About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes is a refereed, scientific and multidisciplinary journal; edited and distributed every four months by the Research Support Department of the General Directorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. Three issues are published per year in printed and electronic version. (January-April, May-August, September-December).

Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes journal, contributes to the dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge generated by researchers from the region, nationals and foreigners through the publication of research articles, scientific reviews, scientific notes, book reviews and obituaries, to promote multidisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration that favors the development of research, promotes the publication of its results and the formation of a scientific culture in the reading population.

Its main objective is to communicate and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge, as well as promote the development of research and scientific production with quality standards at the local, national and international level through the publication of original and dissemination articles.

It is aimed at undergraduate, engineering and postgraduate students, professionals from various disciplines, professors and researchers, and the public interested in scientific research and technological development. It is distributed in higher education institutions, research centers, libraries, and public sector organizations.

Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes is indexed in: Índice de Revistas de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica del CONACYT, Actualidad Iberoamericana, IRESIE, LATINDEX, PERIÓDICA, REDALYC. And in the databases: DIALNET, EBSCO, BIBLAT, ULRICHS Periodicals Directory e Informe Académico. 

Rejection rate 2017: 65%
Financing sources: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

Journal History

In June 1990, the first issue of the Investigación y Ciencia de la UAA Journal was published, its initial objective was to disseminate the work of the Researcher at the UAA: (…) “at least locally and nationally, since sometimes neither within the same university knows what is carried out in the different research programs”, as the editorial pointed out. It was intended to encourage and promote communication, exchange and intra and inter-institutional collaboration, to favor the use of research resources, in addition to the theoretical and methodological enrichment of the same research work.

From the beginning, the journal published articles from the natural sciences and the social sciences, giving to the reader the opportunity to look into multidisciplinary fields. Being a semi-annual publication, in its third year 1992, it is published quarterly.

In 1994, the journal received manuscripts by researchers from the UAA and other institutions of Aguascalientes State, becoming a memory of the findings of researchers from the region.

In 2000, Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes journal began to be ordered based on the quality indicators of scientific journals;  the following activities were carried out: a)editorial policies were redefined, b)a portfolio of referees was integrated with recognized researchers, c)the originality requirement of the manuscripts was established, d) was introduced a strict blind peer arbitration, and e)was formed a recognized international editorial board.

These activities allowed their registration in The Instituto Nacional de Derechos de Autor and The Secretaria de Gobernación, as well as their indexing in: Actualidad Iberoamericana, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), HELA (Catálogo de Hemeroteca Latinoamericana), LATINDEX (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para revistas científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal), and REDALYC (Red de revistas científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal).

Today, the Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes journal is a quarterly, multidisciplinary, refereed and indexed publication that publishes research articles, review articles and scientific notes, without borders; promotes research, discussion and the dissemination of knowledge. It has an editorial board and an editorial committee with the participation of distinguished researchers, with a portfolio of national and international referees. Its distribution system locates it in the libraries and information centers of more than 700 institutions, it is part of the Mexico-USA interlibrary loan, the library exchange with CONPAB-IES and other library networks.  

Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes is present in various indexes of scientific journals and since October 2012 is part of the Índice de Revistas Mexicanas de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica del CONACYT, according to the report that indicates:

“Recomendamos aprobar sin restricciones esta publicación, por cumplir con los aspectos de contenido científico, rigor, calidad, lenguaje claro y atractivo en correspondencia con el público objetivo, por cumplir con los aspectos formales, técnicos y editoriales, y ser fuente de grandes posibilidades para la divulgación de artículos originales de los investigadores que contribuye, sin duda, a difundir, comunicar y divulgar el conocimiento científico a otras instituciones y público interesado”.

Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes is a reflection of the interest and work of Scientific Research at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes.

Management Structure of the Journal

Editorial Board. Made up of internationally recognized researchers. It will be their function to disseminate the journal in their professional environment.

Editorial Committee. Made up of researchers with international recognition, from different areas of knowledge, external to the Institution that publishes the journal. Its function is to establish, together with the General Editor, the policy of the journal, as well as the editorial criteria and norms. Disseminate the journal in their professional environment.

Editor General. He is the  General Director of Investigación y Posgrado de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, he will be assisted by Editorial and Drafting Committee.

Editorial and Drafting Committee. Its function is to collaborate in the management and edition of the journal.

Ethical statement on publication and bad practices.
Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes adheres to the COPE code (Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors) and declares its compliance with this Ethical Statement on publication and bad practices. The journal and all its parties involved are willing to collaborate with the ethical principles expressed in this statement.

Open access policy

The journal participates in the Declaration of the International Movement "Open Access" in order to contribute to increasing the visibility, access and dissemination of scientific production, therefore, the authors and collaborators of the articles give it free of charge to the magazine the rights of edition, reproduction, distribution and public communication in the country and abroad by printed, electronic, optical or other technology, including the Internet. Likewise, they accept that the work presented be distributed in open access, protecting the copyright under a "creative commons recognition-non-commercial-sharealike 4.0 international" license (CC BY NC-SA).

Investigación y Ciencia, No APC.

Interoperability protocols:

This digital journal, hosted and published by Open Journal System (OJS), implements the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol, a harvesting protocol for metadata exchange based on the Dublin Core schema.

This can be verified using the OAI-MPH Validator (https://validator.oaipmh.com/), using the following URL:

OAI-PMH URL: https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/investycien/oai

You can also check:

https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/investycien/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

Digital preservation and archiving systems

Actions at the institutional level:

The content hosted on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform of the journal Investigación y Ciencia is digitally preserved on the designated server, in accordance with the processes established by the Editorial Department of the General Directorate of Dissemination and Outreach and the Networks and Telecommunications Department of the General Directorate of Planning and Development of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA). In general, this process consists of the following:

- Editorial Department, General Directorate for Dissemination and Outreach:

  1. Frequent maintenance of the site and technical administration of the institutional OJS.
  2. Version updates.
  3. Automatic backup every 12 hours, with the possibility of historical access to previous backups; involving:
    1. OJS configuration files.
    2. The database.
    3. Backup log.
    4. Automated monitoring of backups, tracking storage space.

- Networks and Telecommunications Department, General Directorate of Planning and Development:

  1. Monthly backup of OJS, with implications similar to the constant backups of the Editorial Department, involving:
    1. Backup log.
    2. Automated monitoring of backups, tracking storage space.

Complementary strategies:

Investigación y Ciencia, being published in the Open Journal System (OJS) software from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), supports its publications in the archiving systems with which the platform is compatible, such as:

  1. Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS): A system that guarantees the secure and permanent digital preservation of publications based on technology developed by Stanford University. It allows participating libraries to archive digital journals and their content by validating cache memories and restoring them in case of loss or corruption.
  2. Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS): This is an open source tool created by Stanford University Library that makes it easier for libraries to preserve electronic journals by periodically collecting newly published content. The files are continuously verified with copies stored at other institutions, allowing any damaged or lost information to be restored. (See the Publishing Manifesto: https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/investycien/gateway/lockss).
  3. PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): Allows publishers using OJS to ensure the digital preservation of their content. In the event that a journal ceases operations or is no longer available online, continuous access to its articles and issues is guaranteed in the long term. To this end, PKP PN uses LOCKSS technology, which offers a distributed and decentralized preservation model supported by multiple institutions.

Likewise, through the services of Crossref, Investigación y Ciencia supports the metadata of its articles by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each one, which enables their persistent identification and facilitates their consultation.

Self-archiving is also encouraged for individuals who have contributed to any work published in previous issues, so that they can store their articles in personal repositories as an additional strategy for preserving information.