About the Journal

Nature and Goal

Novasinergia is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants rights of use to third parties using a Creative Commons open license that allows immediate free access to the work and allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles,  To track them for indexing, to pass them as data to computer programs, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, the license is specified in the Copyright section.

The journal promotes the generation, integration, and transfer of knowledge that contributes to sustainable development, technological advancement, digital transformation, and the responsible use of scientific innovation. Novasinergia welcomes contributions that demonstrate methodological rigor, scientific relevance, originality, and potential impact at local, regional, and global levels.

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Mathematics and Statistics
• Physical and Chemical Sciences
• Environmental Sciences, Biodiversity, and Sustainability
• Computer Engineering and Computer Science
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Energy, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production Systems
• Architecture, Construction, and Smart Infrastructure
• Data Science, Big Data, and Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Systems
• Emerging and Interdisciplinary Technologies

Novasinergia encourages interdisciplinary research that fosters collaboration among scientific and technological disciplines, promoting innovative approaches to solving complex societal and environmental problems. All submissions undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process and are evaluated according to international standards of scientific quality, ethical integrity, and academic excellence.

Article submission guidelines are available here.

Periodicity

Novasinergia is biannual, with editions in January and July. The content published by Novasinergia is available here.

Language

Articles may be written in Spanish or English. Manuscripts must contain the title, abstract, and keywords in the main text language and English when this is not the language of the text.

Cost

Submission, review, processing and publication of the article have no cost to the author.

Ethics in publications

The editorial team of Novasinergia will be inflexible with the bad practices of the authors or members of the editorial team in case of plagiarism, investigative dishonesty, information concealment, disclosure of confidential information or its inappropriate use for private or third-party benefit, duplication of shipments for publication in other media, fraud, among others. We will build on the "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" of the COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS available here.

Novasinergia will always respect the privacy of editors, authors, and manuscript reviewers who act as blind peers. Intellectual property rights belong to the authors.

Copyright

Upon receipt of articles, editors, and evaluators are free to suggest partial modifications of their content without affecting the meaning of the author's arguments. After the articles are accepted for publication, Novasinergia is free to reproduce the contents for dissemination purposes, duly pointing to the authors. The authors of each article will maintain the intellectual property and rights recognized by law.

The submission and evaluation of material received by Novasinergia means that the authors know and accept the following conditions:

• Authors retain the copyrights (copyright) and assign to Novasinergia the right of first publication of the work under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY_NC, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they refer to the author or authors of the work and their publication in this journal.
• Authors can share, copy, distribute, alter, transform, generate a derivative work, execute, and publicly communicate the publication in Novasinergia, provided that:
  

  a) the authorship and the source of publications are cited (journal, edition, number, and URL of the work);

  b) are not used for commercial purposes;

  c) the same license terms are maintained.

Editorial process

All articles submitted to the journal will be subject to a rigorous review process by specialists in the subject area to which they correspond. The arbitration process must contemplate peer review with the double-blind pair modality. Thus, authors' and evaluators' anonymity and confidentiality are kept explicit.

When the author submits his manuscript, he must commit to the editing process until the end in case his contribution is accepted for publication. The author's statement will be verified that the manuscript is not under submission for publication in other media and that all authors approved the submission to Novasinergia will also meet the editorial standards declared by the journal.

The editorial process consists of three stages: preliminary verification or pre-arbitration, arbitration, and post-arbitration.

In the preliminary verification, the editor checks that the manuscript meets the journal's requirements (originality, subject area, organization, presentation, quality, and scientific rigor), as well as the verification of plagiarism and/or prior publication of the content submitted. The review is performed using the established software, having as a policy that no article that passes to the next phase may present a similarity percentage greater than 5%; whereas the use of artificial intelligence could be up to 10%. The Editor may ask the authors for modifications to the manuscript until it is in a position to be arbitrated; if it finds no possibility of improvement, it will reject them in this instance.

In the arbitration stage, the editor will select the blind peer evaluators, using the journal's database of external peers as a reference, considering their predisposition, training, expertise, and scientific production. As a result, the arbitrators will issue their opinions for the editor's analysis and cases that correspond to the author's recommendations. The evaluation of the peer evaluators will be carried out using the opinion format defined by Novasinergia.

The evaluating peers may issue the following recommendations:

-Accepted for publication

-Accepted for publication after making modifications

-Rejected; it is not recommended to publish the manuscript

If the arbitrator suggest the opinion of "Rejected, it is not recommended to publish the article" and other arbitrator determines “Accepted for publication or Accepted for publication after making modifications”. In that case, the work will be submitted for review by a third arbitrator, whose opinion will serve as a reference for the final decision.

If modifications are required, the authors must develop them within the established deadline; the process may be cyclical, in which the editor and correspondence author will intervene and, if necessary, the evaluation peers for a new assessment.

Post-arbitration consists of preparing the final version of the manuscript, issuing the letters of assignment of rights by the author to Novasinergia, and approving the final version, among other aspects. The manuscript will be published in the volume and number the editorial team determines using technical criteria.

The deadlines established for the editorial process are as follows:
* First Instance Review (pre-arbitration): 14 calendar days from receiving the manuscript.

* Second Instance Review (arbitration): 30 calendar days from when the manuscript is delivered to the evaluator.

* Incorporation of Modifications (post-arbitration): 7 calendar days after the corresponding author is notified.

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