About the Journal

Ingenius Journal is an Scopus Indexed,, peer reviewed, Q1 SCIMAGO Listed journal in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The journal is hosted by the WikiJournal User Group. Articles that pass peer-review are published as a citeable, indexed PDF, and suitable text and images are integrated with a link to the indexed PDF. 

The journal publishes both review articles and original research in various formats. Ingenius Journal enable academic and research professionals to contribute expert knowledge to the Wikimedia movement in the academic publishing format that directly rewards them with citable publications. Included works are assigned DOI codes (permanent links to each work via Crossref).

Focus and Scope

Objectives:

- Disseminate works performed by national or foreign researchers, once they meet the required scientific quality criteria.

- Publish articles related to empirical research, technological development reports, model proposals and innovations, graduate and postgraduate thesis products provided they are a contribution to the field of science and technology, as well as select state of the art literature reviews.

- Promote scientific and technological development through the dissemination of original and unpublished works written in Spanish and English; that is, they cannot have been published through any other printed or electronic medium.

Scope of the Journal

INGENIUS publishes original contributions in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and its integration in what is now known as Mechatronics, as well as related areas: Automation, Control, Domotics, Robotics in its different fields of action and all those disciplines connected interdisciplinarily with the central thematic line.

It is aimed at students, teachers, researchers and general public who work in the development and innovation of systems, products and processes where the synergy of the Engineering is consolidated; professionals in the areas of Mechanics, Electrical, Electronics, Computing and currently Mechatronics use the published contributions to support and develop new research, product innovation and technology development that allows to favor and cover the industrial and society needs in general.

Peer Review Process

Every article will be subjected to a rigorous arbitration process; the evaluation of the article will be made according to criteria of originality, relevance, topicality, contributions, scientific rigor and compliance with established editorial guidelines.

As it is an arbitrated publication, the Editorial Board approves its publication based on the concept of specialized pairs. The receipt of a document does not imply a publication commitment.

Once the manuscript has been received in OJS, a first check by the editorial team of the following points is performed

• The topic is in accordance with the criteria of the journal.

• Must have IMRDC structure

• It must be in the INGENIUS journal format.

• You must use the IEEE citing form.

• All references should be cited in the text of the manuscript as well as charts, figures and equations.

• The manuscript is original; to ensure this software is used to determine plagiarism.

The Reviewers must also comply with the review form and the ethical code of reviewers.

The evaluation described above can take up to 4 weeks.

If any of the points above is not complete or there is inconsistency, an email will be sent to the author to make the requested corrections.

The author will make the corrections and re-send the contribution through an email in response to the notification and will also upload the corrected manuscript into OJS supplementary files.

The editorial team will verify that the requested corrections have been incorporated, if it complies, the manuscript will start the second part of the process and may be followed by the author through OJS, otherwise the author will be notified and the manuscript will be archived

The second phase of the process consists of the evaluation under the methodology of double-blind review, which includes national and foreign experts considering the following steps:

• The editor assigns two or more reviewers for the article.

• After reviewing the article, the reviewers will submit the evaluation report with one of the following results.

  • Publishable

  • Publishable with suggested changes

  • Publishable with mandatory changes

  • Non publishable

• The editor once received the evaluation by the reviewers will analyze the results and determine if the article is accepted or denied.

• If the article is accepted, the author will be notified to make corrections if required and the corresponding editorial process will be continued.

• If the article is denied, the author will be notified and the manuscript will be archived

• In the two previous cases the result of the evaluation of the reviewers and their respective recommendations will be sent

The second phase of the process lasts at least 4 weeks, after which they will be notified to the author giving instructions to continue with the process.

Code of ethics

«INGENIUS» as a publication that seeks the highest international excellence, is inspired by the ethical code of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE), aimed at publishers, reviewers and authors.

Authors' commitments

• Originality and fidelity of the data: The authors of originals sent to «INGENIUS» attest that the work is original and unpublished, which does not contain parts of other authors or other fragments of works already published by the authors. In addition they confirm the veracity of the data, that is, that the empirical data have not been altered to verify hypotheses.

• Multiple and/or repetitive publications: The author should not publish articles in which the same results are repeated in more than one scientific journal or any other non-academic publication. The simultaneous proposal of the same contribution to multiple scientific journals is considered an ethically incorrect and reprehensible practice.

• Attributions, quotations and references: The author must always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.

• Authorship: The authors guarantee the inclusion of those people who have made a significant scientific and intellectual contribution in the conceptualization and planning of the work as in the interpretation of the results and in the writing of it. At the same time the order of appearance of the authors has been ranked according to their level of responsibility and involvement.

• Access and retention: If the members of the Editorial Board consider it appropriate, the authors of the articles should also make available the sources or data on which the research is based, which can be kept for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly becoming accessible.

• Conflict of Interest and Disclosure: All authors are required to state explicitly that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or the proposed interpretations. Authors should also indicate any funding from agencies and/or projects from which the research article arises.

• Errors in published articles: When an author identifies an important error or inaccuracy in his/her article, he/she should immediately inform the editors of the journal and provide them with all the information necessary to list the relevant corrections at the bottom of the article (always in a Note to the margin, not to alter the publication).

• Responsibility: The responsibility of the content of the articles published in «INGENIUS» is exclusive of the authors. The authors also commit themselves to a review of the most current and relevant scientific literature on the analyzed subject, taking into accounts in a plural form the different streams of knowledge.

Commitments of reviewers

• Contribution to editorial decision: Peer review is a procedure that helps publishers make decisions about proposed articles and also allows the author to improve the quality of articles submitted for publication. The reviewers undertake a critical, honest, constructive and unbiased review of both the scientific quality and the literary quality of writing in the field of their knowledge and skills.

• Respect of review times: The reviewer who does not feel competent in the subject to review or who cannot finish the evaluation in the scheduled time must notify the publishers immediately. The reviewers commit to evaluate the manuscripts in the shortest possible time in order to comply with the deadlines, since in «Ingenius» the limits of custody of the waiting manuscripts are limited and inflexible due to respect of the authors and their work.

• Confidentiality: Each assigned manuscript must be considered confidential. Therefore, these texts should not be discussed with other people without the express consent of the publishers.

• Objectivity: Peer review should be done objectively. Reviewers are required to give sufficient reasons for each of their assessments, always using the review template. The reviewers will submit a complete critical report with appropriate references according to the «Ingenius» revision protocol and the public guidelines for the reviewers; especially if it is proposed that the work be rejected. They are required to advise editors if substantial portions of the work have already been published or are under review for another publication.

• Text visualization: The reviewers commit to indicate precisely the bibliographic references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author. The reviewer should also inform editors of any similarity or overlap of the manuscript with other published works.

• Anonymity: To ensure that the review process is as objective, unbiased and as transparent as possible, the identity of the authors is deleted before the papers are submitted for peer review. If, for any reason, the identity of the authors, their institutional affiliations or any other information that jeopardizes the anonymity of the document has been compromised, the reviewer must notify the publishers immediately.

Commitment of publishers

• Decision of publication: The editors will guarantee the selection of the most scientifically qualified reviewers and specialists to express a critical and expert appreciation of the work, with the least possible biases. «Ingenius» chooses between 2 and 3 reviewers for each work so as to ensure greater objectivity in the review process.

• Honesty: Publishers evaluate articles submitted for publication on the basis of scientific merit of the contents, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, and political opinion of the authors.

• Confidentiality: Publishers and members of the working group agree not to disclose information relating to submitted articles for publication to persons other than authors, reviewers and publishers. The editors and the Editorial Committee commit themselves to the confidentiality of the manuscripts, their authors and reviewers, so that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the whole process.

• Conflict of interests and disclosure: publishers commit not to use in their own research content of articles submitted for publication without the written consent of the author.

• Respect of the review times: Publishers are responsible for compliance with the time limits for revisions and publication of accepted manuscripts, to ensure a rapid dissemination of their results. They commit themselves to complying with published times (maximum of 60 days in the estimation/rejection from receipt of the manuscript in the Review Platform) and a maximum of 150 days from the beginning of the scientific review process by experts).