Theme and Scope
Since its inception,CDyT has been a multidisciplinary scientific publication that accepts submissions of original articles from all fields of both humanities and social sciences as well as exact and natural sciences. Regardless of this, we have specialized in the publication of articles on educational research, education and ICT at middle and higher level, science, technology and innovation policies; research on Science, Technology and Society, on the teaching of natural sciences, innovation in food technology and on environmental problems.
We propose to disseminate and validate through peer evaluation, the scientific knowledge produced around our country and Latin America. We publish original research articles, theoretically supported scientific communications and bibliographic reviews in Spanish or Portuguese.
Sections Policy
Until 2020
Humanities and Social Sciences (Research): spontaneous reception section (open submissions), peer-reviewed texts are published through the double-blind system. Articles are indexed.
Humanities and Social Sciences (Communications): spontaneous reception section (open submissions), double-blind revised texts. Articles are indexed.
Exact and Natural Sciences (Research): spontaneous reception section (open submissions), double-blind revised texts. Articles are indexed.
Exact and Natural Sciences (Communications): spontaneous reception section (open submissions), texts reviewed by double blindness. Articles are indexed.
Bibliographic reviews: spontaneous reception section (open mailings), double-blind revised texts. Articles are indexed.
2021 and onwards
Research:
spontaneous reception section (open submissions), peer-reviewed texts are included through the double-blind system. Articles are indexed.
Communications:
spontaneous reception section (open submissions), double-blind revised texts. Articles are indexed.
Theme:
spontaneous reception by call for papsrs, including peer-reviewed texts through the double-blind system. Articles are indexed.
Documents:
texts are published at the request of the editor, their evaluation is editorial and they are indexed.
Reviews:
spontaneous reception section (open submissions), double-blind revised texts. Articles are indexed.
Evaluation and publication process
1) Preliminary reading
All the contributions that are submitted, will be reviewed by the editorial team, who will carry out a preliminary reading of the texts. The preliminary reading is intended to consider the contributions that will be subject to evaluation taking into account the works that agree with the objectives, the formal guidelines and the textual typologies of the journal; the balance in the sections and the saturation of themes, problems or perspectives of analysis.
CDyT checks for plagiarism and/or double publication through the Similarity Check tool. The control is carried out both in the preliminary reading instance and after sending it to evaluation.
If, after preliminary reading, it is established that the text does not meet the objectives, the presentation standards, the textual types that are published in the journal, or that it does not constitute a significant original and novel proposal based on having already published on the question (saturation) this will be rejected and suggestions or modifications will be indicated for a future presentation.
From the editorial team of CDyT we consider that the preliminary reading of the texts is a fundamental task that must be carried out conscientiously and carefully both to guide the authors and to make a correct selection of external evaluators. Authors will be informed about the passage to evaluation or the rejection of the text in a period not exceeding thirty (30) days after submission.
2) Peer Review
All contributions that pass the preliminary reading satisfactorily will be evaluated by a double-blind arbitration system by external reviewers of recognized prestige. The reviewers will be selected from among specialist scientists in each subdiscipline and subject, who can evaluate in Spanish or Portuguese, according to the original language of the article. The works destined to the Research and Communications sections will be evaluated by external review peers. If opinions are opposite, a third reviewer will be summoned. The bibliographic reviews will be reviewed by an external evaluator.
The duration of the review process will depend on the number of articles on the waiting list for preliminary reading and for the assignment of reviewers, as well as the number of review rounds that each work requires, the diligence and the speed of the authors themselves.
The CDyT editorial team will be able to keep the authors informed about the different stages of the review process: 1) selection of external evaluators and invitation to evaluation; 2) acceptance of evaluation (partial, if only one of the selected evaluators agrees to perform the task; complete, if both do); 3) new selection of evaluator / s (if the first selection does not yield positive results or if the acceptance was partial); 4) evaluation results.
If the selection of reviewers does not yield positive results after three invitations, the CDyT team will contact the authors to determine if they wish to continue with the editorial process.
3) Results
The final publication decision is the responsibility of the scientific editor at the request of the results of the evaluations. For Bibliographic Reviews a rating of Acceptable is required. For Articles and Communications, the possible results of each evaluation are four: Acceptable, Acceptable with minor modifications, Acceptable with major modifications and Rejected. Depending on the combination of the results of the two evaluations, the texts may be: Accepted for publication, Rejected or sent to a second round of evaluation (revisions are required) following the following table:
3) Publication (from 2021)
Following the continuous publication model, the accepted texts will be published in the current number at the time of their approval, after the technical editing process (translation of titles, abstract and keywords into Portuguese, style correction and putting on the page) . In case of delays in the technical edition, it will be published in the following number during the first week of validity. The authors will be duly notified.
Open Access Policy and Metadata
CDyT provides open and immediate access to all its content under the principle of making scientific research available free of charge to promote the greater exchange of global knowledge.
All content is published under the Creative Commons 4.0 international license: Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike.
Each author may archive the post-print versions of his works in institutional, thematic repositories and / or personal web pages after being published on our portal.
CDyT maintains its commitment to the policies of Open Access to scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and research financed with public funds must circulate freely, free of charge and without restrictions.
The contents of CDyT are available in a free and full text, without temporary embargoes, and whose editorial production costs are not transferred to the authors. This policy proposes to break the economic barriers that generate inequities both in access to information and in the publication of research results.
CDyT incorporates interoperability protocols that allow information to be retrieved through various distribution systems. Thus the information about the title, authors, disciplines, keywords, abstract, institution of origin, etc., are compiled under Dublin Core meta tags. If you are interested in harvesting our metadata, go to the page: https://pcient.uner.edu.ar/index.php/cdyt/oai
Ethics in the publication
CDyT adheres to the provisions established in the Good Practice Guide for the strengthening of ethics in scientific publication prepared by the Scientific Electronic Library On Line (SciELO) for the journals indexed in its collections. These recommendations, in turn, were prepared taking into account the recommendations, among others, of COPE, CSE, Equator Network, ICMJE, CNPq, Fapesp.
CDyT advocates a transparent, thorough, unbiased and fair editorial process that ensures integrity in the publication of articles, promoting ethical conduct in all participants in the editorial process (readers, authors, reviewers, editors, etc.).
Sending a manuscript published on another site by another author (plagiarism) or by the same author (duplicate publication) are considered serious ethical misconduct that invalidate the publication in CDyT; the authors are also advised to monitor all forms of partial self-plagiarism.
CDyT checks for plagiarism and/or double publication through the Similarity Check tool. The control is carried out both in the preliminary reading instance and after sending it to evaluation.
The articles do not represent the opinion of the publishing institution or the members of the Advisory Council. CDyT undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
Malpractice detection
Malpractices can be identified by members of the Advisory Committee, International Editorial Board, authors, reviewers or readers, in which case the accusations will be dealt with as long as they are substantiated and evidence is provided. To initiate attention to these cases –and as far as possible–, the flow diagrams proposed by COPE will be taken as support and reference, adapting them to the structure of the journal.
The journal may decide, depending on the nature and effects of the fraud detected, to take other administrative and jurisdictional measures for a better solution of the problem.
Procedures for complaints and appeals
Complaints will be addressed in writing to the Editor of the journal, this will be transmitted to the Advisory Council, who will recommend the steps to follow and the people and instances to whom it is necessary to turn to solve the problem. Eventually, when the journal's decision is challenged, a committee of members of the editorial body and external to the journal will be formed.
Retractions and errata
The article already published in which misconduct was identified will remain indexed in the journal's database as retracted.
The retraction will be documented for the duly referenced reason, by means of communication from the author or editor or another authorized agent, and published in the same journal. The retraction may be partial when the misconduct does not compromise the whole of the published research. The article will not be removed from the summary of the issue in which it was published.
In case of errors or failures that do not constitute bad behaviors, they are corrected by means of errata. The journal will publish errors, corrections or retractions as quickly as possible.