About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Lámpsakos journal is a digital publication, attached to the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the Luis Amigó Catholic University, Medellín, Colombia. It aims to disseminate original and unpublished articles as results of scientific and technological research in the areas of engineering. Founded in 2009, the journal has a continuous periodicity but published two numbers in the year ( Each article will be published as soon as its editorial process is finished, which is handled independently); with national and international reach, it has free online circulation access, under standards of scientific rigor and editorial quality. The journal accepts articles for review and publication written in Spanish and English.

Code of Conducte

Lámpsakos is open access funded by the Luis Amigó Catholic University, which deals with all costs of editing, publishing, and dissemination. Therefore, it does not generate any charge to its collaborators (authors, readers, reviewers, librarians, etc.); it does not generate any financial compensation to the authors, nor members of the committees. The decisions and procedures are governed by criteria of academic quality, research excellence, integrity, honesty, and transparency, so it adheres to the principles of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).

The code of conduct and the guide for authors must be adopted by any actor who is linked to the journal, in proportion to the role they play.

Target audience

The journal is aimed at the national and international public, with manifest interest in current and scientific engineering issues. Allowing to provide contextualized knowledge of real solutions, on contemporary issues in this area.

The entire claim will be received in writing by email to the journal lampsakos@amigo.edu.co. The maximum term will be 5 business days from the receipt of the disagreement.

Peer Review Process

Lámpsakos takes approximately 90 days after receipt of the manuscript, for its publication, in case the verdict is positive. The times are distributed as follows: 10 days in editorial preliminary review (rules, topics, and plagiarism). 30 days for the peer review process (including time to search for evaluators), 10 days for author adjustments (according to the suggestion of peers), and 35 days for the editing process that includes: style review, layout, design approval, and publication.

Editorial review, anti-plagiarism, and article evaluation

1. Topic, structure, and citation evaluation:

The evaluation analyses if the paper is aligned with the topics of the journal and follows the criteria established in the author guidelines. In case the topic is not part of the ones established by the journal, the paper is returned to the author; if the presentation requires adjustments, it is sent to the author for corrections and to be submitted again following the editorial timetable; if the paper meets all the requirement, it is sent to the second step.

2. Analysis of similarity with other publications: in order to identify if the paper is original and unpublished and avoid possible plagiarism, all papers must undergo a technological revision that compares the manuscript with others published in digital media and Crossref academic publications. The technological system reports the similarity level, if it is over 25% the paper is discarded, if it is below 25% the paper is sent to the third step. The report also points out errors in citation and reference as well as primary sources and information credibility and avoids plagiarism.

3. Peer revision: all papers will be assigned reviewers under the double-blind review model. That is, both the author's and reviewers' identities and decisions regarding the paper are confidential. Once this review of the paper has begun, the author commits to seeing it through and not withdrawing the paper. The estimated time between the reception of the article and the evaluation process is about 1 month and a half. The time might vary due to editorial processes and topics.

Reviewers selection: the journal has a group of national and international research scholars, with wide experience and publications in the field of social sciences. Each paper is assigned, two reviewers:

•  hold a masters or preferably a doctoral degree in the field and have no conflict of interests;
• that is not part of the editorial or scientific committees, nor are they affiliated to Universidad Católica Luis Amigó,
• Colombian scholars must be recognized as researchers by Colciencias, international peers must have graduate education or an h5 index above 2. 

Paper review: the director of the journal provides the reviewer with the paper, author guidelines, and an assessment rubric that focuses on the following formal and topic-based elements:

• Relevance of the paper for the journal´s fields of interest.
• Coherence between title and topic.
• Validity of the topic.
• Usage of concepts and terminology of the discipline.
• Relevance of graphics, tables, and figures.
• Appropriate use of citation and reference.
• Up to date references
• The novelty of the paper
• Theoretical and methodological thoroughness
• Coherence

 4. Decision: the rubric has three alternatives regarding the final decision:

• “Accepted to publish without modifications”
• “Accepted to publish with corrections”;
• “Rejected”.

If both reviewers, consider that the paper should be “Rejected” the editor of the journal informs the authors and provides the result of the peer review. If both referees agree that the paper should be “Accepted without modifications”, the author is notified and the paper is sent to edition. If one referee considers that the paper should be “Accepted to publish without modifications” while the other one “Accepted to publish with corrections”, the author is notified about the required corrections. If one of the referees considers that the paper should be “Rejected”, while the other one is under the opinion that it should be published, a third referee will be appointed by the editor (under the double-blind review model) in order to settle the situation. Once the third evaluation is received the author will be notified of the decision.

 Causes of rejection

•  There is plagiarism and self-plagiarism; alteration, forgery, or foul play in the data, content, or author.
• If the article has been partially published and therefore unedited.
• The content of the paper does not have an originality index of 75% or above. The criteria for originality is the capacity of the author to create, find, analyze and imagine.
• There are conflicts of interest. The authors must notify the journal of any situation that can influence the result or interpretation of the manuscript.
• The author does not follow the guidelines and code of conduct.
• There is obscene, abusive, defamatory, insulting language or any expression that goes against human dignity and the good name of a person o institution.  
• There is data that was collected without permission such as deficiency of accuracy in the presentation of findings and results, questionable data or results.
• There is information or acts that violate national and international copyright laws or minor protection laws. 
• The paper undermines publication ethical and good practices.

Communication with the authors

• The editorial decisions are informed by the journal in a timely way, with respectful terms, and try mutual learning.
•  Each stage of the editorial process, the publication and divulgation will be notified to the authors, that in use of their rights can make and request changes in their texts until before the public disposition of material design. 

Cancellation publication causes

• The detection during any stage of the process of some of the terms described in this text.
• Doubt or dispute of the authorship or co-authorship.
• The request of the authors about any kind of benefit.

Transparency

• the committees will safeguard the journal's academic quality; thus, their opinions are consulted regularly and they will be aware of the online disposition of the journal.
• The director, the committees, and the evaluators will have freedom to emit their opinion regarding the viability of the article publication.
• The journal will not reveal the names of the authors to the evaluators and vice versa, during the edition and revision process. The evaluators ‘group will be published on the preliminary pages of each number. 
• In no case, the journal´s direction will demand to the author the citation of the same or someone of the collaborates team. The evaluators declare the inexistence o
• The evaluators declare the inexistence of interest conflicts, furthermore, that the concept is not cut on by the financial, working, professional, personal or other connivance agreement.

Model without charge

• The journal does not pay to the authors for their contribution neither generate receipt for the activities of the editorial and publication process.
• Do not generate economical retributions for the members of evaluators or committee members.
• All the prices for the editorial production, publication and divulgation are assumed by the Luis Amigo catholic university.

Publication Frequency

Lámpsakos from 2009 until 2020 was half-yearly publication but in 2021, Lámpsakos changes to a continuous edition with two issues open a year (January-June and July-December). Articles are published independently, once they have completed their editing process

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle that making research available to the public free of charge supports a greater exchange of global knowledge.

The Lámpsakos Magazine is recognized by different indexing services (Dialnet, Periodica, EBSCO, Redalyc, DOAJ, ESCI). You can learn more about the subscriptions that ensure the worldwide visibility of Lámpsakos magazine in the indexation through the Free Access Directories

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making the results of research available and generating the global knowledge exchange.


License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
 
Under the following terms:
Attribution - You must give credit appropriately, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that you or your users have the support of the licensor.

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Copyrights

Copyright and access to the publication

Moral rights. The authors are acknowledged as creators of the piece and are protected under it. The author or authors may have additional rights in their articles as established in the agreement with the editor. Authors are morally and legally responsible for the content of their articles, as well as, respect for copyright. Therefore, these do not in any way compromise the committees, referees, editorial staff or Universidad Católica Luis Amigó.

License

The journal and the individual texts in this publication are protected by copyright laws and by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative-International 4.0. © 2019 Universidad Católica Luis Amigó. Licenses that go beyond of what is covered by this license can be found at http://www.funlam.edu.co/modules/fondoeditorial/

Scientific and editorial committees

The "Lámpsakos" Journal is advised by standing committees working in scientific and Publishing that are conformed by people with recognized internationally scientific research.
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Team of collaborators

In order to certify and ensure that the actions of each of the actors involved are within the framework of ethics, transparency, quality and scientific rigor, always providing a human team that helps resolve conflicts, this journal is accompanied by the following committees:

Director / Editor

Ingrid-Durley Torres, PhD in System Engineering

Recognized researcher in Colciencias

Editorial committee

Rubén Ángel Galindo-Aires, Ph.D., Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain

Giner Alor-Hernández, Ph.D., Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Óscar Sapena-Vercher, Ph.D., Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain

Amit Chaudhry, Ph.D., Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Luis Fernando Garcés-Giraldo, Ph.D., Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Caldas (Ant), Colombia

Nazly E. Sánchez-Peña, Ph.D., Corporación Universitaria Autónoma del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

Nourou Khalidou Dia, Ph.D., Université des Sciences, Technologies et de Médecin, Nouakchott, Mauritania

Henry Alonso Colorado-Lopera, Ph.D., Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Julián Alberto Patiño-Murillo, Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia

The editorial committee is composed by a team whose training and knowledge are completely related to the thematic orientation of the magazine which exercises functions aimed at granting the levels of quality and rigor that it demands. To comply with the aforementioned, the members of this committee review, supervise, direct and ensure that each manuscript submitted and published meets the focus, orientation and quality criteria. They have the quality of acting as guest editors in special issues and contribute to the dissemination of the journal, in order to increase the academic and scientific interest of authors and readers of Lámpsakos, in the world. On some occasions, they may submit their publications to the same editorial process, always respecting the established parameters. 

Scientific Comittee

Marcelo Becker, Ph.D., Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brasil

José María Yusta-Loyo, Ph.D., Universidad de Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain

Gustavo Alejandro Schweickardt, Ph.D., Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina

Bizuayehu Abebe-Worke, Ph.D., Universidade da Beira, Covilhâ, Portugal

Aldo Pardo-García, Ph.D., Universidad de Pamplona, Norte de Santander, Colombia

Marta Silvia Tabares-Betancur, Ph.D., Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia

Yuri Ulianov-López, Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia

Andrés Felipe Agudelo-Santamaría, Ph.D., Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

The human team of the scientific committee enjoys recognition in the academic environment, and they act as external advisors. It is not part of their activity to evaluate, or apply for their articles. Their main role is to accompany with their objectivity the relevance and scientific quality of the articles postulated for publication.

Claims policy

Lámpsakos aims to respond to and resolve all complaints in a prompt and constructive manner. The procedures for investigating and resolving complaints follow the guidelines of the Fondo Editorial Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, in the fairest and most balanced manner for both the complainants and those involved in the complaints.

The procedure for filing a complaint is simple. The complaint or claims can be made by writing an e-mail (lampsakos@amigo.edu.co).

Ideally, the person sending the complaint should be the person with whom the Journal maintains contact. All complaints will be acknowledged within five working days.

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Claims

• If once published an article: 1) the editor discovers plagiarism,  mistakes that attempt to the quality or scientificity, he/she will request its removal or correction. 2) If a third person detects the mistake, it is the obligation of the author to publish an immediate retraction and the public correction.
• During the edition process, authors must inform of any mistake or alteration in the manuscript; if the article has been published with such mistakes the author will request its removal or correction.

Procedure to resolve conflicts arising from unethical behavior

• Identify faults supported with evidence before establishing an unethical behavior.
• Hold back any decision or observation related to a specific situation that is under analysis until all evidence is gathered and there is no doubt regarding the fault
• Present before the editorial committee the evidence for each situation according to the type of fault and actions to be taken for such action.

The possible actions are:

• Inform the author about the situation, correct it and establish that it should not happen again.
• Formal withdrawal with an editorial note informing the motive for this action and bringing attention to the importance of appropriate ethical practices.
• Inform the financial, academic or commercial institutions about the situation and the consequences in order to promote appropriate ethical practices.

All complaints will be received in writing by e-mail (lampsakos@amigo.edu.co). The maximum response time will be five working days from the receipt of the disagreement.

Ethics terms

The editor is responsible for: the editor of the Lámpsakos is in charge of selecting the articles that will make great of the annual of the journal. For this, it is ridged by the conduct code that this publication has. The selection of the articles will have guided for their level and their thematic pertinence, and in this since the gender discrimination, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic, or religious inclination or politics of someone who postulates their manuscripts never will be considered as a selection criterion. However, the editor has the possibility to discuss the decisions regarding the article’s selection that other members of the publication take, always under the quality text criteria in the field of social sciences publication. Regarding the authors, the editor is committed to maintaining the decisions’ confidentiality concerning his / her articles, in this sense, only the authors will be informed of those decisions.  Finally, the editor will avoid expressly managing articles that derive in interests’ conflicts with the result of any possible connection with those conflicts, with the objective of maintaining the transparency of the edition and publication process. 

The referees will be responsible for: as a fundamental part of the publication process, the reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of the manuscripts that they receive, in this sense, they should avoid sharing with foreign people the material to evaluate. Is fundamental that the referee maintains objectivity and neutrality when is time to formulate their article critics, especially, they should be supported by reasonable arguments. The evaluators are in freedom to support the editor and the author to elevate, with their suggestions, the academic quality of the articles that they are evaluated.  Also is a responsibility to abstain from using for their benefit the material, and in the same line, avoid belonging processes that could derive any interest conflict. Finally, the journal aims that evaluators accomplish with the assigned times for the evaluation process and inform the editor about their possibility of review in a timely and suitable way the text that is invited to evaluate. 

Colombian reviewers must fill out and update at least the following information in the CvLAC application (Scien-TI-Colombia platform: https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/Login/pre_s_login.do): names, first and second last names, identity document, professional career, academic background, and e-mail. The journal Lámpsakos suggests including as much information as possible about the research career and keeping it updated.

Authors will be responsible for: authors should be regulated according to the publication guidelines and the ethics code that our journal embrace. According to this, the manuscripts must be originals, unpublished, and cannot be in the process of publication in another journal. As members of a research community, their texts should be regulated for the procedures that allow the development of the discipline in the scientific order, that is to say, their texts should provide verified and reliable data, complete references, and sources, and the good development of the themes with the objective that other authors should confirm, discuss, or support the ideas that the author presents. Therefore, fake and wrong statements will not be tolerated by our journal. The manuscripts presented should give recognition for the authorship to the persons that participated in its construction and redaction, and in this sense, the main authors and co-authors should be included in the texts, should have approved the information that is going to be presented by the journal. Authors must respect the integrity of the communities that are participants of their research exercises and give a guarantee of presenting the formats that show the voluntary and worthy participation of the participants. Moreover, the data of the financial sources must be transparent. Finally, the author has the compromise to inform and notify the editor immediately any kind of mistake, inaccuracy, or imprecision that the manuscripts could have.       

Colombian authors must fill out and update at least the following information in the CvLAC application (Scien-TI-Colombia platform: https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/Login/pre_s_login.do): names, first and second last names, identity document, professional career, academic background, and e-mail. The journal Lámpsakos suggests including as much information as possible about the research career and keeping it updated.

CrossMark Policy

 

 

Publication and dissemination

The complete journal and the individual texts are published in PDF and HTML formats in the Open Journal Systems (at the following link: http://revistas.ucatolicaluisamigo.edu.co/index.php/lampsakos

The journal and each article have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which facilitates its location on the Internet, this tool guarantees the preservation of access to the content of the journal in case it is no longer published. The journal uses advanced publication, with the purpose of responding to the needs of the validity of the content and the requirements of the authors and the media. This resource is used once the peer reviewers' concepts are satisfactory; the provisional publication contains the last version sent by the authors, without the style correction, translation, and layout having been carried out.

Lámpsakos uses, among other means, social and academic networks to disseminate its content. It is currently recognized by different indexing services (ESCI, Dialnet, EBSCO, REDIB, InfoBaseIndex, SapiensResearch, Publindex, Latindex, MIAR, J4F).

Receipt of contributions

Means and terms of reception. Proposed texts are submitted through the Open Journal System (OJS), a journal management and publication software that allows the tracking of documents in their different stages. Online submissions require a username and password, which can be requested at https://www.funlam.edu.co/revistas/index.php/lampsakos/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions. We will not receive printed articles or partial versions of the text, i.e., those that structurally do not conform to any of the article types described in the Lámpsakos guide for authors.

The journal's management will reply within ten (10) days of receiving the document, but this does not imply or oblige its publication.

Queries for referral can be sent to the journal's e-mail address (lampsakos@amigo.edu.co).

Journal History

Founded in 2009, The Lámpsakos Journal is a scientific online publication affiliated to Luis Amigó Catholic University, in the City of Medellín, Colombia. The provides a way for authors to broadcast original articles, that show the result of their scientific and technological researches in engineering areas. 

The name of this journal honors the philosopher Strato of Lampsacus (340 b.C. - 268 b.C) who is credited with the first publication in history, following the steps of the scientific method in order to demonstrate that air is a material element, consisting of particles, such as either water or soil.