About the Journal

1. Focus and Scope

Conectividad is a scientific multidisciplinary journal published by the Research Department of the Instituto Tecnológico Superior Universitario Rumiñahui, whose objective is to promote the publication of research articles and the free dissemination of knowledge in the Ecuadorian, regional, and Latin American contexts, related to the following areas:

• Administrative Sciences 
• Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, and Systems 
• Educational Sciences

Frequency of publication

Conectividad is a semiannual scientific journal, with two issues published per year, available exclusively in electronic format (ISSN No. 2806-5875). Articles are published in Spanish or English, depending on the language of submission. The publication periods are January to June and July to December. Starting in 2026, Conectividad operates under a continuous publishing model. Each issue is assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) to enhance its visibility and indexing in global search engines.

Conectividad is an open-access, free publication aimed at students, teachers, researchers, professionals, and the general public who work in development and innovation within the Journal's areas of specialization, with the aim that the published contributions can support activities in the social and productive sector, as well as the development of new research.

e-ISSN: 2806-5875

OAI: https://revista.ister.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/ISTER/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

2. Open Access Policy

The journal Conectividad does not charge its authors any fees for article submission or processing (Article Processing Charge - APC). Its publication is open access, and the content is freely available through its website: https://revista.ister.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/ISTER

To reinforce our open access policy, Conectividad is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format) and adapting (remixing, transforming, and building upon the material), provided appropriate credit is given and the material is not used for commercial purposes.

3. Peer review system

All articles submitted to the Conectividad Journal that pass the first editorial review will be subject to a double-blind peer review and evaluation system by at least two external reviewers outside the Editorial Board through the OJS platform, who will independently rely on an evaluation report and will also make recommendations for the authors. In this modality, the people who evaluate do not know the authors' names of the articles and vice versa; this avoids any possible bias against or in favor of the manuscript and thus ensures the transparency of the process.

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

• Accepted
• Accepted with revisions
• Rejected

The evaluation described above can take up to 4 weeks.

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

• 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 decision to reject an article is exclusively up to the editors, either due to peers' observations or non-compliance with any of the requirements established by the journal. If the author expresses his desire to reconsider his article and submit it again to the process, the editors will indicate the time that the author must wait to do so.

The OJS Institutional Repository stores all versions of scientific articles, initial, corrected, accepted, and published.

In case of controversy, the final decision is made by the Editorial Committee.

Confidentiality: Conectividad reserves the data of the authors and reviewers, as well as the results and details of the evaluation process, which will only be communicated to the relevant parties involved (authors, evaluators, and editors).

Evaluation time: The evaluation time will depend on several factors, such as the availability of evaluators and the time required for the authors to correct the article. Once the comments have been submitted to the author, the author must send the document within two weeks if there are minor corrections. If the corrections involve restructuring the document, the author will have four weeks to submit the corrected article. The average time from article submission to publication is 12 weeks.

4. Access and Reuse Policies

The journal Conectividad provides immediate and free access to its content. This means users may read, download, store, print, search, index, and link to full texts as long as this is done for non-commercial purposes and the original source and authorship are properly cited. This journal operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

The journal does not charge any fees for submitting or evaluating received scientific articles.

5. Anti-plagiarism

The Conectividad Journal complies with the international standards recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which is available here. It also uses the services of TURNITIN (https://www.turnitin.com/) for plagiarism detection.

6. Copyright

The originals published in the electronic edition under the first publication rights of the journal belong to the Instituto Tecnológico Superior Universitario Rumiñahui; therefore, it is necessary to cite the source in any partial or total reproduction. All the contents of the electronic journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. 

 

7. Archiving

The journal Conectividad uses Microsoft cloud services for information preservation to guarantee a permanent and secure archive. Likewise, a local backup process is performed after each published issue, i.e., every six months.

The Conectividad website, based on Open Journal Systems, is compatible with the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), ensuring a permanent and secure archive for the journal. LOCKSS has been enabled to store and distribute the journal’s content through collaborating libraries via the LOCKSS Editorial Manifest Page.

Additionally, the CLOCKSS system (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) has been implemented to guarantee a permanent and secure archive for the journal. CLOCKSS therefore allows storing and distributing the Conectividad journal’s content to participating libraries through the CLOCKSS Editorial Manifest Page.

The journal is a member of the PKP Preservation Network, which provides preservation for any OJS journal.

Address

Main Contact

Editor in chief

revista@ister.edu.ec