About the Journal

Digital archive policy

Electronic Vision journal ensures that all publications are preserved and available to future academics, researchers and students through the OJS platform, a free software solution that is developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).

 

Focus and Scope

In 2007, during the second half of the year, a group of academic staff including various students working for the Faculty of Technological Studies at Universidad Distrital Francisco Jos´e de Caldas perceived the necessity to build a serial publication intended for the circulation of research results in topics of the large area of engineering and technology; in thematic area of Electrical, Electronics and computing; and in the disciplines of electrical and electronic engineering, robotics and automatic control, automation and control systems, engineering systems and communications, telecommunications, and Hardware and computer architecture; as well as basic and related sciences.

Therefore, these ideas that coincide thematically with the Classification of Scientific Areas according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), finally consolidated and begun to play a leading role in terms of search, treatment, innovation and production of knowledge socially useful, and the strengthening an academic community that has an impact on other sectors and aspects of life (e.g. the society, the productive sector and the managerial sectors).

It is for this reason that Visión electrónica Journal is aimed at teachers, researchers, businessmen, students and professionals interested in the permanent updating of knowledge.

Ultimately, this journal (entitled Electronic Vision: beyond a solid state), of scientific-technological nature, wants to emerge as a space of written production aimed at the academic community of district –Bogota -, of nation –Colombia-, and international –Latin American and Caribbean-.

The editions of the journal are carried out at Distrital Francisco José de Caldas University and they are issued once a semester: being the first issue of January to June, visible in January of each year; and the second number from July to December, visible in the month of July each year.

The languages ​​in which the journal publishes are: spanish and english.

The following provides a set of guidelines that authors should follow for the successful publication of the documents, which must be sent by them as original products on the condition of being unpublished pieces of work, not submitted simultaneously for publication in other journals, or other publisher, and represent actual contributions of the authors - at which they have not copied or plagiarized in whole or in part of other works; -and in any rate they keep the highest ethical practices and best writing standards.

I. Constituent sections of the Journal

A RESEARCH VISION:Articles appearing in this section represent products of scientific-technological, totally or partially completed research studies, as seen from the perspective of Engineering. In this section, the following kinds of documents can be found:

1) Article of scientific and technological research studies. A document that presents, in a detailed way, the original results of completed research projects. The structure generally used contains four important parts: introduction, methodology, results, and conclusions.

2) Reflection article. A document that presents results of complete research studies based on the author’s analytic, interpretive, or critical perspective about a specific topic, involving citation of original sources.

3) Survey article. A document that resulted from complete research studies where results of previous investigations or unpublished work are analyzed, systematized, and integrated within a single field of science or technology. The purpose of such articles is to provide details of advances and development trends. The article is characterized to present a careful bibliographical survey of at least 50 references

A CASE-STUDY VISION: This type of article presents the revision or reflection about technical and methodological experiences when considered in a specific case. The experiences are observed considering other similar cases (unpublished and outstandingly graded pieces of work, developments and specific technological applications). In this section, the following kinds of documents can be found:

4) Short article. A brief document that presents preliminary or partially original results of a scientific or technological investigation that, in general, requires immediate circulation.

5) Case study. A document that presents the results of a study about a particular situation, with the purpose of presenting technical and methodological experiences, considered in a specific case, to the public. It includes a commented systematic revision of the literature about similar cases.

6) Topic survey. This is a document that results from the critical revision of the literature about a particular topic.

A CURRENT VISION: This type of article builds on topics in order to contribute to the socialization of knowledge, presenting the critical revision of the literature on a particular topic in engineering to the corresponding academic peers. In this section, the following kinds of documents can be found:

7) Translation. This type of article includes translations of classic texts, modern texts, as well as transcriptions of historical documents or of documents of particular interest in the domain of publication of the present journal.

8) Topic survey. These are documents that result from the critical revision of the literature about a particular topic.

A CONTEXT VISION: The purpose of this type of article is to deal with topics, phenomena, developments or innovations that are identified in the environment of engineering or engineering teaching. The topics are addressed critically from the viewpoint of basic sciences and human sciences. In this section, the following kinds of documents can be found:

9) Case Study. A document that presents the results of a study about a particular situation, with the purpose of presenting technical and methodological experiences, considered in a specific case, to the public. It includes a commented systematic revision of the literature about similar cases

10) Topic survey. This is a document that results from the critical revision of the literature about a particular topic.

11) Letters to the editor. Critical, analytic or interpretative position on the documents published in the magazine that constitute an important contribution to the discussion of the topic addressed by the editorial Committee, on the part of the scientific community in question.

12) Editorial. This document is written by the editor, a member of the editorial committee or an invited investigator, and addresses a range of orientations within the thematic domain of the journal.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL VISION: It is a written review of recently published books, commented by those who carried out the reading and analysis of new bibliographical materials. In this section, the following kinds of documents can be found:

13) Reflection document non-derivative from investigation. This is a document that presents a result, not necessarily derivative from investigation, obtained from the author’s analytic, interpretive, or critical perspective on a specific topic

14) Bibliographical review. These pieces of text consist of soundly structured comments that suggest, in a critical or descriptive way, the reading of texts, books, or documents of interest for the academic community.

15) Others Documents that can be categorized according to the innovation process and development of the magazine

Peer Review Process

THE SELECTION PROCEDURE

a. The fact that a document is received, it doesn’t imply the obligatory of its publication.

b. The editorial committee takes charge of the revision of the documents, with the purpose of verifying the execution of the norms proposed in the instructions to the authors and of the relevance of the topic for the magazine. If the document doesn’t fulfill the form or its topic is not of relevance, it will be returned to the author for its modification.

c. When the document passes the first filter, it is sent to the committee of assessment pars who will take charge of evaluating its thematic importance. The revision is of the doubly blind type, that is to say, that the document is submitted to the pars without information of the author(s) and to the author(s) received the evaluation without information of the assessment pars.

d. The specified number of assessment pars is two; however the concept of one more par will be requested, if the comments of the two initials are contradictory.

e. The fact that a document has been received, it doesn’t necessarily imply its publication. Therefore, the authors can remove the article provided they have not signed the equity transfer of rights on it.

f. General considerations of the evaluation are as follows:

• It is accepted for publication, it requires no changes
• It is accepted for publication, it requires minor modifications
• It is accepted for publication, it requires significant modifications
• It not accepted for publication
• Not for this journal

EVALUATION DEADLINES

The selected referees will be responsible for submitting their concepts in the next four weeks (maximum deadline for submission of evaluations).

EVALUATION METHOD USED IN ELECTRONIC VISION

Visión electrónica adopts a double-blind evaluative scientific method, in which the selected referees have no knowledge about the authorship of the articles and the authors are completely unaware of the identity of the evaluators who issue concepts of the article.

TYPE OF ARTICLES

Evaluators receive the following typology of articles:

1. Scientific and technological research article. Document that presents, in a detailed way, the original results of finished research projects. The structure generally used contains four important sections: introduction, methodology, results and conclusions
2. Reflection article. A document that presents the results of completed research from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of the author, on a specific topic, using original sources.
3. Review article. A document resulting from completed research in which the results of published or unpublished research in a field of science or technology are analyzed, systematized and integrated in order to account for progress and development trends. It is characterized by a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 references.
4. Short article. Short document that presents preliminary or partial original results of scientific or technological research, which usually require prompt dissemination.
5. Case report. Document that presents the results of a study on a particular situation in order to make known the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific case. It includes a commented systematic review of the literature on analogous cases.
6. Review of topic. Document resulting from the critical review of the literature on a particular topic.

Evaluators will be able to download the evaluation form, as well as fill it out online in the Open Journal System.

Open Access Policy

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

Vision electrónica uses in its publications the Creative Commons 4.0 license (attribution-not commercial), in which it is determined that any use that is made of a publication available in free access contained in this journal must give credits or recognize the intellectual author of the article, in addition to this the content of this publication can not be used for commercial purposes.

Ethical declaration and good practices

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The Visión Electrónica journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. All authors submitting their works to the Visión Electrónica journal for publication as original articles attest that the submitted works represent their authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works. The authors acknowledge that they have disclosed all and any actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work or partial benefits associated with it, through Copyright Transfer. In the same manner, the Visión Electrónica journal is committed to objective and fair double-blind peer-review of the submitted for publication works and to prevent any actual or potential conflict of interests between the editorial and review personnel and the reviewed material, as indicated by the guidelines for authors. Any departures from the above-defined rules should be reported directly to the Editor, who is unequivocally committed to providing swift resolutions to any of such a type of problems.

in addition to the above, the journal Vision Electronica provides the platform and / or letters to the editor to open public debate on its contents. To ensure accountability and promote professional, rational and civilized access and dissemination of published material clearly required through the system, registering and loggin user to take control over these records entries to the system. Some of the contents of the website are available without access; but, no comment from reviewers is published on the web, without the disclosure of the identity of the evaluator to the editor prior authorization.

The editor shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of works where there has been research misconduct, including plagiarism, publication of the article in another journal without reporting such activity, handling, citation and data falsification / fabrication , among others. In any case the article will be published in the Visión electrónica journal.

In addition, when submitting an article to the journal, the authors and their works must satisfy the following requirements:

1. Commitment to the ethical and responsible development of research. 
2. Production of their own work, unpublished and original; there must be no plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
3. The research problem must be related to the objectives, methodology, results and conclusions described in the article.
4. Authenticity of the data and results (they are not copies, inventions or manipulation of the same).
5. Transparency and explanation in the use of the theoretical-methodological approach used.
6. Explanation of the origin of the ideas, paraphrases, quoted texts and graphic resources.
7. Proposal of the manuscript to only one journal at a time.

Vision Electrónica journal does not charge APC at any time to the authors for publishing the articles.

 

Area and discipline in Visión electrónica

The journal Visión electrónica uses as areas of knowledge the international standard of Areas of Science and Technology of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); based on this, the journal is classified in the following area, sub area and disciplines described below:

Large Area: Engineering and Technology

Sub area: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science

Disciplines:

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Robotics and Automatic Control Systems
Automation and Control Systems
Telecommunications

 

Publication frequency

The edition of each issue is carried out by the university Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, with a six-monthly periodicity: being the first issue from January to June, visible in the month of January of each year; and the second issue from July to December, visible in the month of July of each year.

Conflicts of interest

Dennis Thompson defines conflict of interest as: conflicts of interest arise in situations where a professional's judgment concerning his or her primary interest (e.g., the welfare of human beings and the integrity of his or her research) tends to be unduly influenced by a secondary interest, usually economic or personal.

It is therefore very important that the primary interest of the research should have priority and no other interest should be above the primary interest.

It is necessary that both authors and evaluators communicate any possible conflict of interest related to the articles.

The journal Visión Electrónica will define, together with its editorial and scientific committees and based on the verdicts of the peer reviewers, whether or not there is a conflict of interest within the research, this will influence the publication or exclusion of the article.

Visión electrónica Journal will refrain from selecting peer reviewers who present one of these situations:

• Be related to one another
• Presenting manifest friendship or enmity
• Be part of the same research group
• participate or have participated in the management or co-management of a doctoral thesis in the last 10 years
• Have defended a doctoral thesis under the direction or co-direction of the author(s) in the last 10 years
• Collaborate in other economic or scientific-technological activities
• Have a contractual relationship or share national or international research funds or projects, from public or private entities, or of any other nature, in the last 3 years.

Anti-plagiarism policy

Visión electrónica journal uses Turnitin software to detect coincidences and similarities between the texts under evaluation and those previously published in other sources.