ulrich of Proquest (United States).

Tecnura is a journal arbitrated by a revision process among double blind peers. The schedule of the conformation of its scientific and editorial committee is subject to the publication of articles in internationally indexed journals by their members.

Francisco José de Caldas Distrital University, its directors, the editor, the editorial and scientific committee is not responsible for the opinions and the criteria expressed in the content of the articles and they are published under the exclusive responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the ideas of the editorial committee.

In addition to the printed version, Tecnura journal also has a digital version available in its web page://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/Tecnura/index 

Peer Review Process

Considering the quarterly periodicity of the journal, the Editorial Committee makes four calls every year for the submission of articles, approximately in the months of February, May, August and November. The articles will be received until the date established in the call.

Once received the articles, the monitor of the journal will make an initial form evaluation to verify the completion of the elements mentioned in this guide of instructions to authors. After receiving again the article with the requested corrections by the journal’s monitor, the paper will be submitted to evaluation by three academic peers (through time it is expected to include more external peers to participate in the process).

Each article sent to Tecnura journal is checked by two expert academic peers external to the institution of the authors, by a process of “Peer-review” of double blind, guaranteeing the anonymity of authors and evaluators; every paper sent is considered confidential and so it is demanded to evaluators.

Possible conclusions of the result of the evaluation by the judges are only three: publish the article without modifications, publish the article with modifications and not publish the article.

Subsequently, the Editorial Committee takes the decision to publish or not the articles, based on the results of the evaluations made by the assigned arbitrators. In case of contradictions in the evaluations with respect to the publication of an article, the editorial committee will send the article to a third peer and will be inclined for the two evaluations that have the same concept with respect to the publication of the article.

In each call the main author must suggest at least four possible external arbitrators to his work institution evaluators, who must be specialists in the specific topic of the article sent and must have at least Masters level, and at least two must to be international. Potential evaluators can belong to a university or industry, public or private; their complete names must be provided, highest academic formation, institutional affiliation and e-mail. The editorial committee will analyze these four potential evaluators in order to enrich the database of arbitrators of Tecnura journal.

The Editorial Committee of Tecnura journal reserves the right to print, reproduce total or partially the article, as the right to accept or reject it. In the same way, it has the right to make any editorial modification that considers necessary; in this case the author will receive written recommendations from the evaluators. If accepted, authors must deliver the article with the suggested adjustments within the dates given by the journal to guarantee its publication in the programmed number.

Arbitration Process

  • Once the call is closed, the editorial committee makes a first review, after which the work can be rejected (without further evaluation if it does not comply with the policies of the journal) or accepted for evaluation by peer evaluators. Therefore, authors are not assured immediate publication of such an article. The decision to reject a paper is final and unappealable.
  • Papers may be rejected in this first evaluation because they do not meet the requirements of writing, presentation, structure or are not original or relevant to the journal.
  • Papers that are accepted in this first stage begin the evaluation through the "double-blind" process, articles are sent to peer experts in the respective area, whose identities will not be known by the author and, in turn, the peer evaluators will not know the identity(s) of the author(s).
  • As soon as all evaluation results are received, the editorial board meets and defines the response to the article evaluation process and communicates any of the following responses:

Accepted for publication without modification: the article will be published as received and only spelling and style corrections will be made.

Accepted for publication with minor corrections: the work will be published once the authors make the minor corrections suggested by the evaluators. These will be reviewed by the editorial committee, which will decide if they are accepted or not.

Rejected: the article is not recommended for publication.

  • If the work is accepted, but with the recommendation to make modifications, it will be returned to the author(s) along with the recommendations of the referees to prepare a new corrected version, for which you have the time indicated by the editorial committee, within a maximum of 15 calendar days.
  • Papers are received by call, those that arrive once closed will be transferred to the next one, and the initial revision will be carried out once the call closes.
  • Unpublished works will be archived as rejected articles.
  • The Tecnura Journal works in line with the policies defined by Colciencias.

Guide for evaluators

The articles submitted for publication in the Tecnura Journal will be evaluated by two expert and anonymous peers. Each evaluator must carefully read the manuscript and issue an argued and thorough report regarding the convenience of its publication, including suggestions and guidelines for its improvement when appropriate.

The aspects to take into account in the evaluation are the following:

  • Clarity, relevance, and novelty of the issue and the problem analyzed.
  • Fundamentals (theoretical framework and background).
  • Methodology and data analysis.
  • Structuring of discourse (argumentation, coherence, common thread).
  • Compliance with the standards of the journal (title, summary, keywords in Spanish and English). These are available in: https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/tecnura/about/submissions
  • Format, presentation, and extension, and
  • Others considered by the peer.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public, which fosters greater global knowledge sharing.

Periodicity

Tecnura journal is a scientific-technological publication with quarterly periodicity, published in January, April, July and October. Its first edition appeared in the second term, 1997 and its editions have normally continued from that year and on.

Mission

Tecnura journal is aimed at publishing research project results carried out in the field of engineering, through the publishing of original and unpublished articles written by academics and professionals from national or international public or private institutions.

Target Audience

Tecnura journal is directed to professors, researchers, students and professionals interested in permanent update of their knowledge and the monitoring of the scientific-technological research processes in the field of engineering.

Reproduction

The total or partial reproduction of the articles of this journal is authorized for academic or internal purpose of the institutions citing the source and the author. Ideas expressed are published under exclusive responsibility of the authors and not necessarily shown the thought of the editorial committee of the journal.

Article processing charges (APCs) and article submission charges

The Tecnura journal does not make no charge for the postulation, evaluation and publication of submitted articles.

Copyright on articles

The authors maintain the rights to the articles and are therefore free to share, copy, distribute, execute and publicly communicate the work.

The works are under one https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Copyright notices

Until july 2018, the journal Tecnura worked under a license: Attribution - Non-commercial - No Derivate (BY - NC - ND)

Since july 2018 the works are under a license: Attribution - ShareAlike (BY - SA): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. 

Licenses Creative Commons

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

for any purpose, even commercially.

Code of ethics and good practice

The editorial board of Tecnura journal is committed to ethics high standards and good practice for knowledge dissemination and transfer, in order to ensure rigour and scientific quality. That is why it has taken as reference the Code of Conduct, which has been established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for scientific journal editors; outlining the following:

General duties and responsibilities of the editorial board

As most responsible for the journal, Tecnura committee and the editorial board are committed to:

  • Joining efforts to meet the readers and authors’ needs.
  • Tending to the continuous improvement of the Journal.
  • Ensuring quality of published material.
  • Ensuring freedom of expression.
  • Maintaining the academic integrity of their content.
  • Prevent commercial interests compromise intellectual standards.
  • Post corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

Relations with readers

Readers will be informed about who has funded research and their role in the research.

Relations with authors

Tecnura is committed to ensuring the quality of published material, informing the goals and standards of the journal. The decisions of publishers to accept or reject a paper for publication are based solely on the relevance of the work, originality and pertinence of the study with journal editorial line.

The journal includes a description of the process for peer evaluation of each received work, and has an authors guide with this information. The guide is regularly updated and contains a link to this code of ethics. The journal recognizes the right of authors to appeal editorial decisions

Publishers will not change their decision in accepting or rejecting articles, unless extraordinary circumstances or irregularities are detected. Any change in the editorial board members will not affect decisions already made, except for unusual cases where serious circumstances converge.

Relations with evaluators

Tecnura makes available to reviewers a guide to what is expected from them. Reviewers’ identity is protected at all times, ensuring anonymity.

Peer review process

Tecnura ensures that material submitted for publication will be considered private and confidential issue while being reviewed (double blind).

Claims

Tecnura is committed to respond quickly to complaints and ensure that dissatisfied claimant can process all complaints. In any case, if applicants fail to satisfy their claims, the journal considers that they have the right to raise their protests to other instances.

Promoting Academic Integrity

Tecnura ensures that the published material conforms to internationally accepted ethical standards.

Protection of individual data

Tecnura guarantees the confidentiality of individual information (e.g. participant teachers and/or students as collaborators or subjects of study in the presented research).

Tracking malpractice

Tecnura accepts the obligation to act accordingly in case of suspected malpractice or misconduct. This obligation extends both to publish and unpublished documents. The editors not only reject manuscripts with doubts about possible misconduct, but they are considered ethically obligated to report suspected cases of misconduct. From the journal every reasonable effort is made to ensure that works submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate.

Integrity and academic rigour

Whenever evidence that a published work contains significant misstatements, misleading or distorted statements, it must be corrected immediately.

In case of any work with fraudulent content is detected, it will be removed as soon as it is known, and immediately informing both readers and indexing systems.

Practices that are considered unacceptable and as such will be reported: simultaneous sending of the same work to various journals, duplicate publication with irrelevant changes or paraphrase of the same work, or the artificial fragmentation of a work in several articles.

Relations with owners and journal editors

The relation between editors, publishers and owners will be subject to the principle of editorial independence. Tecnura will ensure that articles are published based on their quality and suitability for readers, and not for an economic or political gain. In this sense, the fact that the journal is not governed by economic interests, and defends the ideal of universal and free access to knowledge, provides that independence.

Conflict of interest

Tecnura will establish the necessary mechanisms to avoid or resolve potential conflicts of interest between authors, reviewers and/or the editorial board itself.

Complaints / allegations

Any author, reader, reviewer or editor may refer their complaints to the competent authorities.

Sponsors

Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Journal History

Tecnura Journal is an institutional scientific-technological publication from the Faculty of Technology at District University Francisco José de Caldas, arbitrated by means of a double-blinded peer review process. The periodicity for its Scientific and Editorial committees line-up is subject to the publication of articles in internationally indexed magazines by its own members.